Hello all,

I am Jeff L.. I live in Tampa Florida. I have aquired a 99 Jagaur VDP. I am an avid Jaguar fan, british motors buff and many other autos. I have been working on cars and enjoying them since I could hold a wrench/spanner in my hand. I was delighted to get the opportunity to own a Jaguar finally, however it does come with its own baggage so to speak. This particular 99 Vanden Plas has 54K original miles and was well maintained all of its life. I know the previous owner my freinds mother, and she purchased it from a bank. The car was owned by the bank here in Tampa Florida from new and was driven by a bank exec. All maintainence was done on the vehicle. Unfortunately my friends mother experienced an unfortunate series of events. The car was taking in for work on the front timing chain covers and also was fitted with new hoses. Apparently something happened to the top hose and it came loose and the car lost most of its coolant. My freinds mother being up in years failed to notice warning signal and drove the car untill it failed to proceed any further. I have always loved this car and helped to care for the car for the three years and 1500 miles she owned it. So I was able to get the car from her for a tidy sum. I now have a lovely lawn ornament. I am currently looking for insight on what I can salvage on this engine and what other damage may have been done. Thanks to all for any help in this matter. Happy motoring to all.

 

Hello, I think you will make good friends with our members for sure
Happy driving and enjoy your ride

 

welcome to the forum Jeff, good to have you here with us and I hope we can help with answers to your queations.

For much better results though, please be sure to post these into the relevant section for better replies

Some great guys / members and top notch techs here too, usually plenty going on and some laughs to be had in the off topic section as well....all good.

I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view all the sites features

 

Welcome to the forum Jeff,

Sounds like you have a bit of a project, I'm sur the XJR guys will have lots of advice.

 

Welcome to the forum Jeff +1 on the above advice. Hope you can get things going again.

 

Thanks for uprgrading me Jim. I have loaded pictures of the VDP with some pictures of the engine as it stands now. Appreciate all the welcomes from everyone.

 

Btw, for those who are interested I am reposting my VDP tragic story in the XJ tech category so I will hopefully get some more input. Thanks everyone.