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Omega General Help / Re: 2.2 DTI hard to start

« on: 05 September 2011, 17:46:15 »

If the glowplugs are not screwed back in properly then they won't come into contact with the vapourised fuel hence poor starting.
You might find the glowplugs are the problem.

Thank you for the tip.

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Omega General Help / 2.2 DTI hard to start

« on: 04 September 2011, 11:49:45 »

I've got two issues with my beloved current Omega. This is one of them. (The more serious one.)

So, my car is a 2002 2.2 DTI (Caravan) with a mileage of around 350K kms. (This is just a rough estimate. Could be anywhere between 300K and 400K.) In the first 3 years when I had it, it had no problems with starting up in cold weather. Then, last winter, it began having problems starting up all of a sudden. :-/

The pehonemenon is that the colder it is and the longer the car's engine was tirned off, the harder it starts. I know it's otherwise normal that diesel engines start harder in cold, but my car's engine would hardly start, at all, after having spent over 8 hours in temperatures under 0 degrees celsius. So, what I experienced was that the difficult startup was not as bad if the car had been out in the cold for less than 8 hours.

The worst case was when I had to leave the car out in the snow in under -15 degrees celsius for almost a whole day. After that, it took quite a while for me to be able to start the engine. It would only start for the third or fourth attempt, after starting for 10's of seconds. And when it finally did start, first, it was as if only 2 cylinders had been working, and some bluish smoke came from the exhaust.

What do you guys think the problem could be? :-?

Oh, one more thing probably worth mentioning: I had the glow plugs replaced last autumn, but I was told that one of them could not be screwed back to its place entirely. Could this have anything to do with the difficult start?

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Newbie Welcome Area / Re: (not such a) newbie from Hungary

« on: 05 September 2011, 16:45:32 »

If you guys allow me, I'd like to present my Omega, Kate to you:

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2650/dsc00686tu.jpg

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Newbie Welcome Area / (not such a) newbie from Hungary

« on: 04 September 2011, 00:00:34 »

Dear Fellow Omega Owners,

Let me say hi and introduce myself briefly. My name is Bertalan Molnar and I am from Hungary. I may be new to this forum (it's pretty shameful that I have just learnt that such a thing exists, at all) but I wouldn't consider myself new to (Opel) Omegas. Let me tell you guys why:

1) I have had 9 Opel Omegas so far. I still have one. (Or, in a broader sense, three, but I only consider one as virtually mine by now.) This last one is the one I have had as my primary car for the longest period ever: over 4 years now.

2) My first car was an Omega back in 1998. It was an Omega A (Carlton in the UK). So I've been driving Omegas for 13 years.

3) I published the first ever Opel Omega homepage in Hungary. And the second as well. And some others as well on the same topic. Moreover, I founded two Opel Omega fan clubs. Unfortunately, due to personal problems with some members, I had no other choice but quit the first club and soon after that establish a new one, but the latter one dissappeared in a few years. :-/ Anyway, I had the privilege to organise at least half a dozen Opel Omega meetings in Hungary. (Also, around that time, I was a board member of the official Hungarian Opel Club, and I tried my best to help the Omega "mission" -- unfortunately, only with minor success. :-/)

What else is worth knowing about me? [smiley=rolleyes.gif] I'm married, got 3 young kids, and I work as an English teacher. Oh, and, of course, my kids love our Omega, which is called "Kate".

So, as the final word, I hope you guys are willing to receive a Central European Omega enthusiast like me.

P.S. Here's the list of the Omegas I've owned so far:

1st 1988 Opel Omega (A) 2.0i LS
2nd 1990 Opel Omega (A) Caravan 2.3TD intercooler CD
3rd 1987 Opel Omega (A) 1.8 LS
4th 1993 Opel Omega (A) Caravan 2.0i CD Diamant
5th 1994 Opel Omega (B) 2.5 V6 CD
6th 1991 Opel Omega (A) Caravan 2.0i GL
7th 1992 Opel Omega (A) 2.6i GLS automatic (project car)
8th 1995 Opel Omega (B) 2.0i automatic GL (w/ B FL look)
9th 2002 Opel Omega (B FL) Caravan 2.2 DTI