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Cars done 95000 mls so decided to have the job done after reading many, many reports and arguments for and against, and i can say the difference was instantly nnoticable, gear changes smoother, the lurch characteristic less defined and the car appears to be less straining both on engine and driver. On the technicians advice (30 yrs experience) on auto boxes went for dexron 6 oil, an oil he uses on his brace of cats and up to now all seems well but time will tell. The discarded oil was still a lovely golden colour even after the milage covered.One satisfied customer

Hi everyone, I am a bit of a weird one. I have been waiting since a serious RTA on a motorbike to get back on the road. May 12th 2012 I ended up with brain injury and body disabilities and have carers every day because my life is lets say weird now since accident. I lost track of day, month or even correct year and need help on lots of basic things in life. It's embarrassing and frustrating as I suffer a lot of pain daily and sleep is a thing of the past really, but I manage eventually to overcome this little annoyance. I am heavily medicated and it took a year for my body to adjust to this just so I sort of understood what was happing in the head department. I tell you all as sometimes I may not notice what people have said or written or say wrong things or get confused. I use a speech recognition system to type for me as hands are a bit no-no on a keyboard but right hand is winning this race. Was left handed but since accident this is now not possible. I need constant prompting to do certain things but this is just a by-product of brain injury and does not bother me but seems to freak out others around me. Apparently I am not fully aware of my needs or condition, but honestly, I think others make to much fuss over this. I had to do a new extended driving test which was a condition of DVLA because of brain injury and PASSED recently so I am back on the road. Driving is second nature so even with problems I have it still is automatic to me, not the driving side but the shear alert to what's all around me. I have to take a driver everywhere I go but this is only because of short term memory as I simply forget where I'm going or where I'm meant to be. I am driving now but NOT comfortably yet. So a clock or time is NOT relevant as are any dates, and believe me it took a while to understand why everyone keeps banging on about this, and I still don't know fully why people are so hang-up on such a useless waste of life but now I simply don't care or even try to let it bother me. I use mother nature to live now and follow birds in my garden and am using there way of life to help me in mine. I have had a very interesting and educated life and have a few professions behind me and has cost me wore than an average family house but well worth it over the years. I can recall all my life from about a year or so before the accident right to childhood but then it gets funny. I have lost the ability to communicate properly and can only have a one to one conversation but nothing complex. I have a couple of degrees and was teaching at uni at time of accident along with a couple of other jobs so was a work-a-holic. this has taken me about three days to complete and I have had to use my carers but I'm getting there. They have helped me arrange bits of sentence's and paragraphs into order and they helped me find this forum so I hope this is not too much reading? I have been retired so this is actually a blessing as I now get to do what-ever I want to a point. The point being my carers and people in charge of me seem to freak-out too much when I do or try to do things. I have to cause myself sever pain to do things and this scares them but I refuse to sit on my back-side and watch the world go by just yet. I started out as cycle mechanic, specializing in wheel building then went on to become a BMW (oops) mechanic, from there I became a forester in clear-fell and drifted more and more into photography until I took this up full time and ended up on large-format studio then went onto uni to learn more and ended up teaching multimedia, Technology and design and maths. A great place to hide in life away from hard work. I was a computer geek and still can do certain things beyond what people know, but coding is now a problem. I can do anything from my past brain wise so as you see I still have a lot to draw on. Now to the car I want. I have been looking at a few models. x-type, s-type, xj series and a couple of others. I have narrowed this down with help to go for total comfort above all else, so a XJ V8 Sovereign is what I have been looking at. I found a few. I'm not looking to spend £20,000 -£50,000 now as this is a waste of money owing to what I go through daily. I made 50 years old in June this year as my birth certificate shows I was born in 1965. As a new driver all over again insurance is going to be steep but who cares. I have limited myself to £8,000. I also need to convert to LPG just to make it easier to run on costs as I don't have a petrol tanker plonked on my drive-way. I also will not touch anything over 50,000 miles and it MUST have full service jag history and be mint condition through-out. Restoration jobs are over. I am looking for help and insight as this will be my first Jaguar I've owned. Worked on a few in my past but never owned one.

Cheers Jim will update soon

Reading between the lines...........I would say that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing!

