Jaguar XJ8L 1998

I cannot open the flap and have changed the fuse required by the information found in the car care book. What do I do next? A little un-handy when you find you are on orange and stop to fill up. I hate to get out the old pry bar but I'm impatient.

 

Welcome to the forum ehatcher1,

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Graham

 

1998 xj8l

 

In the trunk, under the gas door you can manually release the lock and/or unplug the solenoid.

 

Here's the instructions for releasing the flap manually from inside the luggage compartment:



Graham

 

You can remove the liner in the trunk on the drivers side and access the controls for the latch and release it. I would first try the button on the dash above the radio and to the right. Pressing it should unlock doors, trunk and gas cap. I would also look for a blown fuse as soon as possible.

 

^^^ Did you mean to say to the left?

 

You can test it by closing all the doors, but leave the flap open. Press the lock button on the remote and see if the plunger shoots out the pin to lock the flap. If your remote is inop, use the key in the driver's door to lock it.

If the pin doesn't shoot out, put your hand on the solenoid, which was depicted by GGGs post. It's easy to get to. Try locking and unlocking (press unlock twice) and see if you can feel the solenoid attempting to move. I've had limited success lubing the whole mechanism.

If still a no go and you want to pursue it, disconnect the connector to the solenoid and hook up a VOM to the connector. Upon locking/unlocking you should get a momentary voltage reading. If you do, your solenoid's bad. If not, further diagnosis is beyond the scope of what I can explain to you in a post.