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hotel21 Administrator Offline Posts: 12766 Doghouse Gender: Drives: into lamposts	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #45 - 28. Dec 2010 at 12:41 Check the piccy on the following link. Shows the cabling and the alternator, albeit with some of the bits at the front of the engine removed. But you will get the gist of what TB suggests though. Hopefully... http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1293463605
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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #46 - 28. Dec 2010 at 12:52 nice one! so its the long thick cable with different coloured wires i can see in that pic?
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Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off
Reply #47 - 28. Dec 2010 at 12:58

hotel21 wrote on 28. Dec 2010 at 12:41:

Check the piccy on the following link. Shows the cabling and the alternator, albeit with some of the bits at the front of the engine removed. But you will get the gist of what TB suggests though. Hopefully... Grin

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1293463605

Shows the alternator well, but not the knock sensor cabling

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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #48 - 28. Dec 2010 at 13:00 if i could get a picture of that - it would be ACE a mundo
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Reply #49 - 28. Dec 2010 at 13:06

Wayne - 2nd pic

http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1189893357

(I know yours isn;t DBW, but that pic shows the wiring clearer that the 1st pic).

See the 2 large black rubber intakes going into large silver plenum on top of engine? Just to left is a red outline? Bottom left of that is a connector, and a wire comes out left, and up ove the cam cover?

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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #50 - 28. Dec 2010 at 14:15 RIGHT, im off out now to put the bonnet up what do i do when i find it, thats the knock sensor giving error code 16 i take it? ? lol it looks accessible on there i`ll have a fiddle, oooo er
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Andy B Over Active Poster Offline Posts: 21988 Bury Lancs Gender: Drives: 1999 3.0 Elite auto/TDM	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #51 - 28. Dec 2010 at 14:18 Wayne wrote on 28. Dec 2010 at 14:15: RIGHT, im off out now to put the bonnet up what do i do when i find it, ..... It's the big panel right at the front of the car .... you can't miss it!
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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #52 - 28. Dec 2010 at 14:25 ha ha ha ha, you bunch of pee takers! right, apart from the orange EML light coming on, what other symptoms does this knock sensor or its wiring cause please? just wanna check with you if ive had the other probs
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tidla Omega Baron Offline Posts: 2392 solihull Gender: Drives: omega 2001 3.0 elite	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #53 - 28. Dec 2010 at 14:57 bit of light reading for you. http://www.topbuzz.co.uk/info/knock_sensor/knock_sensor.htm see the link for testing. no1 on the list is as kneepad suggests..
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Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off
Reply #54 - 28. Dec 2010 at 15:09

courtesy of my iPhone 4
heres some pics i just took
i think ive unplugged the right thing yeah?

these pics might come in useful in the future i suppose?

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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #55 - 28. Dec 2010 at 15:20 i cant see any fraying or damage whatsoever to that cable or its connector, is it advisable to squirt some WD40 into the male and female ends? apart from that, im not sure what to do now, and NO i wont be taking the cam cover off
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Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off
Reply #56 - 28. Dec 2010 at 16:02

amba wrote on 21. Dec 2010 at 07:36:

I was wondering if compacted snow and general rubbish on roads has caused wiring issues with mine.

Code "89" does seem to point to n/s sensor with open circuit so I am thinking lamba is playing up.

On a bit of a tangent from the OP but mine has been doing this for ages, even after changing both lambdas, been advised it could be gasket blow or wiring issue. Sad

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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #57 - 28. Dec 2010 at 16:08 Head Gasket?? Aaarrgghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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the alarming man Senior Member Offline Posts: 783 medway kent Gender: Drives: 03 2.2 C.D	Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off Reply #58 - 28. Dec 2010 at 16:20 how in gods name do you go from a fault code to a sodding head gasket
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Re: Orange light comes on in my car and then goes off
Reply #59 - 28. Dec 2010 at 16:24

Millerboy wrote on 28. Dec 2010 at 16:02:

amba wrote on 21. Dec 2010 at 07:36:

I was wondering if compacted snow and general rubbish on roads has caused wiring issues with mine.

Code "89" does seem to point to n/s sensor with open circuit so I am thinking lamba is playing up.

On a bit of a tangent from the OP but mine has been doing this for ages, even after changing both lambdas, been advised it could be gasket blow or wiring issue. Sad

What moron of a monkey you are using to give you that diagnosis, sack him now. Angry

How can a 'wiring issue' cause gasket blow & coolant loss (which is a common sympton in HG failure)

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