Handsome bastard, GAME OVER!

[comfortablynumb]

Now you need to buy an old landy @eddyramrod(speaking from experience...)

[High Jetter]

What a result! Sometimes things happen when you least expect them.

[eddyramrod]

1 minute ago, comfortablynumb said:

Now you need to buy an old landy @eddyramrod(speaking from experience...)

You are joking, of course?  The income from a scrap Jag won't buy me a Corgi Landy!

[Dobloseven]

Well done Eddy.Bet you feel like a weight has been taken off your shoulders.A tip.Don't give cars names.As Steve Harley out of Cockney Rebel would say,"they're only metal".A farmer never gives a name to an animal that he's going to end up eating!

[danthecapriman]

Well done Eddy! Get the unwanted stress and aggro out of your life. Your better off not ploughing anymore money or time into that car.

Sit on the cash, wait until something right for you comes up then jump on it.

I wonder what will happen to the Jag now? Oval?

[Jazoli]

Thank fuck for that.

[grogee]

It's time. 

[brownnova]

Really glad you’ve sold it. It was doing the exact opposite of its purpose.

Hope something you like comes up at an attractive price and can rekindle the love of running old cars again! 

[bangernomics]

Eddie really sad/glad you got a resolution even if it wasn’t exactly the one you wanted.

Hopeful that your next thread is much more rewarding.

[thomashenderson]

Hi everyone and Hi Eddie

The Jag is currently having it's radiator changed then rear subframe needs to be dropped and bought back to bare metal and treated. Following that we will be looking into the engine management problem, maybe pay to get the fault mapped out. A full machine polish and wheel refurb and then I hope to be using this car regularly. With the hours I will be paying the lads and the parts I think to get it spot on we will be talking at least £1500. I will film the journey and post some videos up in the future. This is the second Jag I have bought in the past week and I'm planning on keeping them both and selling my CLS and range rover I have. 

Will post again soon.

Tom (Eddie's mechanic)

[thomashenderson]

 

Found this yesterday on YouTube of the same car before Eddie took ownership 

 

[eddyramrod]

Welcome aboard Tom!

[danthecapriman]

Oohh, welcome @thomashenderson! It’ll be interesting to see how you get on with it, and (hopefully🤞) find out what the heck was wrong with it.

[thomashenderson]

14 minutes ago, danthecapriman said:

Oohh, welcome @thomashenderson! It’ll be interesting to see how you get on with it, and (hopefully🤞) find out what the heck was wrong with it.

I'm going to live with the suspension issue i think

[Spiny Norman]

Result! Here's to finding something that'll give you a bit of fizz without actually fizzing!

[High Jetter]

Car sold and a new shiter on board all in one day! Well done Eddy and welcome @thomashenderson

[MrGTI6]

So pleased to see you've got shot of the Jag. I'm sure most on here (myself included) can relate to your ownership experience, and it can really take its toll both financially and psychologically. 

As is the way with most things in life, the solution is much more obvious from the outside looking in. 

Cars are great servants but terrible masters.

At least that was the conclusion I came to early last year when I decided to save myself loads of hassle by getting a boring Peugeot 308 as my daily runaround. 

And as predicted, it's been utterly dependable after just shy of a year of ownership. 

It has all the mod-cons, it costs buttons to run, and it's all the car we need. But after a while, competence can become tedious. 

Hence my eBay Watchlist is an ever-increasing gallery of automotive liabilities. 

For over a year, I've managed to resist the urge to buy anything silly. I do often make impulse purchases, but they tend to be low liability fodder. 

I'll use them as a spare car for a couple of months and then move them on, usually at a small loss. For now at least, a little variety feeds my appetite for change.

My current spare car is a run-of-the-mill Mini Cooper bought from a mate's sister late last year. Nothing special, but I've really enjoyed driving about in it. But I fancy a change again soon, so the Mini is currently up for sale. 

Before that I bought a ULEZ refugee in the form of an R-reg Vauxhall Corsa (now owned by @auntiemaryscanary). It's a shame smaller cars aren't your thing, because something like that has the perfect blend of character, usability, dependability, and low running costs. 

You obviously prefer much larger luxury cars which I totally get. The difficulty is that we've reached a point where even 20-year-old examples of such cars will now be hugely complex. The problems you experienced with your XJ are just par for the course, and you probably would have endured similar trials and tribulations with a contemporary S-Class/7-Series/A8.