There is now just over ten weeks until our biggest Brighton Convoy & Meet to-date! We have over 100 attendees, we are three quarters of our way to our target of 100 Jaguars, we have recieved well over 54000 forum hits, have over 100 Twitter followers.. we are doing really, really well. On top of this we have discounts to help keep your Jaguar costs down, and free prizes on the day including vouchers, tickets for Goodwood Revival and so much more.. PLUS we will have Harwoods Jaguar Brighton, The Automatic Gearbox Centre, WeLoveBrighton.com and Ultimo GT Lubricants all onsite to chat with you about any queries, questions or problems. So much packed into the one day - a day that includes a spectacular convoy, breakfast by the seafront, all our cars against the backdrop of the Victorian Pavillions.. plus everything that our Brighton location has to offer with the world famous pier, a great shopping centre, amusements and so much more. Anyone wondering if they should sign up.. you really are risking missing a fantastic Jaguar day out! Just remember that to attend you need to sign up - but it is free to sign up!! You can pop a post on one of our forum threads, our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/JaguarForumsUK) or Tweet us @JFBrightonMeets #MayJagMeet or just email us at JaguarForumsUK@solidlinux.co.uk and I will get you signed up :-)

Good luck with the MOT, mines not until July. Did my grille last year, made a hell of a difference in my opinion

As you all know this event is about having a great Jaguar day out by the seaside, whilst also saving you money on looking after your Jaguar for the next year.. Well we have another discount code to help you do just that.. Our event sponsor Furniture Clinic specialise in leather care - something all Jaguar owners can make good use of! They are offering event attendees a great 15% discount on their entire product range. Just use the checkout code 'JagMeet15' to claim your discount. This is in addition to our already advertised discounts for you : Wax On Wax Off is offering event attendees a huge 20% off their entire product range! Just log on to Wo Wo online, have a browse through their great range and use the checkout code of 'JAG20' for any purchases. We have discounted event accomodation at Holiday Inn Express Crawley (literally 6 min drive from our start point) just quote 'JaguarForum.com event' to get a fixed rate of £54 per room/night and to give you a great night before, or after the event. Prestige Car Care is offering all attendees a 10% discount on their entire product range which includes some superb car cleaning products - to take advantage of this great offer go to Featured Products - Prestige Car Care Shop and use the checkout code 'jags' to get your event attendee discount! And Scratchshield.co.uk can help you keep your car scratch free for our event with a huge 25% discount using the checkout code ' JAGBRI16' So go on, please check out the great discounts our sponsors are offering and lets get you started on reducing your Jaguars costs :-)

Hi CBers Maybe these will help, I know my car is a lot older, but hey, you never know Regards Steve Fault finding on DB2 network MXAD_2002.pdf ON-BOARD DIAGNOSTICS - Copy.pdf Power train diagnotics.pdf S type 2003 specfic fault codes.pdf Fault code list.docx

Hi CBers, There is a definite list which I was going to print off bit it was a almost 200 pages. I will look it up and make it a sticky after I have filleted and hot smoked a salmon! But just google those codes and you will find what each is. Regards Peter.

Just a quick update - I know I have been quiet and it seems that nothing much is happening but there is a steady trickle of items, brochures etc all coming in from our sponsors. Some surprises in store for everyone, and some sponsors I will need to make contact with to see if I can chase up things. I am still working heavily with our Twitter account advertising our sponsors and pushing for potential attendees to sign up. The timetable is that all sponsorship items/brochures etc will likely be with me by the end of March, which will give me April to 'stocktake' and chase anything oustanding.. Beginning of May I will likely be trying to tie down the logistics of who is doing what, where and so on, confirming parking costs, venues with the numbers we then have, and printing up the last of the paperwork with the remainder of May organising the Welcome Packs, and various prizes for the day.. prizes we have done really, really well on this year compared to last year!! Many many thanks to our event sponsors for this

