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Omega General Help / Re: failed on co emissions (black smoke)

« on: 09 July 2015, 11:29:41 »

update
took car to halfords who do a cat clean service for £20 or free if it fails as cat clean is £14 a can it is a great deal, so they put cat clean in i took the car for a blast (1 hour drive high speeds) brought it back and it still failed, no smoke but very little difference in readings. brian felt cat had a) failed or b) was not a proper job. so i went back to my garage that did my mot and also fitted the cat back in feb this year, he rang supplier who said its got 2 yrs cover and as i had proof from 2 places it failed they will supply a new one free. so its back in this monday for replacement and re-test

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Omega General Help / Re: failed on co emissions (black smoke)

« on: 07 July 2015, 15:32:15 »

think its a temp thing car get's  driven 10 mins twice a day , spoke to a chap at halfords they do a cat clean service £20 if you fail at mot they give a full refund. so booked it in for tomorrow  i will post results afterwards 

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Omega General Help / Re: failed on co emissions (black smoke)

« on: 07 July 2015, 13:58:11 »

fast idle test  1         min      max    actual
rpm  1/min              2750  3250     2864      pass               engine size 1998   mileage 149402
co                          -----   0.300    0.661     fail
hc                          -----    200      178        pass
lambda                   0.970  1.030    1.022      pass

fast idle 2
rpm 1/min               2750    3250    2864      pass
co                           ----     0.300   0.639     fail
hc                           ----     200       189       pass
lambda                    0.970   1.030    1.018    pass

natural idle test

rpm                          620     1080    735     pass
co                            ----      0.500   0.437  pass

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Omega General Help / failed on co emissions (black smoke)

« on: 07 July 2015, 11:56:00 »

so we put the omega in for mot . failed on few bits and bobs but the major problem is emissions. in just 6 months we had brand new full exhaust fitted inc proper cat.everything was great  but other week i noticed black smoke, and mot guy did say they noticed black smoke on mot. problem is our budget is tight do a spend a bit and hope or cut our loss's and scrap it ?

co
fast idle was 0.661 should be 0.300
second fast idle 0.639 should be 0.300

natural idle test 0.437 passed

hoping new air filter , oil treatment ?   any advice please

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Omega General Help / Re: EML light came on rev counter waving up and down

« on: 09 March 2015, 23:53:16 »

Was it a Vauxhall system you had fitted or after market, did they fit new lamder sensor too.

i belive the cat was vauxhall part as garage had to get it in as the old cat had been cut out and replaced with tube and the middle and back i got were after market. i will comfirm  this when i call in for code checks.  the lamber sensor was not changed

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Omega General Help / EML light came on rev counter waving up and down

« on: 09 March 2015, 22:54:21 »

so out on a country road (middle of no were) when eml light comes on rev counter was on 2 thou and starts jumping up and down. we had been driving an hour and up to that point hadn't missed a beat managed to pull over and as soon as i put it park engine dies and dash lights come on. i pray turn key and she starts no problem but the eml light stays on. so we travel on then drive 60 miles home (eml light on) stop at shop for dinner get back in car eml light stays off rest of way home, wife tells me twice last week the eml light stayed on when she started the car in morning 2 out of 5 days. now the week before we had a complete new exhaust inc cat fitted as our cat was missing and rest was rotten. before that we never had the eml light come on. going to get garage to put code reader on to see if any thing shows up but thought i would  ask  here too
cheers chris

2l auto on 2000 reg

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Omega General Help / Re: face lift rear reflectors replacement

« on: 01 March 2015, 13:30:02 »

  and the award for stupid question go's to ME
put kettle on for coffee , walked out to car opened boot spotted the screw thought can't be that easy? undid screw replaced reflector repeated on other side. walked back  in house to kettle clicking off. lost track of how many times i've said to wife its only a 5 min job to fix that or this on a car to end up spending an hour.

in my defence in this case i was a) being nagged
                                            b) car was not here
                                            c) not checked car before posting
                                            d)half asleep

now to work through the other things she is asking me to look at..............

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Omega General Help / Re: very high load!

« on: 27 February 2015, 12:50:25 »

think the roof bars would bend first.
i would save the car and use a scaffold tower to do the job 

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Omega General Help / face lift rear reflectors replacement

« on: 27 February 2015, 12:15:02 »

hi guys
we have an omega face lift estate, one of the rear reflectors was smashed. we got a new pair from e-bay and were not cheap.
 my question is how do i replace them? looking at car i have back lights lens then small block of moulding below them then reflector then bumper. was thinking of cutting off lugs and glueing it in place ?
but would like to do proper job

thanks in advance

chris

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Newbie Welcome Area / hello from north yorkshire

« on: 27 February 2015, 11:52:37 »

hi everyone my name is chris and for my sins i now own a omega estate (2000) that i got for my wife. it has odd problems like all old cars but fits all our needs