I live in the beautiful riverside (Thames) town of Henley-on-Thames in the liddle ol UK! On the Map it is approximately: 30 miles West of London and 30 miles South of Oxford!

Henley-on-Thames is famous for International Rowing via: Henley Royal Regatta, recently passed for this year sadly, because the ombiance at Regatta time is amazing, so too is the Pim's!

I have a 1990 Jaguar XJS V12 Convertible, nice condition generally, but having a few problems with it at the moment:


The car will not start, wont even fire, zilch!


Please Note: - The Ignition System is Marrelli


I have had the ECU tested and it is fine, we have a spark and fuel to the engine bay, (Sorry Chaps! - Under the Hood!) though neither have been tested for strength. The front Crankshaft Sensor has been renewed but not the rear. I have also been told by an Auto-Electrician that has had a quick look at it, there is no pulse to the Injectors!

Also, because I had a previous problem with starting the car when warm (even when berely started and stopped, to re-start again and latter a completed fail to start situation, followed by running on one Bank only - a year ago, all plugs were replaced with new and one (Second Hand,) Amplifier. Broken Coil Connections were replaced and loose or fraid cables repaired or replaced, including a complete set of HT Leads - After this the car ran well until it was delivered to another garage for it's Annual Safety Test.

Once there, the car ran out of repaired petrol but fuel (Sorry, Gas!) was put in and eventually it was again started. It could not be tested for a few days, but while shunted from Garage to Yard and back, several times it did on occassion fail to start immediately or ran a bit rough when finally started. The Car was finally tested (which it past!) But on collection I found it was running, it apeard, only on one Bank!

After a few day's the vehicle was returned to the Test Centre Garage, who are not Jaguar Specialists, but given the so called Specialist Garage accepted 'No Resposibility' it was the only thing that could be done!

The Test Centre Garage has been most helpful and carried out the work stated in the original parragraph above but to no avail!

To re-cap:

Despite previous works carried out and parts replaced that apeared to cure a previous start and running problem's..........

There is an (unqualified) Spark and Fuel Pressure, the ECU test's were normal but there is said to be No Pulse to the Injectors and the front Crankshaft Sensor has been replaced!


I'm trying you guys across the pond because I am getting nowhere here, yet, not only do you seem to know what you are talking about and are, it seems, much more willing to help!


HELP Please!: ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thank you,


Raymond

 

Welcome to the forum,

I see you have posted in the XJS forum, hopefully one of the XJS guys can help you.

 

Yes found it a bit confusing at first, just where to post things, assumed one post would do all but then realise not! I copid it to the XJS Forum as the most likely place to get noticed.

There seems to be a lot of post with same of very similar post to mine, never realised the system was so troublesome! - Good site though, sooooo helpful you guys! - Thanks

 

Hi Raymond,welcome aboard, great to have you here with us.
Hope we can help.....

Loads going on, plenty of very friendly and helpful members as well as some excellent tech advice......all good!

In the meantime I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view the site

 

Hello and welcome to jaguarforums.com.

One other thing you need to put your car details in your signature. I am speaking of the Year, Make & Model. Without it you may not get the input you are looking for.

Please take a moment and read the information provided to you explaining the rules. Be patient and enjoy the site.

Also, should you have questions related to your vehicle please post it in the section for your model year (MY) car. This way you will reach all the members that are familiar with your MY car.

 

My Car is a 1990 V12 XJS Convertible in Red/Magnolia.

It Is not a prime example but is in quite good condition mechanically. Body and paintwork is pretty good but the interior not so good but reasonable repairs considering age and mileage, which is circa 98,000 miles.

I have had the problem with my car for some 18 months now, delayed mainly by disinterest mechanics and the need to get other things done.

Back on the case myself now and putting time into researching the problem myself before rushing off buying and fitting parts unless sure - They are not cheap here now!

I have had some great help and interested from the site and am sorry if I have not been back to all of them, as I said before, in Research Mode at present, but please keep posting, all answers are fully noted and if I haven't been back to any particular post as yet, then don't worry I most definitely will- Thanks Guy's and Ladies Enthusiast too if there are any out there,

Best regards,

Ray (UK)

 

Thanks Norri,

have had some great help already - V Good Site!