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Hold the handbrake button down then switch engine off.

Switch the ignition on and search for Bluetooth with your phone. If you find "Jaguar" you have the kit. If not it can easily be retrofitted.

The metal they're made from is extremely reactive with water and corrodes rapidly. Standard routine is to squirt WD40 into the rotating joint and gradually start working the mirror backwards and forwards, adding more wd40 then oil, until they move freely. Once you can move them by hand, if they are powered, they will work from the switch.

Thank you Andy, and welcome to the club 🙂

Presumably this is a diesel?

I have to say that the Bowers and Wilkins is a superb system in my view and one of the most worthwhile retrofits I've ever done. You are welcome to call in and hear the difference between your setup and mine if you need convincing 🙂 If you already have the mid range system, the physical installation of the retrofit is reasonably simple. Even if upgrading from the base system there's not a great deal more to do. CCF puzzled me for a while until I saw it done by a very kind chap who, unfortunately no longer drives a Jaguar. It is also, with hindsight, a simple procedure. Let me know if I can help. I notice you are not far from Wolverhampton if you decide you'd like some moral support for the CCF editing phase 🙂 You do , in my experience, need a high quality battery support unit as well as SDD, to avoid bricking your car. Jaguar dealers are not allowed to carry out the CCF edit as it officially "can't be done" and to be fair, they have never been shown / told how to. The offer of assisting, of course, assumes the cessation of the recent restrictions of movement. Both my wife and I are considered vulnerable persons and are therefore hiding behind a mine-field and machine gun emplacement at the moment 😉

I have a litle device which plugs into the OBD port and keeps the system live while the battery is changed. Cost a few quid from ebay. On an XF, youm should update the car's system using jaguar Diagnostics. To be fair though I've never heard of any problems if you don't do so.

Thanks Joe

I don't have a printer though Joe.

I have a complete SDD / IDS setup for sale if anybody is interested. Based upon a Samsung P560 laptop running Windows 7, correctly installed Jaguar diagnostics SDD / IDS software and a Mongoose Pro adaptor to link the laptop to the car. Anybody interested for £200 inc courier delivery or pick up from my house and see it working.

Anybody with access to a 3D printer who could make me a hex bit holder please? Something like this:- If so please can you PM me a price?

Using a battery or battery charger, momentarily apply 12 volts live to the bus bar in the fuse box and earth to any bolt on the chassis / bodywork in the engine bay. Press the boot button. Job done. I assume your doors are not locked. If they are, use the skeleton key in your key-fob to open one.

Retrofitting phone and voice is a (relatively) cheap and easy task if you want to go that way

repair the leveler yourself. Kits cost £20 on fleabay

Being, myself, both dim and old, if not yellow, I like the lights as they are, although it shouldn't take much to replace them with LED lamps 😉 I must admit to having updated the headlights to HID / LED though.

Today was the day the my XF was finally graced with a fully working Bowers and Wilkins audio system and six CD changer. It's taken a while to get here but well worth the effort. Thanks to my mate Denis who had been lumbered with so much hassle to achieve my wishes and also Graham Knox, who worked the magic with the Diagnostics today 🙂

Beautiful car,, looks well kept. Best of luck with your sale.

Fingers crossed it is the master cylinder 🙂

Possibly, the diaphragm in your brake servo has been contaminated by brake fluid from the master cylinder, or youe brake servo vacuum pipe is damaged. Try getting up to a speed of 30 - 40 mph then pressing brakes on and off several times. If the braking effort suddenly changes then the above is almost certainly the culprit The vacuum reservoir is beingf depleted faster than it can be replenished.

Next thing would be to use the Jaguar diagnostics I think.

Run the window up fully, then down fully. Then up fully and hold the switch for a few seconds or until you hear a click. Then down fully and hold again for a few seconds/

I've just upgraded my headlights to HID and they have cornering lights included. All works as it should except the cornering lights. Does anybody know if they have to be enabled in CCF please? Car is a 2008 XF.

Thanks Jon. Unfortunately, mine has the problem when there is a passenger 😞

My XF is producing no heat on the passenger's side, either in auto or with any of the vents manually selected. Any ideas please?

Thanks Jon 🙂