My first Jag
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:58 pm
Well I have finally joined the rest of you as a Jaguar owner with my 2000 reg XJ8 in Emerald Green with ivory leather and walnut. I bought the car privately last week after loving Jaguars all my life. My car is unusual because it has a prior LPG conversion.
I bought it privately from a chap in Dundee after an inspection by a local Stratstone dealer which made for a mammoth drive down to my home in Chertsey Surrey. The Jag performed faultlessly and was a superb car for such an epic drive, covering the 475 miles in just 7 hours. I arrived home remarkably refreshed. Fuel consumption averaged 22mpg which at 49.9p a litre made the car equivalent to almost 50mpg on petrol
Our other cars are also British - a Land Rover Discovery 2001 model year V8 with LPG conversion and a TVR Griffith 4 litre V8 built in 1992. I feel immensely proud of the fact that each is a car so perfectly suited to its purpose and in my view at least superior to any of the continental alternatives. The Griff is utterly gorgeous, surprisingly practical and incredibly fast and visceral. The Discovery is seemingly hewn from granite, carries enormous loads with consumate ease and offers a feeling of tremendous capability even in treacherous weather. The Jag is the most comfortable, refined and graceful mile muncher I have ever encountered. Best of all it handles incredibly well and feels very sure footed on all road types. It's so refined I find myself covering ground at a phenomenal rate.
I would love to post pictures but can't find which section you chaps are uploading your car pictures to or how to do it.
Finally I plan to have the secondary timing chain tensioners, water pump and thermostat changed for the latest versions. I have had a quote of around £600 + VAT for that little lot. IS this reasonable? IS it worth doing as a precaution and how much have you paid for the work if you have had it done.
Best regards,
Saxon
I bought it privately from a chap in Dundee after an inspection by a local Stratstone dealer which made for a mammoth drive down to my home in Chertsey Surrey. The Jag performed faultlessly and was a superb car for such an epic drive, covering the 475 miles in just 7 hours. I arrived home remarkably refreshed. Fuel consumption averaged 22mpg which at 49.9p a litre made the car equivalent to almost 50mpg on petrol
Our other cars are also British - a Land Rover Discovery 2001 model year V8 with LPG conversion and a TVR Griffith 4 litre V8 built in 1992. I feel immensely proud of the fact that each is a car so perfectly suited to its purpose and in my view at least superior to any of the continental alternatives. The Griff is utterly gorgeous, surprisingly practical and incredibly fast and visceral. The Discovery is seemingly hewn from granite, carries enormous loads with consumate ease and offers a feeling of tremendous capability even in treacherous weather. The Jag is the most comfortable, refined and graceful mile muncher I have ever encountered. Best of all it handles incredibly well and feels very sure footed on all road types. It's so refined I find myself covering ground at a phenomenal rate.
I would love to post pictures but can't find which section you chaps are uploading your car pictures to or how to do it.
Finally I plan to have the secondary timing chain tensioners, water pump and thermostat changed for the latest versions. I have had a quote of around £600 + VAT for that little lot. IS this reasonable? IS it worth doing as a precaution and how much have you paid for the work if you have had it done.
Best regards,
Saxon