Thankyou again John, its amazing how this wonderful Jaguar never ceases to amaze me, simply in every way! Always think that its like a secret society!, in that if you are in the know, you know about owning one of these so beautifully and thoughfully designed and crafted cars. Shall go and just look at my Jag in the barn now, as cant drive him today because the roads are wet, and we cant have that now can we😊. Take care.
until you started moving stuff about I thought why has he painted a white line across his boot floor ….then it dawned on me ha ha well done john always the entertainer never boring .
Hello John, thanks for telling us about the xk8! fantastic car! We live in Indiana, USA. We are lucky to own a 2001 xk8! Please, send how to send uploads pics ect ,,to you,,, thanks!
Definitely a secret! Although I never tried using it, I thought that it might be intended as the earth connection for when you are charging the battery. Daft place to hide an earth connection! Now I know.
Nice video John. Thanks for burying Nigel. I have commented below about the other bolt holes. Next secret about those huge weights bolted to the rear subframe per chance? Regards Neville.
Hi Neville. Nige is sleepin with da fishes. I still have not proven what they are! im pretty sure they are harmonic dampers to stop a resonance or boom, but they are proving tricky to find the back story on. But I WILL😉
hi john I looked in the boot of my x300 and noticed I have a hole for the bollard bolt but no bolt fitted so my next job is to make a bollard to protect my fusebox etc from the very heavy battery . keep safe
Handbook says to use the spare wheel securing bolt as further away from the battery preventing a possible spark igniting any battery gasses around the battery. Neville.
I don't understand where the second bollard hole is? I can see the hole where the battery strap fixes but surely that one is spoken for. I also have the bollard in my 97 and always wondered what it was for. :-)
Nice new logo there John! I can vouch for the weight of the battery too - very heavy and is a very awkward location. I have a little battery story (probably like many others 😲): my battery died 1 hour from my home - got her jump-started via insurance company call out service. As most of us owners know a dodgy battery can cause all sorts of issues with these cars - she was in limp home mode after the jump start. I had to drive an hour home with her revving her guts out in what seemed like 3rd gear of 6! All I could think of was the possible damage the high revs for an hour might do so I tried to keep to 90km or 55mph on the motorway. As we also know generally lots of faults can be rectified by a restart of the engine (well mine does, for example, DSC Fault or Dynamic Stability Fault)) my car is weird (again like many others 😨) and I'm at a loss to identify the cause - it seems when I accidentally lift or bump the steering wheel upwards it goes to this DSC fault, I mean like even getting in the car and positioning yourself one needs to slide under the wheel to seat yourself properly etc and at times I hit the wheel (bad back etc) - my car has electric tilt and shift and it seems there is a slight bit of play around 5mm or so up and down, you can lift it a little and if I do I get that fault - (and sure enough it's also not all the time ❗️). Now, has anybody seen this one before? I have a fully charged battery as I make sure to look after the new one now and use a good trickle charger that keeps her in tip-top condition, so I'm pretty sure it's not the battery. The column tilt-shift connections somehow maybe? Motors in the column? I don't adjust the column either generally, I just leave it where I have it set which is pretty much default position I think. The controls for the steering tilt and telescope work fine also if I do feel like playing with them. Why DSC fault though if this is actually the reason? Weird with a capital W lol ❓ Suggestions (hopefully answers lol) welcomed. 😁👍 Keep up the great channel John!
Hi Trevor. The column and stalk area on our cars is really cramped and full of wires. Even in my non motorised column car, I have managed to trap my indicator speaker wire by manually adjusting the column. Its quite possible that a wire is getting pinched when you nudge your wheel. DSC faults can be connected with the brake switch. Has anyone else had the same problem as Trevor?
@@ToTheGarage Thanks John, when I bought the car it had the "Cruise Not Available" warning along with one other that I think may have been this DSC random fault. I can't quite remember now but I bought a new brake switch and that was the cruise control issue solved. That was a real nightmare to fit, over a few days, I needed to take my driver's seat out and had to lay on the floor backwards under the brake pedal with feet in the back seats...lol - several failed attempts were very testing on this failing body and mind I can tell you 😁...my bad back suffered extra pain for several days after that one! That job caused my heated seat to fail too...have to love these cars still though. Fixed the heated seat I think just with a reset if memory serves me right.
Hey John, new buyer of an 05 XK8. Can you do something on the boot cover instalation. Mine doesnt have and am curious how they go on and if it came with the car, or was it an option.
