Jaguar Owners Club

Hi Barry and welcome to the club! I have found this extract from the Owners Manual which may help. Luggage Compartment LocksIf the vehicle alarm system is armed and the luggage compartment is opened using the key transmitter the alarm will not sound. The system will be rearmed when the lid is closed, provided the vehicle has not been disarmed. EstateOpen the tailgate by pressing the release button 2 under the tailgate trim.The tailgate can also be opened by pressing the luggage compartment button 1 on the key transmitter. The luggage compartment will be illuminated when the tailgate is opened. Note: If required, the key transmitter can be reprogrammed so that button 1 will open the Estate tailgate glass, instead of the tailgate. Contact your Jaguar Dealer/Authorised Repairer to have this feature enabled. Opening the tailgate glassThe tailgate glass can be opened separately from the complete tailgate. Press the release button 3, located on the reverse of the tailgate glass handle, and lift the tailgate glass. I can only imagine it may be a fault with the fob or the programming of the fob.Let us know if you find out anymore info on this one Regards Trevor

HI Foolin and Steve...welcome to the club! well that is a very strange noise...the only thing I can suggest is that there is a split in some trunking somewhere and it is acting like a trumpet(?) by amplifying the resonance of the intake air. Hope some members can shed some light on it as it is rather strange ! Regards Trevor

thats a huge difference in cost between petrol and diesel !

I'm definitely in the Retirement Homes area, lol

Hi Pete...and welcome to the club As Peter says...it is probably just a case of fettling in the covers...why were they missing in the first place? Regards Trevor

any members done an exhaust mod on an S-Type before?

Hi Mark....and welcome to the club ! I think you'll find that the Jag has a more spirited ride therefore compromising the rather wallowy ride from the Beemer for better handling round bends Enjoy it ! Regards Trevor

Hi Mick certainly does sound like a release bearing fault...usually when previous owner has left their foot resting on the clutch pedal and constantly engaging the bearing until it overheats or drills through the clutch cover. As long as its just noisy then the chances are that it will just make a noise but still function okay Regards Trevor

I'd agree with Diddler...possible Air Lock

HI John...and welcome to the club ! Sounds like an wheel sensor fault....has anything recently occurred, work carried out, flood waters, etc.? Regards Trevor

Hi Garry....and welcome to the club ! Enjoy your S-Type! Regards Trevor

Once the world’s fastest production car, the Jaguar XJ220 from the early 1990s is the quint essential supercar of that time. Powered by a 3.5-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine instead of the 6.2-liter V12 originally promised and used in the XJ220 Concept, the British supercar could hit an incredible top speed of 343 km/h. What’s more, it also held the production car lap record around the Nurburgring from 1992 to 2000 at 7:46.36. Because the Jaguar XJ220 is such a classic, very few firms have been brave enough to modify it. However, earlier this year, Bulgarian tuner Overdrive Ad released their special variant of the XJ220 featuring a host of interior and exterior modifications. Now that very car is up for sale courtesy of Auto Performance in Germany with an asking price of 400,000 euros. Staring from the rear, the XJ220 by OVERDRIVE AD features taillights borrowed directly from the Ferrari 599 GTB. Aside from that, the changes are quite subtle and tasteful with the car now rolling on a set of wheels courtesy of ADV.1. The wheels measure 19×9 at the front and 20×14 at the rear and replace the original wheels of the car which were extremely old-fashioned. Next up, the car features completely custom LED headlights and inside the cabin, it features carbon fiber trim, leather and Alcantara upholstery, a McIntosh player as well as a Ground Zero stereo system. Completing the changes is a custom Akrapovic exhaust system. [Via Autoblog.nl]

The UK-based car maker, owned by Indian steel giant, Tata, said sales had been boosted by strong demand for the new Jaguar F-Type and Range Rover Sport. JAGUAR Land Rover has accelerated to its best ever sales performance with more than 425,000 vehicles sold last year, up almost a fifth on the previous 12 months. Jaguar Land Rover has accelerated to its best ever sales performance with more than 425,000 vehicles sold last year, up almost a fifth on the previous 12 months. The UK-based car maker, owned by Indian steel giant, Tata, said sales had been boosted by strong demand for the new Jaguar F-Type and Range Rover Sport. On the Chinese mainland, its largest market, sales increased by almost a third to 95,000, while sales in the UK, the second largest market, increased by 14pc to 78,000. Andy Goss, the group sales operations director, hailed a “great year” with sales boosted in every global region by “some incredibly exciting new models launched to customers across the world”, including new engines and other enhancements to the existing line up. Jaguar, the quintessential British car marque, was the fastest growing premium car brand in Germany, the United States and India last year. The sales debut of the Jaguar F-Type, combined with strong demand for the XF saloon, resulted in volumes increasing by 42pc to nearly 77,000 vehicles last year. About 6,000 F-Types were sold last year at an average retail price of £58,000. Strong demand across Asia and China resulted in a new record for Land Rover sales too. The Range Rover Sport model reached levels last seen in 2007 and buoyed by the Range Rover Evoque model, total sales increased 15pc to 348,000 for the year. The acceleration in acitivity highlights the transformation of the business under its Indian owners, who bought the Midlands based car maker five years ago from Ford for £1.3bn. That is less than the UK company made in profits over the last 12 months. In November, Jaguar Land Rover reported half-year pre-tax profits for the six months ending in September up 42pc to £1.08bn, with revenues up 26pc to £8.71bn. JLR made £1.68bn profits on £15.8bn revenues for the whole of its last financial year. By John Ficenec 12:01AM GMT 12 Jan 2014

