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Hi, I have a question for the owners of a car with a 1.6 Turbo engine (A16LET) - what is your continuous water temperature after the engine has warmed up? For me, according to the data on the board (I haven't measured it with OPCOM yet), it's between 105 - 110 ° C without starting the fan, so I don't know if it's too much. But the fan starts around those 110 ° and knocks it slightly below 100 °. I read somewhere that thermostats are problematic with these engines, so I don't know. Thanks for the tips.
Posted by: ChrisKnottIns - 26:th-Jul-2021, 16:23:52 - Forum: Chris Knott Insurance
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Hi I have just fitted an Astra K rea rview camera to my Cascada and connected it to a Navi600 unit. But I am struggling to find a reverse feed for it, I had thought I had found one but alas it didn't work so to test the wiring I fed this wire directly to a live feed from the battery which got the camera to work when I put it in reverse so I know all the rest of the wiring is correct.
Does anybody know where I can get a reverse feed from as I have had a look at the back of the wiring on the rear light and all the harness colours are black and the actual wires going to the bulbs are wired in together in parallel with a black and a brown wire so it looks like the canbus must send the signal down the wires to the correct bulb (i'm guessing) as the rear lights and stop lights are OEM LED units.
I am looking at getting the casada but I am being put off because there are some without front parking sensors or power fold mirrors. can these be retrofited with genuine upgrades or is it a case of finding one with the spec I need which seem to be rare.
I have the facelift J 2.0l elite and mirrors and sensors those are standard and I find this annoying
I am open to advice Thanks
For the 2nd time now I have encountered the same issue.
My car doesn't get used much for long trips nowadays but I encountered this problem on his last long trip a week ago and one month ago:
Car driving fine, full power no error messages.
Suddenly no power when pushing gas pedal, car begins to stutter instead. But still runs in idle. Engine light comes on.
This problem gets worse over the next seconds until the car runs so rough in idle it stalls.
Restarting the car goes suuper rough or not at all.
First time I waited about 1 hour and after that the car worked fine again, even after a 1 hour drive. Engine light went off.
2nd time I had to get it towed as I was on a motorway. When they returned the car it started up as normal and engine light was off.
My guess is some sensor that is acting up, or something getting clogged. But offcourse there are a lot of things in an engine
Could it be the EGR valve sticking? I cleaned it last year and it's about 4 years old. I heard EGR valve doesn't throw up an error code.
Could it be the injectors?
Air sensor/MAF?
I don't have enough experiencie with engines to pinpoint the problem myself.
Any suggestions are very welcome.
BTW: i have no way of reading fault codes unless if I go to a garage.
Hi all
I am quite new at this forum, so this is my first poost and I hope not break any rules.
In the last days I noticed my Astra is making some weird noise. It seems there is some broken piece inside and quite often creates this `crack` sound.
The car is an ASTRA J 1.4 turbo 140cv with 67.000km
I want able to attach the video, but I share a google drive link where you can watch and hear the noise.
New Astra 1.4T owner here! Just picked it up on Monday, still getting to know it! I'm sure I'll have plenty of questions, and look forward to being part of the community. Have come from a long line of Vauxhalls, (Vectra/Insignia) so if I can help anyone else, will be happy to!
Hi, I bought an Astra J a couple of weeks ago, since then a few problems have surfaced. It started after I removed the battery to replace the air bag and steering wheel. Code 16 came on, found that a bulb had blown so replaced that, code gone but still no brake lights. I then noticed that the brake lights would illuminate with the reverse light.
Today while driving I noticed that the brake lights are coming on but not when I press the pedal, seems to be in response to slowing down, then coming of when accelerating. maybe unrelated but my remote locking keyfob stopped working too. I've never came across this problem before and think it's really strange, hope someone can help me shine some light on it. Really would appreciate some expertise on this, I'm going my wits end with it.
Looked on Opcom and there does seem to be some trouble codes.
U0140-71 Lost communication with Body Control Module - Invalid data
C0277-06 Brake Pedal Position sensor circuit- Low voltage/open
C0277-4B Brake Pedal Position sensor circuit- Calibration not learned
C0890-003 Control module voltage reference output 3 circuit - undervoltage
Posted by: ChrisKnottIns - 12:th-Jul-2021, 16:59:46 - Forum: Chris Knott Insurance
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