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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: tunnie on 25 May 2007, 18:44:37

Title: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: tunnie on 25 May 2007, 18:44:37
You may remember my 2.2 Omega had a problem yesterday, starts fine, idle too high at 1,300 RPM, spanner light was on, pressed the gas pedal nothing happened .

Got the codes (thanks to Jaime for reading them even when he had family around  :y)

P1550 - Electronic Throttle Control Motor

P1500 - Electronic Throttle Control Motor Failure

P1525 - Limp Home Position Error

Once warm, the enging was fine. Problem has not come back, even after another cold start.

Throttle body and breathers cleaned last summer....
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: Craig_R on 25 May 2007, 18:48:15
I hope it was just a clitch on your throttle body tunnie as they cost a fortune the DBW ones i have seen them on ebay for about 230 quid but i did see one once for 20 quid.

Fingers crossed for you tunnie it will befine from now on  :y

Craig
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: tunnie on 25 May 2007, 18:50:36
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I hope it was just a clitch on your throttle body tunnie as they cost a fortune the DBW ones i have seen them on ebay for about 230 quid but i did see one once for 20 quid.

Fingers crossed for you tunnie it will befine from now on  :y

Craig

Cheers m8, Jaime was saying the same....

Maybe its a good excuse to swap it for a V6  ::)
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: Auto Addict on 25 May 2007, 20:13:25
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You may remember my 2.2 Omega had a problem yesterday, starts fine, idle too high at 1,300 RPM, spanner light was on, pressed the gas pedal nothing happened .

Got the codes (thanks to Jaime for reading them even when he had family around  :y)

P1550 - Electronic Throttle Control Motor

P1500 - Electronic Throttle Control Motor Failure

P1525 - Limp Home Position Error

Once warm, the enging was fine. Problem has not come back, even after another cold start.

Throttle body and breathers cleaned last summer....

Before you jump to too many conclusions, I would clean up the electrical contacts to the throttle control motor, with a good contact cleaner.

I seem to remember MarksDTM saying he's never know one to fail yet, of course there could always be a first time, but fingers crossed.

It won't do any harm to clean up the throttle body and breathers again, it's not a difficult job.
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: Chopsdad on 25 May 2007, 21:30:27
Mark also suggests cleaning the MAF contacts with computer foam clean :-?

Mine ran excessive rpm last year Tunnie after I'd cleaned the breathers, turned out to be nothing more sinister than a sticking butterfly.
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: tunnie on 25 May 2007, 21:37:59
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Mark also suggests cleaning the MAF contacts with computer foam clean :-?

Mine ran excessive rpm last year Tunnie after I'd cleaned the breathers, turned out to be nothing more sinister than a sticking butterfly.

Got sneaky feeling thats that might be it...

First job when i get back after the trip this weekend is to give the Omega some love and attention  :)
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: Bernard on 26 May 2007, 02:39:06
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Mark also suggests cleaning the MAF contacts with computer foam clean :-?

Mine ran excessive rpm last year Tunnie after I'd cleaned the breathers, turned out to be nothing more sinister than a sticking butterfly.

Not Adviseable to to clean with Computer foam clean as this is Water based ! Far better to use Electrical Contact cleaner. :y
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: Auto Addict on 26 May 2007, 08:33:45
IIRC tunnie, have you cleaned out that back breather pipe at the back of the camcover, the one you couldn't get off?
Title: Re: spanner light + no power (now with codes)
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 26 May 2007, 09:36:16
As I originaly said....sticking throttle.....its been sat dry for a few weeks, stuck shut and the ECU stuck it in de-stick (max thrutch to the actuating motor) and then limp mode....