bluewoody

Hello, i have a bit of a strange issue, XF 3.0S Diesel 09 reg, now that the cold weather is here i have noticed when i come out to the car and its cold the engine starts straight away when you push the button but the air vents and radio do not open/ come on for about 30secs i am also unable to move the seat and the heated front screen does not work once she warms up the all goes back to normal except the screen which still does not seem to work, i have checked both fuses and they are fine, if i was to guess its as if the battery isnt holding the charge and once it get a bit of charge from the alternator everything barring the screen fires up, anybody else had any sort of thing like this happening, thanks for the time steve

Sorry if this has already been posted but i felt i need to warn others of a design flaw with my Jag, i purchased my 09 3.0S XF diesel on the 20th of jan and on the 17th of march i was going along and saw a small amount of smoke coming from the engine i stopped immediately and called recovery who had a look and said the aux belt had snapped, took the car back to my usual garage and he stripped it and found the tensioner bearing had collapsed, i will add there were no strange noises prior to its failure, now this is where my tale gets scary, when the tensioner failed it allowed the belt to rub on the cam belt cover and make a hole, this was the smoke i saw, this rubbing caused bits of belt to come off and enter the cam belt throwing out the engine timing on one head and thus a valve to piston smash up, the way the jags are made you cant just replace the bent bits and carry on as the journals are matched to the head the long and short of the story is an engine rebuild at a cost of £5200 luckily i have the best car dealer on the planet, Essex trade cars chelmsford, who is picking up the bill as the warrenty has a 2K limit, when the warrenty firm sent there engineer he told them its a known problem with this engine and he has seen it before, my car had done 51K miles, my advice to ALL with this engine is save yourself a massive bill by getting the tensioner checked ASAP, we would all rather spend £50 and find its ok rather than leave it and its £5200

Thanks guys so much for the detailed replies, im glad i joined here now, looks like i have avoided a lot of sorrow cheers steve

Hello, This is my first post so be gentle with me, im after a bit of advice, i have searched the forums for led and headlamp but could not see what im looking for, i have recently purchased a 2009 XFS 3.0D and love it but the headlamps are not the best and i was wondering if i could fit LED bulbs to the existing headlamp units, having looked on the internet i have then started reading about can bus errors and have reached a point where i cant find a definitive answer if i can fit them or not, im worried an ebay supplier is just going to say its fine but then the engine management light comes on and i end up with a big bill to sort it out, thanks in advance for any advice given steve