Hullo, wonder if you can help me. Dave Marks carries out all the major works and services on my XJSs and he and his team are superb , but I need a local specialist who can carry out works that don't merit the round trip to Dave in Nottingham , so can anyone recommend a specialist near(ish) to me in ...

Can anybody tell me how many Celebration model 4.0L convertibles were made with manual transmission? Would be grateful for any steers on this.

Thanks

Peter

Thanks Nigel - i didn't know of that firm but will certainly contact them for parts, i have Dave Marks helping me with it now so should get to the bottom of why it isn't working.I'm told it's very rare for a roof mechanism to fail , mine did a month after i got it -typical ! never mind we will have ...

Paul - thanks for replying to my enquiry. I agree the dealer just isn't interested in the car,as it's now diificult to service compared to the present models. They also quoted me £1000 more for a one year S Type than was shown on the Jaguar website. I've found a jaguar only specialist a few miles aw...

Thanks Paul - i'll do that .

Thanks for your reply - hadn't thought about repairing the existing strut although i'm pretty sure it is a seal which has failed.

As you say the part seems to be as rare as rocking.

hello - wonder if anybody can help me with a problem on my car> I have a 1995 xjs celebration convertible and the offside hydraulic strut which opens and closes the roof has failed. My dealer in essex has told me that this can no longer be ordered from the factory and because the factory no longer s...