S-Type 2.7 twin turbo diesel. Anything i should know?
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I'm looking at one of those too... it seems quite desirable.
At a whopping £13K I guess you'll be well short of the 105K miles double belt change... the other tip I got was to boot it from standstill to red line to see if the turbos exploded.
I test drove one last week and compared to my 2001 3.0SE it seemed to be roughly as fast, but the steering was much less pointy - possibly just that car (97K miles).
The older S-Types has two kinds of stereo, Basic (crap) and Premium. I don't know if the 2002+ models are the same, but if so, it's worth making sure it has Premium Sound. In my experience Jaguar audio is very specific, expensive and awkward to retrofit.
At a whopping £13K I guess you'll be well short of the 105K miles double belt change... the other tip I got was to boot it from standstill to red line to see if the turbos exploded.
I test drove one last week and compared to my 2001 3.0SE it seemed to be roughly as fast, but the steering was much less pointy - possibly just that car (97K miles).
The older S-Types has two kinds of stereo, Basic (crap) and Premium. I don't know if the 2002+ models are the same, but if so, it's worth making sure it has Premium Sound. In my experience Jaguar audio is very specific, expensive and awkward to retrofit.
Edited by Simpo Two on Monday 1st February 20:48
FWDRacer said:
tr7v8 said:
Hedders said:
Cheers guys, It is not an unreliable deathtrap or anything then 
Ta.
I'm on my second one. Best car I've ever owned & in 35 years of driving the first one that I don't have the urge to upgrade to something else!Ta.
Pros
Goes well esp. with Dynamic button pressed & in Sport mode.
Much better Bluetooth implementation
Nice noise
Cons
Horrible flat seats, would want XFR seats & maybe interior.
Not a big enough leap elsewhere to make it worthwhile to lash £35K on one s/h
Feels a bigger car to drive, really needs rear view camera.
OK, he bought the car and evrything seems fine apart from two points which may be related?
He has no disc for the Satnav, so i guess that means it won't work in europe but he should be fine without it here?
The buttons (touchscreen) on the satnav keep greying out, blocking their functionality, and then spring back to life, so you can use them and then grey out again! If you are patient you can just about use it
Any idea's?
ETA: I just realised it might be a speed sensitive device so you can't use the sat nav when the car is moving?
He has no disc for the Satnav, so i guess that means it won't work in europe but he should be fine without it here?
The buttons (touchscreen) on the satnav keep greying out, blocking their functionality, and then spring back to life, so you can use them and then grey out again! If you are patient you can just about use it
Any idea's?
ETA: I just realised it might be a speed sensitive device so you can't use the sat nav when the car is moving?
Edited by Hedders on Monday 8th February 19:28
Hedders said:
OK, he bought the car and evrything seems fine apart from two points which may be related?
He has no disc for the Satnav, so i guess that means it won't work in europe but he should be fine without it here?
The buttons (touchscreen) on the satnav keep greying out, blocking their functionality, and then spring back to life, so you can use them and then grey out again! If you are patient you can just about use it
Any idea's?
ETA: I just realised it might be a speed sensitive device so you can't use the sat nav when the car is moving?
Yup, you've got it. HSE strikes again.He has no disc for the Satnav, so i guess that means it won't work in europe but he should be fine without it here?
The buttons (touchscreen) on the satnav keep greying out, blocking their functionality, and then spring back to life, so you can use them and then grey out again! If you are patient you can just about use it
Any idea's?
ETA: I just realised it might be a speed sensitive device so you can't use the sat nav when the car is moving?
Edited by Hedders on Monday 8th February 19:28
Hedders said:
He has no disc for the Satnav, so i guess that means it won't work in europe but he should be fine without it here?
I suspect it won't work at all - at least, in my 2001 car, the disk (CD-ROM) holds all the data. So somebody's swiped it to sell on eBay, unfortunately. You'll have to visit eBay and buy it back...Hedders said:
The buttons (touchscreen) on the satnav keep greying out, blocking their functionality, and then spring back to life, so you can use them and then grey out again!
Yes - mine is the same, althogh it does at least explain why. One wonders how Tom Tom etc, presumably subject to the same laws, is not 'motion decativated' like this. So probably b
ks.Re: The graying out of the sat nav buttons.
This used to annoy the crap out of me when I bought my str last year. Turns out that you cannot input destinations into the sat nav when the car is in motion. (Although you can press some of the buttons). A touch nannying perhaps but does make a bit of sense i guess, nearly crashed my last car trying to input a destination!
This used to annoy the crap out of me when I bought my str last year. Turns out that you cannot input destinations into the sat nav when the car is in motion. (Although you can press some of the buttons). A touch nannying perhaps but does make a bit of sense i guess, nearly crashed my last car trying to input a destination!
Hedders said:
You are quite right Simpo, my dad gave me bad info. He does have the DVD, he just wants a newer one so he told me he had to buy a new DVD for it..
It's annoying that in-car satnav has to be so cumbersome, expensive and un-upgradable. Now they COULD make one that used data from a memory stick that you could take out and update from the internet...Or perhaps they will quit, put a Tom-Tom-sized hole in the dash and get on with making cars!
Vauxhall offer Tomtom shaped hole in some of there cars.
as do Renault + Fiat, although I insist I am not promoting Crap French/Italian cars, just making the point.
http://www.tomtom.com/products/product.php?ID=812&...
But your premium (as in you pay a premium to own one) brands still insist in developing there own, which generaly require a firbe optic network to get info from the disc in the boot to the screen, cost at least £1500 and as you say, are obsollete before the car is out of waranty.
as do Renault + Fiat, although I insist I am not promoting Crap French/Italian cars, just making the point.
http://www.tomtom.com/products/product.php?ID=812&...
But your premium (as in you pay a premium to own one) brands still insist in developing there own, which generaly require a firbe optic network to get info from the disc in the boot to the screen, cost at least £1500 and as you say, are obsollete before the car is out of waranty.
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