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Omega Help Area => Omega Electrical and Audio Help => Topic started by: feeutfo on 02 April 2013, 23:41:15

Title: Rear electrics
Post by: feeutfo on 02 April 2013, 23:41:15
Car had a blown park pilot speaker just after I bought it. Which was repaired with a similar item soldered on to the original piece of loom.

Rear blind was later retro fitted, this failed soon after, constant clicking gears and no movement from the blind retracting. Can't remember if that then failed and another was fitted. Maybe TB can remember, as we fixed one at his place.

Now the park pilot speaker failed again, now replaced with a genuine item off another car here.


Coincidence? Or is there something connected?
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 April 2013, 23:49:38
Hmm :-\ will sit down with the wiring diags tomorrow, time permitting  :y
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: dbdb on 03 April 2013, 00:44:48
My rear blind is failing - clicking and won't rise or fall without pulling.  I am assuming it is a mechanical failure, I suppose it could be triggered by a voltage surge but I suspect just gear wear and tear.
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: TheBoy on 03 April 2013, 19:43:01
Conincidence Mr Gayboy.

Both blinds and PP speakers are known to be a bit shit.
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: RobG on 03 April 2013, 22:34:31
Modified tweeter is the way to go for PP system
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: 2woody on 03 April 2013, 22:39:26
certainly the blind system is a bit poor and prone to failure

..... and surely learning to park would be a cure for the park-pilot speaker
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: RobG on 03 April 2013, 22:40:24
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and surely learning to park would be a cure for the park-pilot speaker
;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: feeutfo on 03 April 2013, 23:12:45
certainly the blind system is a bit poor and prone to failure

..... and surely learning to park would be a cure for the park-pilot speaker

Bloody farmers, there's nothing to hit up your way except fields. ::)  ;)
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: Kevin Wood on 03 April 2013, 23:17:27
certainly the blind system is a bit poor and prone to failure

..... and surely learning to park would be a cure for the park-pilot speaker

Bloody farmers, there's nothing to hit up your way except fields. ::)  ;)

Could always get a shin breaker. ;D
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: Kevin Wood on 03 April 2013, 23:18:14
.. and I'm disappointed that that lovely speaker bodge repair didn't last. :'(
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: feeutfo on 03 April 2013, 23:28:47
.. and I'm disappointed that that lovely speaker bodge repair didn't last. :'(

:( it went out with a nice squeak/warble warning though. :y but not to worry, I had a spare here. :)

I've stuffed the new speaker in by the rear blind plug, save pulling that corner of the head lining down....again.... ready for the next time it fails.

Doesn't matter how useless it is, its all got to work. All of it. :)
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: Andy B on 03 April 2013, 23:35:34
.. and I'm disappointed that that lovely speaker bodge repair didn't last. :'(

:( it went out with a nice squeak/warble warning though. :y but not to worry, I had a spare here. :)

I've stuffed the new speaker in by the rear blind plug, save pulling that corner of the head lining down....again.... ready for the next time it fails.

Doesn't matter how useless it is, its all got to work. All of it. :)

Just use your mirrors .....  ::) ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: feeutfo on 03 April 2013, 23:36:43
.. and I'm disappointed that that lovely speaker bodge repair didn't last. :'(

:( it went out with a nice squeak/warble warning though. :y but not to worry, I had a spare here. :)

I've stuffed the new speaker in by the rear blind plug, save pulling that corner of the head lining down....again.... ready for the next time it fails.

Doesn't matter how useless it is, its all got to work. All of it. :)

Just use your mirrors .....  ::) ::) ::) ::)
Like on your Merc? ::) ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: Andy B on 03 April 2013, 23:41:33
.. and I'm disappointed that that lovely speaker bodge repair didn't last. :'(

:( it went out with a nice squeak/warble warning though. :y but not to worry, I had a spare here. :)

I've stuffed the new speaker in by the rear blind plug, save pulling that corner of the head lining down....again.... ready for the next time it fails.

Doesn't matter how useless it is, its all got to work. All of it. :)

Just use your mirrors .....  ::) ::) ::) ::)
Like on your Merc? ::) ::) ::) ::)

Yes ..... my Merc has mirrors too!  ::) ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: feeutfo on 04 April 2013, 07:13:11
.. and I'm disappointed that that lovely speaker bodge repair didn't last. :'(

:( it went out with a nice squeak/warble warning though. :y but not to worry, I had a spare here. :)

I've stuffed the new speaker in by the rear blind plug, save pulling that corner of the head lining down....again.... ready for the next time it fails.

Doesn't matter how useless it is, its all got to work. All of it. :)

Just use your mirrors .....  ::) ::) ::) ::)
Like on your Merc? ::) ::) ::) ::)

Yes ..... my Merc has mirrors too!  ::) ::) ::) ::)

Mirrors AND reversing sensors... Bloody hypocrite. ;D
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: doz on 05 April 2013, 01:55:55
Can't comment on the park speaker but I've had a couple of success stories repairing rear blinds. Mind you it's not for the faint hearted. When the spring goes off it will chop the end of ya finger off it you got it in the way. Thing is I've not actually ever found anything wrong. All I do is open em up. strip down, clear em up and bung em back together again. Motors seems pretty bullet proof it's the gearboxes which give the grief. For some reason I've had better results using copper slip on the gears when I've rebuilt it than grease. Oh and if you go to the bottom of my garden and hunt around your find the motor/gearbox unit from one I launched after stripping it out and refitting it several times just to find as soon as I got it back together the ruddy thing jammed up again. Really is a pants design.
Title: Re: Rear electrics
Post by: TheBoy on 05 April 2013, 12:36:24
I use proper grease in gearbox. Motors occasionally fail, as do controllers