As someone else above suggested, a compromise for something like a 406 or Omega might be worth looking into. Something to waft about in with some old school charm, but minimal complexity and a significantly reduced risk of turning into a driveway ornament. 

You're actually in a really good position right now; you don't need to make a distress purchase. Instead, you can slum it in the boring but dependable Motability-mobile for the time being and wait for the "right" car to come up for sale. 

PS: Welcome @thomashenderson! Look forward to seeing how you get on with the Jag! 

[eddyramrod]

7 minutes ago, MrGTI6 said:

 utterly dependable 

It has all the mod-cons, it costs buttons to run, and it's all the car we need. ... It's a shame smaller cars aren't your thing,  

You're actually in a really good position right now; you can wait for the "right" car to come up for sale. 

All absolutely true.  I understand about the practical needs covered by your Peugeot; we have the Motability 008 for all of that.  It's not ideal but that's another story.

Small cars... well these days all my growth is in the horizontal plane, and I've always had big feet, so small just doesn't work.  I understand their charms; I've owned many.  But these days I could only really go small for a Herald or an Anglia, and they cost far more than I can even imagine.

Omega?  Could be a good choice, but a bit on the young side.  Older will always be better.  Maybe an 84 Senator but again, they cost.  I don't care about fuel consumption, I'm not commuting or pounding up and down the M6 all the time.  My head can still be turned by an old van too.  They may not be in the Senator league for comfort but I do believe in their conservation.

As said above, I really can afford to be patient now.

[ETCHY]

Glad you got rid.

Seemed less like Handsome Bastard & more like Ungrateful Bastard by the end !

[Split_Pin]

Great news all round Eddie!

[SiC]

3 hours ago, thomashenderson said:

Following that we will be looking into the engine management problem, maybe pay to get the fault mapped out.

What is the code it's throwing?

[eddyramrod]

6 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

This marks the end of this thread. 

Well that was optimistic of me, wasn't it?

[N Dentressangle]

8 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

Well that was optimistic of me, wasn't it?

Yep, good to see the end of this thread 🤣

[Rocket88]

11 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

All absolutely true.  I understand about the practical needs covered by your Peugeot; we have the Motability 008 for all of that.  It's not ideal but that's another story.

Small cars... well these days all my growth is in the horizontal plane, and I've always had big feet, so small just doesn't work.  I understand their charms; I've owned many.  But these days I could only really go small for a Herald or an Anglia, and they cost far more than I can even imagine.

Omega?  Could be a good choice, but a bit on the young side.  Older will always be better.  Maybe an 84 Senator but again, they cost.  I don't care about fuel consumption, I'm not commuting or pounding up and down the M6 all the time.  My head can still be turned by an old van too.  They may not be in the Senator league for comfort but I do believe in their conservation.

As said above, I really can afford to be patient now.

This?

[eddyramrod]

German.

[Rocket88]

8 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

German.

Bad?

[eddyramrod]

Reliably!

[Mally]

I used to have the same thing. Wife's Motability car and often my own toy.

I tried to guide her towards the Motability car that I preferred to drive.  Might be harder now with the influx of EV's.

Last one we had was an Alhambra auto with all the bells and whistles, plus a factory fitted towbar.

Down payment was high, but she said it might be her last car.  It was.

We spent many a weekend with the back full of spares and a wheelchair, whilst towing  a racing car, and staying at Premier inns like you do.

Choose an outlandishly expensive Motability that you want, and put the cash you would normally throw at your toy towards the down payment.

 

[eddyramrod]

Excellent logic, @Mally!  We renewed the Motability car in December though, going up a size with exactly that reasoning in my head.  So for the next three years we have a Peugeot 3008 which at least does have a good seat, even if very little else about it makes sense.  I might see what's available a size above in three years!

 

[Mally]

5 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

Excellent logic, @Mally!  We renewed the Motability car in December though, going up a size with exactly that reasoning in my head.  So for the next three years we have a Peugeot 3008 which at least does have a good seat, even if very little else about it makes sense.  I might see what's available a size above in three years!

 

I've just checked, there's only the Santa Fe that I'd take at the moment, but as you say you are 3 years away.

We tried a 3008 in it's early days, might be different now but my wife banged her head getting in and refused to drive it.

We took a 7 seat Picasso,  same platform but a more upright screen pillar.

Try to keep your hands in your pockets for a while😀