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You have a faulty door latch.

When locking the car, watch the inside handles. The top section should close in on them all when locking. The latch causing your problem will not.

Replace the latch and it will be ok.

Commonly it is one of the fronts.

The auxiliary heater does not work if the fuel level is low. If the low fuel warning indicstor is on the dash, the control module inhibits the auxiliary heater.

The pick up for the heater is sat just as low as the main pick up.

The quickest and easiest way to stop the smoke is to remove the fuse for the auxiliary heater control module. It is in the engine bay fuse box. 3rd fuse from the right, top row. 20 amp. Remove this and no more smoke. This has no affect to the engine.

The eml coming on will not of been related to the auxiliary heater. Maybe just pulled a little air in if fuel level was very low.

Just to add to this.

Unless the car has high mileage, and not had an Oil change, the torque converter is damaged by glycol intrusion.

The common failure is the Oil cooler splitting and contaminating the gearbox Oil with antifreeze. A glycol test MUST be carried out prior to torque convertor replacement otherwise the same will happen again.

The BBS rims were quite common in 2000. They are factory fit so will have Jag caps fitted.

Look forward to the pics. :)

Really cannot remember a Millennium model. I remember most of the limited/end of line models but this does not ring any bells.

Never heard of that one before? Have you any photos? I assume it's on a 2000 MY?

If it's clicking then the immobiliser is fine. Either a flat battery or starter motor fault. I would go for a flat battery first.

The bonnet not latching is an easy fix. The latches at the front get dirt in them. Clean them out and re Oil them. Work the lever a few times to assist freeing them. One they are clean and oiled the bonnet will latch.

They often fail. If an early S they are located just behind the front bumper splitter.

Very easy to replace and less than a tenner from dealers.

If you have a large black box attached to the Bulb, its HID. If it's a single pin connection, then it's a standard H1.

Seems quite a common complaint at the moment. I have one coming in soon.

At 66k your spark plugs and fuel filter are due very soon. (70k). I would have this done first and then see how the car performs.

If the same, I would suspect a possible coil pack breaking down. However, until the eml comes on it will be impossible to pin point which one.

Hope this helps.

Chris.

Could be an ABS sensor fault or the link leads to the sensors at the front.

Could also be a throttle body fault but quite rare.

Or it could be the ABS module that has failed.

Ideally you need the fault codes reading. Then I can advise further.

What Jag do you drive? On X Type petrols it is normally the full load breather that has split, on S Type it's the breather elbow at the rear of the engine or the breather elbox beneath the injector rail.

On V8's pre 4.2 split part load breathers and on 4.2 V8 the PCV valve fails on the RH rocker cover.

That's not an indy, that's a main dealer!

Don't be fooled by the £99 service either. Oil and filter change is NOT a service. If you got the leaflet HA Fox sent out, by the time you add the 'extras' the service costs £325!!

Plus whatever the pull on the so called health checks.

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