Steve

Good ole Bournemouth ;)

cheers colin, i am gonna get one of those updated DVD's myself

Hi and welcome to the club

Apart from checking the past service history very thouroughly you can check the past MOT's online as ell

But you will need the v5c nuber of the car or a past MOT number

https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-status-vehicle

From this you can check all MOT's of the car to see if it has had previous failiures and work that was needed. May give you some indication of its reliability from a structural perspective.

they must have been an option as mine is 2005 and has the jaguar caps

interesting as mine came with BBS alloys

i will do some digging around

Got any pics of your car in the snow? Post them here and we will compile them and add them to the gallery.

Welcome to the club.. not sure on the sat nav side of things for the early S-type, only ever dealt wit the DVD version.. but welcome anyway

Welcome to the Jaguar Owners Club

Very nice looking cat you have there!

First time i have personally experienced a Auxiliary heater working on my new S-Type. I can understand how people think there Jag is about to catch on fire. I learnt the hard way too.

Yesterday I checked it out as curious how it works and to make sure it was the Auxiliary heater that causing the smoke.

The Auxiliary heater still comes on even if the car was almost at running temprature. The temparture was 1 outside and whilst sitting at traffic lights i noticed the smoke from the heater, when pulling away I noticed it left quite a bit of smoke.

The Engine light came on ( a clench ass moment) I had 15 miles left of range so the car needed fuel. I stopped to get fuel and noticed the engine light was still on afterwards. No smoke at all.

When i got home the car sounded good, no smoke from exhausts at all.

I turned the engine off for 5 mins, had a cuppa and then started the car again, got underneath and could see the Auxiliary heater working as normal. The engine light had gone out.

Question is, I read that when the car gets low on fuel the Auxiliary heater has air ingress due to the offtake for the heater fuel line sits higher on the fuel tank than the lines for the engine.

Does anyone know if this would cause the engine management light to show?

Also, anyone else have any Auxilary heater stories?

just added one to my new S-type

maybe a reset on the ecu would be a good start.... disconnect your battery for 10 mins... reconnect.

make sure you have required radio codes to hand.

this is good place to start.. if it is still faulty then you need to look into it further

hi

do a search on google for SNG Barrett they are good

if it still clicks with a new battery then the starter is faulty, try and get a jump start first.

I think I have figured it out to turn the AVC setting down in the audio settings

The automatic volume control on my S-type is now driving me nuts.

Anyone know how to disable it? I get to around 25mph on a small road and the volume increases, but in traffic it goes up and down and it's a tad annoying.

Any updates on this guys?

sounds like the same issue i had a few years ago... get an independant report mate.. only way to prove it

sounds like belts or alternator

happy days.. i managed to pair my iPhone 4s to the car... just trying to download my address book... 

Welcome to the Jaguar Owners Club mate :)

looks quite tasty

I pick it up later today so will have a play around with it.

if not then I will get a parrot fitted as they are pretty good

cheers colin

Steve

Gibe SNG Barrett a call or email.. they will be able to tell you

sales.uk@sngbarratt.com or +44(0)1746 765432

hi and welcome

try SNG Barrett for parts

Hi Colin

Thanks for answering :) and thanks for the links, I will try those sat nav disks as that looks a really good price.

I did press the button on test drive but nothing happened.. it did not say there was no phone fitted... but i had a small amount of time to fiddle with it.. so hope it does connect with bluetooth.

thanks once again :)