Firstly hello, I came across this forum whilst looking for help with a problem I have with my XK and thought it would be wise to join.
I bought my first jaguar on Saturday, a lovely 2008 XK with low miles, I have admired them for quite a while and I've not been disappointed with my choice. I absolutely love the V8 power and growl as well as the comfort and ride, it is far superior to what I have been used to with my past cars. Unfortunately I've had a few teething problems, after returning home from purchasing the car I noticed the smell of hot brake pads, on further inspection I found that the OS wheel was red hot, I lifted the car and tried to spin the wheel but the brakes were binding quite badly. The dealer offered to sort it out on Monday and said it was probably a sticky caliper piston caused by it not been used for a while. Not wanting to wait until Monday I promptly stripped the brakes down and cleared the oxidation on the calipers and some crud under the caliper piston seal. Reassembled and tested OK. I took it for a spirited run around Cheshire with the family (managed to shoe horn the kids in the back) and enjoyed the rest of the day.
All OK today, took it for a spin through Manchester Airport tunnels to appreciate the roar of that V8 (shame about the road works slowing me down). Happy days, all is good I thought. Fast forward a few hours and the in-laws come round for tea, my son being enthusiastic about the Jag, wanted to show his Grandpa around the car, unfortunately he didn't know that the Sat Nav DVD was is the boot and ejected the DVD. He put it back in but it made a strange noise and kept spitting out the DVD. It keeps trying to eject as if it thinks there is already a disc in there and will not let me re-insert the disc. I've had it out to see if there's anything obviously wrong but I can see anything. It's now making a horrid ejecting sound every 30 seconds and won't let me re-insert the disc. Kids, why do they fiddle?? So my long winded question is does anyone know how to get these fixed or if they have come across this is the past.
Yours hopefully
Nick