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Hi Your still driving a S-type, the XF uses the same floor pan as the S-type, thats why its so good. cheers Joe

Hi Yes, If you look on Youtube there's loads of video's It works to a fashion, as long as its used in small doses, even smaller doses on a diesel, as you can't squash water, it hydraulics, so you can bend things easy but if you have ever cleaned a dirty valve or egr, while its off, it takes some serious scraping, so a bit of water ain't going to shift any long term carbon build up it does'nt shift oily residues either, like on leaky turbo's, or oil build up in intercoolers, but you can buy solvent based ones that will shift the oily residues cheers Joe

Hi Sorry it meant to say Sills, Just edited it every thing else can be replaced, so there not really a issue If the sills just have light surface rust, a good clean, treatment and waxoyl coating will stop the rust for years yes the clips are on ebay, the covers just pull off, once the plastic screws underneath have been removed when you pull them off, some of the clips will break cheers Joe

Hi and Welcome The S-type Is quite a Comfy Cruiser, if looked after, Post some pics up of your ride, we like pics on here Cheers Joe

Hi What Keith said, I got my S-type R because its a Jaguar and fast, 4.2 and supercharged and the V8 sounds superb!!! Why would one buy a Diesel Jaguar ????, Its like say a Diesel Ferrari, Why???, Then your going to Say "economy", Its a Jaguar Then best cars ever made, were never Diesels, I think if your questioning Economy and Mpg's, Your driving the wrong car. Cheers Joe Your better with a V8 or V12

Hi Only just noticed it was x-type, altered the above manuals did you get it sorted cheers Joe

Hi you can usually tell by just removing the painted part of the mirror, it just clips off then the amount of wires will tell you whether it mirror has memory, folding or electrochromatic you don't see the electrochromatic ones as often, as they fail with age, they start to go a darker gold color as they fail, but they do pop up every now and then I find it easier to remove the glass, by removing the painted cover first, slide forwards, then push a small screw driver through, to unclip the glass, as you push it out you can also grab it with your finger aswell the mirrors are the same glass on a few jaguars, so don't just search for s-type cheers Joe

Hi My only worry would be the sills, would require a better look, remove both sill covers to be sure the springs could be cleaned up with a wire brush and either painted or some black waxoyl applied the exhaust system as long as its not blowing, just replace it in the future or when it start to blow discs are a straight forward job if you do then your self and are not that expensive to replace discs and pads Sills would be my main worry, if its just surface rust, then clean them up, treat them and give them a good coat of wayoyl, even some cavity wax sprayed inside them cheers Joe

Hi replacing the lambda will clear one of the faults its worth trying, the lamda fault might be due to the missfire, causing a lean situation cheers Joe

Hi Every thing goes through the front control module, if there a low resistance on the bulb or a fault sensed it may not light up Try swapping the bulb, also check the headlight connector, terminals sometime melt and short, causing a fault here a Electrical manual X-Type Electrical Guide 2004.pdf and workshop manual Jaguar Workshop Manual X-Type 2001-2009.pdf manuals are off tinternet cheers Joe

Hi and welcome Should be a bit smoooooother as well Post some pics up of your new ride, we like pics here cheers Joe

Hi Andy Do you have to remove the door cards, I allways assumed you could unclip them with out removing the door card post some pics up cheers Joe

HI Unfortunately the dirt and carbon takes years to build up and its not easy to remove it quickly The only way is Remove and Clean really using premium fuel and correct engine oil helps, modern cars are designed to burn small amounts of oil, so its important to use correct grade of oil, that a manufacturer recommend, this may help keep a new engine clean, its not going to clean a older dirty engine older carburetor and early injection cars, allowed fuel to flow through the engine on overrun, allowing additives to clean through the whole system, but these days with tighter emissions, no unburnt fuel is allowed past the cylinder and not EGR recirculate burnt gases back into the engine, so where burnt fumes and soot, use to be only found in the exhaust system, there recirculated back into a clean engine to reduce emissions cheers Joe

