Help water in the electrics

[magnum]

No central locking no indicators transmission locked in park and car won't start am I screwed.

Sorry xj81 1994 water leaking from windscreen

Thanks in advance

Chris

[robv12]

Ok we can get the car to start for you

take out the star shaped screw in the J gate, insert a small screwdricer, press down, this will release the interlock solenoid, put the selector into N and try and start the car

The fact that the inerlock will not disengage, may be a faulty brake light switch, with the ignition on depress the brake pedal and get an assistant to check the brake light operation

when you have done these two procedures come back and report on progress, we can go from there

[magnum]

Hi Rob thanks for your help released brake and tried to start the car unfortunately the car didn't start, brake lights are also working.

items not working are cetral locking, windscreen wiper, interior lights, indicators except in hazard mode (although indicator lights on dash arn't working) left hand blower.

Thanks in advance

Chris

[magnum]

got it started did a hard reboot of the system and everything started to work

[robv12]

good stuff, here to help

R

[alec2824]

I keep coming against this "hard re-boot" What is a hard re-boot?

[robv12]

disconnect the battery, walk away, have a cup of tea, come back in 20 mins and reconnect, dumps all the stored fault codes and "resets" the car

[alec2824]

Thanks very much. I have done that "hard re-boot" a few times since aquiring my 1996 4.0litre Sovereign. Didn't know that was what I was doing! It came with a tiny battery and was giving all sorts of warning lamps and going flat! Changed the battery - certainly helped. But... looking at another post suggests that it is still too small. I have other issues but am still winding my way through these postings before I start pleading for help!

[robv12]

300 needs the correct size battery, it's a big 'un, same as 308 and XK8's

I'm hearing good stories about Bosch Silver, you need an 019, £130 ish from Halfords or similar

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165762