AliKelman

HI Corey

I haven't yet sold the car - I make use of it once or twice a week at the moment.  Happy to arrange a time when I could show it to you and we could have a ride in it. This would have to be in about a fortnight from now - I have some familly trips to do. Please DM me so that we can arrange a date and time

regards

Alistair

I am seeking £550 for the car.

The current mileage on the car is 88143 and I have been driving about 1,500 miles a year for the past few years. The MOT runs until the end of September 2024

I have decided to sell my 2004 Jaguar X-Type saloon - Reg BJ54 KKH. It has a proper ULEZ conversation which means that it can run on LPG at 0.99 per litre. It runs well and rides beautifully.  I am London based - near the end of the M1 motorway

Have decided to sell this car - because I am not using it. It rides and handles very well and uses LPG at 0.99p per litre. Will be selling it from March 10th onwards. LPG compliant

Now keeping the car until further notice - had the LPG fixed and she is running like a dream

Have had the LPG fixed and am now using the car again for journeys - paying £0.99 per litre for fuel (!)  Might sell in 2023 but with zero depreciation and 100% comfort it has to be the right offer.

I have an URGENT problem and I would be grateful for some recommendations. Apologies for the length of this email.

My Jag X-Type (Reg Number: BJ54 KKH) was working fine until yesterday morning when I seemed to encounter a flat battery. I charged it up but it didn't seem to help. A local mechanic got it started - using a standard mobile battery starter. So I took it for a drive to our shopping centre but when I got there I found that I could not start it again. I called out the rescue service - the engineer there found that it was not an alternator fault but my battery had developed a faulty cell which meant that it could not retain the charge. He restarted the car and I drove it straight to Halfords in West Hendon where they fitted a new battery.  During the removal and replacement of the battery the car alarm sounded (there is is just the standard car alarm and nothing extra had been fitted.) The first battery that Halfords installed turned out to be faulty (it had lost its charge in long storage). The second battery they fitted was OK  but now the car is refusing to start because it is coming up with the error message "Gearbox Fault". Using an after-market programmer I am unable to remove this. Basically the car believes that it has been stolen and it is currently sitting in a service bay at the Halfords store in West Hendon.

So I need a call-out service which can come and collect the car and take it to a specialist Jaguar engineer who can reprogram it so that it can run again.  I live in Hendon, (Postcode NW4 4PN) . Any help and advice would be appreciated.

Alistair

Plans slightly changed - now planning on buying a Jaguar XF saloon in September 2022 as my replacement. An automatic ULZ compliant 2.0 litre in a dark colour.

During June 2022 if any member is interested in purchasing the car in Sept 2022 please contact me. I plan to take and upload recent photographs of the car (and the rear bumper damage) in July 2022 just before I put it on public sale.

I am planning on buying a second hand Jaguar XF Sportbrake in July 2022 from a dealer and rather than them taking my X type car as a trade-in  I would like to sell it to one of the members of this forum at a small premium over what I am likely to be offered.

There are photos of the car as I bought it in my Future Classic attachment. It is not that different today. 

True but I simply cannot find the time to drive the car to Battersea Autos, leave it for a day or so and then collect it. I live in North West London and tend to have to work crazy hours on my work.

I've decided to sell in July 2022 (Now  probably selling in 2023- see my last posting) my grey Jaguar X-Type petrol saloon.  My car is on the LPG Register, its number is BJ54 KKH. It is fitted with a BRC LPG system and the JLM Valve Saver Fluid is always kept fully topped up. It has done less than 86,000 miles

Future Classic Friday_ Jaguar X-type.pdf

Any idea how I could get this fixed at a reasonable price in London? I am planning on selling the Jaguar in the New Year and this dink is the only thing that is wrong with it.

Alistair

I have since found an LPG engineering firm in London which can do the work I require.  I plan to get this work done in January/February 2022 and then sell the car, probably via this forum in the early Spring of 2022.

I am considering selling my '54 plate Jaguar X-Type saloon early next year.  It runs beautifully and looks beautiful but I find that I drive only a bit over a thousand miles a year now (!).  Before I bought it the Jag was converted to run on LPG so it has a big gas tank in the boot. It was a proper conversation and the car is on the official LPG register. LPG costs about £0.75 per litre at the moment which is a bit better than £1.322 per litre for the cheapest supermarket petrol.  I always run the car on Shell V-Power petrol because it keeps the engine cleaner and running sweeter.

