does anyone have a fix to completely erase all memory settings? most of the time when i put the key in the steering wheel dips all the way to the bottom, and i dont know why, ive reprogrammed all 3 settings

 

I think you may have the remote fob memory recall function overriding your attempts to reset the memory buttons using the door switchpack.

Here's the procedure for setting up the memory buttons:



I expect this is what you've been doing?

Now check this additional procedure for setting or cancelling the remote fob memory recall function:



If you have more than one remote fob, you will have to do the cancel procedure on all of them.

Graham

 

thanks graham ive read that in the manual

now question, if i took all the terminals off the battery, and connected the two leads together to completely erase the system memory would that do the trick?

 

Clay barred, polished, and waxed the hood, top, and trunk. Now I have to work up the ambition to do the sides. Maybe tomorrow.
Dave

 

I did that this weekend after having the door dings removed last week. That clay bar is amazing stuff. Today after work I fixed a loose piece of interior trim. Slowly I'm getting it back to looking like new again.

 

Dani,

No one else drives my cars so I rarely move steering wheel, seat or mirror positions. However, I certainly haven't had to set these up again after a 'hard reset' the way I do with radio presets and window limits so it's unlikely you can clear memorised position settings in this way.

Looks like there's no alternative to going through the procedures in the Handbook.

Graham

 

got some parts in and some pretty Orange Jaguar Coolant, now hopefully i can get this Random Misfire Code off with my new plugs, with a Gap at .44

 

I finally fixed the wobbly rear view mirror, tightened up the clip and used a soft hammer to put it back on, Gotta admit I was worried about the windshield while I did it.
All it well, it's now on tight. (it was driving the wife crazy)

 

got some parts in today, so i put the Spark Plugs and Air Filter in tonight, but while i had the Intake pipe off, i noticed an abnormal amount of oil in the pipe, and by the Throttle Body, now how do i fix this?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/undertaker414/8222419725/

 

Best to re-post this in the engine section

 

added a magna-flow X crossover pipe in place of the first center muffler.

 

any noticeable exhaust noise?

 

And what is the note like?

 

I did this on my XJ8 and could then hear the exhaust just a little bit more, and it was throatier and a little deeper, just what i was looking for. No drone on the highway either.

On my XJR I tried something different and removed the resonators between the front and rear mufflers. this made a slightly larger volume gain that is heard coming from more behind the car than the above mod.

I did not notice any performance improvement with either one.

My personal preference of the two is to remove the two middle resonators.

I will be going much further here in a month or so with 2.5" exhaust all the way out the back. I'll likely run it without a center muffler to start, then when the excess testosterone drips away i will probably add a muffler/xpipe combo to quiet it back down a little.

 

Please check the following post and see if it sounds similar:

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...998-xjr-80533/

 

Mine sounded like the stock, but with a little more volume and a little lower/healthier. The one in the video sounded more like a lowrider impalla with glasspacks- not to my taste. Mine does not have that brappp sound. To me, the one in the video sounded cheapified.

I think it is important to keep the two sides connected with the x-pipe or middle muffler with x-pipe function.

 

Well they did. According to the few details, there are magnaflows for the rearmost boxes.

So on your XJR, you removed just the two resonators in front of the axle? Meaning you kept the single central muffler in front and the two rear boxes?

 

The center muffler was removed and the x pipe installed and then the first set of rear mufflers were removed. The sound is deeper, they used 2.25" stainless steel X and piping, you will hear it when you push the pedal down- it now has a roor. Normal driving - you hear the exhaust sound very slightly. Differences that i can tell is that it seems to go throught the rpms faster / easier to get into the revs.
hopefully you will be able to see the piping in the pictures. Performance Exhaust in Evansville Indiana is who does all my exhaust work - they are very good.

 

Are you saying it sounds like this one:

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...998-xjr-80533/

 

Correct, kept the center muffler and last two rear boxes, but deleted the 2 resonators in between. I thought this was a more gentrified/tamer sound than doing the x-pipe swap for the middle muffler. The x-pipe gave a throatier, more dare i say, "blue collar" raw muscle sound, which can be just what people want to hear on the track. Not loud until you step on it.


edit "blue collar" sounds more american muscle car (healthy), but not as European