Hello John Damon here in Herefordshire I have a1999 XK8 coupe one owner 56000 miles I love it anyway it was never fitted with a CD changer I've bought one and the bracket and carpet surround but can't find corresponding wire plug in boot did they come pre wired etc thanks Damon
Hi Damon. An Interesting one🤔. I have never done the task you are undertaking. I assume that the loom will be there for as a minimum the standard Sound system as Im sure dealers would be able to fit a changer after sale. Does any of our more 'In Car Entertainment' Savvy subscribers have an image and location for the plug that Damon will be looking for🤔
@@ToTheGarage thanks John I hope someone can help as I don't want to poke about there's two plug type thing's under rear parcel shelf but dosent correspond to plug lead on CD changer thankyou for replying Damon
Dammit John now I had to check to see if I had one expecting not to, but there it was, I wonder is it possible Jaguar were going to use one of those angled metal brackets to hold the battery at the bottom hence the two holes, then when they decided not two they were generous enough to put a bolt in the hole to serves the purpose you suggest, must admit I can't think car designers could be that thoughtful :)
Whichever way you view it it shows that some elements of our cars were designed a little bit 'on the hoof'. I think this one (despite knowing the why on the bollard) is very similar to the red button on the boot lock latch. Its kind of automotive archaeology and we are discovering the design and pre-production process. Thanks for the updated contact details. PS. I adored your 'FORD EXPLODER' video 👍👍 Check out Jagvette1 channel guys. Brilliant Jag content and others beside👍
@@ToTheGarage Yep I definitely agree on the hoof best describes the design, love to think Sir William is still in the blood of these cars. Also thank for the plug, I do it for fun like you but hope it helps, I'm am not perfect and show my mistakes, as they say if you do nothing you can't make mistakes, I do a shit load and sometime screw up :)
I have not. But do know its a challenging access proposition. However there is a 'secret of the XK8 that will assist you. If you pull pack the carpet inside the car you will find an aircon drain pipe that goes through the sheet metal. This can be pulled out and it gives line of site to the O2 sensor. Its still not easy and you will have to get a socket on the sensor from underneath and then pass a long extension through the hole in the bulkhead and engage with the socket that you have already positioned. Then you can ratchet them out from inside the car. Cant show you mike as My 1996 car does not have upstream sensors. Hope that helps. Otherwise its easiest to drop the Cats cats!
@@ToTheGarage Thanks John - I appreciate you taking the time to respond. On my 2005, 4.2L car, the sensor is actually quite easy to access from the top. What gave me the biggest headache was removing the mated plug and socket from it's location on a bracket on top of the gearbox behind the throttle body. If you have monumentally strong double jointed hands the size of a three year olds, then it would be quite easy. Prizing the locking tab on the old sensor socket with a long screwdriver allowed me to extract the assembly and disconnect. The second issue was that my specially procured Sealey O2 sensor toolkit seemed to be a very sloppy fit on the sensor body, so I shimmed it out with some metal from a beer can and used my 4 foot length of gas pipe leverage tool on the T-bar to loosen the thing!
Gareth Miles Any symptoms or jut the light and no problem? Also plug in a cheap and cheerful OBDII reader to the socket above the drivers knee and the fault code that it will show will give us clues
Thankyou again John, its amazing how this wonderful Jaguar never ceases to amaze me, simply in every way! Always think that its like a secret society!, in that if you are in the know, you know about owning one of these so beautifully and thoughfully designed and crafted cars. Shall go and just look at my Jag in the barn now, as cant drive him today because the roads are wet, and we cant have that now can we😊. Take care.
🤣. Its got to be said that if we owned any other car the secrets series would have been finished 12 months ago👍
Thanks John - another pearl of wisdom.
Mike Sykes 😊 thanks
until you started moving stuff about I thought why has he painted a white line across his boot floor ….then it dawned on me ha ha well done john always the entertainer never boring .
Cheers Michael.
I re watched my own video to see what you meant. Now its all I can see🤣
as usual another great video and an explanation for something I wondered about. I also learned the definition of a bollard
Glad it was helpful! ENTOMOLOGY as well😉
John, another excellent video, cheers Damian
Thanks Damian.
Hello John, thanks for telling us about the xk8! fantastic car! We live in Indiana, USA. We are lucky to own a 2001 xk8! Please, send how to send uploads pics ect ,,to you,,, thanks!
Thank you Jd👍
you can send to
John@tothegarage.co.uk
Definitely a secret! Although I never tried using it, I thought that it might be intended as the earth connection for when you are charging the battery. Daft place to hide an earth connection! Now I know.
