Hi everyone,
My name is Robert. I'm from Orange CA. I work as an accountant for a great group of people but have always been a car enthusiast. My employer and close friend asked if I could help do a few repairs and sell his 1990.5 Jaguar XJS convertible. It's really pretty, lots of fun to drive, but being a domestic fella all these years (with the exception) of a few Porsches, I'm completely lost in this thing. Looks like spaghetti under the hood to me. My problem is, all of a sudden the turn signals, brake lights and hazard quit working. The car had been sitting for about a year. Last night the back right window wasn't going up. It seems it has quite a few intermittent problems. Any help would be extreeeamly appreciated.
Thank you!!
Sincerely,

Rob (confusedbyacat)

 

Welcome to the forum Rob,

I'm going to copy your post over to the XJS section where you will get better advice.

You can find it here - https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...um-help-61903/

 

Welcome to the forum Rob.

Intermittent electrical surprises are inbuilt, helps keep you interested.

The guys in the XJS section will have some advice, and you can download the electrical diags' from the XJS FAQ.

 

welcome Rob great to have you here with us at JF.

Hope we can help with any issues / questions you may have

Some great guys here, top techs, good info and more than a few laughs here n there, so jump in and enjoy......

manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view the site.......enjoy your time here

 

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Rob....Welcome to the forum!!! Hope you get it sorted. Must be a V12 if covered in wires and hoses, eh?

 

Welcome to the Forum. Regarding the electrical outage, I would go to the fuses and inspect each one very carefully. This very thing happened to me yesterday ('86 SPG); I threw in some new fuses and no more outage! I hope you get your machine squared away fast so you can go drive!

 

Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone! It turned out to be the Hazard Light Switch. It wasn’t stuck. It was clicking full on to full off, but I needed to push it a few times to deal with the corrosion. Yep aholbro1, it's a V12 and I think it has something like 27 cooling hoses?? (nice link btw lol) Now that I've spent some time and got familar with it, it's not so bad. I really wish I could keep it. I could but the gas would kill me and so would my ol' lady. Hmmmm.... car or chick, car or chick? Car can get chicks... I'll have to think about this one.
You all are great! Thanks!

 

Welcome to the forum. That is a very difficult question you have to ask yourself. Good luck with that.