I am the proud new owner of a '94 XJS Convertible 2+2! I am beginning to sort out a few things that are not working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Seats all appear to work with the exception of the drivers side. The drivers side back moves forward and back, lumbar works, just that the seat bottom won't move forward but about three inches. It apprears the motor engages and move three inches and stops?? Motor works, seat moves, just not enough forward for my wife??? Any ideas? Thanks!

 

Congrats. Welcome to a very unique club. I haven't actually measured but i don't think the seats actually move fore and aft very far, although 3 inches does sound a bit restrictive. When the seat is all the way back, look under the front of it. There is a big ribbon cable connecting the control box to the seat.... Have a look and see that ribbon cable isn't messing with the seat track

 

The black ribbon is visable and plugged in. I had heard about that one. The only thing that is not working is how far the seat moves. Like I said, it moves maybe two-three inches back and forth, just not enough forward for my wife to comfortably drive? Maybe thats not bad? Wrong, the car is for her! Happy Wife....Happy Life!!

 

I suppose having her legs stretched is out of the question?

 

now to be serious, you might consider pulling seat out and checking the rails to see if they're blocked.

 

On my '94, the passenger seat will continue to move fore/aft for as long as you hold the switch. However, on the driver's side it will only move a couple of inches fore/aft regardless of how long you hold the switch down. Another press of the switch in the same direction moves it some more, etc, etc, etc. I always saw it as intentionally designed that way, kind of a safety cut out or something.

 

I tried moving the seat forward in increments and that did not work. I have also tried to see if there is something blocking the tracks. I now am left to maybe pulling the seat to have a closer look.

From what I have read, to pull the seat, you remove the two screws on the rails on the front side and lift up on the seat?? I will disconnect the electrical first. Is that the correct proceedure for pulling the seat?

Thanks again for all the suggestions! Keep em coming!

 

I'm going under the assumption that the power seats and the manual seats have the same mounts. If so, you are correct. Raise the seat as high as it goes, unplug the electrical harness, then remove the two front bolts. The rear rails just slide out.

 

My '96 drivers seat does the intermittent thing too. Is that an electrical or mechanical problem.
RagJag

 

+2 on the two 96s that I have owned on the intermittent drivers seat adjustment.

 

Seat removal is easy..... Power the seat forward, undo the 2 bolts at the rear of the tracks. Power the seat backwards. Undo the 2 bolts at the front of the tracks. Disconnect the wiring loom, remove from car

 

Hello I have a 94 xjs , and I just took the passenger seat control module out. The Black plug with the bigger pins was melted and it ruined the plug as well as the module. I could very easily get another module and plug and put it back in , but I don't want it to happen again . So that's why I would love to find a manual seat track for it and know that it won't. You mention you have one with a manual seat ? Do you or anyone else know where I can get one for this car?

 

So what are the steps if the seat won't move at all?

 

Start a new thread. Give a little more info and explain what you are looking at, experiencing. You'll get some help, no doubt... I didn't check your profile, but if you haven't already included it - give make , year model and all that good stuff.

Of the seats don't move at all it can be a problem that involves hot wiring the seat (I'm not so familiar) or cutting the bolts out, if possible Sounds worse than it is. Could be a fuse, a relay... Start a new thread 😸

 

Hi Bill

Mine driver's seat does exactly like this. Have you find out what is the problem?

 

my 96 does it too.

I’ve had the seat out several times, so there’s nothing blocking the rails, or causing any stickiness.

I figured it was “by design”

 

My 1995.25 does the same thing on the driver's side. Guess I'll ignore it after reading this thread!

Jon

 

I seriously doubt that by design you have to push button 20 times in order to move Driver seat from front to back. Also - passenger seat works fine - just hold the button and seat slides nicely the whole length front to back.

I have also 1995 XJR and this also had this strange error, that it you hold the button it moved seat a bit and then it stopped. Also the memory function did not work. It turned out it is the common error of X300 seat positioning sensors. They brake inside and cant tell the computer correct position and that causes this strange behavior. It is possible to open the sensors and repair it (there are nice instructions for this job also in this jaguar forum under X300 section). I have done it and they work well now.

I suspect that this can be the case also with facelift XJS seats, maybe these also have the same sensors that X300 of this era has. I searched all "seat" keyword topics (9 pages ) here in XJS forum but found only this topic that mentioned this error. So it seems to be not so often appearing error and there seems not to be instruction to fix it

 

My 1994.75 MY UK model doesn't do it. It can do a full travel from back to front and vice versa with a single button push.

Paul

 

Thanks for the tip. That makes sense. I'll look for it in the X300 section.

Jon