LairdScooby

Probably not, depending whether yours is a facelift or not, you remove the two clip in panels next to the radio and drawer/cubby hole and remove the four bolts holding the radio/drawer assembly in, pull it out and you can then unplug and remove the CCM - later cars are different and i'm not sure how they come out. The small panel below the CCM also needs popping out, this houses the heated seat switches and behind it are two more bolts holding the CCM in. You can see those two bolt holes, one near the aerial plug and if memory serves there's another pair, one each side further up.

Incinerated

Good luck with that, the fault may be within the CCM so if you can, it's worth unplugging that and trying another fuse - if the fuse survives then chances are it's the CCM.

Egg

OK, try fuse #14, 10A and fuse #20, 10A in the primary junction box. They could just need the blades cleaning to restore normal operation.

Can you alter things like fan speed, air direction (eg feet, screen, vents etc) and temperature? If so, it's safe to assume you have power to the Climate Control Pack and it would appear the VFD display has gone. However, sometimes they can "revive" themselves when the car is used and the circuits dry out again - high possibility the circuits boards have a certain amount of moisture on them.

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Thanks Tony, you have another PM about this! Just details of payment but i'm out with the hound shortly so won't be back on (even if the site shows me as on here) for about an hour.

Good luck for the MoT Dave, hopefully there's a further update that can be done with a USB stick or similar to update the OS so your weather app works as it should again.

Very nice and welcome aboard!

Welcome Don! Keep your left leg tucked under the seat, if you don't you'll nosedive it when you have to stop quickly! Been there, T-shirt etc! 😛

Welcome aboard Trevor! Nice car but i'm biased as i also have a blue S Type!

Welcome aboard Alan! Thinking of modifying already!

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The biggest major problem is with tyre depots using windy guns to tighten the wheel nuts. The torque figure on my S Type is 93lbft or 130Nm for the wheel nuts, windy guns (pneumatic impact wrenches) have a maximum torque of 250lbft (~320Nm) which is a shade over 2.5 times what the wheel studs/nuts were designed for - also more than the wheels (more importantly) were designed for. This is something i get particularly angry about as after having wheels balanced on two separate cars at a tyre depot, the wheels were damaged irreparably due to the use of windy guns. There is also the strong likelihood the wheel studs will sheer simply through excess torque. As for the corrosion problem under the stainless steel cap, if windy guns are NOT used, the cap remains close fitting, excluding all corrosion catalysts (water, air, dirt etc) so the nuts themselves do not corrode. If they do corrode, rust grows almost organically and does indeed swell the nut - just look at the rusty wheel arches on a late 90s Merc/VAG or similar and you will see big bubbles where the rust has formed. Using a smear of copper grease on the threads of the fasteners and avoiding ALL use of windy guns (including removal of the nuts) will prolong the life of the nuts in the first place. Replacing the nuts with aftermarket solid nuts is one option, however the quality varies and the bright nickel plating on some cheaper nuts tarnishes and flakes off. Sadly i've got a lot of experience of these type of nuts having run Rover 800s for many years - not relevant? The nuts are near, if not completely, identical. The basic design of a steel nut with a polished stainless steel sheath over the top is definitely the same, the thread of M12 x 1.5 is the same and when the S Type was designed, Jaguar Land Rover were still (at least in part) part of the Rover Group and Rover had been using these Honda designed nuts for over a decade by then. I know Ford bought the remaining shares in JLR a little later but many things were kept the same.