Thanks Dean. Your encouraging feedback is much appreciated.

Never gonna let you down

@@richardastley2517 Glad you're a good sport--you must get that all the time!

Hello. I have a 2001 XKR. Dumb question, I just recently found out that the door window switches are suppose to be Illuminated. So is there a bulb(s) for the shifter plate? Also bulbs for the steering wheel, turn/headlights? I've had my Jag for about 5 years, everything works but nothing lights up.

Sorry Jin, I am unable to help. Maybe a company that specializes in Jaguar parts can help.

Of the bulbs shown about 9 minutes into the video I used the 9 mm bulb shown at bottom right in all but one position. It needed to be shaved by 0.25 mm (that's 10 thousands of an inch) around the diameter because the hole in the back of the panel is 8.5mm. For the high beam I used the blue lamp (top right), but have since swapped it back for the original bulb because I found all the LEDs too bright for that lamp position when driving at night, when of course high beam is used. I use high beam for such a small proportion of my driving I regard the risk of an original filament going out as minimal.

Hi Dan. Sorry for the late response but I am not sure I can help you. You seem to have checked everything. Looking at the circuit, all the illumination for the major instrument cluster goes through a dimmer module, located it seems, according to the manual, by the fascia / adjacent to righthand side fuse box. The connector is a 12-way black and may be worth checking. Sorry I could not be of more help.

@@richardastley2517 Thank U Richard anyway! The troouble is about motherboard where I have faill.

Now you’ll think I’m accusing you of being “extra stupid”, but in fact it’s a common mistake - is your instrument dimmer control perhaps turned all the way down? It only works when the lights are on so the behavior you describe jibes with that. I think it’s unintuitive, but full counter clockwise makes the instrument lamps brighter. Besides all the lamps you describe not working, the dimmer also controls the HVAC and radio illumination. See:www.rastley.com/XK8-Dimmer-Control.jpg If the dimmer control doesn’t brighten the instruments and switches, with all the lamps you describe not working, I would reinstall the lamp you swapped out in the window switch and suspect the dimmer control itself, its connections (did it get tugged sometime when someone was removing the cowl below the steering wheel?) or the dimmer module. That’s located by the right hand facia fuse block and its connector may be loose. You don’t need so-called Canbus-free bulbs in this function in your year of XKR. If you blew any module it would be the dimmer module, but it’s pretty robust, so reinstalling the old switch LED should fix it.

Well I figured it out, (really embarrising) The 1st thing I checked was my brake lights. My wife stood behind the car while I hit the brakes, turn signals,ect. She said the brakes were fine, so I took her word for it. I rechecked then with a stick crammed on the pedal/seat last night. The THIRD brake light was out. Apparently she didn't see that it wasn't working.

Unclear why that would affect your instrument lamps. I've had a problem with the 3rd brake lamp too. All that flexing when the trunk is raised a lowered broke wires in the convoluted tubing.

Some of the bulb functions throw up a warning if they're burned out or an unexpected bulb is inserted, but for XK8s built up to 2005, and possibly after (I don't have data on later cars) panel lighting isn't one of them. The dealer may be thinking of some later models. Anyway, the warnings are usually for lights outside your field of view as a driver. There seems little point in warning you about something that's right in front of your face.

@@richardastley2517 ah so dealer ignore; do you have a current supplier of LEDs; cannot find the ones you posted

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