Genuine Granadaland Jaguar Reintroduced to Granadaland! Caution: New MoT content!

[Junkman]

Preston Jaguar Centre ones would be nice, although for obvious reasons, I'm unable to supply photographs of the original ones.

[alcyonecorporation]

Preston Jaguar Centre ones would be nice, although for obvious reasons, I'm unable to supply photographs of the original ones.

Get me a pic of any and I'll get a template. I need a template else you're better off getting plain ones from Pepper's.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

As it was sold in Preston originally, the supplying dealer would have been Dutton-Forshaw. The address in my handbook was Dutton Forshaw, Portway, Ashton-on-Ribble, Preston. PR2 2DF. Tel: (0772) 723456  Fax: (0772) 723372

 

There is a template for another Dutton-Forshaw garage already held by DMB. I remember them using a differnent script on the Jaguars though - the same one as is used up the side of this advert:

 

Dutton Forshaw - Austin Rover by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

I remember them as having no Jaguar logos on them - just the Dutton-Forshaw script, generally in black. they were much less elaborate than some main dealer 'plates.

[pshome]

FTFY

 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Oh Jayzuz, can I have a flow chart, please?

 

I iz try to answer as good as I can.

 

- The central locking worked a treat, when a key was inserted in the driver's door lock and turned.

 

- I sat inside the car when it was unlocked courtesy of the key in the driver's side door lock, unlocking all doors, as expected.

 

- I pressed the 'lock' button in the centre console and all doors locked.

 

- I pressed that button again and nothing happened. Nothing. No click, nothing.

 

- I unlocked the driver's door by pulling its chrome door lock button up.

 

- I got out of the car.

 

- I closed the door.

 

- I tried to unlock the remaining doors by inserting the key in the driver's door's outside door lock.

 

- The driver's door lock locks and unlocks with the key, but the remaining doors remain locked.

 

- SThe key only locks and unlocks the driver's door, but not the other ones, which remain locked.

 

- Pressing the button in the centre console has no effect whatsoever.

 

- No clicking can be heard in the depths of the car, regardless whether the key is turned in the driver's door door lock, nor when pressing the button.

 

- The 15 amp fuse in its appropriate spot in fuse box no. 2 (passenger side) is okay.

 

 

 

Looking at this and using logic rather than anything else as I'm not really familiar with your model year (my car has a different electrical system), I suspect the door locking module DBC1554 may have blown something inside and isn't working. I would expect the relay to click even if the doors don't unlock/lock if it was working properly. The switch on the centre console only locks the doors (and closes the windows if you hold it down and closes the sunroof too, if you have one) - it doesn't unlock the doors. If I press the button on my car there is a definite click from behind the dash when the doors are locked. The module on my car is different but the principle is the same.

 

The module DBC1554 tends to be fairly reliable and is not known to regularly fail, so should be reasonably easy to obtain second hand. If it was my car, replacing this module is where I would start.

 

Does the centre console switch still close an open window when you press it with the ignition on? The switch on the centre console could be faulty, but I am not sure that it would bring the whole system down? I have a new one somewhere here which I bought a long time back for the clock bulbs. It is the correct one for your car, but won't fit my car. You would have to swap over your clock bulbs from the unit you have together with the switch fronts (they just clip on) but you are welcome to have it if swapping the module doesn't work. It is worth a try! The part is new, so should work. PM me your address if you want it. Access to it is a bit time consuming but the dismantling is not difficult. I can detail what needs to be removed if you want.

 

There isn't much on the internet I could find about total failure of the system like this - generally they seem to lose one or more doors, rather than all of them. When that happens, it is generally  a failed actuator. I have read that there is a VERY small chance a failed door lock actuator can lead to all four burning out, but the fellow who made this comment said he had never seen it on and XJ40 - and that it is a Series III problem.

 

There is another alternative: you have a new Haunted Castle on your drive.

 

I will have a bit more of a think about it!!

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I have put a bit of thought into the stick-on tat problem and have come up with something nicely personalised with an Austrian theme:

[Junkman]

I actually look rather dashing with that hat. I shall consider getting one.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

My late dad used to wear one as his winter hat. It actually suited him rather well.

