I managed to find a few old cassettes to play in my Daimler. I want to keep the original audio system, as the radio sounds as good as any modern car systems and I prefer the originality. However, the cassettes run slow, which upon googling is common problem with cassette players as the rubber drive ...

Well a few weeks ago I drove to Rouen and took the X300. I talked about it on a post on here. Well last weekend I had to drive to Carnac in Brittany from Paris and back. In the event, this time I rented a car from Paris to do the 500km each way, along with a couple of hundred when there. I rented a ...

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Well I shouldn't have worried. The car did the 420 ISH miles without missing a bit. I'm used to my other classic , a triumph GT6, where you have a celebration if you manage to reach a destination under your own steam. Well I set off on Monday evening for Newhaven to take the 11.00pm ferry. When driv...

Well i've updated the insurance policy to include business use and as it's a classic car policy it also has European breakdown cover. Useful as I think my RAC policy only covers cars up to ten years. So off on Tuesday and have to give a colleague a lift from Paris to Rouen . Imagine they'll get a sh...

Ok so my x300 is normally used for fairly shortish weekend trips. Rarely have I taken it over 50 miles. It's a shame I know and I should use it more. It's a 96 Daimler lwb 4.0 in perfect condition with only 80,000 miles and full service history and it was serviced just a few weeks ago and had the ge...

I would just echo everyone else. An x308, x350 or x300 , for that matter, was never an economy car and to keep them a1 costs the same now as it did when they were worth 30k plus. They are at that period where their values mean that there are a lot of cars that look good but have been neglected and n...

Just got my Daimler lwb 4.0 back from having a new steering column motor fitted. It's been a couple of weeks since i've driven it as my daily drivers are a very nice merc c class and Ford Kuga. Every time I get in the x300 I get a new shock at how refined and smooth it is compared to two very good m...

At a number of car shows my 1995 Daimler is considered too new to be a classic. Fair enough, as I think most people think around the classic car tax cut off of as being the definition, which is mid 70s. But the x300 and xj40s are previous generation shapes - and technology to a degree - and so the q...

Hi there, Does anyone have any specialist recommendations in Essex. I get my trusty local garage to do normal maintenance jobs on my X300. However, I have two jobs that i'd prefer a specialist to do as they are fairly specific. The first if that the electric steering wheel adjuster has broken on the...

I've just joined the JEC and also just bought my first Jaguar. It`s a one owner lwb Daimler 4.0 with 79000 miles. Full service history from jaguar then a local garage at around ten years old. It did most of it`s miles in the first 3 years before the owner retired. I bought it from a dealer friend wh...