Ah, yes rayb67....that must have been you.
THX for the chat

Back home again.
I met a nice bloke here from the club with a Carbriolet who once worked in the Longbridge factory.
It was a superb meet

Yes, from mid 1994 on the XW had the Lucas 3TXA fob which are RF, the IR ones were Valeo.
No, you need a Rover Testbook or Microcheck.

The small black connector should be connected to 12v battery.
The OE Microcheck and Testbook connectors have to be connected to 12V.

Maybe your XW has the IR Fob?

This is the OE connector:

The green one is used to diagnose the burgler alarm / security system, e.g. to code a new fob (3TXA) to the vehicle.

I finally came around to take some shoots of our new car, they are on my homepage, the link is in the signature. Enjoy

The german MG / Rover forum ( forum.mg-rover-freunde.de ) has released the date for the german meet in 2011. It will be from friday 22th of July till sunday 24th of July in the region Eifel near the Nurburgring. We will soon be able to name the campside where the meet will take place. Pictures from ...

That's the same rim our 216Si Lux (RF) had fitted from the factory, so they are 4x100.

Some nice cars there...

1998, so it's a bubble and not a wedge one?
Check the electrical harness which goes (in a rubber "tube") into the boot door.