Imhotep's ever changing fleet - AX GT, MG ZS180, Jaguar S-Type 3.0

[Imhotep]

5 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

It looks great for 300 quid, Satnav so must be higher spec as well. If it still has sills that's a bargain.

It’s never been advised for corrosion at all, which seems helpful, part of the reason for the cheapness is the backbox is hanging off on one side, and there’s no paperwork at all, literally nothing, not even a V5. Everything works except the driver window. Will be using it from August when the insurance on the MG expires, will renew it onto the Jag. 

[JMotor]

15 hours ago, Imhotep said:

Brand new car. Jaguar. Leather seats. CD player.

But I don’t want to talk about it any more 

 

You drinking cider from a lemon?

That JAAAAG looks not too terrible for 300 sheets. Nicely bought.

[Imhotep]

6 hours ago, JMotor said:

You drinking cider from a lemon?

That JAAAAG looks not too terrible for 300 sheets. Nicely bought.

Aye, as I said I can’t keep the MG on the roads when the weather is poor. Plus the Jag has bum warmers and working HVAC, which will be handy in the colder weather!

[Lord Sterling]

Welcome to the Jag club. 

We've had a Vectra V6 vs MG ZS V6 face-off. So now we need to do a Jag face-off.

[Captain Slow]

8 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Welcome to the Jag club. 

So now we need to do a Jag face-off.

If Jags are drugs you both have the same dealer. 🤣

 

He's not actually seen it yet. He's going to like it. 

[Lord Sterling]

On 11/06/2025 at 20:51, Imhotep said:

Brand new car. Jaguar. Leather seats. CD player.

But I don’t want to talk about it any more 

Let me share with you a past story.

Around 15 years ago when I was much poorer, didn't have a car of my own, and then later my Mk1 E-reg Sterling, I used to go to Dudley for college (before I had my own car) and thus used to drive along the Wolverhampton Road coming up from Birmingham going towards Dudley. On the way just off the dual-carriageway are some large houses and on the drive mway if one if the houses was this Jaguar S-Type:

I used to admire it from afar. Everything about it was just so right, from it's rare metallic black colour, the wheels, the private plate and its prominence on the driveway in front of the garage where it was always parked, like a reserved space for the head of the house.

Later on, as I plodded through life with no ambition, I spotted the Jag parked off the drive and with its private plate removed:

The car was up for £2k. £2k even then was like asking me to raise a million pounds within a week, it just wasn't viable. I don't know if it did sell or not but it appears to have disappeared off the radar. The plate shows its last MoT being 2013.

[Imhotep]

So far so good….

[Spiny Norman]

Oh dear. 
Fucked or fixable?

[Imhotep]

Just now, Spiny Norman said:

Oh dear. 
Fucked or fixable?

Popped a brake line, very fixable. If it hadn’t gone totally I’d have clamped it off and driven it home carefully but it’s BURST

[Imhotep]

Ever think you’ve made a bad decision?

Moved it as it was parked illegally, pulled forwards and there was a hell of a bang. 
 

Backbox has come off and ripped the bumper off. 

Not off to a good start are we? I already miss the MG I’ve put in storage. 

 

[Spiny Norman]

The joys. That reminds me of the time my E34 started running like a bag of spanners and eventually stalled. I cranked and cranked and eventually all the unburnt fuel made its way to the back box which exploded and did the exact same to the bumper. 

[Imhotep]

10 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

The joys. That reminds me of the time my E34 started running like a bag of spanners and eventually stalled. I cranked and cranked and eventually all the unburnt fuel made its way to the back box which exploded and did the exact same to the bumper. 

Bet that was loud! I don’t know if you remember my old Peugeot 306 cabriolet, but that did something very similar too…

I’ll mend this. I can’t (and didn’t) expect any sort of reliability for £300. It’s just a shame it’s all come at once. Despite it likely being worth about £750 or so if it’s all working, it is really hard to justify spending any money on a car I’ve paid scrap value for. But again, it was scrap value, obviously it’ll have problems. Viscous cycle.

[Spiny Norman]

3 hours ago, Imhotep said:

Bet that was loud!

It had quite a profound effect on some nearby pedestrians as I recall... 😛

Assuming your back box isn't badly damaged it should fix back on OK and the bumper will just be needing a few clips.

[Imhotep]

5 minutes ago, Spiny Norman said:

the bumper will just be needing a few clips.

It was built under Ford ownership. I could show it some heritage and get some duct tape for the bumper.

[Imhotep]

As per usual, many many thanks to @Heidel_Kakao for coming around and making and fitting a brake line for me, especially with this cool bit of kit I want now:

 

Also discovered some of the chrome was not chrome and was in fact paint and that’s going to piss me off far more than is reasonable:

 

But on the upside, it’s done 7 miles and not broken, so that’s the furthest I’ve managed in my ownership so far, at a polar bear friendly 17mpg!

 

Now I just need to get the ABS pump bled through which as far as I can work out requires diagnostics. Pedal is still a bit spongy but it holds pressure on the pressure bleeder and the thing is 100% bled up.