Valet function indicator?
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My new-to-me XKR came with 3 black keys and one fob, no green Valet key. While checking out the valet function
I tried to push the Valet button and nothing happened. I read the owners manual and understand the valet function.
My question is does anything visible occur when you push the Valet button? Does a dash light come on. switch lights up, chime, flashing indicator of any kind? When I push mine nothing at all happens that I notice. The button itself does not even move in and out or toggle or move in any way. And since I don’t have a green key I can not even tell if the trunk locking function works since all my black keys will open it regardless.
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I tried to push the Valet button and nothing happened. I read the owners manual and understand the valet function.
My question is does anything visible occur when you push the Valet button? Does a dash light come on. switch lights up, chime, flashing indicator of any kind? When I push mine nothing at all happens that I notice. The button itself does not even move in and out or toggle or move in any way. And since I don’t have a green key I can not even tell if the trunk locking function works since all my black keys will open it regardless.
Thanks
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or click or anything that indicates it is engaging. I do not need the valet function it just bugs me when things don’t work right.
I will try and pry it out later a report back.
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This old string came up as a related string to the secret compartment thread. So it remains a mystery of this weird factory key design. The valet key suggests Jaguar owners should allow a high school age part-time stranger who never before drove anything faster than a go-cart to experience real acceleration. Many years ago a valet at the Hyatt Regency Columbus drove my Infiniti Q45 into a concrete pylon causing $2500 in body work. So I was convinced of the inherent stupidity of paying for valet parking.
All I got with my XK8 was one real key and one valet key. Much to my delight the valet key is easily filed down (very soft metal) to match the profile of a real key. Now I have two master keys and post the before and after pics here of this simple 10 minute job.
Before, valet key at bottom.
After, using a hand file both keys fully functional
All I got with my XK8 was one real key and one valet key. Much to my delight the valet key is easily filed down (very soft metal) to match the profile of a real key. Now I have two master keys and post the before and after pics here of this simple 10 minute job.
Before, valet key at bottom.
After, using a hand file both keys fully functional
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On the other hand, having worked as a valet at an expensive restaurant aged 20, I disagree about the typical experience level. For example, when the 911 pulled up, I had just parked a Ferrari and a couple of Jags, Corvettes, Cadillacs and/or the occasional Pontiac station wagon with real fake wood. Since there were generally three/four of us for banquets, we parked and unparked 30-50 crappy to expensive to vastly expensive cars each per night, more for larger banquets.
So, very rapidly, you have the world's most experienced drivers at driving two blocks with a variety of shifters/sensitivity/controls. And when the entrance door was out of sight, the world's most abrupt acceleration/deceleration profile for that last block, especially in the Pontiac fake woody. Poor girl had likely never seen full engagement of the accelerator or brakes.
Beyond experience, however, good judgement was questionable.
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Unless these are random pictures from the internet, edit your post and TAKE THOSE PICTURES DOWN, or at least blur the part with the cuts.
A 10 minute education is all it takes to read up on the logic of an 8-cut tibbe key. With a picture, anyone can order a copy of this key...
A 10 minute education is all it takes to read up on the logic of an 8-cut tibbe key. With a picture, anyone can order a copy of this key...
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before and after valet key
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For pros, the days of hot wiring a car to steal it are over, these days professional car thieves will pull your car up on a flatbed and drive away
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if the car merits special attention, they will pull it inside an enclosed trailer. Alarm going off ? No matter, a car alarm blaring garners zero attention.
if you want the car back, a hidden GPS transmitter with its own power supply is de rigueur. Otherwise, a good insurance policy is our only resort.
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