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[E65Ross]

Krikkit said:

Great work 0a, that's a tremendous purchase. What can be better than an E39 with gingers?

A late E38 without gingers?

[0a]

Zonergem said:

Must be nearly time for Oa's SL to get its annual outing on the public highway. Not for him the vulgar ostentation of top-down driving in the fearsome summer heat, with all the attendant worries about premature skin ageing from UV radiation. Better by far to sneak out under cover of a drek Scottish winter night before returning the car to hibernation.

You’re quite right. The lack of use has made it run lumpy again so it needs the distributer looking at again. Too many cars and not enough use (logical answer = buy another one!). It’s tucked away under cover until I can be bothered to sort it though.

Nothing like a good winter drive with the roof down though...

[Krikkit]

E65Ross said:

Krikkit said:

Great work 0a, that's a tremendous purchase. What can be better than an E39 with gingers?

A late E38 without gingers?

Out.

[SouthernSkye]

As per request prinny, here follow a few of my X350 2.7 Td sovereign.
I set off home for Christmas and, leaving my digs circa 20 miles out into the sticks from Bonn, it was -18C. It had been a cold, dry, but very snowy winter. A few mornings the diesel had struggled to start. My boss, who lived out in the Eifel had several days his A4 diesel refused, so he used the wifes petrol engined car. Anyway, i drove up to Ijmuiden to get the ferry to Newcastle and it was a tropical -12C there. The Pirelli soto zero winters never missed a beat in all the years I had them.



This car I had for 5 years, taking it from 17k odo to 75k, then it was sold to a splendid family down London way. here follow a few of the sales ad.photos.


Biggest expenses during ownership were a pair of DPFs. tried cleaning them to no avail, a new pair fitted (in Germany at Jag) was nigh on £1000. No idea why they "went" as i was doing about 20 miles 5 days a week each way to work. 10 miles of which was unrestricted Autobahn. but there we go, the joys of modern diesels. Also the suspension compressor went and, when back in the UK, I brought one back over in my flight hand luggage!! Other failures included several parking sensors (each of which needed to be painted before fitting), bonnet catch (and cable) and the micro switch for the footbrake failed once and left me stuck in Park with the electronic handbrake on at a junction. very embarrassing for the sake of a (IIRC) sub £20 part! The X350 was a great car...IS a great car. but I never had the affection for it that I did for my X300 XJR or my (supremely comfortable) XJ40 3.6. Whether it was the model itself or the fact it was a diesel I am not sure. i may look into getting a X350 petrol version and see if I "feel the love" i did for my other 2 Jaaaags .
Anyway, heres a few more to finish this post.
rgds
Richard

Edited by SouthernSkye on Saturday 22 December 15:44

[sprouting]

Prinny said:

0a said:

My second of 2018 (the lexus being the first!).

Nicely working my way through all the 1-5 barge favourites:

W124
A8 D2
LS400
Jag XJ
E39

What am I missing?!

Congrats 0a, bringing it to Jedburgh? (hint hint)

In terms of what you’re missing, obviously the thread e65?

(and you forgot one you still have - the SL)

maybe he's forgotten where it's parked 🤣🤣🤣

[E65Ross]

Krikkit said:

E65Ross said:

Krikkit said:

Great work 0a, that's a tremendous purchase. What can be better than an E39 with gingers?

A late E38 without gingers?

Out.

[bob-lad]

Gorgeous 1998 Jag XJR X308 - Top of Thread.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...




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[rufus357]

SouthernSkye said:

As per request prinny, here follow a few of my X350 2.7 Td sovereign....

Great looking car. Do all of the x350s have air suspension? And any of them switchable sport/comfort? I’ve alwasy liked the idea of a car that could do that.

[E65Ross]

bob-lad said:

Gorgeous 1998 Jag XJR X308 - Top of Thread.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...




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Just clicked on the link. Can't see the problem with the photos you've posted. It's not as if they're the only ones he has put up, he has taken images of the car from those angles without the cover. Pretty obvious he's just taking pics to show that he often puts a cover on it and takes care of it, nothing wrong with that IMO.....???

[Patrick Bateman]

All have air suspension I think but not sure of any switchable ones. If one would be it'd be the XJR but I doubt it.

[SouthernSkye]

Agreed, AFAIK there was no adjustment to the X350 air-suss except automatically where, at a given speed for "x" time it would hunker down, after a run of decent speed then stopping at traffic lights, for example, you would feel/see it raise to normal height. Also when parked up it squatted lower than ride height.

[SouthernSkye]

bob-lad said:

......However, that car with those wheels is, to me, the finest saloon ever.

Indeed, whoever was responsible for getting that car to look the way it did, and with that blown 4l 6 deserves to be congratulated on the best saloon of all time....even with my biased opinion !

Edited by SouthernSkye on Saturday 22 December 20:13

[SouthernSkye]

SpeckledJim said:

I got a poster of an XJR from the Jaguar stand at the Birmingham Motorshow in (I think) 1994, in exactly that spec. I promised myself one then, and still intend to keep that promise.

The single most beautiful three box saloon of them all. Ever. Ever.

Woefully overlooked due to ubiquity. If it was a Maserati they only made 5000 of, they'd be worth huge fortunes.

Best of luck S Jim. It was a treat to have that car for the time I did. It really was a dream come true, and it's a dream I would love to bring true again if ever circumstances allow.

[anonymous-user]

SouthernSkye said:

Agreed, AFAIK there was no adjustment to the X350 air-suss except automatically where, at a given speed for "x" time it would hunker down, after a run of decent speed then stopping at traffic lights, for example, you would feel/see it raise to normal height. Also when parked up it squatted lower than ride height.

The dampers swap between hard and soft automatically, with no driver control. It's reasonably clever and will firm up the fronts under braking the rears under acceleration, and do similar things side to side on cornering. The air springs are not an active system and are only used to level the car. As above if you are over 105mph for more than a couple of seconds it will lower itself a bit unless it decides the road is too bumpy.

It's closer to leaf springs than Mercedes ABC in terms of sophistication.

ETA - I gather than most aftermarket air struts lack the switchable dampers and just have a resistor to fool the controller. Bet that is interesting if you change one side at a time!

Edited by dme123 on Sunday 23 December 07:30

[rufus357]

By which you mean they are unsophisticated?

Thanks for the info guys

[Croutons]

406 3.0 coupe, £795, haven't checked MOT but at that price..!

https://www.gumtree.com/p/peugeot/peugeot-406-se-3...

[ALawson]

1992 Mercedes-Benz W201 190D 2.0 Diesel 5sp Manual

https://www.mtsv.co.uk/info/w201190d20msr.htm

Double tread budget!

[EarlOfHazard]

ALawson said:

1992 Mercedes-Benz W201 190D 2.0 Diesel 5sp Manual

https://www.mtsv.co.uk/info/w201190d20msr.htm

Double tread budget!

Filth.

Love it.

[olly755]

ALawson said:

Double tread budget!

As in ten grand? Gulp.

Open to most things, but struggling here.

[0a]

Unmolested, but I’d much rather have an unmolested 2.6.

Oh yeah I do! Must remember where I parked it...