HI and Welcome If you after help with your X-type, Just start a topic in the X-type section Post some pics up of your car also, we all like to see the cars on here as well cheers Joe

Hi I've seen these used before and there's clips on youtube of people having it done on their cars But its basically as with Terraclean they use one or more fuel that come in cannisters, that they hook up to a machine, which connects to the cars fuel rail, they pull the fuse for the fuel pumps and you run off the fuel supplied at pressure by the machine So the only contact the fuel has with moving parts is fuel rail, injectors, inlet manifold and inlet valves once it hits the chamber/cylinder its get burnt as usual, so its not going to clean much else, as its gone, the burnt fumes cannot really clean anything else further down the system, like exhaust valves, exhaust manifold, EGR's and Cats. the other thing people say is that they notice a difference in driving, afterwards, the additive/fuel they use, the ones I've seen, come into two cans, each look approx 2 litres in size, now thats approx 4 litres of fuel, for about 20 minutes of work, I reckon the first can they use is suppose to clean things, the second can or even some of the first can, the fuel pressure of the kit/machine can be set to what ever they want, if the fuel pressure is increased to approx 45 to 50 psi, this over comes the fuel pressure regulator, this mean its pushed into the fuel tank, hence if this was a octane booster, you would notice a marked difference in engine performance, hey pressto it must work so has it really been cleaned or have you been tricked. if it was that easy to add a additive to fuel and clean you engine, improve emmisions and increase performance, all fuel companies would do it and boast about it if you look on Youtube for fuel test comparisons, from the most expensive fuel to the cheapest, the most they found was about 1 bhp between all the fuel companies, like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpZ76nrYW7A Thats what I think, cant see how it can work really cheers Joe Terraclean video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cHXqQywjFY

Hi As long as you leave the ignition off it should be ok Sometimes they go from the battery to the body and then to the engine, all in one piece, if so you might have to disconnect it any way but if its just body to engine, earth strap it will be fine, just don't attempt to start it cheers Joe

Hi Can be one of many faults, From having the Abs sensor, wrong oil in it, not enough oil, too much oil can also cause problems you need to plug in and see what faults come up, its the only way on modern cars other wise its just guess work, cheers Joe

Hi They might not be the exact same, but if yo swapped both front you should get away with it the truth will be once there swapped if the car sits the same, dampers should be the same, springs might be different cheers Joe

Hi It could be the tyres I would try swapping the front tyre's with the back and see if the noise shifts they are a common cause of this type of noise cheers Joe

hi peter its a blanking plug try sng parts, they have them cheers Joe http://www.sngbarratt.com/PartSearchResults.aspx?partno=XR82652 http://www.sngbarratt.com/Home.aspx

Hi Might be worth taking the door panel off and checking all the connection are good or even the connectors are all the way in cheers Joe

Hi battery reset procedure battery reset cheers Joe

Hi I'm sure the locking and unlocking is done by the drivers door module Its the drivers door module that receive the remote open and close from the remotes you might have a faulty driver door control module, they can be bought off ebay quite cheap, but will need programing before it will work on your car cheers Joe

Hi depends what your after really They don't make much difference to car insurance these days and escpecially on a XJ The best out there is really a "Tracker" link to police and guaranteed to be found if stolen, they start at about £300 and then there's annual charge There's also cheaper ones on ebay, for the £50 to £100 range, That offer real time tracking, sound monitoring, safe zone's, recorded message calling and remote imobilising, these tend to use a prepaid sim, that you keep topped up, that will message you if the alarm is activated or moved you can also get jaguar ones, but mot sure what these cover and cost to run, all tracker usually have a annual subscription charge cheers Joe

HI The only way to know for sure is to plug in and read the fault codes It could be one on many things If you can get the codes then we get more information where the fault lies most generic code readers will read engine fault codes cheers Joe