I figure this has to do with typical contact corrosion issues...but...I'll toss this out there anyway.

Car: 2012 XF Portfolio.

Driving down the (bombcratered) city streets and washboard interstates up here in the NE USA...hit a bump, and the sat ratio cuts out for a couple seconds.
Bluetooth? Almost unusable; telephone calls sound like they're underwater and cut in and out.
USB or iPod connection? Almost same thing.

Now, I'm thinking that Jaguar (or Ford or whomever designed the entertainment system) didn't jam everything into the display head, but instead relied on one or two remove boxes to do the heavy lifting. Am I off?

So, what's I'd like to find out is where (if they exist, I believe one is under the driver seat under the carpet?) they live. My thought is to clean off, if they exist, the bolts holding them to the carbody to freshen up the grounds (with a suitable application of penetrox anti-seize/anti-corrosion goop) and exercise the connectors and freshen up with a shot of Deoxit G5).

Any guidance from the collective is welcome; still tracking down a shop to re=LED my instrument gauge needles here in the US. Have a line on a company called Dashboard Instrument Cluster in Miami Beach...anyone deal with them before I rip out the clluster and send it down to them?

TIA, folks.

 

It has been reported that water under the seat will damage the BT module. That would be my first step. See what's under the seat.
I believe it's under the passenger seat.

I am also a fan of Deoxit G5. I was very impressed with how it ate all the white/green corrosion I had in a fuse box. No way to really clean that with all the nooks and cranny's but sprayed it out and then let it sit for a while. Then used compressed air to remove what was left. That stuff really works!
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