T. Alan Blain me too! My X308 also has the same bollard and it’s currently on charge through that very point of contact.
I don't think many people knew that one Alan
Its probably a better connection Gerard😁
Nice video John. Thanks for burying Nigel. I have commented below about the other bolt holes. Next secret about those huge weights bolted to the rear subframe per chance? Regards Neville.
Hi Neville.
Nige is sleepin with da fishes. I still have not proven what they are! im pretty sure they are harmonic dampers to stop a resonance or boom, but they are proving tricky to find the back story on. But I WILL😉
hi john I looked in the boot of my x300 and noticed I have a hole for the bollard bolt but no bolt fitted so my next job is to make a bollard to protect my fusebox etc from the very heavy battery . keep safe
A good project to protect against an expensive future problem👍
Thanks Michael
John. I use the bolt when I’ve had to use a jump start pack as a earth point.
Its a decent clean earth Ricky👍
Handbook says to use the spare wheel securing bolt as further away from the battery preventing a possible spark igniting any battery gasses around the battery. Neville.
Careful John. That "bollard" holds on the rear suspension. Don't drive the car with that removed. ONLY JOKING!!! Enjoy 😋
Too late🥺🥺.
Cheers Graham🍺👍
I don't understand where the second bollard hole is? I can see the hole where the battery strap fixes but surely that one is spoken for. I also have the bollard in my 97 and always wondered what it was for. :-)
Hi Richard, There are other threaded holes hidden by your battery itself.
To The Garage I assumed they were there to support a smaller size battery. There are corresponding holes in the battery strap.
I've always wondered what the bolt was for.
Nice to hear from you Viraf
Nice new logo there John! I can vouch for the weight of the battery too - very heavy and is a very awkward location.
I have a little battery story (probably like many others 😲): my battery died 1 hour from my home - got her jump-started via insurance company call out service. As most of us owners know a dodgy battery can cause all sorts of issues with these cars - she was in limp home mode after the jump start. I had to drive an hour home with her revving her guts out in what seemed like 3rd gear of 6!
All I could think of was the possible damage the high revs for an hour might do so I tried to keep to 90km or 55mph on the motorway.
As we also know generally lots of faults can be rectified by a restart of the engine (well mine does, for example, DSC Fault or Dynamic Stability Fault)) my car is weird (again like many others 😨) and I'm at a loss to identify the cause - it seems when I accidentally lift or bump the steering wheel upwards it goes to this DSC fault, I mean like even getting in the car and positioning yourself one needs to slide under the wheel to seat yourself properly etc and at times I hit the wheel (bad back etc) - my car has electric tilt and shift and it seems there is a slight bit of play around 5mm or so up and down, you can lift it a little and if I do I get that fault - (and sure enough it's also not all the time ❗️).
Now, has anybody seen this one before? I have a fully charged battery as I make sure to look after the new one now and use a good trickle charger that keeps her in tip-top condition, so I'm pretty sure it's not the battery. The column tilt-shift connections somehow maybe? Motors in the column? I don't adjust the column either generally, I just leave it where I have it set which is pretty much default position I think. The controls for the steering tilt and telescope work fine also if I do feel like playing with them. Why DSC fault though if this is actually the reason? Weird with a capital W lol ❓
Suggestions (hopefully answers lol) welcomed. 😁👍 Keep up the great channel John!
Hi Trevor. The column and stalk area on our cars is really cramped and full of wires. Even in my non motorised column car, I have managed to trap my indicator speaker wire by manually adjusting the column. Its quite possible that a wire is getting pinched when you nudge your wheel.
DSC faults can be connected with the brake switch.
Has anyone else had the same problem as Trevor?
@@ToTheGarage Thanks John, when I bought the car it had the "Cruise Not Available" warning along with one other that I think may have been this DSC random fault. I can't quite remember now but I bought a new brake switch and that was the cruise control issue solved. That was a real nightmare to fit, over a few days, I needed to take my driver's seat out and had to lay on the floor backwards under the brake pedal with feet in the back seats...lol - several failed attempts were very testing on this failing body and mind I can tell you 😁...my bad back suffered extra pain for several days after that one! That job caused my heated seat to fail too...have to love these cars still though. Fixed the heated seat I think just with a reset if memory serves me right.
Hey John, new buyer of an 05 XK8. Can you do something on the boot cover instalation. Mine doesnt have and am curious how they go on and if it came with the car, or was it an option.
Hello John Damon here in Herefordshire I have a1999 XK8 coupe one owner 56000 miles I love it anyway it was never fitted with a CD changer I've bought one and the bracket and carpet surround but can't find corresponding wire plug in boot did they come pre wired etc thanks Damon
Hi Damon.
