I thought the Aus market cars had a key transponder.

just went today to get an enquiry about getting spare key cut for cat.
guy did not have any blanks so can’t cut it for me, but he put the key on the machine to read the transponder and said it is not reading anything.
and he though jag must have not done them as it wasn’t yet legal requirement here.

the guy did know straight away as he knew the key would be a ford key and ford transponder.

so interesting.
Was it never in the Aus Market?
or did they bring it in later?
mine is early 95

 

I also have a 95 and it does not have or need a chip in the car to start it. It is an Australian complianced car. My other 95 and later x300s have the chip.. i have not investigated why.

 

so maybe something that was introduced in AUS at some point during 1995 then.....
I need to get a key cut for my other car which is mostly parts car. it is a 1994 model.
I now expect it to not have a transponder also.
I will find out when I get around to getting it done

 

so AUS market cars have no full alarm system as we supposedly had the immobilizer.
but if early production models had no immobilizer also that is a very interesting situation.
I thought the jags were supposed to be quite secure.

guess I might have to look into wiring in a hidden killswitch
maybe the power wire into the inertia switch could be a good wire to use to wire a killswitch

 

G'day Spud,

The kill switch idea is a good one and it is a pity that the inertia switch in our cars is concealed.

On my SIII XJ6 the inertia switch was easily accessible under the driver's side dash and you could just reach under there and trip it easily.

Cheers,
Jeff.

 

I have a 1996 Australian delivered Sport and it does not have a key transponder.
I have a quick disconnect on my battery, so it is pretty secure against drive away theft.
Thieves would need to access the boot (trunk) which is pretty hard without the key.
It's a bit of a pain in the *** as it drops the radio memory and previous logged miles and fuel but not the main odometer.
I have been doing this for years on a late model XJ40 (battery in the boot) as well as a previous X300.

 

I also have a quick disconnect on my battery but as the car is my daily atm it would be a pain to keep going to the boot to disconnect. something convenient and easy would be perfect.
I have aftermarket android radio so that saves its own stuff regardless of battery or not so that is handy.

wonder what it was that some AUS delivered cars have the transponder and some don't.

 

was thinking too if I use the inertia switch wiring to install a killswitch I could make it concealed yet convenient and would be a fairly easy place to wire one.
i had a killswitch installed in a 1974 mercedes i used to own and it was located where a sunroof switch would have been if the car had a sunroof. hidden in plain sight.
could use a rfid chip for basically an aftermarket transponder install or just a simple switch.
could look into a timer relay so that once power is cut it will auto activate after a few minutes