Hello! Sort of a newbie...
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 11:09 am
Hi all!
Finally got around to joining the forum, thought I would say hello!
I have had Jaguars since I was 21. My first an XJ40, I acquired just before turning 22. I got her from a colleague who said I could just have her if I promised to return her to her former glory! She needed a small amount of welding and a leaky diff sorting, all of which I did myself, then just mostly aesthetic TLC and she was right as rain again! My love was always the XJS and a year or so later I managed to get hold of one. He was a bit ropey, he needed a lot of work, including a top end rebuild (again done myself) and a head skim (not done by me) I eventually had to sell on as he was becoming too unreliable for my daily commute
Both of these were 4.0l AJ6 models. I bought an Adriatic blue X-Type then as it was newer and a tad better on fuel, plus it had AWD so it made getting to work easier in the winter. He was a lot of fun but had a coil issue, this was rectified by the dealer who sold it, but it wasnt a pleasant or easy experience and it left a bitter taste in my mouth I digressed from Jaguars for a few years, before wanting a comfy auto diesel for my now even longer commute (150 miles daily), so I bought a bargain lwb X358 to cruise up and down the motorways in! He's a real little work horse but other than the odd electrical fault which drives me mad, he's a right little trooper, currently sitting at almost 250k on the clock 
I only have a couple of photos as only got access to Facebook right now, but here is one of my XJ40 at one of the spares days, my XJS, before he got the TWR kit, and my latest, the X358 sat with my weekend toy
Finally got around to joining the forum, thought I would say hello!
I have had Jaguars since I was 21. My first an XJ40, I acquired just before turning 22. I got her from a colleague who said I could just have her if I promised to return her to her former glory! She needed a small amount of welding and a leaky diff sorting, all of which I did myself, then just mostly aesthetic TLC and she was right as rain again! My love was always the XJS and a year or so later I managed to get hold of one. He was a bit ropey, he needed a lot of work, including a top end rebuild (again done myself) and a head skim (not done by me) I eventually had to sell on as he was becoming too unreliable for my daily commute
Both of these were 4.0l AJ6 models. I bought an Adriatic blue X-Type then as it was newer and a tad better on fuel, plus it had AWD so it made getting to work easier in the winter. He was a lot of fun but had a coil issue, this was rectified by the dealer who sold it, but it wasnt a pleasant or easy experience and it left a bitter taste in my mouth I digressed from Jaguars for a few years, before wanting a comfy auto diesel for my now even longer commute (150 miles daily), so I bought a bargain lwb X358 to cruise up and down the motorways in! He's a real little work horse but other than the odd electrical fault which drives me mad, he's a right little trooper, currently sitting at almost 250k on the clock I only have a couple of photos as only got access to Facebook right now, but here is one of my XJ40 at one of the spares days, my XJS, before he got the TWR kit, and my latest, the X358 sat with my weekend toy