dnp
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Jackson, MS
I acquired another XJ this weekend, and I have a question:
98 XJ Classic: Today, I took it in to get new tires put on (as confirmed by many of you here, 255/70-15's work fine and look really good - would look better with a lift and 31+'s, but for my son's first car, I thought I better not right now) Anyway, when I went to pick it up, none of the gauges worked.
Now, it was pretty cold today - this morning, it was 22F, which is cold for the deep south - and I noticed the airbag light was on first thing this morning. However, all of the other gauges were working fine. After about a minute or so, the airbag light went off, and I didn't think any more about it. Well, when I picked it up at the tire store, nothing except the airbag light and the low fuel light were on. Just as sort of a hunch, I popped the dash on the upper right side a couple of times with the palm of my hand, and voila!, everything came to life, with the airbag and low fuel lights going off as they should.
My question is: is this one of those characteristic issues with the new body style XJ's? I think I have read where others have had problems with their dashes, but I wanted to confirm it with you........if this is a common problem, what's the fix? Loose connection? Faulty circuit board? Total gauge pod replacement?
Please advise.
Thanks,
dnp
98 XJ Classic: Today, I took it in to get new tires put on (as confirmed by many of you here, 255/70-15's work fine and look really good - would look better with a lift and 31+'s, but for my son's first car, I thought I better not right now) Anyway, when I went to pick it up, none of the gauges worked.
Now, it was pretty cold today - this morning, it was 22F, which is cold for the deep south - and I noticed the airbag light was on first thing this morning. However, all of the other gauges were working fine. After about a minute or so, the airbag light went off, and I didn't think any more about it. Well, when I picked it up at the tire store, nothing except the airbag light and the low fuel light were on. Just as sort of a hunch, I popped the dash on the upper right side a couple of times with the palm of my hand, and voila!, everything came to life, with the airbag and low fuel lights going off as they should.
My question is: is this one of those characteristic issues with the new body style XJ's? I think I have read where others have had problems with their dashes, but I wanted to confirm it with you........if this is a common problem, what's the fix? Loose connection? Faulty circuit board? Total gauge pod replacement?
Please advise.
Thanks,
dnp