Jaguar XJ8 4.0
Discussion
Baryonyx said:
johnxjsc1985 said:
You can buy XJ's for peanuts now life is too short not to have a Jag in it.
You can. I'd advise anyone to get one! These 'proper' XJ's wont be around forever. I saw two of the new XJ's whilst at work today and whilst I do like them, they're not graceful or sleek like these old ones. Hell, the top of the bootlid when shut on the new XJ must be higher than the roof on my XJ!Anyway, I got the car back today. Collected the keys from the garage, couldn't drive it away at that point as I was working, so I returned under cover of darkness to collect it. The start - rough, lumpy idle. Selected 'R', the engine cut and showed an 'engine stalled' message. f
k. Started it again, cut out again. Started it, revved it out and let it settle, then revved it again. An Italian tune up at the roadside. After a bout of revs (uncomfortable with a cold engine), I clicked it into 'R' and managed to reverse it without stalling. Made it back to the office, where it sat in the car park for 90 minutes before I finished work. It started okay.I had noticed though that the clock was an hour fast - or was it? That, coupled with the hard start made me think the battery had gone flat, or at least been disconnected whilst it was out of my care. I tried to switch on the radio and it asked for a code. Yes, it had surely been flat. I wonder if they disconnected the battery to clear the codes/warning lights for ABS/TRAC/ASC? Anyway, it had either been without batter for 11 hours or 23 hours, one of the two. The garage advised me that the bloke who had worked on it had forgotten to put a compression washer back in place when putting the wheel bearing it and re-assembling the wheel.
Overall, a nightmare experience. If the radio accepts the code I give it tomorrow (written in the owner's handbooks) and starts without issue all will be well. I feel as though these trials are ending. Honda expect my motorbike to be fixed and ready tomorrow for about £80 and the experience has urged me to complete my full bike licence (starting next month).
Barging is mostly skill but with a bit of luck thrown in. You win by carefully managing retreat on an old, well loved and well used car. Eventually, defeat tends to be be inevitable but you have fun along the way. Sometimes, the dice don't turn in your favour and a relatively simple job like I expected on my Jaguar goes wrong and leaves you in the s
t. But overall, the car is worth it. It's now got another year's MOT so that's another year that it'll grace our roads!Baryonyx said:
johnxjsc1985 said:
You can buy XJ's for peanuts now life is too short not to have a Jag in it.
You can. I'd advise anyone to get one! These 'proper' XJ's wont be around forever. I saw two of the new XJ's whilst at work today and whilst I do like them, they're not graceful or sleek like these old ones. Hell, the top of the bootlid when shut on the new XJ must be higher than the roof on my XJ!Anyway, I got the car back today. Collected the keys from the garage, couldn't drive it away at that point as I was working, so I returned under cover of darkness to collect it. The start - rough, lumpy idle. Selected 'R', the engine cut and showed an 'engine stalled' message. f
k. Started it again, cut out again. Started it, revved it out and let it settle, then revved it again. An Italian tune up at the roadside. After a bout of revs (uncomfortable with a cold engine), I clicked it into 'R' and managed to reverse it without stalling. Made it back to the office, where it sat in the car park for 90 minutes before I finished work. It started okay.I had noticed though that the clock was an hour fast - or was it? That, coupled with the hard start made me think the battery had gone flat, or at least been disconnected whilst it was out of my care. I tried to switch on the radio and it asked for a code. Yes, it had surely been flat. I wonder if they disconnected the battery to clear the codes/warning lights for ABS/TRAC/ASC? Anyway, it had either been without batter for 11 hours or 23 hours, one of the two. The garage advised me that the bloke who had worked on it had forgotten to put a compression washer back in place when putting the wheel bearing it and re-assembling the wheel.
Overall, a nightmare experience. If the radio accepts the code I give it tomorrow (written in the owner's handbooks) and starts without issue all will be well. I feel as though these trials are ending. Honda expect my motorbike to be fixed and ready tomorrow for about £80 and the experience has urged me to complete my full bike licence (starting next month).
Barging is mostly skill but with a bit of luck thrown in. You win by carefully managing retreat on an old, well loved and well used car. Eventually, defeat tends to be be inevitable but you have fun along the way. Sometimes, the dice don't turn in your favour and a relatively simple job like I expected on my Jaguar goes wrong and leaves you in the s
t. But overall, the car is worth it. It's now got another year's MOT so that's another year that it'll grace our roads!k up front.I'd second Ecurie's diagnosis. I experienced the same thing only once, on a tip top X308, which happened because a friend moved it down the driveway and only had it running for 20 seconds or so. These cars need to be thoroughly warmed through once they are started. Arguably, the garage should have known that.
There seems to be plenty the garage didn't know about these! A shame, as it was recommended to me by two colleagues, both who regularly use it for MOT and repair work. It's close to the satellite office I use at work, which is useful as there aren't many MOT garages local to where I live so getting a car MOT'd when I'm not at work is a considerable effort!
Sweet as ever. Luckily the radio code was written on one of the manuals. You'd never know just a week ago it was going through such troubles. As was I, as it was last Thursday night I pushed my motorbike up the pavement the full length of Scotswood Road! That's all behind me now, thank God.
Baryonyx said:
Sweet as ever. Luckily the radio code was written on one of the manuals. You'd never know just a week ago it was going through such troubles. As was I, as it was last Thursday night I pushed my motorbike up the pavement the full length of Scotswood Road! That's all behind me now, thank God.
Excellent! Good news about the radio code 
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