Help, steering wheel moves by itself!

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Sep 25, 2013 | 06:44 AM
  #1  
Hello, while trying to adjust the driver adjustments one day, the car started to move the steering wheel by itself. The adjustment button on the side of the column does not work now, it just moves all around on its own. I seem to hear a relay clicking someplace under the dashboard, can anyone tell me what fuse to pull to stop this action and where the relay is to stop this from happening. Oh yeah, it doesnt shift into gear now, stuck in park I gather due to this issue, thanks Frank
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Sep 25, 2013 | 08:32 AM
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First i've heard of this type of issue.

Try setting it to off, then go in the trunk and disconnect the battery and touch the negative to positive for a couple seconds and see if that'll reset it to stay off.

Really cant think of anything else and not sure which fuse it is
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Sep 25, 2013 | 04:26 PM
  #3  
Another possibility is turning the "memory" feature for the steering wheel off.

That adjusting "joystick" is also a knob as well. If you look at the side of it you can see that it has two dial stops that read "Auto" and "Off" (if memory serves, I can't run out to the car right now).

I was having problems once that a "hard reset" [disconnecting the negative strap on the battery and waiting a couple hours before reconnecting it] solved. However, before I had the time to do that reset I simply turned the knob to the off position.
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May 10, 2014 | 06:33 AM
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did you figure out what was happening because mine just did that last night! Same thing, Cant get it out of Park and the steering wheel just goes up and down on its own. I did the hard reset, nothing changed. Then I hit the memory button to setting one, the steering wheel stopped moving but the tilt button no longer works and car still wont come out of park...
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Aug 30, 2016 | 03:34 PM
  #5  
"Cant get it out of Park and the steering wheel just goes up and down on its own. I did the hard reset, nothing changed". I have the same issue. I checked the fuses related to the steering wheel and all looked good. I'm currently sticking a screwdriver in the hole next to the shifter to release the parking lock to shift.
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Aug 30, 2016 | 04:15 PM
  #6  
The car is clearly possessed. You need an exorcist, preferably Jaguar-approved.
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Aug 30, 2016 | 04:57 PM
  #7  
Quote: The car is clearly possessed. You need an exorcist, preferably Jaguar-approved.
haha
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Jun 23, 2020 | 10:44 AM
  #8  
Steering wheel
Hello there, this moving steeringwheel and p issue is there a solution found ? I dan into this totday.......

Hope to hear from you 😇
Greetings from the Dutch forum
Bert
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Jun 23, 2020 | 11:24 AM
  #9  
Quote: did you figure out what was happening because mine just did that last night! Same thing, Cant get it out of Park and the steering wheel just goes up and down on its own. I did the hard reset, nothing changed. Then I hit the memory button to setting one, the steering wheel stopped moving but the tilt button no longer works and car still wont come out of park...
Hello there is this sorted out for u ? Have the same at the moment :-( Dutch forum hasnt a clue

Ciao Bert
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Nov 6, 2020 | 03:28 PM
  #10  
This just happened tonight for me. In addition the interior lights will not turn on but the car will drive if I unlock the gear change lock. Relay keeps on clicking as I drive. Hard reset doesn’t fix it.
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Nov 6, 2020 | 08:12 PM
  #11  
I have seen this fault with a faulty BPM or someone has a sun visor mount screw damage a wire to the illumination bulbs.
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Nov 9, 2020 | 04:28 PM
  #12  
Many thanks. I checked all the fuses and as you said, one of the BPM fuses had gone under the rear left side seat fuse box. Once the new fuse was in everything went back to normal!
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