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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Electrical gremlins!!

« on: 13 November 2011, 07:35:20 »

Cheers for that, a mate is gonna throw a multimeter round to me, though when I get home from work I will remove the head unit just to have a peek and see if there is anything obvious

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Electrical gremlins!!

« on: 13 November 2011, 05:11:43 »

Strangely no, I thought I woul have had a burning smell in the cab as well

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Electrical gremlins!!

« on: 12 November 2011, 20:27:17 »

Well now that you say that, one of the little Allen screws that go into the front of the headunit, which is a ccr2006, is missing, so I assume it has been out. The ecc servo on the drivers side isn't working so I assume someone maybe took the HU out to get at the heater?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Electrical gremlins!!

« on: 12 November 2011, 20:04:05 »

No mate, the only two bits of work done to the car is a second hand auto box fitted(with the original cars selector switch) and a pair of new exhaust centre sections.

Possibly could be the head unit as both times the radio/instrument panel went I had a cassette in the cassette player. The first time it happened I was trying to get the CD cartridge to stay in the HU.

If I get a multimeter what should I be looking for?

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Omega Gallery / Re: Brazil - Omega Suprema 1993

« on: 12 November 2011, 12:53:44 »

That is beautiful!

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: ECC d/s servo motor - wanted

« on: 12 November 2011, 11:50:33 »

Pete has got rid of the car, can anyone else help me please?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Electrical gremlins!!

« on: 12 November 2011, 11:46:16 »

My omega elite f/l is starting to do my head!!

So the auto box crapped itself first! Then, possibly coincidentally, it has developed electrical gremlins, one day whilst sitting listening to the radio, I tried to start the car and I lost the radio and the instrument panel. After about ten minutes of panicking and pulling fuses in and out, I decided to try and start it again and everything was working.

Driving home from work last night, listening to the radio, heated rear window on, ecc on auto and obviously the headlights on, everything went dark, no lights, no radio, no instrument panel. After blindly fumbling in the dark i discovered one of the BIG fuses had popped, the main electrical system fuse (80amp) had pretty much melted itself in oblivion!!

Anyone have any ideas or suffered from a similar fate?

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General Car Chat / Re: Some lazy mechanics!!

« on: 08 November 2011, 22:55:48 »

I deal with Vauxhall dealers named Townparks Vauxhall in Antrim in Northern Ireland, so much so that we all know each other by first names and it turns out one guy is going out with my mates sister and the other guy lives in the same town as me, anyway, back to the point, these guys are usually pretty sh1t hot when it comes to their knowledge, and they always give me TC prices and try to give me discount on parts that aren't listed as TC parts!

They have also recommended places that I can go to in order tO save money on certain things like Power steering hoses, by sending me to the likes of hydraulic hose manufacturers!

That's said I have never left my car to be worked on by their mechanics because I do nearly all my own work anyway!

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: BOSE HU problem

« on: 08 November 2011, 14:26:54 »

Strangest thing just happened, sitting in the car listening to the radio, started the car, a strange noise and I lost the radio & power to the instrument panel. Bit of panicking and frantic checking of fuses, I restarted the car and everything was on again and the changer is accepting the magazine again!

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