mrmike

My 2005 2.7D is absolutely rust free. Jag life on the Costa del Sol and Costa blanca with 240K on the clock. There are lots of S-Types around for >2K especially 2.5s and 3.0s. I saw a great one at a local super market which the owner had bought for E500, it had to go and the local breaker would only offer E400, The present owner has put a bit of money into it with every bit of chrome and w.h.y. available. Some with shot engines and no rust can be picked up for peanuts. Could be a sound basis for a rebuild for someone with an MOT failure with time and space on their hands. No need to go to California! M

Just followed the instructions in the manual.

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I connected my old Xperia 5121 using Bluetooth without any problems but when I try to connect my wifes 1 year old Redmi I get "Cannot connect MMI error" How many phones can be connected to the car via Bluetooth? Cheers Mike

I have a few error codes notably P010C and P010F which relate to the Mass of volume air flow sensors. My question is Where are they located? Cheers Mike

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I did not use H3 bulbs! They are 50W jobbies, what would I do with 50W side lights if they were mountable? What I used were T10 5W replacements at 5 Euros a piece, I will measure the R tomorrow. As I said before they are very similar to yours but gold coloured with side moounted leds and front mounted leds with a lens. they were very bright and looked good. The OEM bulbs look awful. Btw I have the HID setup.

The ones I fitted were canbus compatible! In fact they look like yours but are gold coloured. They worked fine until a month or so ago. In fact I still have one as a spare now. Canbus compatible means that the system sees a certain load on the circuit, when a normal bulb burns out etc the load is no longer there and a lamp failure is registered or shown. With Leds the current taken by the leds themselves is much lower than the incandecent bulbs. In order to trick the canbus system there are resistors in parallel with the Leds so that it appears like a normal incandescent bulb. When one of the leds burns out, then the canbus system still sees the current being drawn by the parallel resistors and thinks that the bulb is still OK but in reality there is no light only heat being dissipated by the resistors.

I also did this but I did have a couple of problems, 1. The Led lamp fell into the reflector assy while I was messing about with it. Given the extra length, thinner contacts etc it comes out of the holder more easily. I retrieved mine with a small neodym magnet on a bit of cord. I was lucky because the LED lamp was magnetic. 2. When I went for the yearly test, They found one of the Leds had failed, I had to refit the normal bulb. This did not show up as a lamp failure over the Canbus because of the internal resistor in the Led lamp! I have gone back to the original bulbs looks yukky but I will sell the car shortly anyway. M

Over the last 3 years that I have had the car I have changed about 2 litres of transmission fluid about every 6 months and gotten over the jerky acceleration going uphill etc. I now have another problem. I had driven about 200kms and I accelerated to pull out and overtake, the box changed down quite hard. I continued and some kms later did the same again this time there was the hard change and a message "Gearbox Fault" I stopped when the next rest area came up. Switched off and back on, no message! Took it easy for the next 600K, downchanges were not very smooth however. Got the Icsoft on it and got the following DTCs on the transmissinn 5th gear malfunction and PO830 and PO835. Gear changing is not very smooth and there is a tendency to stay in 5th and not change up to 6th unless I lift off the accelerator a bit. Anyone else had these probs? M

A couple of years ago I changed my front side lights to LEDs, looked much better than the yellow filament bulbs. I have a yearly MOT Eq Test and this last time I was told that one of the front sidelights had failed. I quickly changed it to the old filament bulb. This wasn't flagged up by the CPU, I guess because of the resistors maintaining a load for the Canbus. A couple of months ago I did get a bulb failure indication for a few seconds which I Ignored. I suppose this was when the Leds went US. So watch out for a lamp failure indication if it lasts only a few seconds and have a walk around the car to check. M

I have been looking for some spray paint to do a small repair on my Car. The Colour is CHB Radiant Red. I have found some kits on Amazon and elsewhere but there is a problem in the descriptions. I have been presented with CHB Radiant Red Perl (Amazon) and CHB Radiant Red Met (Metallic?) else where. The paintwork apears to be metallic, but German sites appear to have only Perl, Does anyone know what the difference is and or what is Perl? Thanks in anticipation. Mike

Clean all the battery connectors and contacts, and the cable and its connection to the bodywork.

On the wiperblades, Tank is front left under bonnet.

Check your battery AND the connectors AND connection to the body. I think most us have gone through this! Check out Battery Woes in the Forum. Get Purrrring M