Driver-friendly smartphone apps are coming to Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles in 2014. Jaguar Land Rover has announced a whole new host of apps that'll be available in vehicles by both brands later this year via the InControl smartphone integration system. With the help of Bosch and a number of third-party app developers, Jaguar and Land Rover will debut integrated in-vehicle app connectivity for phones with the Android operating system, as well as for Apple's iOS. Jaguar Land Rover is the latest company to bring apps to cars' infotainment systems, an innovation that will either greatly reduce distracted driving and make crucial information much more easily accessible or cause drivers to completely ignore the act of driving altogether. Here's some of what will be offered when InControl apps launch in JLR cars and SUVs: Clear Channel's iHeartRadio digital music service has become one of the most popular radio station apps, with access to 1,500 live radio stations. The InControl interface in Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will allow seamless access to music and talk radio, with a safety-minded interface that's engineered for the in-car environment. Stitcher is a another radio app for smartphones that gives talk radio and podcast fans an easier way to find and listen to more than 20,000 news, talk, and sports stations from media outlets like NPR, Fox, BBC, and the Wall Street Journal. If you want to read the news (or rather, have it read to you), InControl will also feature Airmotion's News on Board app, a service that reads the news out loud so that drivers don't have to squint at their phone while sitting in traffic. A related app that will also have the ability to read the news out loud is Winston, a voice recognition app which will also double as a personal assistant. Another app that's been recently making waves is Glympse, which is a temporary location sharing technology that allows two cars to link up their navigation systems to share each other's location in real time via GPS. This will allow you to follow your friends along on multicar road trips, or to simply check your friends' progress when en route to a destination. Glympse hopes that this app will eliminate the constant "Where are you now?" phone calls. Jaguar and Land Rover drivers will also be able to access Parkopedia directly through the infotainment system, an app that's the world's leading parking information provider used by millions of drivers every month to find parking spaces near their destinations. The app's database has info on more than 28 million parking spaces in 40 countries around the world. In addition to radio and GPS apps, Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will also feature Hotelseeker/Citiseeker hotel booking service. "Our new InControl Apps platform delivers on our vision to provide customers access to familiar, branded third party applications from their smartphones safely and conveniently in their vehicles," said Nick Gionis, chief engineer of infotainment at Jaguar Land Rover. Jaguar says InControl will be available in both Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles in 2014. By: Jay Ramey on 1/10/2014

Hi Matei....and welcome to the club! Look forward to reading your posts on the forum. Regards Trevor

You can only resist the F-Type for so long Trevor...its just a matter of time!

Hi Alan how did you get on...much improvement?

"Luxury Car Abstinence" by Audi Have soaring luxury automotive sales given brands the green light to take shots at one another? Mockery has always been a tactic used to insinuate direct comparisons between brands, and several automakers have recently deployed coated insults to redirect consumer attention in a period of unprecedented bounty. While the surface aim of mockery is to make consumers laugh, a prized response for marketers, the more subtle purpose is to dislodge brand loyalists by giving them more choices to consider. “If mockery ads have an audience other than the executives of the brand and its ad agency, the audience is most likely to be younger consumers who might appreciate the humor, competitiveness, and satirical nature of the ads,” said Ron Kurtz, president of the American Affluence Research Center, Atlanta. “These ads are risky as are all negative ads other than perhaps political ads, which seem to do best when they are negative,” he said. “Mockery or negative ads can diminish the stature of the advertiser and potentially give some enhancement to the stature of the target. “This can be avoided only if the ads are very well done in a humorous and satirical fashion” Comparing feathers “Comparative” ads generally involve some banter or light mockery to avoid brand hectoring, and flat-out insults that can do more damage to the attacking brand than the attacked brand. For these reasons, crafting a compelling mockery ad is challenging. Despite the possible backlash, brands still churn out ads that jab one another. Humorous ads generally circulate with more speed on social media, reach more prospective consumers and last in the collective imagination as usable conversation pieces for longer. The record-breaking sales numbers of 2013 have emboldened a few brands to deride one another, sensing that they can steal loosely affiliated customers from one another. Not surprisingly, one of the leading luxury auto brand of 2013, Mercedes-Benz, has also been the leading target in recent comparative ads. Back in December Jaguar USA took aim at Mercedes-Benz’s recent Magic Body Control television spot with a jocular commercial that pits a chicken against a jaguar. The original Mercedes commercial shows a few chickens dancing in the air under the direction of human hands, which is supposed to be an analogy for the brand’s new body control feature. Magic body control TV spot http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nLwML2PagbY Without context Jaguar’s commercial seems like a bizarre challenge to Mercedes-Benz, but, for viewers privy to Mercedes-Benz’ original, the parody gains humorous clarity. Jaguar vs. Chicken Jaguar’s spot successfully leveraged the commotion surrounding the original spot, and managed to garner more than 2 million views. Another side Audi USA’s latest “Luxury Car Abstinence” ads may have gone too far in its efforts to knock competitors. The automaker’s spots feature young professionals describing the integrity needed to avoid easy car choices such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz and the gratification that accompanies holding out for an Audi. In the commercial, characters are shown avoiding eye contact with other car models, running toward their “inferior” cars in shame and even quitting their jobs because of company car choices. As Business Insider put it, it would seem that an ad based on the idea of abstinence would be the absolute wrong way to target young professionals in 2014, but that’s exactly what Audi has done in a new ad bashing competitors BMW and Mercedes-Benz. Luxury Car Abstinence http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O10Hxx0NTQE Indeed, the audience response to the new ads has been largely negative, with Audi’s Youtube channel studded with angry comments. Unlike Jaguar that limited itself to a narrow spoof on an already well-known commercial, Audi stretched its comedy to contain the larger issue of identity, and ended up aligning itself with harmful societal beliefs about gender. Joe McCarthy, editorial assistant on Luxury Daily, New York

