So, I was in my non-lumbar support equipped 2004 3.0 and I leaned over to the passenger set to move it forward. As I leaned I heard a motor running (not the passenger seat moving). When I righted myself, I found the driver's seat to have a very different feel, as if the lumbar region suddenly popped out.

Is this crazy?

The only explanation I can come up with is that I must have popped a disk in my spine and that's what I was feeling? BUT, I have to ask, but is it possible the mechanics for a power lumbar are in my seat, but no controls...and I somehow triggered it by leaning all jabberwocky?

Or...is this just what happens when you are 46?

 

Yeah, that's about the age when the aches and pains start gaining on you....

I have the power heated seats with 27 different positioning controls - but none of them seem to be the Lumbar support control, and I would like that to work too.

So can you tell me how to lean jabberwocky-like so that mine comes back to life? Or maybe you just popped a spring in the seat? Do these things have Lumbar support?

 

You sure there isn't a switch? Rearward from the multifunction controls on the outside of the seat? It has a solid up arrow and outline down arrow. Only makes a noise when it's inflating.

 

SOLVED!!!! I feel like an idiot, but that's kinda normal, and I'm amongst friends who won't laugh at me too hard...I hope. My seats actually DO have power lumbar supports. It's controlled by the bottom of the seat recline control, push it forward to inflate, backwards to deflate. And, crazy enough, BOTH the driver and passenger seats have it. Man, I love Jaguars.

So, I lucked into finding this. The owner's manual didn't come with the car, so I bought one off of ebay...musta been the wrong half year, and it showed a lumbar switch separate from all the other controls on the side of the seat. So I assumed I didn't have that option and went about my business.

Well, waddya know.

 

Ah! But how did "jabberwocky" leaning towards the passenger seat trigger a forward movement of the outboard side switch? That's the mystery. Spontaneous inflation is way more spellbinding than sudden deflation.

 

True...the mystery isn't completely solved, but I have a theory that again involves my lack of control over my body...I think I was sitting in my driveway at the time and my left foot was out of the open door, so when I leaned hard right, my foot must have lifted and actuated the seat control.

For all you righties out there, you understand that the left side of your body is only there for counterweight for the important things the right side of your body is doing.

 

Thanks for this! I just found out that I too have lumbar support and I didn't have to get all twisted and such to find out!

Jason

 

LOL

A lot of people dont realize they have working foglights either... "You have to PULL the switch OUT?? Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...."

 

That one I have figured out. The one that took me longer was to figure out what pulling the switch out twice did. I know it turns on some bright red lights on the back, but I'm not 100% sure why. I'm assuming for fog or adverse weather conditions.

Jason

 

Reverse fog lights.... Its a european car thing

 

love my rear foggies

 

I think rear fogs are one of the most important safety features a car can have—in heavy rain or even just the spray after a heavy rain has finished, they make your car visible from several times further away than just your standard taillights. One of my favorite features of the X-Type.

 

Good thing my Kitty will never have a subsequent owner. I painted over my rear fogs. Pulling the switch out to the second stop won't do anything.

 

Back to the lumbar support thing: on my 05, the control to increase lumbar support runs a motor with an obvious inflation factor in the seat back. But the decrease lumbar support switch function results in no sound and no obvious change. Though I can seemingly deflate the seat back by holding the switch and pressing into the seat back at the same time.
I have no idea what's actually inside the seat but it acts like "increase" runs an air pump into a bag. If that's correct, does "decrease" just open a valve or is it supposed to be more energetic??
Dealer says it's normal. Since I'm out of warranty, it likely is regardless. But I'm curious.

 

That is in fact the switch. I mistakenly thought that was to raise and lower the seat.

Iconography is a tricky business, but they could have done a little better than this. Vertical arrows for the lumbar? Arrows instead of the word "pull" for the fogs?

 

There called rear fog lights, I couldn't believe it when I found them myself. I do have a manual, and I had to look them up. Never heard of them before.