Hi lads and lasses

My driver's headlight works fine. My passenger one on the other hand I have no idea. I've changed bulbs and this didn't cure it so put the working bulb in an nothing. I've been told to spike a wire from drivers to passenger side. Although I can't find a live feed in drivers side Evan though there must be one out of either the white, black or green wires.....any ideas anyone which colour would be the live?

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2005 X-Type 3.0 v6 AWD (added by GGG)

 

Stephen,

Nothing in your forum profile or your latest post to indicate which model you have and I can't make it out from your avatar.

Please follow this link New Member Area - Intro a MUST - Jaguar Forums - Jaguar Enthusiasts Forum to the New Member Area - Intro a MUST forum and post some information about yourself and your vehicle for all members to see. In return you'll get a proper welcome and some useful advice about posting to the forum.

Graham

 

Hi mate
I have tried to post something...it's my first forum so no idea what I'm meant to be doing, thought I created something a while back but obviously not sorry. I'm Steve and I have a jaguar xtype 3.0v6 AWD sports premium edition on a 55plate. I'm 41 from Rotherham and it's my first Jag but definitely won't be my last.

 

Welcome to the forums Steve,

Thanks for the vehicle details. I've added them to your first post and moved your question to X-Type forum for advice from members with the same model.

Graham

 

Appreciate that mate thank you 👍🏻

I do absolutely love the car but do jags in general have little electric gremlins? I only ask cause every now and then I get dashboard like a Xmas tree until I switch off then nothing...even when I plug it in no codes come up ?

 

Sounds like you have a blown fuse to the headlight. I am not familiar with what a 55 plate is, but the x-type up to model year 2004 thru April have one set of fuse numbers and after April 2004 have a different a different set of fuse numbers. On the door jamb should be a decal that gives the build date for the vehicle. Locate the build date and post and we can tell you which fuse number and which fuse box location.

 

Vern,

A 55 Plate is a UK vehicle registered between March and September 2005. it will be a 2005 Model Year specification.

Graham

 

I have checked all fuses in the two fuse boxes I can find...it's a late 55 plate from what I can make out.
If I can work out which is the live wire I can spike from drivers side but I can find that live feed...white, black or green?
It's also a d2s bulb not the standard h1's

 

D2s = HID bulbs for us U.S. Peeps, is your ballast toast?

 

Stephen, because you have HID bulbs, then your problem lies in 1 of 2 places. You either have a bad ballast (this is what drives the HID bulb) or the ground wire for the HID bulb is bad. I would say that the first thing you need to do is remove the plug off the back of the headlight housing and look at pin #8 If you look at the plug that is attached to the wiring harness, you will find 2 black wires that are on 1 side of the plug. One black wire will be in the corner, the other will be more towards the middle of the plug. The black wire towards the middle is the wire that you are interested in. The pin and its receptor should both be silver in color. if you find them dark in color (a black, brownish color), then you have a high resistance connection and this is causing your problem. You will need to take a small screw driver and scratch this corrosion off to get it back to a silvery color. May need to also make sure that the 2 sides are making good contact too. I would then pull out a multimeter and measure resistance between the wiring harness side pin (#8) and the chassis. You should have a very low resistance (less than 5 ohms (ideally less than 1). If you have a high resistance, you will need to remove the headlight and verify the ground connection under the headlight assembly is good.

The fuse that you are interested in is fuse F30 (20 amp) in the engine bay fuse box (I am assuming you are in England since you are using plate terminology and have a right hand drive car, otherwise, you need to look at fuse F29). I would say to first start with switching fuses F29 and F30. Does your problem switch sides? If yes, then the fuse that is currently in the F29 spot is bad and needs replaced. If the problem is the same, then you want to remove fuse F30 and then get yourself about a 1 meter piece of 18 gauge wire and strip back about 1 cm of insulation on each end. Maintaining control of each end of the wire, press and hold one end of the wire to the battery positive post and then feed the other end of the wire on to one of the posts that fuse F30 was attached to. Did one of your headlights light up? If your driver's side lit up, then you have a bad connector inside the fuse box (will need to use a screw driver to spread the terminal back out). if the passenger side headlight came on, move the wire inside the fuse box to the other terminal for fuse F30. Did the driver's side headlight come on now? If yes, bad connector, spread the termianl back out, if no, then you most likely have a bad ballast and you will need to work on getting a new ballast. If the new ballast doesn't fix it, then you have a wire problem between the fuse box and the headlight assembly.

If you want to prove the ballast good, you can swap the ballasts from left to right and right to left. If your problem moves, then this confirms a bad ballast. If the problem remains on the driver's side, then this would confirm a wiring issue.