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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Heylp!!! Zoiks!! No car pass :(

« on: 11 June 2010, 23:43:46 »

CCRT700

http://www.dndservices.co.uk/vauxhall-ccrt700-bose-on-star.html

and CDC2

http://www.dndservices
.co.uk/Vauxhall-CDC2-omega.html


 8-)

Dave,
fortunately the head unit (ccrt 700 Bose) was ok & didnt need the code.

Used the unlock service for the CDC tonight & will put the code in tomorrow morn.

Ta for the pointer to your service 8-)

As for the car pass, local dealer has quoted £23.50 & 2 day delivery. Get it next week

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Heylp!!! Zoiks!! No car pass :(

« on: 10 June 2010, 21:49:59 »

Oky doki!

Picked me up a '99 T 3.0 Elite Auto A/C saloon today. One or two little niggles but well chuffed nevertheless.

The car has been laid up for several months subsequently one of the flies in the ointment is that the battery was an oem Vauxhall branded battery and has seen far better days & fails to hold charge. Dropped it out when I got home, popped onto my charger and it has blown two 20A fuses on the charger.     Methinks the battery is goosed.

So with the battery being goosed, will be getting another tomorrow but this leaves me with the unsavoury task of recoding the CCRT 700 & the Blaupunkt CD changer. But lo & behold, the car pass in the driver's pack does not bear any reference to whats fitted in the car

So the question is what's gonna be the best way of retrieving the codes for these? (other than being fleeced of hard earned greenbacks at the stealers?)

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Headlamp Field Vision message

« on: 10 June 2010, 21:59:52 »

Either one of the two sensors has popped out or the internal adjuster motors have had it/broken

Message simply means the auto level adjust is not happening.

Sensors are front nearside wishbone, easy to see with front nearside wheel off, and rear nearside suspension arm, need to get your head under the car to see that one.

HTH

Ta very muchly for the heads up. Saturday is gonna be a busy day for me....

Handing back the comp car (a friggin 59 plate Corsa CDTi !!!    )tomorrow so will have to get the new (old !) beast ready on saturday

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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Headlamp Field Vision message

« on: 10 June 2010, 21:52:13 »

I know that the front offside HID buld is out & needs to be replaced, would this trigger the message in the title?  :-?

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Omega General Help / Re: Four & a half hours...... Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!!!

« on: 13 June 2010, 13:01:05 »

Ta very muchly. 

Only prob is that it'll be next weekend before I can get to do the b*ggers again.

While I'm at it, I'll look at replacing the main coolant hoses (to of rad to thermostat, bottom of rad to exp tank & the blighters from the coolant bridge)

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Omega General Help / Four & a half hours...... Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!!!

« on: 12 June 2010, 22:19:31 »

Ok, here goes......

Car has been overheating. Thinking it was the rad fans failing to kick in, traced through the full circuit and all was ok, correct current path maintained.....

So after a puddle or two under the car, gets thinking that I've a coolant leak 

Started at 12:30ish, went through the plenum, upper & lower inlet manifold removal procedure (what a tw%t the inlet manifold is to remove! ) and find that the rubber seals on the coolant bridge unions on both sides have somewhat withered away with tell tale crystalline deposits on the coolant bridge 

By this point in time it was pushing on for 2pm and nowhere factor wise open, so Halfrauds was my only bet. Nothing suitable so ended up trying to fashion seals with a selection of O rings and the original seal steel outer rings. Rebuilt the manifold & plenum then refilled the coolant circuit with a correct mix. All in all a four & a half hour job 

Took the car for a test drive and then you can imagine my complete feeling of disappointment when tell tale wisps of steam are billowing out from under the bonnet. Quick diversion to the petrol station, dropped in some more coolant mix and then drove home with the heaters on full pelt. 

So the question is, can the coolant bridge unions & seals be obtained from the stealers ( ), also how much is one looking at for a new HBV?  :-?

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Omega General Help / Re: Headlight question - advice needed.

« on: 11 June 2010, 23:57:23 »

Warning!!!!
Stoopid half asleep dopey question coming up.......

'99 Elite with xenon HIDs, does the cruddy discolouration mainly build up on the inner surface of the lens? If so, how easy are the lenses to remove?

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Omega General Help / '99 3.0 Elite - Some minor jobs to do

« on: 10 June 2010, 21:41:29 »

Hello!

Picked up my car today, a '99 T 3.0 Elite Auto with A/C.

Couple of the old tell tale rust spots in the usual places, but other wise body & interior is generally good if in need of a thorough valet. There again the car has been laid up for several months. 

I know that I've gotta replace the rad fan switch as the rad fans are not kicking in so had to drive all the way home with the heaters on ful pelt with the windows open. 

Next jobbie is a new battery for the beast. It has a OEM vauxhall battery that has seen better days.

After that I need to do the front pads, a new offside HID bulb.

Will be posting separately in the leccy section as I'm gonna need to get the codes for the CCRT700 & Blaupunkt CD changer. The car pass is friggin well missing   

Otherwise, cant really grumble £300 has got me a whole load of car. 

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Omega General Help / Re: 1999 X30XE duff temp sender, thermostat or rad fan

« on: 06 June 2010, 21:43:30 »

Ta very muchly Andy. Will looksee tomorrow eve after worky.

Only thing that worries me is that is it a full plenum & inlet manifold job off to do? If so, barsteward, it'll be a sat morn/afternoon job I suppose  :-/

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Omega General Help / 1999 X30XE duff temp sender, thermostat or rad fan

« on: 06 June 2010, 21:28:22 »

Hello!

New to the forum, but now bought my second ever Omega. Got rid of my first one, a '95 2.0 CD Estate back in 2001, now have bought me a '99 3.0 Elite Saloon.

Question is that the temp gauge is permanently buried at the low point. What could this be down to? Duff temp sender or thermostat?  :-?

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Breaking: Champagne (Z489) Elite (Facelift)

« on: 06 June 2010, 22:02:43 »

No problemo.

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Breaking: Champagne (Z489) Elite (Facelift)

« on: 06 June 2010, 21:56:05 »

A quick enquiry, do you have a front drivers door check strap available?

Ta in advance

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Re: Breaking Omega CDX Estate in Black. (1998)

« on: 06 June 2010, 21:58:55 »

A quick enquiry, do you have the driver's door check strap available?

Ta in advance.

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General Car Chat / Re: Another meggy possibly bites the dust

« on: 18 July 2010, 08:36:37 »

Where are you located?

I'm at Prenton on the Wirral. 

Somebody is coming later for the car. 

If all falls through with it, then I'll see what happens 

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General Car Chat / Re: Another meggy possibly bites the dust

« on: 17 July 2010, 15:47:54 »

Those are all fairly easy to fix:

- Coolant loss, get some special dye to source the leak.
- Headlight level sensor, front left wishbone.  Easy fix.
- Oil.  Rocker cover gaskets?

Rocker cover gasket kit, new sealing rings and the GM black sealing paste are all there ready & waiting to be fitted.

That as may be the case but in all honesty I do not have the time, money nor the patience to continue any further.  I'm getting pretty *issed off with spending money on parts and not getting any further in my pursuits. :-/

I work away all week occasionally getting back late on a Friday and leaving on a Sunday, so family quality time is precious and being under the bonnet is not really the best use of that time despite working on my cars being a favourite pastime of mine.