Handsome bastard, fighting me all the way...

[eddyramrod]

I agree.  It might just be a teething issue.  I'm taking it back in on Wednesday so I'm going to try to put some miles on it before then.

[lesapandre]

Give it a good long run to see if it settles down. Sometimes these things do I find. 🤞👍🙏

[eddyramrod]

A good long run... maybe over the weekend!  But I've used it today for the two meetings I had, and it's behaved.  I've been giving it some beans too, within the limits of town speeds, and it hasn't thrown RESTRICTED PERFORMANCE at me yet, so maybe I can take a chance on doing a run.  We will see, won't we?

[2flags]

I do hope so. It will be great if you have finally sorted out the problems and can get some proper enjoyment out if it. It could be much worse. This is from the local driving instructors forum.

What a week.

Thursday last week 2 new tyres and tracking £300

Friday last week Turbo went £1300

Wednesday this week starter motor went £250

Today Pupil stalled on horsey roundabout, battery completely dead. £150, RAC came out and got me started only for the LED indicator to stop working £138 for new module (would have been £850 is it was the light itself as it’s a sealed unit)

Total for week £2,138 fml

[eddyramrod]

MoT day today.  Fingers crossed, again...

[danthecapriman]

Just now, eddyramrod said:

MoT day today.  Fingers crossed, again...

Fingers & toes crossed 🤞

[Cavcraft]

Find a new garage, Ed. Failing on the EML is a bit fussy, did they say why it was on?

[loserone]

2 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

bit fussy

It's a 2004 car, it's not fussy, it's a fail.

[horriblemercedes]

2 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Find a new garage, Ed. Failing on the EML is a bit fussy, did they say why it was on?

Depends how you look at it - on that car, EML is an explicit fail.

 

I agree though that we all know garages who would overlook it. Or, fail it, clear it and put it through again with a pass.

[eddyramrod]

I haven't even had the phone call yet!  In fact I've just driven past and it wasn't there.  I do know they take it to another garage for the actual test.

[eddyramrod]

Aaaaand we have a Pass   950 miles since it passed last year.  I've probably walked nearly that far in the same time!

[danthecapriman]

36 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Aaaaand we have a Pass   950 miles since it passed last year.  I've probably walked nearly that far in the same time!

Hooray!

What was all the EML stuff about?? I guess they just cleared it and retested it?

[eddyramrod]

Yes, that's exactly what they did.  Standard practice with these moderns I suppose!

[bangernomics]

Right... it's been in today and the new pump has been fitted.  The garage also did a leak hunt around the system, and billed me £120.  They said they took it for a test drive and it was fine.  So far so good.
I had a meeting to go to this evening, so obviously I took the Jag.  About a mile each way, with a two-hour rest.  So, upon firing up, the pump started (it's significantly noisier than the old one) and cut in intermittently on the drive there.  When I came to go home, it started up again with the engine, and gave me the red light and VEHICLE TOO LOW on the dash.  That went off much quicker than I've been used to and didn't return.  I'll be taking it out again tomorrow (the car!  Get your minds out of the gutter!) and although the journeys won't be much longer there might be more I can tell you.
The garage couldn't get an MoT test for today so they've booked it for next week.

Have they fitted the rubber spring plate back properly?

[bangernomics]

And 99% is battery/charge/earth for restricted performance.

I have the proper sdd setup if you ever pass this way.

[eddyramrod]

3 minutes ago, bangernomics said:

Have they fitted the rubber spring plate back properly?

I would have to take their word that they have.

[eddyramrod]

I've just, idly, been looking at XJ8s on ebay.  Looks like I'll be keeping this for some time if I want to get out of it with anything other than a crushing loss.  Which, tbf, is the position I've been in all year!

[bangernomics]

5 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

I would have to take their word that they have.

does it sound intrusively loud?

I did the same the first time I rebuilt a pump and then put it back the right way when I heard it. 

[eddyramrod]

7 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Find a new garage, Ed. 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!  Have you seen the local-garage availability round here?

[eddyramrod]

1 minute ago, bangernomics said:

does it sound intrusively loud?

It's significantly louder than the old pump.

[DirtyDaily]

It's significantly louder than the old pump.

Id say that it's probably not been put back on correctly as the "original" pump was fairly loud from memory.

[eddyramrod]

Oh... great.

[bangernomics]

it is very easy to get wrong as you will know most look at it on the ground the wrong way up. That is what I did the first time.

 

[DirtyDaily]

it is very easy to get wrong as you will know most look at it on the ground the wrong way up. That is what I did the first time.
 

The first one I bought had the exact same thing as someone tried to refurb the pump. Once I put it back on correctly you struggled to hear it from inside the car. Whereas beforehand it was very obvious when the pump came on.

[eddyramrod]

I've been round and told them about it.  Fetch it in Monday.  Good thing I'm too ill to go anywhere!

[Urko]

Is it actually sinking?

One of my two X350s had a plethora of spurious "faults" caused by poor earth connections behind the headlights.

[eddyramrod]

Good call; but yes, it is.  It hasn't moved since I got it back yesterday and it's definitely down, especially at the back.  Monday will do; I'm barely fit to go out at all at the moment.

[eddyramrod]

Well... I've had it back a week now and been using it around town.  So far so good.  I've got a meet coming up at the Lakeland Motor Museum, that'll show up anything that's lurking.

[DirtyDaily]

Well... I've had it back a week now and been using it around town.  So far so good.  I've got a meet coming up at the Lakeland Motor Museum, that'll show up anything that's lurking.

Did they do anything about the compressor being noisy?

[lesapandre]

Run it. If it behaves I'd not again disturb the compressor - in any event it's noise will warn you all is not well if it's on regularly.

Take it somewhere you can give the car the beans - these pussy cats are to be driven.