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Omega General Help / Re: Omega v6 gives up under load
« on: 10 April 2016, 01:06:33 »
Havent tested. Will try next time problem occurs and see.
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Omega General Help / Re: Omega v6 gives up under load
« on: 10 April 2016, 01:03:13 »
Yes. Genuine GM sensor from Opel dealer. Might add that when driving home tonight(45km) car didnt miss a beat. Even pushed it to provoke something but the v6 pulled smoothly across the range. Dont Get it:p
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Omega General Help / Omega v6 gives up under load
« on: 09 April 2016, 19:48:05 »
Hi. My 95 Opel omega mv6 developed a new problem today. Upon overtaking a car it just gave up. Didnt accelerate more and just held 5500 rpm without the autobox changing gear. After i lifted off the throttle,(it was flat to the floor), the box changed up and i could accelerate again. After that it ran normal at cruising speeds and box changes ok. But when i use kickdown it starts shaking and jerking violently through the entire drivetrain and engine refuses to rev. Engine light comes on. If i release the throttle the car runs ok again and engine light comes off after about 30 sec of normal cruising. Try kickdown again an hell breaks loose all over again:p used paper clip method and got 19, 136, 73. Crank sensor, unknown driver output error and mass air flow sensor voltage low. Car was idling badly so guess that may cause 19? 136 someone said is a malfunction in the ecu. But had that one on and off for years without issues. 73 ive not seen before. Could defective airflow sensor cause this? Crank sensor is about 1 year old.
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Omega General Help / Re: MID.
« on: 08 January 2016, 18:47:31 »
Since the car is a 1995 it could also be the light control unit that lives way up under the dash bottom of the a pillar. Had the same on my 95 estate. It always showed headlight/taillight even all the light worked. Turns out Opel recommended changing the control unit for a later more reliable version when people had this problem years ago. I got another control unit cheap from eBay and it fixed my problem. But i would change the bulbs first and clean the connectors to rule that out.
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General Car Chat / Re: Fuel tank fell off(!)
« on: 24 December 2015, 18:05:55 »
The omega tank is plastic but i never tought of this fault:p car is now abandoned downtown waiting for christmas to end:p and im stuck driving the irritatingly reliable Ford sierra over the holidays:p but in the omegas defence it has now done 450.000 km on norways salted roads:)
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General Car Chat / Fuel tank fell off(!)
« on: 24 December 2015, 11:30:08 »
This is a new one for me. One of the straps holding the fuel tank in place broke yesterday on my omega estate. Fuel tank still hanging on one side, but pretty much dragging on the ground on left side! Had to abandon car at a nearby friends house. Seems pretty cramped up there with trailer coupling and all. 
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Omega General Help / Re: heater problems
« on: 10 December 2015, 19:46:12 »
Is there enough coolant in the system?
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General Car Chat / Re: Omega popularity
« on: 06 December 2015, 20:25:13 »
In norway they were very popular from start of production and then sold less and less towards end of production. Most norwegian omegas seems to be 94-95 but now AS theyre getting older i think its like 50/50 of pfl vs fl here.
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Re: Central locking question
« on: 05 December 2015, 23:19:41 »
Yes. Key hole in both front doors. Just assumed they all had that:p but then everything is probably working as it should. Thanks for the replies:)
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Omega Electrical and Audio Help / Central locking question
« on: 05 December 2015, 13:31:13 »
Hi. On my 94 omega i noticed when you push the front passenger door lock button down it just locks that door. Is this the way its supposed to work or should it lock all doors? When i use the key in the passenger door lock, it locks/unlocks all doors. Key in drivers door also obviously locks/unlocks all doors. As does the drivers door lock button. Just curious as if the passenger door lock button should really lock the entire car? Its the old infrared remote system and remote works fine.
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Omega General Help / Re: Removing doors
« on: 28 November 2015, 19:30:02 »
I changed all four doors on my pfl estate to doors from a facelift. Only difference i found is that the hole where the wiring loom enters the door is a little bigger on fl. And there are a couple of extra holes for the fl door strip. But they will be covered by the pfl strip anyway. I used a heatgun to warm up the old doorstrips to soften up the glue before removing. I found it easyer to install the wiring loom in the new door after i attached it to the car. Less likely to scratch the paintwork. As for the doorpins there are a specialist tool for that. But i just used a pair of pliers to hold the Edge of the pin and a hammer to hit the pliers.
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Omega General Help / Re: Replacing/upgrading MID
« on: 16 November 2015, 21:23:00 »All i know is from when i did this myself. On my 1994 Opel omega 3,0mv6. After rewiring and programing everything worked fine, except on full tank when the fuel gauge showed full, the computer would say 175km range. When the tank reached 2/3 full the computer would just show "F" the rest of the time. Searched some German sites and found that the signal was a different range on 94 and early 95 omegas. Checked fuel gauge parts and found 4 different for the omega. Early and late version saloon, and early and late estate. Got a new version (late 95 and up) gauge from ebay, and found a instrument from a newer car. Mated my old instrument with the white plasticback with the printplate on it from the new instrument as the difference was said to be one of the resistors on the back. Anyway, with new gauge and modified instrument the range was spot on without any programing. Also if you search mid codes on Google you can see that the 95 mid is the only one who can be programmed to tank characteristics 1 or 2 as both was in use that year.Tank characteristics cannot be programmed however. If op has a 1994 omega he will get the wrong range signal if he dont change fuel sender and instrument print plate. I may be wrong, but i am fairly confident about this.I don't believe so, I am pretty certain the tank contents signal is same across the range
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Omega General Help / Re: Replacing/upgrading MID
« on: 12 November 2015, 21:48:42 »
Tank characteristics cannot be programmed however. If op has a 1994 omega he will get the wrong range signal if he dont change fuel sender and instrument print plate. I may be wrong, but i am fairly confident about this.
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Omega General Help / Re: Replacing/upgrading MID
« on: 11 November 2015, 23:11:35 »
I would recommend upgrading to the later one grey plug style mid. They dont suffer pixel issues. The yellow/black plug ones are useless. I even bought a new mid for silly money from Opel of the one in your picture. Lasted just over two years before the pixels started to fail again. Bought a second hand grey plug mid and plug and rewired following help from this forum and the haynes book. Be aware though that Opel/vauxhall changed the fuel range readings late 1995 so if your car is older you will also need to change the float in the tank and the circuit foil on the back of the instrument to get the fuel range right. If your speedo is divided in 10km/h intervalls you getaway with just changing mid. If you got the old speedo with 5 km/h lines you must also change instrument(foil) and float. On Opel anyway. Guessing vauxhall is similar although you probably read mp/h. Some work involved but you will then have a mid that lasts. And it got two more functions than the old one. A very wortwhile upgrade in my opinion:)