My instrument cluster all the gauges will keep on flickering
from working to non working then going back to working again
Also when I stop at traffic lights the check engine light
will flash on for an instant… the engine will give a little
splutter then pick up again but never stalls no codes ever
come up when I plug in my OBD11
any help on these two problems please–
Mcollins
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In reply to a message from Doug Dwyer sent Sun 26 Jan 2014:
doug…on a totally unrelated note…your antivirus is adding
an advertisement to your’‘e-mails’'and posts.i work
networks.what you are using is malware(most freeware is…not
all,but most)…honest!i have to deal with it a lot.
hope a site admin doesn’t catch it and bump you from the forums.
not trying to be an a-s…just helpful.
In reply to a message from classic1945 sent Sun 26 Jan 2014:
I am now having the same problem. Dash indicators and dash
lights sometimes flash or go dead then come right back to
normal. Did you fix the problem and how?–
XJ6 95 / XK8 97
virginia beach, va, United States
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Fixed at last!!! After 3 years of sitting in the side driveway because of the instrument flutter/stalling problem, I read one of the replies by a “motorcarman”, a Jaguar mechanic who remembered seeing this problem in the shop one day. He said it was probably a bad spark plug coil feeding a spike back into the ECU. Sounded too simple, but I decided to try pulling plug coil connectors one at a time when this problem would start up (usually about 5 - 8 minutes after a cold start). Plug #6 coil was unplugged when the system started acting up and magically the engine started purring like a kitten even though running on only 5 cylinders. The bad coil (a cheap replacement installed about 7 years ago) has been replaced and the problem is FIXED. Yes, it seems like the cheap, faulty coil was causing the ECU to re-boot and that was the problem.
Thanks, motorcarman, your little snippet of remembered information is pure gold. It not only saved hundreds of dollars, but maybe even a final trip to the wreckers for this beautiful vehicle.