Hi all,

 

I've finally got my Jag. Nagged my wife for 2  years to get one. All I got was 'No way, its an old balding man's smelly old car!' all the time. I'm 42 so old enough. Insurance fairly cheap.

Spent 4 months searching for an s type I wanted - well always some things to compromise on.

2004 Sport 3.0l.

High mlieage , 138,500 miles, but had an excellent service history. 14 stamps, oil change always done by the year or mileage. never missed.

Last 38,000 miles had all been done on long journeys. got to know the previous owner and did aircraft fitting jobs away from home so travelled up motorways mostly to get to his base.

Car had spent most of its live down south.

He had the rear bushes done and new shocks recently.

bad points: wheels need a refurb, had 1 wheel straightened. Gearbox does need a service but has no issues.

couple of touch up jobs to be done, 1 on the front offside wheel arch(previous scrape). Inside of drivers door needs a sand down and treatment/spray.

Planning to remove sill covers to inspect and treat/wax .

heated seats and heated windscreen all work fine.

Inside black leather and aluminum trim. (my favourite).

 

Changed battery last week. Was original!

Next job is to service the autobox and oil change.

Then spark plug change plannning to do this myself replacing the inlet manifold upper gaskets too.

Thanks Chris

 

Hi Chris....welcome to the Club

Fine looking S-type and a great car to initially enter into the wonderful world of Jaguar.

Good to have you onboard

Cheers,   Trevor