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Omega General Help / Diagnoise Radiator leak

« on: 15 January 2012, 15:17:55 »

Guys,

My 2.6 started leaking coolant earlier this week, since then i have done 2 short journeys yesterday -each about 5 miles after each one I have to top up the coolant as the expansion bottle was almost empty, checked what i could
to find the leak and couldn't - the water was dripping from the hole in the cross member directly below the drivers side of the rad.
So today i removed the rad, which is quite easy - until you start dropping bolts in the engine bay. I now have it on the kitchen table and cant find any obvious signs of damage- any pointers or ideas how to troubleshoot this ?

Cheers
Al

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / rear cigarette socket access

« on: 25 July 2010, 11:13:53 »

Hi all
Bit of a silly question, but how do you release the panel holding the rear cigarette socket ?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / bodging a wiper stalk

« on: 30 October 2008, 23:41:45 »

Is it possible to retro-fit a pre-facelift(PFL) stalk with adjustable intermittent in-to a facelift(FL)?
Physically the only difference i can see is that the fly lead for the PFL has a 6-pin connector with 5 wired while the FL one has a 4-pin connector with 3 wired

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Headlight failure

« on: 20 November 2009, 19:46:14 »

Hi Guys
A few nights ago the left main beam did not come on and the display showed "headlight tail lamp" or "headlight tail lamp" can't remember which one

so i assumed that the bulb had gone, however when i got back in the car about a hour later , the light was working fine and the warning message had gone !
Is this an indication that the bulb is on its way out or is it a sign of a more expensive failure ?

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / NCDC 2015 purchase

« on: 30 September 2008, 23:30:52 »

I am looking at buying a second hand NCDC 2015 but from what i have seen it has to be decoded from the CID otherwise its useless - can anyone confirm this before i spend the cash?

Cheers
Al

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Omega General Help / Exhaust advice required

« on: 07 April 2011, 21:33:06 »

Guys, I need to drive to Scotch Corner & return all on next Sunday, However my exhaust is leaking badly from the front pipes, should i :-
a) take it to the local independent center
b) by the pipes from eternal (which ones?)
c) buy from www.onlineautomotive.co.uk (£571!!!!)
any advise gratefully received

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Omega General Help / Drivers door has developed the check-strap issue

« on: 08 April 2009, 21:45:29 »

Guys back in september, i applied the recommended fix even though neither door had been noisy, as detailed here - http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1152902108

over the last few days my drivers door has started the dreaded clicking when opening

Any pointers ?

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Omega General Help / [m by=hotel21 destboard=omegaelectric dest=1222813852]: NCDC 2015 purchase

« on: 01 October 2008, 09:15:13 »

[moved] [link=http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1222813852/0]ICE and Omega Electrical[/link] [move by] hotel21.

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Newbie Welcome Area / Hi All!

« on: 05 September 2008, 19:41:41 »

Long time lurker, First time poster.
Thought i would drop by and say Hi!.
Am planning on replacing O/S/F Lock solenoid this weekend so thought i better introduce myself prior to asking dumb questions when i get stuck

Regards
Al

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General Car Chat / I never knew Ford had a sense of humour !

« on: 10 February 2011, 21:11:09 »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12417757
.. detracts from their brand ...

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General Car Chat / Couple of Cartlton Queries

« on: 02 June 2010, 20:03:12 »

Hi Guys,

Couple of quick questions, a mate has a K reg Carlton club estate, over a year ago dopey neighbor left the handbrake off and her car ran into the passenger side of his Carlton badly denting the rear door and quarter panel, since then it's been abandoned on his drive.
I managed to jump-start it today and it started first time, left it to run to try a charge the battery but after about 25 minutes the temp was in the red and the front fan was running.

so questions, where to check for overheating issues and secondly is it worth sorting (cleaning and solve heating) and selling or should he just scrap it?

any help appreciated
Al

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General Discussion Area / twitter and kim Kardashian

« on: 05 July 2011, 21:15:25 »

beautiful http://twitter.com/#!/KimKardashian tweeting about Casey Anthony being found not guilty of killing her two year old daughter - opens a deluge of tweets about her dad getting OJ off