Shonky Old Jag

[Hammer67]

Having had an automotive clearout, I seem to have taken up ownership of this old smoker. after it popped up locally on my FB feed.

2004 X-Type 2.5 V6 Spirit AWD Manual. 49K miles. Lovely black leather interior, apparently it`s some sort of special limited edition.

Has various issues resulting from 6 years of neglect.

Badly needs a service, engine light on with a lambda sensor fault code, the air con blows warm, the PAS pump complains loudly on full lock, only has 1 key, the brake fluid resembles Guinness, the discs and pads look to be past their best and all the tyres are Donald Ducked.

Drives nicely though and risked a 150 mile trip at the weekend when, surprisingly, it delivered 37mpg.

Nice little project.

[ian316]

There was a guy earlier in the year did a thread on one, the lambda sensor was a pain but seemed a lot of car for what he paid good luck

[spreadsheet monkey]

V6, low miles, stealthy colour, manual, AWD. Excellent stuff.

Nice capable car once you've given it a thorough once over and sorted out all the deferred maintenance issues. Hope the lambda fault code is an easy fix.

[Hammer67]

Started the resurrection.

First up an oil and filter change. The old oil didn't look too bad but the filter was going rusty, not surprising as according to the book the last service was done in 2011. Had a good old poke around underneath whilst I was there. All looked reasonable with no rust anywhere nor any leaks from the gear or transfer boxes.

Pollen filter was totally blocked and chock full of leaves and other ste. Air filter surprisingly not too bad but renewed it anyway.

Next onto the plugs, a bit of a mission to get to the rear bank as the intake manifold has to come off. Took a while but all good. Surprised the engine ran on the old plugs the gaps were so wide. I suspect they were the originals.

A pair of new blades and £3 on 2 used washer jets to replace the blocked solid originals.

Next up is the fuel filter which is up underneath near the fuel tank and get the wheels off to look at the brakes.

Tyres, PAS pump and belt, Lambda sensor, a second key all ordered.

[imagineifyeswill]

Have you had a good poke about the sills, there usually completely rotten behind these plastic covers, would be very unusual for one of that age to be solid.

[Hammer67]

imagineifyeswill said:

Have you had a good poke about the sills, there usually completely rotten behind these plastic covers, would be very unusual for one of that age to be solid.

Errrr not exactly had a good poke about no. They both looked ok when I was scrambling around underneath it. Certainly nothing visible to worry about. Best I have a closer look.

[ian316]

They can throw up some horrors on the sills, and i'm sure one of the lambda sensors is down the back of the engine but it sounds like your handy with the spanners

[Max M4X WW]

Looks like this has the 'XS' kit as well, front rear and sides (with the commonly snapped off lower front section by the looks of things too!)

[BlueHave]

Hammer67 said:

imagineifyeswill said:

Have you had a good poke about the sills, there usually completely rotten behind these plastic covers, would be very unusual for one of that age to be solid.

Errrr not exactly had a good poke about no. They both looked ok when I was scrambling around underneath it. Certainly nothing visible to worry about. Best I have a closer look.

I think they fixed the sill problem in 2004, usually 2002 and 2003 are the golden years because some genius didn't put a drain hole so water accumulates and they rust from the inside out.

The sills aren't really a big job if your handy with a cutter and welder. I did sills on two X-Types and you can buy the replacement zinc coated sills pre cut for about £70.