Hello,

I just acquired a 1999 XK8, I lurked around in here before picking her up and had the cam chain tensioners upgraded , hoses , fluids, plugs. 71000 miles . I driver her home from calmly to Utah averaging 90mph. Took her up to 135 before remembering she is 23 years old.

Thank you for the wealth of information posted here . Love the car!!!

best,

PJ

 

Welcome to the forums Airpirate17,

Good to have you with us.

It sounds like you've already found the relevant model forum but if not, follow this link https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/xk8-xkr-x100-17/ to the XK8/XKR forum for help, advice and information. The 'HOW TO' threada at the top are a good place to start for information on regular issues. You can also use the US Western Region forum by following this link https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/us-western-38/ to find other members in your region.

Please read the guidance for new members ( https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/n...ned-up-241802/ ) which answers many of the most frequent questions about getting started.

Enjoy the forums.

Graham

 

Thank you Graham !

 

Welcome to the forum - enjoy!!!

 

Welcome aboard PJ.

 

Welcome to the Forums.

 

Welcome to the forum PJ,

Good to have you with us.
Enjoy the forum.

If you haven't done so already you should add your car details to your signature to help others to help you.

 

Hello, PJ,
Congratulations on your new Jaguar Xk8!!
71000 miles is just now well broken in and loosened up!
23 years old or not, She's in her Prime! She'll sneer at 135 mph!

Welcome to the forums from ElinorB.
(';')

 

Thank you all for the welcome. Really enjoy the car. I have owned Porsches in the past and this is my first Jaguar. She has a certain elegance to her.

 

Are you pulling high G's .......



...... or is it the curse of the smartphone storing every image in landscape?



Graham

 

Lol Graham.

She’s a 60 year esteem block airplane, what can possibly go wrong ?

image on phone is portrait, could figure out why it loaded sideways ?

 

Smartphones and tablets store an attribute for each image to make it display in the same orientation it was originally taken on the device. This forum and many others cannot interpret the attribute so the image can appear landscape when it should be portrait or even upside down. I used Windows Paint to rotate your horizontal original to give the second one in portrait.

Graham

 

Copy that

thank you Graham

 

Welcome to the forums.