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Old 03-31-2024, 05:35 PM
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Hi all,
What does this knob on the headlight panel do?
Mine appears to do nothing that I can see and it's not in my Owners Manual.



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Raises and lowers the headlight angles.
Headlight assemblies have integrated adjustment motors and gears.
 
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Old 03-31-2024, 06:09 PM
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Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight when it's gone dark.

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These mechanism's gears can become brittle with age, so don't be surprised if they have some issues.
You can get replacement gear kits if you find you have an issue.
 
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Checked it out in the dark and it appears to work perfectly.

Cheers
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Great! Good to hear that it works, because I designed it - well, not the leveling mechanism, but I am the one, who did the electrical design of the X400 headlight switches (there are many different versions spread around the globe for the different features and the different markets. I hope you were able to figure out that you press that switch to make it pop out so that you can operate it easily and then press it again to let it disappear...
 
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Yep, figured out the Push first, Turn second, Push to hide it with the button.
I've also set the display on the speedo dial back to English from the Japanese mode, it takes the guesswork out of reading the messages as I got a red oval warning light and a Japanese warning message, turned out the tailgate was not fully closed down.
Hard to believe it's been in NZ for 6 years and no one had bothered to reset it to English.

Mine was originally built at Halewood 2007/8, exported to Japan and then imported to NZ in 2018.
Oddly enough I worked at Halewood for 12 months or so around 1975 when ford were making the last of the Mk1 Escorts and the Capri's.

I kinda like this Jag, being as it's the first one I've ever owned even if parts are horrendously expensive in NZ, Buying from the UK seems to be the way to go.

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Cheers
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Yep, figured out the Push first, Turn second, Push to hide it with the button.
I've also set the display on the speedo dial back to English from the Japanese mode, it takes the guesswork out of reading the messages as I got a red oval warning light and a Japanese warning message, turned out the tailgate was not fully closed down.
Hard to believe it's been in NZ for 6 years and no one had bothered to reset it to English.

Mine was originally built at Halewood 2007/8, exported to Japan and then imported to NZ in 2018.
Oddly enough I worked at Halewood for 12 months or so around 1975 when ford were making the last of the Mk1 Escorts and the Capri's.

I kinda like this Jag, being as it's the first one I've ever owned even if parts are horrendously expensive in NZ, Buying from the UK seems to be the way to go.

Cheers
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Cheers
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Did you ever think that the Jag may have been owned by a Japanese person in NZ?
 
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Old 04-04-2024, 10:34 PM
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It has had 2 owners+ me in NZ and the bloke I bought it from was most definitely not Japanese.
Given the number of Japanese people who now live in NZ there would be a less than a 0.3% chance of it ever having been previously owned by a Japanese person of driving age.

But stranger things have happened......


 
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