Shagged XJS - GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGUAR. NOW with inept attempts to start after one year on its bum

[anonymous user]

ok, you can tell her a creepy old bloke off the internet thinks she looks very nice then.

 

do you have any photographs of letcherous solicitor's daughter in gym clothes?

[fairkens]

See recent daily mails

[anonymous user]

I refuse to read the daily mail on the grounds that I like my bile to stay where it is

[Guest Breadvan72]

Car news.  I think that the car may have, if not a dicky alternator, the wrong battery in it.  The battery looks too small.  I have not yet checked the numbers and the book.  The car tends to run a bit short on volts when electrical services are in use.  The heater is still playing up.  The main beams sometimes come on when asked to, but mostly don't, so that may be a wiring problem or summat.  The oil pressure gauge sometimes reads low, but I have been told above that under reading on the gauge is a common fault with the XJS.  The car is still a pleasure to drive, and is doing about 27 MPG.  I have found a scrappy who can sell me whole wings to swap out for rusty ones.   Me likee Jaggee.

[xtriple]

Old XJ-S s do like a decent supply of volts, my H.E. used to get proper mardy when the battery was low. It had foibles on its foibles that car as you had to rev it a bit every time it started  to get the alternator to work and then the volts would shoot up....

[brickwall]

  On 12/09/2015 at 11:53, Breadvan72 said:

That cheesy old solicitor who letched the young barrister on Linked In has form for posting pics of his daughter in gym clothes and saying she is uber hot. Verdict: creepy old sleazebag.   The woman was right to call him out for perving on a professional networking site.   The present context is rather different, I would day, but then IWSTWI.

 

 

Except she got caught out saying the same thing about men. A good reason not to have FAcebook as every crap thing you say is there forever.

[stephen01]

  On 12/09/2015 at 21:00, brickwall said:

Except she got caught out saying the same thing about men. A good reason not to have FAcebook as every crap thing you say is there forever.

 

double standards at its best...

[Junkman]

  On 12/09/2015 at 14:30, Breadvan72 said:

Car news.  I think that the car may have, if not a dicky alternator, the wrong battery in it.  The battery looks too small.  I have not yet checked the numbers and the book.  The car tends to run a bit short on volts when electrical services are in use.  The heater is still playing up.  The main beams sometimes come on when asked to, but mostly don't, so that may be a wiring problem or summat.  The oil pressure gauge sometimes reads low, but I have been told above that under reading on the gauge is a common fault with the XJS.  The car is still a pleasure to drive, and is doing about 27 MPG.  I have found a scrappy who can sell me whole wings to swap out for rusty ones.   Me likee Jaggee.

 

Apart from the extraordinary fuel efficiency, this sounds like you describe a perfect example of a Rover P6 V8.

[Guest Breadvan72]

  On 12/09/2015 at 21:00, brickwall said:

Except she got caught out saying the same thing about men. A good reason not to have FAcebook as every crap thing you say is there forever.

 

Her comments were not made on a professional networking site, and in any event two wrongs make zero rights.

[Timewaster]

  On 27/08/2015 at 22:58, RichardK said:

What

Could

Possibly

Go

Wrong

 

(That hasn't already gone wrong).

This implies that things are only likely to go wrong once.

 

Prepare for disappointment.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Epic Princess Bride FAIL!    Inconceivable!  

 

The line is "Get used to disappointment".

 

HTH!

[Noel Tidybeard]

yes an jaguar xj-of-s should have a thumping great model 100 70ah battery which is about 620 amps or more

 

only about 50-70 sovs at ecp

[Guest Breadvan72]

In the car park at my chambers, an object lesson on how to design the GT car, and how not to design the GT car.  You can choose which you think is which.  Also, to remind myself not to bitch and whine about my shitty fucken job, the view that I see when I stand at the front door of the shop. 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Yes, pretty cool bin, eh? 

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, that is one classy waste receptacle.

[Bear]

I was admiring the Smart ForFour...

[Junkman]

I'm still trying to figure out what that silver shitbox in the first pic is.

[Richard]

Citroën C3, it's the example of how to build a GT car.

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

I don't see what's wrong with the Panamera. There - I've said it!

 

I mean, don't get me wrong - the XJS is lovely, of course of course of course of course of course of course of course... of course!

 

But...

 

I also quite like the Panamera.

