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Follow Safety Instruction, AIRBAG removal!

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Possible Airbag detonation! Not to follow Safety Instruction may lead to personal injury!


If you are a non professional, you shouldn't be working on a cruise control system without adequate training.


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On this Jaguar, I had a cruise-control malfunction, motor management went into safe-mode, there wasn't any apparent cause saved in the PCM's memory (miss interpretation of incoming voltage levels that were out of their parameters, no fault codes on wheel-sensor or other dynamically measuring sensory).

The cruise control is fully managed by the ECM and the electronic throttle. Its engaged, disengaged, adjusted through voltage level changes which are induced through the multi-function cruise control switches integrated resistors.

Total series resistance 4310ohm, (with all switches open!), with a switch pressed, for instance: off=0, cancel=120, set-=300, set+=600, resume=1110, on=2110, all values in ohm, +/- a percentage point, measured at the clock spring output, the Brake-Cancel-Switch, which sometimes get's sticky, simply breaks a voltage supply to the PCM (high to low).

My first thought, the clock-spring got crappy, ABS warning indicator wasn't illuminated, all other steering wheel functions were still available.

So, what did do, find the connections coming out of the clock spring (BO/YU), calculate the total series resistance of the cruise control resistors (see Jtis), clamp Multi-meter, turn the steering wheel to each end, back and forth, see if the resistance changes (short/open), if it changes, replace the clock spring, also, check each switch resistance and its proper function (see above note).

I decided to remove the Air-bag unit (Safety first! follow safety instructions on JTIS (possible detonation!)), to view the cruise control function switches, cleaned contacts with contact spray, checked the resistances of the circuitry (see above). Further, I removed the cruise Brake-Cancel-Switch, with the use of a Multi-meter check that both switches function correctly (don't stick), sprayed contacts. Problem didn't occur any more.



General Service Information

General Service Information


Rear axle

Rear sub-frame


Front axle

Lower ball-point joint, Shock absorber bushes, Stabilizer bar links + mounts



Brake disc and pads


Engine

Intake Manifold / Ignition Coils / Spark-plugs/ engine-block ventilation (elbow)


Injectors


Starter system


Valve clearance, timing-chain, tensioner and glides:
With valve clearance in its tolerance, there was no need to take the camshafts down, so tensioners and co. have to wait, the good thing is the tensioner pumps up in 3-4 min. the rattle noise disappears.


Cruise control malfunction, emergency mode


Automatic Transmission 5R55N

Info, tips, Fail Safe Mode


Stall Speed Test procedure and diagnoses


Valve Body, known issues


Valve Body, Solenoid test procedures


Line Pressure Test


Self made press for pressing down clutch drum springs, checking clutch tolerance without a dial gauge


Chassis

Air Conditioning


Miscellaneous repairs


Wind-shield-wiper mechanism:
Time on the lot took its toll, wind-shield-wiper shafts had seized, uninstalled the mechanism, freed the seized shafts through the use of a good rust loosener, heat, force.


Water in Spark-plug wells 3-2 cylinder:
After days of heavy rain the engine began to misfire with accounted trouble codes, spark-plug wells were wet, an ionized rusty red path on the ceramic insulator had developed which shorted the HV ignition spark.


Radio:
Connected the radio controls to the multi-functional steering wheel using an analog digital converter.