Recent content by JamesO

Had a fault message pop up "TPMS System Unavailable." Took my car to my independent for a plug in to diagnostics to see if it could be fixed with a reset. No joy as a TPMS module wasn't communicating with the car. So it took them a day to resolve, stripping boot internals and behind seats to...

I had to to a forced reset by disconnecting the battery earth for half an hour (red triangle staying on after a service). This was successful as the red triangle no longer stayin illuminated. I left the car unused for a few days due to bad weather, then on first start up I had the error...

So today I went to get the MPS4S's that I'd ordered fitted to the fronts, to match the rears I had fitted back in December (I know, summer tyres, but only gets occasional essential use in winter) replacing P-Zeros. After they were fitted, and 4-wheel alignment done, I looked at them and noticed...

A few days ago I had the message "Gearbox Overheating" appear on the info panel. It appeared for a few seconds, with the invitation Press OK to Clear, but then disappeared before I did anything. It wasn't a warm day and driving had not been over-enthusiastic, though the preceding few miles had...

Any advice on how the sill door seal is attached please; the rubber seal seems quite a loose fit in its channel and, washing the car this afternoon, it just came away from the bodywork - some fairly minimal kind of gluey tape is visible in parts but it's pretty much disintegrated. Has anyone...

I was put off removing the cross-braces etc for repainting as the corrosion was only surface-level; I'm glad I did, as today I treated all those pesky ferrous areas underneath with Lanoguard and was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to use. A simple spray nozzle attachment to the 2 litre...

Having read various threads on removing and re-coating the well-known corroding cross-braces, I spoke to my local indie Jaguar specialist about getting them to do this for me. His reaction was two-fold: i) the retaining bolts apparently go into inaccessible captive bolts below the floor pan and...