Leaderboard

Not added to this thread in ages ! Had a few things sorted in the meantime. Ordered a replacement 'new old stock' door latch to replace the OSR one that was not working. Andy went to fit it and pointed out that the part number on the box was correct but the part was a NSF door latch ! He lubricated all of the latch mechanisms and check straps and now all of the door lock work as they should. I decided that I would also order replacement coolant hoses to start replacing as many of the original ones as possible due to the deterioration I had seen. This was time consuming as Jaguar have some very strange descriptions for what a hose is called and what it does ! Rear parking sensors were doing strange things so took a chance and ordered some cheap ones from ebay, sold individually at less than £10 each. Whilst Andy had the car for a preliminary look to weigh up how long it would take to fit the new hoses and sensors, we noticed a leak on the gearbox oil cooler pipes. Had to leave the car with him as we decided it was not a good idea to drive it until he investigated further. Not very popular with Sue as she had to drive the Impreza instead, I did get a few 'Brownie points' by letting her use the new F-PACE company car for a couple of days when she had long trips to do (cheers boss !) Ordered the cooler pipes, advised that the part number I had which was C2Z11606 (supersedes XR856184) was only for the NA V8 not the 'R'. Duly ordered the C2Z11607 part number, which I was told was for the supercharger version. Took the parts over on Saturday morning for Andy to fit them, new gearbox sump / filter, sleeve and replacement gearbox oil as well. We got the leaking pipes off to find out that they were not the same shape as the C2Z11607 that I had ordered ! This presented me with a dilemma as the car was now immobile on a main dealers ramp being worked on as a favour from my former employers. Being Saturday of course made it worse, we checked national dealer stock for the 'other' part number, part was in stock at Jaguar but none at dealers. No parts delivery on Sunday so car would be blocking a ramp on Monday morning when the workshop re-opened. Options were to refit the damaged pipes to be able to move the car a short distance or see if the new ones could be persuaded to fit ? The two pipes are only held together by plastic clips so we were able to separate them to make comparisons easier, I should have taken some pictures but I was too stressed to think about it. Luckily, only one of the two pipes appeared to be a different shape, the other one had some different bends where it goes up to the radiator. Andy suggested that it could be a 'modified' design taking a different route around some of the other pipework, subsequent investigations seem to indicate that the part number in question is for the 4.2 SV8 XF. To cut a long story short, we managed to get both pipes into place and clipped back together without any major bending or twisting (I was terrified of creasing or compressing the thin walled aluminium tubing) Gearbox refilled, new sump / filter and sleeve and everybody lives happily ever after. New rear sensors fitted, work fine but have a much shorter range than the originals, only start to bleep when you are quite close. Ran out of time with the coolant hoses so not all of them were fitted, apparently one of them at least is easier with the bumper off ? Still loving every minute, goes like a train !

Theres mine in Sascale so not too far away Had it a couple of years just had to replace the valley pipe a real pig of a job so changed a few other hoses, both belts and idler pulleys and the water pump while I was in there. Love driving it though it also has lpg so makes it cheap to run