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[BIZYWZD]

its there a photo of where the ignition ring is please? what size hammer do I use? (sort of serious cos I will have to do this myself as the car is immobile just now) ! Thanks ! 

[omegod]

If you take the cowling off the ignition there is a black plastic circle around the barrel with a small box attached with a blue electrical connection, unplug the cable and the black plastic bit will pry off with a stout screwdriver , pop it off and put the new one on and connect. No hammer should be required at any point!!!!  New one is in the post 

[BIZYWZD]

You truly are a God of Omegas. 

Thanks again.

[STEMO]

You truly are a God of Omegas. 

Thanks again.

No he's not.......he's a very naughty boy 

[zirk]

its there a photo of where the ignition ring is please? what size hammer do I use? (sort of serious cos I will have to do this myself as the car is immobile just now) ! Thanks ! 

Hammer, ? to remove a Immobilizer ECU,  and you thought Kwik Fit were Cowboys. 

[omegod]

You truly are a God of Omegas. 

Thanks again.

No he's not.......he's a very naughty boy 

I'm always getting spanked .....and quite like it 

[BIZYWZD]

Next on my list.
The passenger side front central locking doesn't work.
How do I identify the problem?
sticky knob (steady... )  or a Servo or another ECU -bloody car has 100's of them !

[Doctor Gollum]

Next on my list.
The passenger side front central locking doesn't work.
How do I identify the problem?
sticky knob (steady... )  or a Servo or another ECU -bloody car has 100's of them !

Might try the door solenoid first

Shouldn't need a hammer either

[TheBoy]

Kevin Wood did a great guide for replacing the microswitch in the servo. About 95% of the time, that cures solenoid faults.

[johnnydog]

My local scrappy charges a fiver for a door central locking solenoid. Changed several on different Omegas and never had a duff one yet. As you have to remove it from the car no matter which route you decide, I don't think it's worth messing about changing the micro switch IMHO for a fiver. And if you are unlucky enough to get one that is shot, then they will change it for another (they obviously mark them to stop the less honest returning the old duff one of course...)

[TheBoy]

My local scrappy charges a fiver for a door central locking solenoid. Changed several on different Omegas and never had a duff one yet. As you have to remove it from the car no matter which route you decide, I don't think it's worth messing about changing the micro switch IMHO for a fiver. And if you are unlucky enough to get one that is shot, then they will change it for another (they obviously mark them to stop the less honest returning the old duff one of course...)

Reason for replacing switch, is all used solenoids will likely have tired switches.  But for a quick fix, yeah, replace (if you can get that cheap), then refurb old one as a spare

[Kevin Wood]

If you refurb the motor it'll only cost you a couple of quid for the switch(es) and then you get one with a brand new switch rather than one that could already be quite tired, as said.

I don't think I've ever had one fail once it's been refurbed with a new switch, but all 4 of my locking motors failed quite early on with the original switches, which makes me wonder if the original motors had a dodgy batch of switches.