An Interesting one🤔. I have never done the task you are undertaking. I assume that the loom will be there for as a minimum the standard Sound system as Im sure dealers would be able to fit a changer after sale.
Does any of our more 'In Car Entertainment' Savvy subscribers have an image and location for the plug that Damon will be looking for🤔
@@ToTheGarage thanks John I hope someone can help as I don't want to poke about there's two plug type thing's under rear parcel shelf but dosent correspond to plug lead on CD changer thankyou for replying Damon
Dammit John now I had to check to see if I had one expecting not to, but there it was, I wonder is it possible Jaguar were going to use one of those angled metal brackets to hold the battery at the bottom hence the two holes, then when they decided not two they were generous enough to put a bolt in the hole to serves the purpose you suggest, must admit I can't think car designers could be that thoughtful :)
Whichever way you view it it shows that some elements of our cars were designed a little bit 'on the hoof'. I think this one (despite knowing the why on the bollard) is very similar to the red button on the boot lock latch. Its kind of automotive archaeology and we are discovering the design and pre-production process. Thanks for the updated contact details.
PS. I adored your 'FORD EXPLODER' video 👍👍
Check out Jagvette1 channel guys. Brilliant Jag content and others beside👍
@@ToTheGarage Yep I definitely agree on the hoof best describes the design, love to think Sir William is still in the blood of these cars.
Also thank for the plug, I do it for fun like you but hope it helps, I'm am not perfect and show my mistakes, as they say if you do nothing you can't make mistakes, I do a shit load and sometime screw up :)
Having hurt my back sorting a few batteries, I do this one by crawling into the boot and have my mate hand me the battery.
There speaks the voice of experience Kerry.👍
My trouble is if I crawled in I would struggle to get out🤣 its my knees v your back😉.
John, my 99 only has a one piece boot floor and only one position to put it in. I have a full size spare and top cover will not fit under
@@gordondaniels2382 same here...but i'm confused "top cover will not fit under"... won't fit under what exactly?
Off topic - don't suppose you have ever replaced an upstream O2 sensor?
I have not. But do know its a challenging access proposition. However there is a 'secret of the XK8 that will assist you.
If you pull pack the carpet inside the car you will find an aircon drain pipe that goes through the sheet metal. This can be pulled out and it gives line of site to the O2 sensor. Its still not easy and you will have to get a socket on the sensor from underneath and then pass a long extension through the hole in the bulkhead and engage with the socket that you have already positioned. Then you can ratchet them out from inside the car.
Cant show you mike as My 1996 car does not have upstream sensors.
Hope that helps.
Otherwise its easiest to drop the Cats cats!
@@ToTheGarage Thanks John - I appreciate you taking the time to respond. On my 2005, 4.2L car, the sensor is actually quite easy to access from the top. What gave me the biggest headache was removing the mated plug and socket from it's location on a bracket on top of the gearbox behind the throttle body. If you have monumentally strong double jointed hands the size of a three year olds, then it would be quite easy. Prizing the locking tab on the old sensor socket with a long screwdriver allowed me to extract the assembly and disconnect. The second issue was that my specially procured Sealey O2 sensor toolkit seemed to be a very sloppy fit on the sensor body, so I shimmed it out with some metal from a beer can and used my 4 foot length of gas pipe leverage tool on the T-bar to loosen the thing!
Hi John,Safety first eh?
Always
I would cover the boot floor with something. Would not want to end up with some stray battery acid ruining the boot cover.
A good call Leo.And on a connected subject im thinking of fitting some rubbing strips to my boot floor to protect the carpet (and look pretty!)
Not a lot of people know that😊
Bruce Boucher cheers Bruce 👍
Hi john,can you advise on red gearbox fault light please ,causes and possible fix thanks
Gareth Miles
Any symptoms or jut the light and no problem?
Also plug in a cheap and cheerful OBDII reader to the socket above the drivers knee and the fault code that it will show will give us clues
@@ToTheGarage thanks john ,will do
thank you, always wanted to know this..
Hi Mitch 👍 I guess the x308 has the same arrangement then?
To The Garage yep, mine’s currently on charge through that very bollard.
its a secret....aha !
Udo I. Bress sorry turns out that is a word that doesn’t translate well🤣
Wath the hell is a BOLLARD ??? Keine Ahnung !?! ; ))
...a little devil ???
OK "What..."
😁. definition Bollard. ' A short strong post used to prevent access to an area '