The factory manual (JTIS) is available for free on this site.

 

Your DCCV is bad. (dual climate control valve) It is on the passenger side of the radiator. Not to bad of a fix. Just time consuming and small working quarters. There are several different tricks to try to get it working again, although these are usually temporary.

 

if your pipes to the heater are hot all the time DCCV it is. If you have v8 then less room than ever... Some people put in hoses and new water solenoid along side the engine. I have problem with actuator for heater core doors operating when it wants to usually stuck shut. Ah.... the days you used to reach under the dash and fix things.....

 

125 mph top speed on US model STR's. :-(

 

Several US people have pointed out that theirs do much more. Maybe worth your while to find out why yours is apparently limited (if it indeed is). Worst case, try different calibration (PCM software). (DIY with Mongoose...)

 

Agreed - I have searched far and wide to find a travel mug that will hold my Rosie Lee in the mornings but will fit in the cupholder - Starbucks had just the thing, of course $30 for the mug. Despite the cost, better than the 'thimble' that I was using.

All said and done, the joy of driving is far greater than the misery of ownership; A car that is far greater than the sum of its parts.

 

There are two sizes of cup holders. The original with 2 equal sized ones and the later version with one big one and one small one. After I got the later version the cups fit much better.
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Where did you get yours from?

 

Places to try: dealers, parts stores (N.B. forum sponsors give discounts) and even wreckers.

 

I can get 500ml water bottle in mine but gotta wiggle it a bit.

The '01 has only 1 cup holder! But it is bigger than the '03s and can handle a standard go-mug.

 

Funny you should ask!!

I wanted the bigger cup holder as the little base just pulls out and you can swap them in about 30 seconds. But the dealer wanted WAY too much money for that little piece so I was going to live with it.

I hit a deer about two years ago and when I picked the car up from the body shop it had been broken into and they tried to pry the navigation unit out of the dash breaking a corner off. They also pried up the center console which broke the cup holder. Well apparently the larger cup holder is all you can now get from Jaguar so they replaced mine with the new updated design!

If you want one I would cruise EBay and look for 2006 and up S Types. From what I found out was the cup holder was a running change during the 2005 model year. Some 2005 have the small one and some have the one large and one small unit. All 2006-2008 S Types have the combo cup holder.
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On my car there is a rocker button on the left side of the steering wheel that does consecutive search, but you have to put it in radio mode, not tape mode. That functional overload can be confusing. I think the mode switch is at the upper left of the radio panel. It's label is not very obvious. If you remove battery power without using a memory keeper, the radio will default to tape mode (dumb choice). The search button at the bottom of the radio switch cluster switches between programmed stations, 1,2,3,4,5,6... but you have to scan to find stations to program in the first place.

 

ZF drastically needs a dipstick/fill-tube assembly....

 

So does the 5R55N on the 2000-2002 S-type. Could save a lot of trouble when things go wrong.

 

Yep, that remains the single biggest design flaw in these cars....

Our 2013 Subaru Outback 3.6R's Jatco-built 5AT transmission has a dipstick / fill tube and it was a piece of cake doing my first ATF drain-and-fill on that vehicle at 30,000 miles this past summer. About 20 minutes of time and $35 worth of Subaru HP ATF purchased at the Subaru dealership. Now that's the way a drain-and-fill should be designed....

 

It's a nuisance but I suspect it's not affecting jag sales. Or those of many other makes (Audi, BMW, Bentley, ...).

So, don't expect it to change.

Those of us who buy oldish, used, just have to make do or avoid such transmissions if it bothers you enough.

 

Transmission dip sticks have gone the way of the engine oil dipstick, oil pressure and coolant temp gauge, voltage/amperage gauge and many other 'old school' features.

OEMs found that only a tiny minority of owners paid attention or knew what to do.

Today's equivalent are people who are annoyed by TPMS or worn brake pad warnings and want to know how to defeat the system.

 

Sorry Mikey but your analogy is horseshit. Transmission dipsticks are vital to any vehicles' long-term health just like engine oil dipsticks are. Manufacturers eliminate them for two primary reasons, both of which are detrimental to any owner whose long-term goal is to keep their vehicles in proper working order:

1. To cut costs.

2. To drive more routine service back to the various dealerships.


TPMS vehicles can still be checked in the old-fashioned (and still the best) way with a decent tire pressure gauge. Our Subaru has TPMS and it still gets checked by my gauge every weekend....

 

They're not vital. No way.

Be nice to have one, but not vital.

 

Not vital in the least as you said. Holdovers from the past in every sense of the word.

Having actually worked for an OEM for over 30 years (in a parallel industry to automotive)I can state that if there's any sh*t flying around, the two 'reasons' given above regarding costs and driving service back to dealers are prime examples.

We had a sign on the office wall that stated 'aircraft fly safely not because of people, but in spite of people'. Took me a few years to understand the subtlety of the real message.