Fancy starting 2014 with a bang? Then you could do worse than get yoursel a seat in a Jaguar XF-RS, one of the most insane models the company has created. When we say "bang", we mean metaphorically of course, although the first time you gun the starter button, the eruption as the snarling V8 wakes up is reminiscent of distant gunfire. This is a hedonist, crackpot of a car. It's the fruit of Jaguar’s new special vehicle operation, which is overseeing a new era of race-bred products. If you want lazy shorthand, we'll say that the Jag R and RS models are competing with BMW's M and Audi's S and RS lines. Except that's really the role of just the R models. The RS models are a bit like Audi's RS models, except with about 10 per cent more power and 20 per cent less sanity applied. In bald figures, this means 550 horsepower and 680nM of torque from a supercharged V8 strapped into the front of the regular XF's shell. To tie it all down (or attempt to), Jag has fitted 20-inch alloys, wheel arch and sill extensions, a whopping great new front bumper with integrated spoiler partly picked out in gloss black and a rear spoiler that looks like it has been borrowed from the back of something you’ll find parked at an RAF base. None of which prepares you for the violence with which the thing will hurl you down the road when you properly step on the loud pedal. You’d better make sure the road is straight and not wet when you do it, too (or make sure you've the stability control switched on and are ready if it’s not), because the Jag's one of those cars that can spin its wheels in at least the first four of eight gears, if you turn all the systems off and it's wet. Which isn't to say it's dangerous or bad. Quite the contrary, it feels almost American in its brutishness, but with a sprinkling of British manners thrown in. And the V8 holler is overlaid by a crazy, buzz-saw supercharger whine. Which is great in isolation, but we suspect might get annoying over time. Still, you can burble around on practically no throttle and make good progress all day long and then just bury the throttle when you want to pass one, two, three… oh, let's just make it the entire line of cars. In French racing blue and with that great picnic table spoiler out back, it's not exactly subtle. And the spoiler is positioned just perfectly to intersect your rear view mirror view and hide that police car tailing you. Still, it kind of suits the car's altogether hedonist demeanour. Inside, it's the usual XF story (leather, comfy, rubbish touchscreen), but with a few extra bits of carbon-like trim and blue-piping and stitching on the seats. And while the XFR-S is happy to play dragster on the straights and bucking bronco on the twisties, we're fairly certain it would trundle down to Sainsbury's or the South of France with little to annoy you other than its impressive ability to drain a fuel tank. By Joe Simpson, 8 January 2014

Hi Chris, maybe worth just popping into a windscreen fitters as it probably wouldn't take them long to fettle it into place and cure the leak

It may be worth checking the interior lights illuminate/dim when opening and closing all the doors/boot individually. This way you can check if one of the door switches/motors is possibly defective and not sensing that the door is closed, therefore tripping the central locking to unlocked.

Maybe worth just lifting one corner at a time rather than the whole weight of the front end? You should still be able to get a small axle stand in there, possibly under the front subframe and leave the jack under there aswell.

Hi Colin The car would definitely look better in silver with black wheels in my mind. Maybe they will sell you the older spec model with more options thrown in to clear out that range? Good luck on whatever you decide Regards Trevor

Well spotted Simon...its good you had you're doubts about the brakes being a bit dodgy. Could you upload a picture of the cracked caliper as it would be good for other members to possibly check and identify if they also have the same issue? Regards Trevor

I would probably advise you to get it check by an auto electrician before any real damage occurs to the electronics.