XKR (X150) control screen not working
Discussion
Yesterday the control screen in the centre console of my XKR wouldn't play ball. It just displayed the XKR logo you get when you first enter the car and wouldn't boot up into the normal mode where you can control everything. Stopping the engine and restarting it quickly didn't clear things. After I'd parked up and taken LadyB8 for tea and cakes everything was OK again.
Has anyone else seen this?
Any suggestions of how to get out of it?
The rest of the electronics all seemed to be working, parking sensors, trip computer etc... just no control screen and so no seat warms (LadyB8 not happy ... ... ) etc.
Has anyone else seen this?
Any suggestions of how to get out of it?
The rest of the electronics all seemed to be working, parking sensors, trip computer etc... just no control screen and so no seat warms (LadyB8 not happy ... ... ) etc.
It's only happened the once for me. When I stopped the engine and parked up for 20 or minutes and tried again everything was OK, a quick stop and start wasn't enough to clear things, but I'm not sure that it would have been long enough to restart the control system anyway.
It's always difficult to troubleshoot things that don't happen predictably. I was wondering whether anyone else had seen the same issue and whether anyone had found a trick to get the system back online.
It's always difficult to troubleshoot things that don't happen predictably. I was wondering whether anyone else had seen the same issue and whether anyone had found a trick to get the system back online.
I have had that happen to me once, last year sometime. I was having other, random electrical-type issues such as driver's side wing mirror recalling to random positions on seat memory, transmission sometimes failing to rev-match on downshift, these are all known symptoms of tired batteries.
I don't have a garage big enough for my Jag (yet) so couldn't run a conditioner, my old battery had Jaguar stickers on it so I figured it was likely to be the original supplied in the car back in 2008 so I just got a Varta AGM type (http://www.tayna.co.uk/G14-Varta-Start-Stop-Plus-AGM-Car-Battery-595901085-P8424.html), changed it, gave the car a good run to charge it up and I've never had any of these issues since.
I don't have a garage big enough for my Jag (yet) so couldn't run a conditioner, my old battery had Jaguar stickers on it so I figured it was likely to be the original supplied in the car back in 2008 so I just got a Varta AGM type (http://www.tayna.co.uk/G14-Varta-Start-Stop-Plus-AGM-Car-Battery-595901085-P8424.html), changed it, gave the car a good run to charge it up and I've never had any of these issues since.
Thanks
One battery related message the car does give me from time to time is that if I have the radio(etc.) on with the engine switched off after a few minutes it gives me a message that it will shutdown after 3 minutes due to low battery. Its done this ever since I bought the car. The dealer told me I'd need to take the car out for a longer run as the self calibrating system took quite a while to set itself properly. Of course this didn't make any difference :-)
One battery related message the car does give me from time to time is that if I have the radio(etc.) on with the engine switched off after a few minutes it gives me a message that it will shutdown after 3 minutes due to low battery. Its done this ever since I bought the car. The dealer told me I'd need to take the car out for a longer run as the self calibrating system took quite a while to set itself properly. Of course this didn't make any difference :-)
There are a couple of things to do, nothing terrible. See here - http://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/xk-xkr-33/sequen...
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