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Feeling pretty welcome already. This is a very nice forum for sure. I remain super mod emeritus (Cuba) on Saabcentral after 17 odd years faffing about with turbos and meatballs. I don't get on there a great deal these days as the Saab is garaged elsewhere with little use.
It's interesting how the people are on the various forums. The Saab guys were really good folks with a great deal of intelligent and witty members. A wealth of knowledge and a lot innovative and pioneering characters on board. Lots of pipe holders and Werther's Originals.
The Alfa guys... pazzo! - many 'work arounds'. The BMW guys... generally w***ers if I'm honest. Mercedes folks a bit standoffish - lots of good info if you have the patience. Volvo folks are as sensible as you might imagine. Auto Union forum hard to translate. Renault is off with the fairies. Peugeot --pfft. To be fair, the internet didn't exist for most of my cars/motorcycles. It was off to the library to get the Haynes full of oily thumb prints or talking to the old boys.
I have been driving my Volvo XC for a few years and have really loved it. Prior to the Volvo I had a manual Toyota Hilux Surf 3LTD diesel. Should never have sold it after I see the prices nowadays...yawn. I go up the mountain quite regularly and out on shingle roads to hard to reach places and so Volvo has been perfect.
Here I am though, with the 06 XJ8 which I acquired from a close friend who imported it from Japan. It's had a lot of grubby kids through it over the last few years, but for the most part, it's all there. I didn't plan to own this car for any length of time at all, but I've been driving it to and from work for a few weeks and weirdly enough, it's putting a sh*t eating grin on my face every time I slide in. Oh.. woe is me....woe is me
Plan at this point is to make the car right. Sort all the minor niggles and sell it on. I have a weird feeling this plan may not pan out though.
Oh, btw since Photobucket ruined my party, do we normally host or just upload? ..cheers
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Welcome, the first one I bought made me smirk and 14 years on it still does. Of course there's always the problem of having another one follow you home, very cat like.
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Hello, Jason,
Congratulations on your First Jaguar!
You may well find that this car will get under your skin and you'll just Have to keep it. If, that is, that Grin on your face every time you drive it is anything to go by. That Grin happens to quite a lot of us actually.
Haha, they can’t deport me now, became a duel citizen in 2016.
I've had dual citizenship since 1988. I used to carry 2 passports when travelling. NZ one helped when I was deported from the UK to Paris. It was shortly after David Lange negotiated 2 month visitors visas after the Rainbow Warrior fiasco. I still have to go the consulate in Wellington to renew the boys ones. It's funny, most of the embassies, consulates and the like are one the same street. You walk past the Mexican consulate and the door is open and they are drying laundry on a rack outside. There is a cat laying the doorway licking its paws in the sun. You get to the Australian consulate and there's a 15' concrete wall coated in razor wire, festooned with cctv.
Greetings from the antipodes
