I am not great with words but I need a little advice here , kind of long story so please bear with me. Bought a 2001 XJ8 seemed to be a great car then boom A drum failure , had transmission rebuilt drove it for a week and had timing chain failure so just gave up didn't want to put that much more money in a car that old , now jump forward a year seen this 2000 VDP really nice car for cheap that had A drum failure ( without any faults showing on the car just go forward motion until you revved it up ) so I swapped the transmission out and all seems good except yesterday pulling out of the driveway I got a gearbox failure fault. it still drove just fine but I turned around and came home and had made up my mind I am done with Jags. Went out this morning and started it up and had no faults showing so took the car to town and drove around about 50 miles and all is good , I did a OBD scan and only code showing is P1111 ! Any ideas ? is the car going to be reliable enough to take my wife out and about in ?
Thanks in advance
Ron
PS anyone have a center cap for the VDP ? lost that while cruisin around

 

Not sure of the X308 but my X300 would throw the trans light if it stumbled or stalled. In other words the trans light wasn't always a "trans" issue.

 

it did kind or stumble just a bit when I hit the throttle to leave drive. This car has been sitting in the barn for almost a year !

 

Ron, I can confirm above also can happen to the X308, it happened to me once.
A not so good battery might have well contributed to it.

Since then, an other 1.000km before changing the battery.
Never happened ever again (knocking wood ...).

 

Hmmm I did have to charge the battery up before it would start when the new tranny was installed , Maybe I should invest in a new one , the one in it is huge so I bet the don't come cheap.

 

Stop at one of the auto supply stores and have it load tested. If you're not going to drive it for a few days or just do short trips, buy a battery maintainer. Even the one from Harbor Freight is better than nothing.

 

ok it done it again so stopped and turned it off and started back up and no more gear box fault , so had battery load tested and it was good. But noticed out side head light was out so was going to replace and found broken wires . Do you think them shorting out could cause the fault code? Oh when I got home I did a OBD scan and the only thing there was the P1111 code.

 

P1111 = System PASS.

https://www.engine-light-help.com/ja...ine-light.html

 

You will ALWAYS see either P1000 or P1111. They are a monitoring status and NOT an error.

P1000 : on-board diagnostic tests have not been completed
P1111 : all on-board diagnostic tests have been completed

Seeing only P1111 is good news.

Graham

 

I don't think that gearbox codes show up in the OBDII, you will need Jaguar compatible software for that (at a local Indy or Jaguar dealer).

 

is there a affordable software available ?
I have a good geek available to install and make it work