Hi everyone
I drove the car on 2 short trips tonight, about 4 miles each way, just me in the car.
On starting the car for the second trip, approximately 30 minutes after the first, a warning came up on the dash in red, "check pedestrian system'.
Battery is fully charged and less than 6 months old, car drove perfectly both ways.
On getting home and clearing the warning from the ICE system home page (so I then just had a small red triangle on the instrument pack), I stopped the engine and the restarted, and the warning has gone.
Any ideas?

 

Are you sure it wasn't "Check Pedestrian System"??? That'd be the air bags under the bonnet.

 

sorry yes now changed

 

It could have something to do with goofy sensors, and it could have something to do with battery voltage, regardless if new battery or not.
Have any codes read, then go from there.

 

It's usually the first sign of a Pedestrian Impact Sensor failing (see item 7):





There's two of them bolted to the crossbeam behind the front bumper.

The message clears for a maximum number of times (I think it's 100) and then becomes permanently displayed.

Graham

 

I didn't know that, thanks for the info

 

Hi Graham
Is number 6 the other sensor or are there 2 number 7s?
Fingers crossed no recurrence of the issue so far
thanks

 

There are two identical item 7's termed accelerometers in the Workshop Manual. Item 6 is a deformable fibre optic sensor. When the system started this error on my 2007, it was a faulty item 7.

Graham

 

Hi, before all remove it's important scan with SDD threre are lot of possible DTC.
Marc

 

I have had this a couple of times, but not for 9 months now, so I think nothing wrong. Before each occasion, I had been parked tight up to the back of another car in a supermarket car back, in order to get the back end as well in as possible. Supermarket car parks in UK are designed for SMALL cars and Jag XKs, contrary to appearances, are LARGE cars. My theory is that someone was loading something into the back of the car in front of me and leant/banged something against the bumper of my car at or near the sensors. Fortunately, no visible damage.

How would that theory fit with your experience?

 

I don't think so!