RE: Shed Of The Week: Jaguar XJ
Discussion
^^ Agreed. I find myself playing MPG roulette with this on a regular basis. If you keep it bang on 70mph it will return half decent MPG. I did a run from Twickenham to Loughborough and back a month or so back and returned 28 mpg. I'm sure it would have done more had I been hyper-mileing it.
Not bad for a 2 tonne 3.2 litre barge.
Not bad for a 2 tonne 3.2 litre barge.
I shedded in one of these! Bought mine on ebay for 745 quid to use as a stag do limo for my best mate...
It was fantastic
Kept it for far longer than expected and made a profit on selling it. Only thing that went wrong was blowing a coolant hose on the A3 and the throttle was a bit sticky!
It was fantastic
Kept it for far longer than expected and made a profit on selling it. Only thing that went wrong was blowing a coolant hose on the A3 and the throttle was a bit sticky!
JamesHayward said:
^^ Agreed. I find myself playing MPG roulette with this on a regular basis. If you keep it bang on 70mph it will return half decent MPG. I did a run from Twickenham to Loughborough and back a month or so back and returned 28 mpg. I'm sure it would have done more had I been hyper-mileing it.
Not bad for a 2 tonne 3.2 litre barge.
Exactly, they are not bad if you know how to drive them in order to get the best MPG. I did a trip from Berkshire to Northants and back, and got an average of 30mpg in a 4.0 Litre Sovereign.Not bad for a 2 tonne 3.2 litre barge.
Obviously, if you have a heavy foot, then expect late teens.
Its a lovely looking Jag for a grand and we are cribbing as to whether the air con works ?
I drove cars without air con for years, its nice but not the essential thing everyone seems to think it is, and that they will die from heat exhaustion after 15 minutes without being chilled like a refrigerated meat wagon, for the next six months nature will chill the air below 16 c anyway and then for a week it will be hot, then more cold.
I know it gets rid of condensation but again, we managed for decades before it became common.
Get it gassed and see if it sorts it, otherwise resign yourself to a sweaty bum crack and carrying a Chamois for the windows and/or bum crack.
I drove cars without air con for years, its nice but not the essential thing everyone seems to think it is, and that they will die from heat exhaustion after 15 minutes without being chilled like a refrigerated meat wagon, for the next six months nature will chill the air below 16 c anyway and then for a week it will be hot, then more cold.
I know it gets rid of condensation but again, we managed for decades before it became common.
Get it gassed and see if it sorts it, otherwise resign yourself to a sweaty bum crack and carrying a Chamois for the windows and/or bum crack.
300bhp/ton said:
Drive Blind said:
peterg1955 said:
"Air Con needs regassing"
hate adverts that have this
I ran one for a while, XJ8, and managed 31mpg average although I was schlepping from bury st edmunds to heathrow most days. Used for fun at weekends. The missus loved it and it was very sporty. The only issue I had was suspension made of glass and woeful sound system. Very special car though! Good shed and great write up, loved the 'bag for life' comment!
Slurms said:
300bhp/ton said:
Drive Blind said:
peterg1955 said:
"Air Con needs regassing"
hate adverts that have this
I'd love to do the same with one of these if I had the cash, far nicer IMO than today's luxury saloons. 
This was mine ,a £360 ebay purchase !
3.6 sport ,cream leather interior ,I ran it for a year with out problem ,30+mpg on a run ,mid teens around town ,replaced a couple of headlamps as they were discoloured ,not much room and a bit of a struggle getting in and out of the drivers seat ,I then sold it to my mate who runs a resto company specializing in jags ,I came across it again this summer at the local car show .
Fab ride and handling .
angelicupstarts said:
this is true , I'm always suspect of adverts where a M.O.T is missing or aircon just needs gassing .....i take it as it is broken , as for a simple re-gas or Mot if seller did this it would not cost much ..make life easier for them when they had the car ..and easier to sell ..and possibly get more money ?
The only reason it hasn't got an MOT is that it ran out over a month ago and I've not been using the car. I actually had it up for sale earlier this year and there was no interest in it. So rather than waste MOT with it being sat around for months I'd rather sell it with a full years ticket. The car will not leave my possession without one.Also the other justification for not MOT is the fact that right now it's sat in the under ground car park at work. No MOT means I can't drive it. That means I can't fall in love with it again and find some man maths esque way of keeping the damn thing.
The advert is true, I really don't want to sell it but the truth is I have no need or space for it now.
Motorrad said:
Just once I want to see an advert that reads 'aircon is f
ked, a regas might sort it, but probably not'.
Well an advert is trying to sell something. So being positive rather than a dick is far more likely to help you sell said car.ked, a regas might sort it, but probably not'.But if it bothers you so much, why not buy this Jag and resell and then you can describe it in the listing how you want to.
Have a
This is an excellent Shed of the week - and provided it isn't rusty is quite a bargain. I agree, the 4 litre is better, but the 3.2 is a good engine and plenty powerful enough for most people. I also agree though that the slightly high top gear does blunt the economy on the motorway - which is why in practical terms they have little, if any, economy advantage over the 4 litre. You should buy an old Jag on condition not specification - but this is a decent mid-spec car with a respectable equipment levels, though it will have less than the Sovereign.
Jaguar did a good job of the ventilation system on these, so though it is clearly better for the A/C to work it isn't a disaster that it doesn't. The cabin won't fry you unless it is very hot outside of course. I imagine it will have a very similar air conditioning system to the late Jaguar XJ40 (the two cars are very similar underneath) - in which case at a guess it will probably need a new condenser, and as a precaution, to change the O rings on pipe joints.
A new condenser is not expensive - they can easily be obtained and are often advertised at less than £100 for this model, with another £40-ish for the receiver/drier. The condenser is identical to the late XJ40 one but for the connector (lots of XJ40 owners have been caught out by this, so a future owner of the car would have to double check it isn't an XJ40 one). On these Jags it seems to be fairly unlucky for the compressor to fail as well.
I really like this Shed of the week - it is a lovely colour too - Sapphire blue?
Jaguar did a good job of the ventilation system on these, so though it is clearly better for the A/C to work it isn't a disaster that it doesn't. The cabin won't fry you unless it is very hot outside of course. I imagine it will have a very similar air conditioning system to the late Jaguar XJ40 (the two cars are very similar underneath) - in which case at a guess it will probably need a new condenser, and as a precaution, to change the O rings on pipe joints.
A new condenser is not expensive - they can easily be obtained and are often advertised at less than £100 for this model, with another £40-ish for the receiver/drier. The condenser is identical to the late XJ40 one but for the connector (lots of XJ40 owners have been caught out by this, so a future owner of the car would have to double check it isn't an XJ40 one). On these Jags it seems to be fairly unlucky for the compressor to fail as well.
I really like this Shed of the week - it is a lovely colour too - Sapphire blue?
JMF894 said:
A friend and colleague had one of these a year or two back. Cost him 2.5K for an engine if IIRC
Nice barge though TBH
Jimbo
Are you sure it wasn't the V8? It is vanishingly rare for the six cylinder engine fitted to this car to fail, but the V8 is an altogether more fragile unit.Nice barge though TBH
Jimbo
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