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Omega General Help / Re: Please Read I need help

« on: 28 January 2010, 21:10:05 »

Hi Everyone

Just wanted to let you know that it passed its MOT, although there are a number of advisory notices but nothing too major!  Means I can have a tinker and learn a bit more.  I will be helping the brother in law take an Astra Cabriolet apart this weekend as the engine has seized.  Has anyone got any experience with the Z20LET engine?

 

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Omega General Help / Re: Please Read I need help

« on: 23 January 2010, 17:33:21 »

I need some help getting the heated seats to work, my dad said it was working yesterday but I didn't notice it working today. Thought it could be a fuse? would be nice to have the original book for reference.

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Omega General Help / Re: Please Read I need help

« on: 23 January 2010, 17:15:55 »

Hi All

Do you know where I can get my hands on a PDF copy of the owners manual for a 2000 (V) ?  or if not a clean original would be awesome!

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Omega General Help / Re: Please Read I need help

« on: 23 January 2010, 16:38:45 »

Well, er took it to my brother in law for him to read the codes, fault indicated on the lambda sensor only.  He had a look at the throttle body which he said could do with being cleaned.  Drove home feeling extremely fed-up and not looking foward to a battle with the garage.  The car stalled and so I restarted the engine and its got a new lease of life?  rev's are even ride is responsive gears are changing and the vibration has gone  t smells like its running rich but the brother in law said that a service and lambda sensor should sort this out (the garage have agreed to do the work too)

It goes for an MOT on Tuesday so I guess we will see what happens next.

One thing I will say is what a lovely car to drive when its playing nice!

Thanks for all your help, much appreciated!

I will update more on Tuesday.

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Omega General Help / Re: Please Read I need help

« on: 22 January 2010, 20:18:09 »

My brother in law has just checked them and nothing is registered for the gearbox, however the lambda sensor has registered a fault.  Could this be making the car run 'rough'

Thanks

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Omega General Help / Please Read I need help

« on: 22 January 2010, 19:53:39 »

Hi All

Please be patient as I am new to this!

I have (today) purchased a Vauxhall Omega  2.0l Petrol Auto CDX.  On the test drive the car seemed to run fine.  My dad helped me to check that the car accelerated through the gears, no clunks clicks or grinds only issue was a blowing from the exhaust system which the garage have agreed to replace on Tuesday.  Whilst we couldn't do a huge test drive due to very very little petrol everything was ok.  I got petrol and drove approx 5 miles, stopped briefly 15-20min.  When I came to set off again the car refused to go (only rev'd) although it was in drive.  After about 30 or so seconds the car slowly set off.  As I continued with my journey the car got considerably worse, revs struggled to get past 500, and all the time it was below 1000/1200 the car vibrated like it was going to stall (it felt like it was struggling for fuel but if I had the car in park and held the rev's it was smooth and quiet)  also I noticed that a couple of times the engine revved excessively but the car did not respond, the delay was about 30-45 seconds then shooting forward. 

Pulling away in drive is very painfully slow altough it is a little better if you operate the gearbox using 1,2,3.  Any ideas?  is this an issue with fuel delivery, does it need servicing or is the gearbox on its way out or a combination of all 3 ?

Any answers would be very welcome.

Thanks