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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: goldwinger59 on 29 April 2012, 09:42:12
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Hi y`all, 2001, 2.6 Omega estate auto petrol, (moggie auto est #5). I usually fill up at Tesco, normal unleaded, once in a blue moon I`ll treat her to some super, but dont usually have probs.
All can be fine, tootle up/down the motorway, absent mindedly, (due to everything feeling so smooth n quiet) let speed drift up to 90 ish, mph not k`s, and engine management light comes on, very short space of time theres what feels like a stall happening, pull off, stop, turn engine off, count to 3, turn engine on and drive the rest of the day without a problem keeping speed down to 70-80.
Pedal test fault codes show "random misfire, bank 1 or bank 2 misfire" but it feels much more like fuel starvation at the quoted high-ish revs (30-3100) and fairly high speed.
On a couple of occasions, due to a mixture of being broke and/or miles away from a gas/petrol station as some of our motorways inconveniently dont have gas/petrol stations I`ve run the range down to the 15 mile mark, low fuel warning flashing/screaming "feed me, feed me" lol.
Could I have some kind of obvious blockage, ?, the eml and "stall" for want of better words has happened once before at town speeds but most usually happens at high speed/revs.
Would swapping out the fuel lines/filter help ?
The problem happens with various amounts of fuel in the tank from brimmed down to 25%, 100 mile range full.
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If intermittent, I don't think starvation.
Post up all the actual codes :y
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Although if fuel filter older than 2 yrs, no harm in changing :y
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pedal test codes coming up as the following............
0 3 0 0 (0 being 10 flashes)
0 3 0 3
0 3 0 5
0 4 2 0
0 4 3 0
0 3 0 1
0 3 0 2
0 3 0 4
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When was the car last serviced properly? As TB says, fuel filter change wouldn't do any harm :y
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MOT and service done last year, august.
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What was done as part of the service?
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Hi tunnie,
Fellow thyroid sufferer, just out of curiosity what dose of thyroxine are you on ?,
I`m on 250-300mg, varies every 6 mths after blood tests. Came "home" from working in the USA in oct` 07 at 16 st 8 lbs, had radio iodine pill treatment to zap my thyroid and am now, thx to a redundant metabolism touching 23 st !!
Vehicle "service" as far as I`m aware is limited to oil/coolant/filters, havent checked fuel filter to be honest since the "misfire" doesnt happen unless the circs I detailed come about, ie high revs/high speed.
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I doubt any more than an oil change was done.
check fuel filter and air filter
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Forsythe saga contined.
6 new plugs and fuel filter later..............................garage diagnostics showing 1/3/5 bank coil pack at fault !! Can`t really complain since she`s not cost me hardly any heartache or wallet ache much in the past 18 mths lol,
£120 + vat quote, can anyone beat this ?, ok I`ve seen a 1/3/5 bank coil pack for £25 on e-bay.
Blonde (ok more Richard Gere grey) moment question, replace one bank or both bearing in mind the car`s on e-bay as we speak.
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About £85 inc VAT. Bosch part.
Before renewal, visually inspect, or post up pic. Trim errors can cause (semi) erroneous fault codes, which the idiot mechanics - who generally understand even less than I do about engines - take on face value.