Hi To all

I have found a reset button on the s type 2004 2.7 jaguar just under the glove box on the left wall dose any one now what it is for and what will it reset on the car.

Much appreciated

Matthew Barden

 

See handbook. Leave it alone unless you know for certain what you are doing

 

Really? That's your answer?
Wow.
Are you that condescending by nature? Or do you have to work hard at it? :-)

 

I must admit I'd also like to know what it does.
Can't be the ejector seat - that's on the driver's side.

 

Not many buttons, switches and the like that are tucked away should be messed with if you haven't found out beforehand what they do. They're put out of harm's way for a reason!!

The handbooks are optional but hey worth a read. I figure that's why Jag bothered to write them.

If it's condescending well hey so what. I didn't want to say anything that might be really to the point.

 

Is it this one? Seems to be only dangerous if you are surrounded by fuel fumes.

 

Norri - What a nice helpful informative post, thanks for sharing

 

The OP mentioned 'under the glove box', but on the left wall(?) Where is the inertia switch locate on right hand drive vehicles?

 

Thanks Norri! That may come in handy some day. I remember once in the 80's, sliding into a snowbank with my Mustang GT Convert (what was I doing driving that in the snow? ) and it took me a very long time to find the inertia switch. (Of course, this was before internet forums, and before common cel-phones)
Hopefully I'll never need this tidbit.... but if I do, you can bet I'll be telling my passengers all about Norri! (and I will probably tell them all about JagV8's response, as part of the story... )

Thanks!

 

Let me put it this way. If you're the enquiring kind then read the handbook (and by all means the stickies here) on topics relevant to emergencies and breakdowns. Then you'll know not only about the thing asked here but also about the fuse boxes, key for the locking wheel nuts (lug nuts), towing loop, and so on.

 

I have yet to own a car where I did not read the manuals from front to back at the earliest opportunity. Often several times. I consider it required reading in the course of owning a vehicle.

Knowing the information, or at least where it is in the manual, has bailed me out several times at the side of the road. Reading the manual at leisure is much better than deciphering it with a flashlight in the dark when the batteries are best saved for doing the actual work at hand.

If you want an example ... figuring out how to turn on the four way hazard switch is best done sometime before hitting a fog bank or whiteout.

 

Y'all are silly.

 

But....... none of that is important, until you need it!

 

Hi TO all thanks norri for the PDF file I have saved it and noted it to my memory and I like the comments it as created nice chit chat.

Matthew

 

Agreed - I look to this forum for info that's NOT in the owner's manual.

 

To be fair, its all down to individuals and the choices we all make.

Me personally, whenever I get a new car ( or new to me ) I read and perhaps re read the ownrs manual for titbits on the car, and all it has to offer.

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of people that have owned a vehicle for a year or two never knowing that they have global open / global close or some other similar feature.
It may be that the fuel cap is locked / broken and they can't fill with fuel......had they read the handbook they'd know that there's a manual release for example.

To me it just makes common sense

 

Interesting debate which we've had before.
I spend a lot of time writing instruction manuals, a pretty awful task.
The first thing I do when training people is to go through the manual with the equipment at hand so they understand how everything works and where to find the answers when it either does or doesn't do what they want.
I then put them into an extremely stressful situation where they use the kit and have no hesitation in telling them 'you're technically dead now because you didn't RTFM'.
Unfortunately there are times they end up more than technically dead for just that reason.

Nothing like that happens with a car - even buying one new the 'familiarisation' is perfunctory to say the least 'this is how you open the bonnet, this is how you turn the lights on' - and buying second-hand doesn't even guarantee an owners manual yet a modern car is an extremely complex item used in potentially dangerous circumstances.

I'd downloaded and digested the manual for my XK well before I picked the car up because I would be driving it from the UK to central France in January in the dark.

We never use the 'RTFM' word on this Forum because that's the way (quite rightly) it is set up but there are times when the answer to a question is so obvious either from Google or looking in the HOW-TOs that unless it's a new member or I'm feeling particularly benign (a rarity) I just don't reply.
At least that maintains a civil tone and maybe encourages the member to try harder.

 

It's really off the topic, and apologies to OP for that, but when I was flying I had the owners manual for a Cessna 172 memorized (almost). It always struck me as odd after that that I'd still feel free to jump in a car and drive without knowing absolutely everything about it.

Still, the owners handbooks for both my cars are woefully inadequate, both in ease of use and content. I have twenty pages on how to operate my XM radio, and half a page on jump-starts that left me scratching my head, and finally giving up. (Still couldnt find the terminals. Now I know, thanks to this forum!)

 

Oh one more thing. Unlike JagV8, I say... Push it, see what happens!

 

But it might be the ejector seat.