 

 

[gets coat]

[Junkman]

May I help you on with your coat, sir?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Still some electro shite going on with Jag, as battery conked the other day.  Possibly belt slippage (sounds a bit squeaky ) or who knows what.   Have not had time to investigate duff main beams thing (they work about one time in four).  Also need to get it down to specialist Jag scrappy south of London to negotiate for new wings etc.

 

Have been offered plate XJS 411X for 1200, might be able to haggle to 1000 or less.  Should I?    Plate is on a 3.6 manual with possibly decent sub 100K engine and good Jag pepperpot wheels and OK pre facelift interior but very, very bad bodywork.  Dude wants 600 for car.  Me not interested, someone could prob get for less.  

 

I hatez personalised plates, but plate for car could work and if i pimp car a bit cd add value.   When had two litre Volumex I changed it from A144 KEL to A20 VLX  (that plate cost a couple of hundred from DVLA), sold plate with car, obvs.  

[Bear]

Plate sounds like a good idea, perfect for that late registration VW 411 you've yet to buy.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

  On 25/09/2015 at 09:41, Breadvan72 said:

 

 

Have been offered plate XJS 411X for 1200, might be able to haggle to 1000 or less.  Should I?    

 

 

No. It would look naff.

 

a) it's not a 1981 car.

 

Everyone knows it's an XJS.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Agreed.  Just needed someone to clarify my thinking.  Thanks.

 

Countess Blondewska says correctly that the would also be naff on her car, and that fancy plates are for dickheads.  True, of course.

 

BUT her car is prob worth 10K and its value is going north.  If she ever sells  (she fancies a Pagoda Merc, and who does not, but they are 100K, and even her wallet is not that heavy), and she had an XJS plate on retention (hers is an M plate), the right sort of idiot might pay over the odds for the car plus plate.   I have a slightly naff mate who has a pristine 1991 XJS convertible called XJ 5, and that makes the car worth lots in the eyes of some who are a bit naff. 

[Junkman]

  On 25/09/2015 at 10:34, Breadvan72 said:

(she fancies a Pagoda Merc, and who does not, but they are 100K...)

 

They certainly aren't in the sane world outside the M25 zone.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1967-MERCEDES-250sl-PAGODA-CALIFORNIA-SPECIAL-UK-REGISTEREDI-/231696197578

[xtriple]

I know everyone on here/any right thinking person, hates 'personalised plates' but I love 'em! I think an XJS plate would look great but not keen on the three numbers. Bid him in the balls for it 'cos plates are not that easy to sell.

 

£500, no more.

[Bear]

I like personalised plates, just hate "trying too hard" mis-spaced shit. The three digits and suffix would hold me back on that XJS plate, but I'd totally buy A4 XJS (purely because my other plate is A4 - a quirk of the '92 launche of Cherished plates*, but backward-justified as the typical paper size of magazines, and also the root note used when tuning many instruments).

 

And yeah, the X and three digits makes it £500 realistically.

 

I'm still annoyed someone has, but isn't using, R170 SLK.

 

* and by quirk, I mean my dad bought three with his, mum's and my initials, but only the cheapest ones because A1 was very expensive. Result - driving to college in my A-reg Chevette with a private plate. *cringe*

[Guest Breadvan72]

30K Pagoda is LHD and may be suspiciously cheap?   Range otherwise seems to be 60K upwards, 100K for super spiffy.  Market is silly bubbly.  I recall when a Dino was 60K, just a few years ago.  Now 250K.  Biggest dumbass move I ever made - 2002, offered a DB6 Superleggera for 35K.  Would have had to borrow the money. Said no.  What a cock.    Mid 1990s, offered a pre WW2 MG open tourer with Amherst-Villiers supercharger for under 10K.  Said no.  What a dick.  

[Junkman]

I forgot that LHD is considered certain death here.

[xtriple]

I actually like lhd.

 

Okay, overtaking and car parks are a pain but you ain't going to overtake much in an old Pagoda! They are for wafting effortlessly not sprinting.

 

As to the things we missed out on: Jenson Interceptor 111 for £600 (okay, the engine was out or missing but it was otherwise mint in every way) or the S3 'E' type I was offered for a monkey with a rusty bonnet (okay, the rest of it was probably hanging as well but it looked okay) or the 'Bullit' Mustang in toxic green that was glorious in every way (apart from the lack of a boot floor) for £800 or....

 

I do seriously regret having balls the size of peanuts sometimes....