Some past experience on other vehicles with same problem and gremlins. Try a hard re-set on the system. Remove battery terminals, then short out battery terminals, NOT on the battery itself. Use a piece of suitable wire, not flimsy thin stuff, 14G or above. You need to connect the + and _ minus terminals together, but DONOT touch anything else metal, do not even let the wire you are using if you cannot touch the battery terminals touch anything. This will sometimes allow the system to fully discharge any electric still in the wiring. Do the touching of the battery terminals for about 5 mins. Then leave battery disconnected for say an hour or more. Reconnect battery and see if you can then hear sound. Then if still the same you now know it's something else. look at, if you are able to the fibre cables that connect the system behind the head unit. You have to get an auto-electrician to do this if you are not able. Normally the fibre optic cable gets damaged which if you don't know how to check this, then electrician will be needed. If cable is fine on both channels then you have to search further. A bad wire or rusty wire is the next line to go down. You need to trace the wiring through the car from the speakers right back to your head-unit. They should show perfect current with-out even a hint of electrical flow. with-out having stripped down this model of car, you will have to find and locate the wires yourself. When all wires are definitely 100% guaranteed to be working, not a single chaff or split or pinch anywhere, and every earth wire is making an absolute 100% rustless connection to the body then you know this part is done. If still the same, next move onto the head-unit itself and if memory my end is correct you have amp units somewhere that amplify the sound, this is then also got to be checked, i.e. removed and tested by auto-electrician. All this can be time consuming as you will have to remove panels etc, to get access to the wiring which runs from speaker to speaker and back to amps, them back to head unit. Also check out your actual ignition barrel as this can cause a lot of gremlins in many cars as the electrical side of the ignition barrel gets grubby over years and springs etc, inside do funny things like cause shorting out. Also try this but not sure if a Jag would suffer this but free to try. Turn off the system BEFORE you turn off the ignition. Turn on the ignition and engine BEFORE you turn back on your system. A hard-flash update from Jaguar to your system can also be a possibility as this can sort out a lot of problems across the board in all car manufacturers. Car auto-electricans are not that expensive but if they have to strip panels out and chase wires then the hours can mount up. The actual fibre harness, if indeed this is what Jag have fitted to these models can also have to be replaced and this can be costly. For what you describe I would not worry about spending a few hundred £'s, say 2-300 to have your system fully working again through process of elimination. If units themselves are found to be the cause, look for second-hand ones. Car audio auto-electricans are where to look, but NOT back street garages, you need fully intelligent and qualified people to do these things and not someone who is blundering through in the hope they MAY discover something. Seen to many supposedly trained mechanics who are dangerous to themselves and certainly to others.