[DeeJay]

There's no rust in the arches, it's migrated to your socks.

[Junkman]

Austro Daimler Jaguar calls for celebrations.

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Austria: land of Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Schiele, Klimt, Mahler, Freud, Hitler,  Wittgenstein, Arnie, and those guys.

[Junkman]

You forgot me.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Come off it, Mein Fuehrer, we all know where you've been hiding all these years.

 

"Mein Volk, in unser hour off need, I haff returned.  Und zis time round, no more Mr Nice Guy."

[xkjagnz]

Is anyone else about to google the German Goo Girls though?

 

Just me?  Ok..

Don't unless you have a fetish for buckets of "wallpaper paste" *

*may not be wallpaper paste!!!!!!!!!

[xkjagnz]

You, sir, are an eggspurt!

I shall immediately follow your advice once a more ambient climate has resumed.

 

Thank you so much!

 

Yes, the reflectors are shot. Quad type headlight solution is unacceptable, though.

I'm fully aware that those girlie parking aids are aftermarket, that's why I wrote that I'll

never understand people disturbing the electrickery of such complex machinery

by adding some pointless shiny shit from China.

Re the reflectors, I once had to "re-silver" one for the boys car (a nova iirc) as I couldn't get a replacement anywhere at the time and it had failed its MOT.

I dismantled and lined with aluminium foil (glued on) shiniest side out, typically it was still like that 4 years later when we sold it on

[vulgalour]

What an appalling conveyance.  The additions would be baffling were it from anywhere other than Lincolnshire, pretty sure there's something in that county's water.  I say that with affection since I'm 50/50 Lincolnshire/Yorkshire in construction.

[dollywobbler]

This is fast becoming one of my favourite threads. That de-twatting series of pics is fabulous.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Excellent work, gentlemen !

 

Mr.J, is the Jag going to be a keeper, or just a SBOD ?

 

 

 

Come off it, Mein Fuehrer, we all know where you've been hiding all these years.

 

"Mein Volk, in unser hour off need, I haff returned.  Und zis time round, no more Mr Nice Guy."

 

Brilliant, that almost reads like a quote from Vermes' "Er ist wieder da" !

[Guest Breadvan72]

I have heard of that book, but haven't read it.  I think that I shall now do so.

[Junkman]

Definitely not a keeper. There is myriad of things I don't like.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Many improvements today. The central locking is back in action, both from the key and the panic button. The screen washer stopped working, so I sanded the contacts on that relay again. All four of these relays are in the same terrible condition. 

 

 

Next priority was removing those garbage tier DRLs. There's a pleasant symmetry to their malfunction, you must admit. 

 

 

With that done, attention is turned to the the towbar. It can't have been fitted for very long - all the bolts were clean and came out easily. The wiring was less fun. 

 

 

Car looks a lot neater at the back without it. I don't know how much the towbar weighs, but it was substantial. Maybe that'll be reflected in the fuel economy gauge... 

 

 

 

This ton of crap can go on eBay, or the metals bin at the tip, or, most likely, one then the other. 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Still loving the wheels!  Top efforts on de-tatting, but the wheels are the only good thing best thing about the car.

[Junkman]

Top efforts on de-tatting, but the wheels are the only good thing about the car.

 

EFA

[alcyonecorporation]

Penultimate picture has a definite calendar whiff about it.

[Junkman]

What was the C/L P/B issue in the end?

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I have put a bit of thought into the stick-on tat problem and have come up with something nicely personalised with an Austrian theme:

 

 

Wilhelm Wollehard

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

What was the C/L P/B issue in the end?

 

Dodgy connections. 

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Where was the dodgy connection?

[anonymous user]

Where was the dodgy connection?

Lincolnshire?

[Junkman]

What I really hate about this bloody car is that it's growing on me.

 

It's a learning curve.

I meanwhile realised, that this is the 2000 SC of Jags, and you'll have to agree, that this just doesn't put the butter on the fish.

I was told that a man has to plant a tree, father a boy and own a V12 in his life.

I failed miserably on the first two, but I can guarantee you, that I will succeed with the third one.

It'll be a six litre V12 before this fucking year is over.

Trust me on that.