Currently when I switch over to LPG the car quickly stalls - I believe that this is a minor fault which could be sorted by the right LPG mechanic.  The Jag has done under 85,000 miles - I have owned it from 2017 at which time it had done about 77,000 miles - so this is eight thousand miles over four years.  What would members of this group suggest - should I get the LPG fixed to get the best price? And if so where should I go?  I am based in London.

I have a Jag X type which was converted to LPG

My X-Type Jag was converted before I purchased it to run on LPG. The car had 73,000 miles on it when I purchased it. It now has about 82,000 miles. I understand that it was converted to LPG by the Lloyd Ash Group on 22nd March 2012 when it had 45,425 miles on it.

It ran perfectly on LPG, changing over automatically when the engine was warm. And at £0.64 pence per litre running the Jag was an absolute joy. It required a special fluid to connect to the injectors - but getting that was no problem.

But about eight months ago it developed a fault. Whenever the engine now switches over to LPG it just stalls. I haven't bothered to have it fixed until now - lockdown etc has made this pretty pointless. But now I am thinking of making greater use of the car I was wondering if anyone in the forum could recommend an LPG engineer who could give me an estimate for fixing it. And if someone could suggest what might be the cause of the problem. I live in North West London. 

I too would be interested in doing the same - possibly with the inclusion of a WiFi hotspot too. Any ideas?

I don't think so but I have just had a second failure of one Bulb in my 2004 Jag within a couple of months. Another one went a couple of months before that. I'm off to Halford's tomorrow to get it fixed

It is some time ago but I think that to lift the finisher cap back in place I took a bit of scrap bendy plastic, curved it so that it would act as a spring and inserted the finisher cap with this below it so that the homemade bendy plastic spring pushed the finisher cap back into place so that its front and read rested against the rail (labelled 1 in the diagram). 

The part you want is labelled 9 in this diagram:

https://www.sngbarratt.com/uk/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw28_XBRDhARIsAEk21FiGNRvgTivUUbaCT2KnPZAfpsv5rGqu7_0SVrBFHV_VsWK9Go3Xy3AaAhM5EALw_wcB#!/English/FindParts/Families/S-Type and X-Type/12/50/12670/11327/12271/1/10/1/viewassembly/7625/:DRIP MOULDING AND FINISHER-SALOON

It is called a finisher cap. DukesDave was breaking his jag and sent it to me

The E-Pace production car was on show at Frankfurt but not the I-Pace production car.

According to the Financial Times, later this year, JLR will start making the E-Pace in Austria using third-party manufacturing group Magna, which already has a contract to make Jaguar’s first electric car, the I-Pace, from next year. In 2018 the E-Pace will also be made in China at the joint JLR-Chery plant in Changshu. JLR manufacturing director Wolfgang Stadler said: "The UK is the heart and soul of our manufacturing, design and engineering capabilities. However, with our UK facilities operating close to capacity, our contract manufacturing partnership with Magna Steyr and our joint venture in China provide additional volume, agility and flexibility to deliver the new Jaguar E-Pace alongside our other exciting vehicle launches this year."

JLR made 604,009 vehicles in the 12 months to the end of March, and has ambitions to make 1m by 2020. The £28,500 E-Pace vehicle pushes the Jaguar brand further into the booming SUV market. Jaguar’s existing SUV, the F-Pace, has sold 80,000 vehicles since launching earlier this year. 

But the production version of the i-Pace was at the Frankfurt Motor Show. According to Nick Gibbs "...There has been so much interest in the I-Pace, which will sell for less than the Tesla Model X at about 60,000 pounds in its home market, that JLR figured it that the show attention would be better focused on its more mainstream entrants, a company spokesman said ... Jaguar says it has over 25,000 confirmed orders for the I-Pace, with customers in big markets in Europe and the U.S. placing "four-figure" deposits, despite the not knowing the exact final price. That order book is almost two year's worth of production at Magna Steyr's contract manufacturing plant in Graz, Austria, where the I-Pace will be built based on capacity predictions from IHS Markit."

I am considering putting my name down for a Jaguar i-Pace. My local dealer says that the first trial models should be available in the showroom early in the New Year.