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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 May 2015, 09:10:21
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Friend of mine recently (the other day) had a bereavement in the family, at the same time I saw some Omega wheels on cumtree (PFL CDX 15inch piddly ones, but they're original to the car and will probably be appearing for Billing) down near his house in Nottingham. So I decided to buy them, and visit my old mate at the same time.
So when I left I had a beautiful, working Omega V6.
1. On the way back my new-second-hand DC012 autochanger stopped working (discs all move and change, but the display just blinks, and it doesn't play any)
2. Sat in traffic and the idle started to wander a little, slight shudder as it dropped to about 475rpm. ICV need a clean, I'm guessing. Also time to check for air leaks. (the ICV is a known good 2nd hand and cleaned, and all the vac pipes were done 2 months ago!)
3. My mate being like a puppy in a bone shop was playing with the interior, pushing every button, and simultaneously locked the door and puled the handle - so now the interior handle is jammed out, and the door pin is down!
I don't mind, poor lad. The joke is I said 'stop doing that or she'll get angry with you'. She did!
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I hope nobody googles that website... ;D
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:D I thought you had a loyalty card for it ;)
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Adult classifieds apparently ;D ;D
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I hope nobody googles that website... ;D
Oo er missus!
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Must Google it now. :o
Matron!
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I like that my 'help, i cannot actually use my passenger door, cd player and the idle's starting to waver a little' thread has just turned into a string of Carry On jokes!
:D
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Sid James mode....."they all do that Sir" :D
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I hope nobody googles that website... ;D
I just did. Anybody going to south Africa for hollybobs :D
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Note to all-
Door fixed. For anyoen else who is fool enough to let their mate both pull on the interior release handle, who them locks the car at the same moment, thus leaving the pull handle stuck out, and the door pin down....
Here's how to sort it.
1 Wiggle door release handle (interior) and at the same time lock and unlock the car via either the remote or the driver's door. This is the 'in the lap of the Gods' moment. Mine went after barely a minute, you may struggle intil hell freezes over. You're removing a bit of tension from the mechanism, thus allowing the door pin to pop up again.
2 Remove doorcard, as described elsewhere :y
3 Remove lock mechanism, as described elsewhere and in Haynes book of lies. Beware, the appropriate picture to aid releasing the rod from the interior handle and the lock itself is an the next page! >:( :D Hint - you ping it with a flat driver.
4 You will see two spring-loaded rocking latches. One above the other. These belong the other way round, so lift the upper, click/lever the lower one with a screwdriver, so this is now where it belongs, above 'tother 'un.
5 If you now reassemble (as I did) the lock will simply jam again. Tease with pliers the lower latch (which was the upper latch until you clicked it back in place). Tease it so that even with pretty unreasonable force, the lower latch can't pop out of place again and get 'past' the upper latch.
6 Reassembly is the reversal of removal. Taking care not to drop any tools. Also be wary of old ladies walking by the driveway, who very unhelpfully say things like 'ooh, are you working on the car?' - this when you have the entire door card off, and your hand inside wrestling with a plug and socket ;D