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Well much to my pleasant surprise I have just completed a journey of 800 miles in my X type ,south west Scotland to Heathrow and back.The car behaved impeccably returning 56.4 miles per gallon I can hardly believe it, I think I might become a Jaguar convert after all.

I keep returning to this website to read about the latest financial disasters befalling innocent Jaguar drivers.I had a Saab for five years and it cost me nothing apart from normal servicing.My Jaguar 2.2 diesel X type has been with me for five months and so far has been ok but reading all this stuff means I have no confidence in the car and I do not think it will be in my company much longer.I am going to Ireland in August and I suspect I will take my wife's Golf

It makes me feel really ancient but my first car was a 1936 Rover 12, it cost me the princely sum of £10 which was two weeks wages then.Three point turns were impossible there was no steering lock,you needed muscles like Hercules to turn the steering wheel it had running boards wedged on with fence stops.Worth a fortune now if you could fine one.

Sat Nav disc arrived this morning £28.98 from Amazon , installed it in the car and it worked instantly so far so good?

I am sure I read a post somewhere on here where a member explains how to re-boot the system

Thank you for your help again Peter.I have ordered a disc from Amazon, £28.98 with postage.I am nervous about installation but I'll let you know how it goes.Cannot get lost with the pigeons on board.

Peter, Thank you for your reply.I thought I might buy a new disc but I am unsure where to buy have you any advice on that?

Hi, After successfully conquering the sat nav system it has suddenly taken to displaying the message on screen"the disk installed is not a map DVD"Any advice would be appreciated.

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What about this clay bar thing for polishing cars Peter?

Here is a picture of the 2016 race team in the boot of my X Type prior to liberation. We are 25 miles from home they should beat the Jaguar back

I promised my self I would avoid this site Peter but it has an incredible fascination for me. I well remember the times you are talking about,like lying in the snow trying to put new front brake discs on a Hillman Hunter hoping to finish before it got dark at 3.30 pm so that I could get to Glasgow for the night shift. I knew a guy who decided to improve the Venturi on a Vauxhall Cresta carburettor with a bit of fuse wire.I tried to tell him that Solex spent millions on development,but he thought, he could do better. Happy days

Thank you Rowley that's my conclusion as well I am going to stay away from these sites

Sorry about this folks this site is frightening me to death ,this X Type Jaguar ain't going to be in my company much longer

Here is a pic of my XType Jaguar 2.2 D

Thank you for that I do not do a great mileage,once a week to Dumfries ,other than that just around the country here it will also be used to train racing pigeons probably as far as Carlisle.I would be delighted to put up pictures if I could work out how to do it on this IPad.

I think it's a marvellous car Ian got all the bells and whistles that I need.It is smooth to drive once the engine reaches operating temperature, it overtakes effortlessly and the acceleration is truly impressive, I am getting around 46 mpg on the M74 which is a major improvement on my previous car a Saab 9.5.

Removed is the common word for a female dog.

OK I give in the advice given is welcome and sound.My main point was that aspiring Jaguar owners might have second thoughts on reading of the problems that can happen.My only thought at the moment is to come up with a foolproof way of protecting the beautiful cream leather back seat from the attentions of a boisterous boxer !Removed!.

Thank you for your replies , I cannot argue with the points you make it's only that I doubt my ability to carry out some of the more complicated procedures described here and I am concerned about large garage bills. As I have said it's a really interesting site and I can learn from it

This is a good website and I am glad to have found it.I have owned an X Type 2.2 diesel for two months now and I am absolutely delighted with the car and so far no problems. However if I had found this site before I bought the car I might not have bought a Jaguar.For every post from members lauding their purchase there seems to be about ten from guys who have run into seriously expensive problems.I did not realise that Jaguars were so unreliable

Cannot believe this ,real coincidence my X Type 2009 2.2 diesel which is identical in colour and trim to yours I have owned for 5 weeks and even more coincidental I traded in a blue Saab 9.5

The Sat Nav on my 2009 X Type is now working fine as a result of the advice given by site me,bears here for which I M obliged. Is there any way in which I can find out the date of the sat nav disc presently installed?

In the realm of absolutely useless information you might like to know that the boot of an X Type can hold two crates of racing pigeons, 50 in all. luxury transport for the doos.

Hi,Interesting forum, as I have already said I have fulfilled a long held ambition by buying aJaguar X Type 2.2 diesel which I am delighted with after one month. When I was 23 years old as a young police officer in Ayrshire I drove a black Jaguar 2.5 ,the same vehicle driven by Inspector Morse in the TV series I can remember it had six spark plugs in the middle of the block which had the habit of collecting oil when topping up which it needed frequently.I also remember the twin carburettors which had to be carefully synchronised pretty often.All this was 60 years ago I am afraid