Welcome to the 2016 Annual Brighton Convoy & Meet This event will be taking place on 29th May 2016 - with the main venue being Madiera Drive on the Brighton seafront as usual. It is a Jaguar EXCLUSIVE event! This year I have been working on gaining much more industry support than previously, more prizes, freebies, discounts, even specialists on siote to chat to.. hopefully ensuring that everyone has a fantastic Jaguar day to remember! The initial meeting point will be Pease Pottage Services, with an indoor area set aside for us and 20% discount on anything from Costa (remember to say you are with the JaguarForums.com event to get your discount) to help get your day started. The Welcome Packs will be handed out at this point, and the main features of the day covered. There will then be a convoy down to the Brighton seafront, creating a huge Jaguar statement with up to 100 cars, all setting up camp in one huge parking block in Madiera Drive. There will be a fixed price breakfast laid on for attendees on arrival in Brighton, at a cost of £4.99 for the recommended (two of everything :-)) breakfast, plus drinks at individual prices or £2.60 for unlimited drinks. We are booked in the Harvester in Madiera Drive - remember to say you are with the JaguarForums.com event when ordering. The only other cost for the day is the parking which is likely to be £3.20 for one hour, £5.20 for 2 hours, £10.40 for 4 hours or £15.60 for 11 hours (Brighton Council are reviewing the rates in April though ). CaptainHam has suggested setting up & using the pay by phone parking app on your phone prior to the day (saves fishing around in pockets for change, or in this case, notes) Our itinerary for the day is: 07:45 Sharp Meet at Pease Pottage Services for Welcome Packs and a quick rundown of the day. remember we have an indoor area set saside for us and to get your 20% discount on Costa products by saying you are with the JaguarForums.com event! 08:20 Depart in convoy from Pease Pottage Services for Madiera Drive, Brighton 09:00-10:00 We are booked into the Madiera Harvester for breakfast - they recommend the two of everything for £4.99 plus drinks - remember to state you are with the JaguarForums.com event as they are setting an area aside for us. 10:00 -12:30 General socialising, car inspections, & meet the industry specialists we have onsite. 12:30 Group signing of event banner and photo shoots for the forums, Twitter and Facebook. 12:45 Main prize draw, drawn by Tony from Harwoods Jaguar 12:55 Secondary draw of some specialist items, drawn by the RevsUK team. 13:00 Rowan & Tony will announce the winner of 'Best Turned Out Jaguar' Plus, if you want to make a weekend of it, we have teamed up with HolidayInn Express in Crawley and have a fixed discounted rate of £54 a night for attendees, plus guaranteed availability of rooms for us :-) please see their details below, or follow this link HolidayInn Express Crawley. Just remember to quote that you are with the 'JaguarForums.com' event to get guaranteed availability and the fixed discounted rate of £54 a night. If you would like to sign up for this event please just pop a post on the thread inc how many will likely be coming, and car details, and I will add you in, noting you can join just the main event, or the event and convoy. If you prefer, you are also very welcome to sign up by dropping a line to JaguarForumsUK@solidlinux.co.uk :-) Signed up Attendees: (Main Meet Only) JessD F-Type V6s Convertible + 2 (via email) (Main Meet Only) Elvis (Smile57) 2007 S-Type + 2 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Main Meet Only) WiltsXK (Phil) 2010 XK Convertible + 1 (JaguarForum.com) (Main Meet Only) Hotelfoxtrot 2002 S-Type 4.2SE (JaguarForums.com) + 1 (Main Meet Only) Mrqng78 2003 X-Type 2.5 AWD (JaguarForums.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) SteveSheldon 1998 XJ8 3.2 +1 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Andrew Lowe 1998 XJR +1 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Ngarara 2010 XKR 75 +1 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) HarleyJagMan 1994 XJS convertible +2 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Brian R 2011 XFR + 1 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) Ron The Guardian 2009 X-Type Estate + 1 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) Andrew65 2007 2.2 X-Type Estate + 1 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) Clifton94 2007 XJR Portfolio + 1 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) Ian D 2006 XK Coupe + 1 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) NeilJ 2000 S-Type + 1 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) PabloJag1 2001 XKR + 2 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) Phill (Reverend) 2002 S-Type + 2 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) Brent 2003 S-Type + 2 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) David Beasley 2011 XF 3.0 Premium Luxury + 1 (via email) (Convoy & Meet) Tonyxtype S-Type 2.7 SED + 5 (via email) (Convoy & Meet) Andy Ross 2004 S-Type 2.7 SE + 2 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) DwainLondon 2011 XJ Portfolio + 2 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) Dre 2000 S-Type + 1 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) MuskieTwo 2004 XKR + 1 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) PaulJag 1995 XJ6 3.2 + 3 