Now is Rick the idiot?

Or does the "brilliant" Jaguar engineer who decided to design the ability of EVERY modern Jaguar key to be able to lock ANY modern Jaguar, regardless of whether the key belongs to the car or not get a chuckle every time he reads / hears about one of these stories. I supposed no engineer expected any one of us to be dumb enough to own more than one of these cars eh?

I guess warm beer makes you do funny things eh?

Take care,

George

 

It's a mechanical feature of the locks, isn't it? I think they're ones Jaguar probably had to use from the Ford parts bin. Pretty sure because the exact same thing happens with Fords over here...

 

Any Tibbe key will lock any Tibbe lock.
Not a very imaginative idea really with great potential for amusement should you see a car with the keys inside....

 

ha! I hope we are all not that mean spirited!

 

I still have a FOB with key from my former 2002 X-Type. Have to admit I was tempted to see if it fits. Perhaps we all have an "idiot" gene?

 

Fits, and will turn the lock tumbler and lock the car. Won't unlock it though.

U can reuse the fob for your S-Type, BUT you need to go to the dealer to get the key half and get the remote programmed. S-Types are the only ones you can't program yourself.

Take care,

George

 

you know what, now that i think of it.........when i had my X308 and X-Type....i tried this and i got the same results. the key will lock any car, but nothing else

 

George, Jaguar wants almost $400 to cut me a key for the X-Type's FOB and program it for the STR. Got to get a key and have someone else program the FOB. There's plenty of threads on this.

 

E-mail me.

Take care,

George

 

Will do George. My indy jag mechanic can program the FOB. Just need a key for both stock and X-Type FOB.

 

Ebay, 2 for like $25.00. Believe me Seth I know. Actually I was going to purchase them but I couldn't wait the 3/4 days on shipping.

Funny enough Scott Jaguar charged the $60.00 for the green valet key and cut, replaced both switchblades, cut them and programed both FOBs and valet for $182.00. Not to bad I guess.

 

I guess I am an idiot, I did not even know the proper name for the oddball looking thingy.

 

Tibbe or not Tibbe....that is the question

 

With so much valuable info floating around, seems like a good time to ask this question:
I was lucky - my Jag came with 2 key fobs - one looks well-worn, the other looks newish. I have been using the newer one, and all is OK, but decided to full-test the other after reading this thread and found that everything is OK except the button to open doors. Just nothing happens.

Changed the battery, still the same, so opened up again and had a look at the small circuit-board. Hope the picture shows what I saw, which is that the metallic click-switch for the door opener is missing.

It's not really a big prblem, but I would fix it if not too expensive. Any ideas?

 

If you're good at soldering I can send you another fob to use as a donor for that switch... Otherwise if you want you can send that board down to me and have me do it.

Let me know either way.

George

 

George, that is a great offer. I don't trust my soldering skills on anything that small, so it would be great if I could send it to you.

Email me at mcskalypso@shaw.ca with your address in NJ. My wife just cannot believe that a fellow-forum member on the East coast of the USA is going to repair the Jag's door opener. Thank you!!

Robin

 

But bear in mind you do NOT need the fob at all. You can just use the key and a BIG thing to check at least yearly is that it works in the trunk lock!

Check the driver's door lock, too.

 

Good points - both fob and valet key open/close the doors OK, and the fob key also opens the trunk OK.

As of today...

 

Rick, thanks for the the new key source. Checking on it.

 

Bfsgross...Rick came over yesterday to drop off his kiddos for a play date and tell me the story of the my donated key fob (LOL).....so I took him for a quick ride in the new Stang to take his mind off of it!