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Thankfully no John, I have not had the displeasure of looking at a dead/seized engine in my XKR albeit I have had such problems in the past with a different manufacturer. I would have thought the XKR engine is not specific to the model therefore, can be found amongst other models. Years ago there used to be a company named Heathrow Engines, I don't know if they are still around but they had a wide variety of reconditioned engines. Just done a very quick search on google; I found something on Heathrow Engines but that was a rogue traders report nevertheless, I did find the following links; http://engineengineering.co.uk/start/reconditioned-engines-rebuilt:298/?gclid=CKrw6_WzvMQCFejJtAodNg4AhA or http://www.nationalenginecentre.co.uk/?utm_source=tp&utm_medium=ppc&utm_term=recon engine prices&utm_campaign=23001&utm_nooverride=1

Paul, I would have thought a trip to the main dealers or a breakers yard. If the latter take fine fishing line with you to remove and obviously super glue to attach. The advantage however of purchasing at the dealer although at a greater cost will be; the badge will no doubt come as a complete unit so that you just line it up and adhere. Take the remaining letters off with fishing line. Good luck

Agree with Peter on that score, you cannot open a new factory without fully trained workers never mind how much money is invested. Only time can produce the skills required.

Beautiful looking car no doubt about it however, for the price tag I would opt else where.

I have a Mercedes CLK 270 Cdi which I use for work and it returns me as much as 54 mpg driven carefully in the Welsh Valleys and that is up and down some big hills. I make sure its serviced regularly and ensure the oil is changed twice a year

I think May looks much fresher albeit you can also see he obviously likes his food whilst Hammond, in fairness looks as if he keeps himself in tiptop condition

I was shocked to find out that Clarkson is only 54 years old, when he talks about cars he had when a young man they would equal that of which I had and I'm 60 next birthday.

Like the programme or loathe it, I offer my apologies due to the fact I like the show and find it very entertaining. What are we going to do without it? Yes there are other show like DIY SOS restoring cars or Quinton's feeble effort but nobody comes up to Clarkson, Hammond or Mays standard.

Enough said Peter and well noted.

I would upgrade today Joe to an F Type however, my Bank Manager wouldn't agree with the idea

Joe, with all due respect, you sound like a dealer and a Arthur Daly version at that.

Lucky you did't park the car in Aberavon especially within the Sandfields area. There would not have been a car to awake to or at least no wheels :-)

Drove my brothers 3.0ltr version wow. Price tag a little hefty though, I believe he paid 60,000

I towed a caravan for many years when our children were young for varying reasons. We wished to travel abroad and costs of flying the family during school holidays were beyond us. We purchased a caravan and had our main holidays in the South of France or even towing into Spain and using the van most weekends on the Welsh Coastal Resorts (Tenby, Pembroke and the like).

Funny enough Peter a mate of mine bought a white Rolls Royce, his wife had a wedding shop and business and they rented the car out for weddings. One weekend living in Merthyr Tydfil we decided to take the Roller up to Twickers to watch England v Wales. We had some funny looks in Twickenham car park when we climbed out in our scruffy Levi's and T'shirts pulled a picnic basket out of the boot which included a bottle of champers

Hi Andrew, welcome to the Jaguar Owners Club. Very friendly bunch on here therefore, any queries questions etc just post them.

Not so many of us on here from South Wales although I would be happy to participate in such an event especially in the Bank Holidays with Tenby, Saundersfoot etc not so far away. We often done an overnight camp out like such whilst I was a member of the Round Table.

I have needed the laptop for work for many years Jimmy that is the reason behind me expecting everyone too have one. I do have one problem though we have just switched to Apple Mac and the difference between the operating system and that of Windows confuses me somewhat.

Hi Joe, having purchased my XKR late Autumn last year I cannot have expected to attend club meetings due to the winter months. I will look forward and hope the will be meetings this coming summer. I have owned Mercedes prior to the Jaguar to include the SL500, SL55, SLK32 which of course are AMG models and still have a CLK270 Cdi which I use for work. With all due respect I do tend to disagree with you somewhat with regard to the Jaguar F Type, my brother bought the 3.0 ltr version a couple of months ago sand having driven it myself I found it to be fabulous and if was not the hard top version I would be well envious. Hoping to meet up Joe even though we have hell of a gap between us.

Yes Jimmy, you would require a laptop forgive me, I take it for granted that all and everyone has such a piece of equipment to hand simply because, I cannot remember how far back it was that didn't have one.

You can download the OBD software for free and purchase the lead from Amazon or the likes of. I've cleaned many a fault code over the years with my free software

Its only a 16 pin plug, standard in most vehicles now. I've used the same lead (16 pin) to USB on a Voltswagon, my old AMG and I have plugged the XKR in

If they are giving you a quotation then I cannot see why not. It sounds as if they must be confident Jimmy and at least you can say, "Listen mate that's not right, I will collect the car when you put it right and pay you the price quoted at the same time".

Done the same with Round Table logo

Hi Jimmy, I know this answer has come from a Ford forum but then they are basically the same cars; http://www.talkford.com/community/topic/98233-fault-code-p0251-injection-pump-fuel-metering-control-a/