Did your Jaguar have CATS dampers? secrets 17
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 เม.ย. 2019
- In this episode. John from 'To the Garage' shows you a quick check to establish if your Jaguar xK8 XKR or XJR was ever fitted with Jaguars adaptive damper system (CATS). Some were replaced with standard dampers following MOT fails when owners could not afford to replace these relatively sophisticated dampers.
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Hello John,
I've just bought another xk8, 1999 coupe, silver, black leather, had lots of money spent on her and she has CATS.
She's has a total respray, new headliner, new cills, full service history, new shockers, timing tensioners, etc etc 90k miles.
I've just bought her for £750! She'd hit a tree, i was going to use her for parts but I've decided to rebuild her! Obviously I've blamed you and Damien when I told the wife.
Great video thanks again, Jon
Good stuff again!! Love the 220 and 180. About 15 years ago Jaguar sent one of their race-setup 220s around to several dealers in the states. What a beautiful car. Much larger than people envision with pictures alone. Certainly fills up an entire traffic lane. Only seen one in the wild.
The 220 is huge drop dead gorgeous, and makes most supercars look like go-karts
As usual John some great info.Finally the weather broke here in Northern Wisconsin and I can get my XK8 out and apply some of your tips.Thanks again
Here's to the start of a great season of Jaguar adventures William.
CONGRATS on 2,000 subscribers.You are going t make i big on TH-cam my friend.. Great video again..
Mitch Grooms I got a way to go to catch you up Mitch👍
There is of course also the control module in the boot. And when it comes to beautiful cars, I believe the XJ13 deserves a mention :)
Nice advise there John.
Thanks
hi john, just had exhaust done over rear axlle and replaced air filter with the k/n filter, what a difference, better p/u and mileage up from 16/17mpg to 22 on short trips.mamy thanks to your great articles. Tony from Nz
Hi Tony. Great to hear. I think the Flattened original over axle pipe is the biggest power thief on the standard car.
Thanks for watching my friend👍
When I got my car, the caps were missing. I replaced them with caps from a car at a salvage yard. IF a previous owner had made this same replacement years ago, with caps that had the cutout, I might erroneously come to the conclusion that CATS had been removed from my car. It seems that the existence of the cables and/or the CATS control module(I assume there is one on CATS equipped cars) would be a better indicator.
Keep them coming, I enjoy every one of them!
Good Call Gary. Strange thing to be missing from your car?
More food for thought John. ...will be checking my XK8 ...
Cheers Harry
Excellent as always... :)
Thanks Peter
There doesn’t seem to be much information on this out there. Thanks for this!
The XJR I’m looking at has a cable coming out of the black cap and I had heard something about active suspension and compared images of what’s under my bonnet vs other XJRs and was adamant there was something going on…
Glad you enjoyed it Tama
Thanks John, been wondering what C.A.T.S was.
John, where can I order those CATS and bolts cover. Thank you for the video. It helped me find out if my car had CATS
SNG Barratt did have the cats covers but I think they may be on back order now. Not seen the nut covers for a while but im sure there will be generic ones available vie ebay etc
My 2000 XKR Suspension Fault light is on... I have CATS.... how do I track down where it is coming from? Cheers!
love your videos...chris usa...i have a 2002 xk8...????? fuel door wont open when i hit the switch? low battery??? is there an emergency release in the trunk? (boot)...thanks.. any suggestions would be much appreciated...cheers
Hi Chris.
Thanks very much. Yes there is. Its a plunger like button hidden behind the boot carpet near to the filler neck. If you follow this link to one of my earlier secrets videos it will show you in detail.👍
Please share the channel with your friends Chris. and let me know if you manage to release the flap.
th-cam.com/video/0X55BtFTwfQ/w-d-xo.html
@@ToTheGarage thanks brau... that was quick,,,im at work but will check it when i get home....i have a few more questions.....but it can wait....there is not alot of how to fix videos for this car....you are the man!!!!
Aww shucks...🤗
Cheers pal. Im just an enthusiastic amateur myself. I don't know all the answers, but thanks to this youtube community we are building, we can usually find them out👍.
@@MADISON241000
Hi John, my MY97 does not have CATS, just regular spring and struts. Just weird how the issue is only isolate to the front headlights.
Ref your headlights.
I think the clue has to lie with the sequence of events. If the Steering column electrical adjustment failed at the same time or just prior to the headlights not operating then that's our best clue.
I don't have electric steering column adjustment and am away from home at the moment so can't stare at my car in case.
However, am I right in saying that the column used to lift away when the ignition was turned off? and return when it is turned on.
Also, I am not certain but I don't think you can have the headlights on without the ignition being in at least position 1 (I could be wrong on that, please correct me, anyone).
If So then a bad loom connector to the ignition switch or a bad ignition switch itself could be the culprit.
Anyone got an electrically adjustable column car that can confirm connection to ignition state?
Hello John. My 2001 XKR is equipted with cats. If I were to convert to no cats, do I simply unplug and cap-off the leads? Will it effect my suspention modulater in the boot?
You can fit conventional dampers to a cats car. Many have already been converted like this as the price of CATS dampers is considerably more than standard ones.
I don't have CATS anyway so am not the expert but as I understand it if you don't connect the wires to the tops of the v=dampers then your only issue is a fault displayed on your dashboard. To eliminate this I believe you have to disconnect the CATS module in the boot.
Get some advice from others who have experience of this first though. One of our other subscribers may pick on this thread and advise you further.
O.k, Thank you very much.
My car has the cables for CATS in the engine bay - but I have no CATS. Were all cables/wiring fitted to all models and then the shocks spec’d ?
Did the 300 & 308 have any of these features, because I heard someone say that it did from 01-03?
CATS dampers were available on the X308 XJR models
John do u read ur comments as I would like to ask u a few questions about my recently acquired XK8. I will be posting them once u reply
As many as I can Farrell. Time and locations permitting
You should drive one with cats at low speed. You may find a softer ride.
Andy Kirwan 🤔 I think that needs to happen!
It’s a really good set up it should always be left on instead of bodging normal shockers on as it defeats the point of having the upgraded set up
Just waiting for my cat shocks, garage struggling to get then in the lock down, bit clunky,
Let us know how you get on Mike👍
Yes, if you want sort photos of the roof lock refit let me know,