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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Wanted - Instrument panel for 2.6 Estate

« on: 18 November 2019, 10:38:17 »

Fair point well made.
What it needs is someone with one of each on the drive to do a swap test and give a definitive answer.

Either way I'm sorted now thanks to BG. Not fitted yet as the original has sparked into life but I'm confident it'll come good when needed, as will the unexpected towbar purchase.


Please Lock.

Steve

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Wanted - Instrument panel for 2.6 Estate

« on: 12 November 2019, 21:33:48 »

IIRC what I read on here its to do with calibration of the fuel gauge.

Steve

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Wanted - Instrument panel for 2.6 Estate

« on: 11 November 2019, 19:44:17 »

 DG:- Righto cheers. But didn’t you say ^^^^^, oh never mind

BG:-  Put me down for the known working one for collection. PM incoming


Steve

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Wanted - Instrument panel for 2.6 Estate

« on: 11 November 2019, 17:37:28 »

Thanks for the interesting offer.
Concerned that a bog standard 2.6 elite will only have an ar25, so they might not be suitable.
Any easy way to check whether ar25/35 that you know of?

I wasn’t expecting the gearbox to be an issue as I thought I’d read speed was taken from an abs sensor. Seems these motors are more complicated than their age suggests..

Steve

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Wanted - Instrument panel for 2.6 Estate

« on: 10 November 2019, 23:30:54 »

As per the subject heading.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think '2.6' and 'Estate' are key to getting the right part.

Steve

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Instrument issue, no speedo

« on: 06 November 2019, 13:14:21 »

I'm in the same situation, speedo quivers around zero and tacho dead.

Spoke to Cartronix in Waterlooville and they say they can't fix it.

What I have found out is this. Take the cluster out of the binnacle and plug it back into the dash.
Start her up and when the speedo starts quivering give the needle a tap/nudge and hey presto it all comes back to life.
Indicated speed correlates to gps as before.
First time I did it it lasted a month so I reassembled it all.
Now I have to do it every time I start up, so running with a bare cluster till I get something sorted.
No TID seems to do funny things to the climate control so might reassemble it all and download a speedometer app until a decent used set come up.

Plenty of stuff on the web about GM clusters in the US with the same faults, cured by fitting new stepper motors. Seems that over there GM had a bad batch of motors over a timeframe, and iirc issued a recall and suffered a class action to get them put right. I dont think the parts involved are the same as those used on our VDO units  though.

Steve

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Self unlocking Omega

« on: 27 March 2019, 10:30:29 »

Any Volvo S/V40s in the car park?

Indeed there is, and the arrival of said V40 might coincide with the onset of my problems. The neighbour is also a friend so easy to experiment. Will report findings.

Steve

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Self unlocking Omega

« on: 26 March 2019, 22:01:14 »

I use my car infrequently at the moment.
Several times lately when I have gone to it in our communal parking area I have found it unlocked.

Either
1, I am becoming forgetful (that theory does get some support around here from those who confuse dont care with dont remember)
2, Electrical gremlins are at play,
3, A neighbour or frequent visitor is transmitting a signal that talks to my car, or
4, They really are out to get me.

What are the chances of No3? If its as remote as I think, any idea where I should start looking for No2. (No lavatory jokes please)

I think I need a different forum for 1 & 4.

Steve

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General Car Chat / Re: Ferry lorry tipping over!

« on: 26 December 2018, 21:17:19 »

Pull the drain valves

Also trailer air usually has manual controls on it...

Draining tanks doesn't empty the bags,, all trucks on air have a ferry setting which dumps air from unit, trailer would use lowering valve.

And how long have you got?
Some old Volvo's we used (or might of been Scanias) had a ferry setting but few knew it was there and nobody I know ever used it.
All current air suspension units can have the back end lowered or raised from inside, but it just isnt done IME.

