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Hello Jim, Thanks for your Bagworld information , I will give them a buzz. Regards richard

Hello folks. New to Jaguars. A friend entrusted us with the care and feeding of his '87 Jaguar XJ6. With no owners manual and the previous owner's fading and failing memory, I'm a bit out to sea so have tons of questions and minor, surprise, electrical issues I would love to be able to resolve. Thus, joining this forum. We are located in the Pacific NW of the US. Thanks, hope to learn a bunch, like what kind of oil to use and such. .

That’s very true. Luckily I get access to a Motor club at work, which has 4 post ramps and everything a mechanic could wish for Christmas. I’ve found a video of how to remove the fluid, but struggling to find one about how to put the new fluid in.

I will check thank you. So to clarify, you recommend part fluid change every couple hundred miles, over a full change? Silly question, but how will I know when all the fluid has been changed? Is this something that’s easily done myself?

Thank you. The car is just over 100k so I will clarify if that’s been done. If not I’ll get it done

Thanks for the welcome Dave. I joined specifically to advise about this and although an xk8 fan, I'm not so keen on that they're prone to corrosion. Good luck with the purchase Lucas. Xkr g/box is stronger than that of the xk8 on the 4 litre cars. I think all of the boxes could benefit having their fluid renewed at about the 80k mile mark.

Thank you for the above! It was kind of good luck that the selling withdrew as they found something In the will regarding the car. I am actually on the way to purchase a 2002 XKR now!

Hi Jackie Sounds like you have a similar problem to one I had during lockdown. I let the battery completely discharge through lack of use. When AA got it started all OK except both rear doors remained locked and would not open. Mine was sorted under warranty but I understand a garage with the Autologic software can sort it quickly. I think the problem is that low voltage corrupts the software in one of the many computer modules so it needs re-coding. I have heard that these guys could help: https://www.eandeservices.co.uk/ They are in Luton but might be worth a call... Good luck John

This has all the hallmarks of low battery voltage. A full recharge should see you right.

Glad to hear you're all up and running again, worthwhile clearing that fault code for the furure - if something else happens and someone plugs in a reader it will show up and probably give a red herring to the diagnosis.

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone on this thread and add a few pics of the old and new part, together with the fault code that I had on my cheap ODB car scanner app. You could probably do everything with the front wheel off and the wheel liner pushed out of the way. I did take the air box out first but there is no way to get the part out from the top. It did give a me a bit more light to work, especially as the wiring and harness clips were a pain to remove. The fault code cleared by itself after I started the car with the new part.

Hi Daniel, I have a 3.0 sovereign X type and I think good ones are getting quite hard to get hold of .Mine has the manual gearbox which makes it fun and quite fast to drive if the urge should strike. (Not that the need for speed hits me very often !).Lovely cars, welcome aboard.😀