Just found this forum and it has been a great help. We have just acquired a nearly new condition XK8, convertible, charcoal Dayton wire wheels. Also have a 2000 S-Type, meteor silver, also with Dayton wires. Before that we had a red XK-150 FHC, but that one is now being re-stored by our son.

This forum has been helpful with a few problems with our latest, the XK8, specifically, the "Poor Vehicle Performance" warning -- in our case I can detect nothing wrong with the performance, the warning just comes on, usually after 1/2 hour or so, but nothing changes in the car's performance, so I just take a deep breath and keep on truckin'.

The other problem is battery drain -- the battery was flat when we bought her, but the dealer put a new one in. I measure about 250mA of current drain after everything has settled down -- lamp delays and so on -- and have traced it by pulling fuses to the Body Processor Module (Fuses 5 & 7 in the Driver Fascia box, as I recall) Seems a bit much as others have reported. My suspicion is bad electrolytics.

I am also concerned about the chain tensioners, but there is no indication of a problem -- yet. How worried should I be? How costly is a re-fit?

Enough. Thanks Again for all the help.

K E Froeschner

 

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Welcome to the forum kefroeschner,

Good to have you with us at Jaguar forums.

I can see you've already found your way to the XK8/XKR tech forum so there's no need for a link to it from me. The 'HOW TO' thread at the top is a good place to start for info on regular issues and has plenty on tensioners.

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Graham

 

Hello,
Another multiple Jaguar family I see. We like to read about that.
Welcome to the forums from ElinorB.
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Thanks Again!