Maybe that's why this thread got started. In any case I'm sure the lashings are there more for positional stability rather than stopping them rolling, which in 'normal' storm conditions I guess is more likely caused by unstable loading.

Doesn't bother me anymore though. Some bright spark realised there was a constant stream of paddy wagons running home empty from the continent and literally passing our door, so they get a backload and I had to find something else to do.

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General Car Chat / Re: Ferry lorry tipping over!

« on: 25 December 2018, 10:22:26 »

On all the crossing I've done dover-calais,drive onto truck deck, handbrake on,lock it and leave.  The only thing chained down were the
-un- accompanied trailers, everything else wasn't, reason being takes to long to put 4 chains on to every truck... Would think the Irish crossing is the same.

If the crossing is forecast to be rough the crew will often be chaining whilst you’re upstairs enjoying your breakfast 

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No they don't... because to chain a truck down correctly, the air needs to be dumped from the suspension, that's from unit and trailer  Also with 200 plus trucks on the spirt, when you board you would see them with chains and binders at the ready.

Whilst I expected this to be the case when I first started doing the trips, the thing is I've never seen it done on any of my crossings, whether first on, last on or anywhere inbetween. Nor have I returned to the vehicle deck and found unit or trailer down to the stops. Is there a way to dump the air out of a locked unit?

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General Car Chat / Re: Ferry lorry tipping over!

« on: 21 December 2018, 13:03:54 »

Ive taken a truck Holyhead - Dublin or  Cairnryan - Larne probably a hundred times. Winter storms can certainly liven up what is otherwise a dull interlude although standing on the dock watching a ferry struggling to dock can be worrying.

The irish cat (Jonathon Swift IIRC) has earnt he nickname the Olympic Flame, as in the winter it does not go out very often. I believe the the Stena cat is now an office block in Turkey as its Omega-esque thirst made it unviable.

As I understand it the amount of chaining down has various stages dependant on what the weather forecast is, with the most common variant being 'block' chaining where only the trucks on the perimeter of a block get lashed and those in the middle are free to rattle around if Neptune kicks off. What I've never fully understood is this. It's all very well lashing down before departure, but after an hour of rocking from side to side the suspension will lose a lot of air and might of dropped three inches. Do they go round tightening the chains or let them go slack?

Turners nearly lost a tanker out the back of a ferry on the Cairnryan crossing a few years back. Seems the muppet didnt put the brake on and it was 'lashed' to a continuous rail alongside. As they cleared port the captain opened the taps and back she rolled. Took out the loading door and the only thing keeping it out of the sea was the cab wedging against the roof.

Steve
 

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Omega General Help / Re: Towbar and electrics?

« on: 30 April 2018, 10:44:58 »

Funny enough I was under the back of mine yesterday confirming the rumours that a towbar salvaged from a pfl estate is no good for a facelift estate.
With type approval required I doubt they would look to kindly if I modified it, especially with my welding, so if anyone needs one its going spare.

Steve

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Omega General Help / Re: Best current source of 10/40 semi ?

« on: 24 April 2018, 09:48:10 »

Autovaux have had it on special from time to time, but now i see they are out of stock and the part number has transferred to a Comma product.

Maybe Vauxhall have closed their dedicated refinery

Steve

Correction, maybe it is in stock. All depends on how you approach their website. Part No 95599582.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 04 March 2018, 11:10:13 »

If scuttle needs sealing, something is wrong. 99 times out of 100, the windscreen seal is not fully seated along the bottom edge of the glass.  Push this thoroughly back on.

Thanks for the tip, thought that was more a trim rather than a seal.
Which way am I likely needing to push? Perpendicular to the screen or up the screen.

Steve

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 03 March 2018, 11:19:54 »

New 246 coil pack. Seems to be running steady on the requisite No of cylinders again.
Snowy roads are no place for an omega that might  unexpectedly fire on all 6.

Good news no oil down the holes, bad news snow run off prevented scuttle being sealed.

Tin foil protection for now.

Steve