Hey guys I have a 04 3.0 with the non premium stereo. I was looking at my steering wheel today and noticed it was different then a lot of the other 04's I have seen. Most of them have the little wheels to adjust the volume/cruise control, mine does not have this. Mine are just buttons, did the stereo options have anything to do with this or was this perhaps a mid year change? Any info would be appreciated (Mine is the bottom pic)


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Nuttz, keep in mind that in March of 04, Jaguar did a big upgrade to the car's electrical system. I bet you will find that your car was actually built in either early 04 or even in the later parts of 03. You can verify this by looking in the driver's door jam and near the top of the sticker as I recall it lists the build date of your vehicle. If it is before 04/04, then you have in reality an 03, just with a MY04 listing.

This can be good and bad in that you have some options that the later 04's do not have (ie, viscous coupled transfer case for example), but you won't have things like a fairly standard DSC setup (not put into all 04+ vehicles, but it became pretty much standard on all AWD vehicles starting in 05).

 

you just have the earily 2004 addition...JAGUAR change the steering wheel controls in the later 2004 models...

 

Thermo, thanks. I checked and sure enough mine has a build date of 09/2003, so looks like I have a early 04. Im going to look into the other differences you mentioned about the early 04's as well!

 

nuttz, like I mentioned, you pretty much have an 03 Jag. So, when you hear us talking about 02-03's and their issues, that is what you have to pay attention to.

MOst of the "upgrades" were simply running wires in new places, re-numbering the fuse boxes, and then putting in a non-viscous coupled transfer case. After that, the features and whatnot remained pretty universal across the years.