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) PaulJag 1996 XJ Executive 3.2 + 2 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Mybrief 2003 S-Type +3 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Jeremy Bird 2001 XKR + 1 (Facebook.com) (Convoy & Meet) Haddock 1996 XJR + 2 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Tinker 2005 XJ Sovereign + 2 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Dave Troughton 2001 XK8 Coupe + 2 (Facebook.com) (Convoy & Meet) Wessex (Peter & Carole) 2000 XJ8 3.2 Emerald + 2 (JaguarOwnersClub.com) (Convoy & Meet) Roger.Grote 2007 S-Type XS 2.7 Liquid Silver + 1 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Stanboy 2005 S-Type 2.7 + 2 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) BigTel XFR-100 + 1 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) Judith & Fred Bone 1999 S-Type + 2 (JEC & Weald Classic Vehicle Club) (Convoy & Meet) Alan Dyer 2000 XKR + 1 (via email) (Convoy & Meet) Hugo 1976 XJC + 2 (via email) (Convoy & Meet) Mick Parker 2000 XK8 + 2 (via email) (Convoy & Meet) Adrian Lingard 2015 XE Prestige 2.0 H2 JXE + 1 (via email) (Convoy & Meet) Neville Barker 1996 4.0 XJS Celebration + 1 (JEC) (Convoy & Meet) Colin Shippey 2006 X-Type 2.2D + 2 (JEC) (Convoy & Meet) Mark Stabler 1983 XJS + 2 (Facebook) (Convoy & Meet) Tried77 2015 F-Type - many mods + 1 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) TheMan 2005 XK8 4.2S +1 (JaguarForum.com) (Convoy & Meet) CaptainHam 2016 F-Type + 1 (JaguarForums.com) (Convoy & Meet) Tim Jones 2000 XJ8 LWB + 1 (Facebook.com) (Convoy & Meet) Qwerty21 1978 Daimler 5.3 V12 Coupe (Pistonheads.com) (Convoy & Meet) Xag 2005 XJ8 Sovereign (JaguarForums.com) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) Roger 2007 S-Type 2.7D (Facebook.com) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) REVSUK 2012 XF 3.0D + 3 (Twitter) + 3 (Convoy & Meet) CraigJM 1975 XJ Coupe 6.0 V12 (Pistonheads.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Anna Stone 1966 E-Type (Facebook.com) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) Fitzy 2004 XJ8 3.5 (JaguarForum.com) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) Kenlea1 2004 XJ6 (via email) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) Gerald 2005 X-Type 2.0D Sport (Facebook.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Bert 1972 E-Type (2+2) V12 (JaguarForums.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Moe Barrett-Spring 2014 XKR/S Italian Racing Red, Drop Head (Facebook.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Colin Pestell 2014 5.0 V8 F-Type (Jaguar Enthusiasts Club) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) Heather Willett 2013 XJ 3.0D Portfolio (via email) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) GeorgeMY17 2016 XF 2.0D Portfolio (JaguarForum.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Supercat 2004 XJ (JaguarForum.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Simon 2012 XFR (via email) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Alan Dyer 2000 XKR Coupe (Facebook.com) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) David Sweeney F-Type V8s (via email) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Tempusfugit 2004 XKR Convertible (JaguarForums.com) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) Terry Price 2002 S-Type 3.0 (Facebook.com) + 2 (Convoy & Meet) Ronnie Goodberry 2009 X-Type Estate (Facebook.com) + 4 (Convoy & Meet) James Jury 2000 S-Type (via email) + 1 (Convoy & Meet) Martin 1997 XJ Sport 3.2 (Facebook.com) + 2 Total 70 cars - 111 attendees Official Event Support Vehicle: Rowan Lill Official Event Photographer: Stephen Cox from CarSnapped (@CarSnapped & https://www.facebook.com/CarSnapped) Event Sponsors: Harwoods Jaguar - Harwoods Jaguar Brighton SNG Barratt - SNG Barratt - The Ultimate Jaguar Parts Specialist WaxOnWaxOff - www.wo-wo.co.uk Autoglym - Pas5i0n for Perfection Haynes Manuals - See Haynes, See How Scratch Shield - The bucket filter system Ultimo GT Lubricants - High Performance Engine Oil Furniture Clinic - Specialising in the care, repair, & restoration of leather Professional Detailers & Valeters - The UK's trade association for skilled, proven, and insured car care professionals Automatic Gearbox Centre -Automatic gearbox specialists Prestige Car Care Shop - Your number one car care source for automotive detailing supplies Moto Services - Your Motorway Services HolidayInn Express Crawley - Your event accomodation supplier ( @hiexcrawley ) REVSUK - Dipsticks and Gear Knobs - Motoring Community Rimmer Bros - The Classic Parts Service Industry Attendees onsite for you: Harwoods Jaguar - Harwoods Jaguar Brighton Ultimo GT Lubricants - High Performance Engine Oil Automatic Gearbox Centre - Automatic gearbox specialists REVSUK - Dipsticks and Gear Knobs - Motoring Community We Love Brighton - WeLoveBrighton.com Event Advertisers: Carphile.co.uk - Celebrating classic and interesting cars VisitBrighton.com - Our Entry The Brighton Argus - Our Entry DriveAddiction.com - Our Entry MotorMartin - Real Life Motoring note updates will also appear on Twitter - why not follow the meet @JFBrightonMeets #MayJagMeet or like us and follow us at our Facebook events page www.facebook.com/JaguarForumsUK and to see previous events for a taste of things please have a look at: UK South East Meet Spring/Summer 2015 in Brighton UK South East Meet December 2014 in Brighton