timdownieuk

ive been experiancing starting problems on my xf,when i press start button nothing happens and everything shuts down ive replaced car battery and smart key batteries seem to resolve problem for couple of days. and now  its cuasing same problems again.

ive just wondered if might be something to do with cold start.any ideas thx

Brake light switch? I just mention it at as it sounds like the same behaviour as pressing the start button without pressing the brake pedal.

Tim

Welcome to the club, Timothy.

 

Ebay will turn up a case for you,  I replaced the bit of the   case which shows the characters on the buttons, so I don't think it will be too difficult to replace the whole case.  I did it several times on a Rover Sterling.

 

Regards

 

Peter.

Cheers, I've found a few on eBay but it looks like it's possible to get a whole remote for not a lot more elsewhere on the net. Maybe I need to research how to chrome plate plastic? ;-)

Tim

I bought a very nice used XF the other week and one of the few niggles is that the chrome plating on the key fob is peeling badly.

Is it possible to get a replacement case? The electronics are fine and I'm assuming it would be easy enough to swap over the internals.

Anyone done this?

2010 3.0 V6 diesel 237bhp

On a few occasions (but not every time) if I stop and restart my engine after a couple of minutes (after refuelling say) the engine will "hunt" on idle with the revs surging between 500 and 1200 or so. If I put it into drive it continues to surge but once I drive off it seems to clear and won't re-occur when I just stop the car. Stopping the engine though sometimes will re-create the problem on restart.

Idle control mechanism or some other known problem?