I've been a Jag owner for quite some time, I even like where they are heading with the new models (not a pureist). I found the site digging for instructions on how to manage a hood when the passengers side won't pop. Can you believe my throtle cable broke and when I went to pop the hood it broke as well. What are the chances? Anyway OH MIGHTY SIDE GODS I am dieing to get enough rights to view the three photos of where to drill. In the interum I'm sweating out a hot Texas summer driving my old 928 (without air) and holding on to a new set of cables that I can't install. Give a brother a break please......

 

Welcome Charles, sounds like a problem. Are you sure that some chav did not nick your engine and then cut the hood cable to prevent you from discovering the theft!

Hope you get to see the pics soon.

 

Welcome formally charles! Sorry your first trip to the jaguarforums comes with such an urgent need. Whats the car look like? What year is it, how did you acquire it..in a poker game, inheritance burn a hole in your pocket, etc?

 

You may have a point Richard but I gotta get it poped before I can verify the theft. I'm an engineer by trade and I normaly would expect 1 problem with 2 symptoms. Still you could be right only the clever buggers also apperently pushed it back into the garage and closed the door!!! Gotta be a true criminal master mind behind this!

 

Thanks for youre intrest Matt, it's a Dark grey 98 VDP. Sweet ride but getting a little long in the tooth. I've had it about 5 years now and it was a quick purchase I got lucky with after my 97 XJ got totaled in the daily comute. I guess I'm going to have to use the site to get some recon on my next. I cant decide between the XF or the new gen of the XK. Prices between the 07 xk and the 09 xf seem about the same. I'll happily take tips anybody has on deciding.

 

Welcome,
I would go for XF but I am 4 door sedans bug lol

 

Thanks, your opinion just dashed many of my long held sterotypes.

 

Its easy to choose, if you have more than two people at any one time that you drive around...its a 4-door XF, if 9 out of 10 times its just you and one other lucky chap (or chapette?), the XK is your car.

If I need more space for extra passengers, I just rent a car or borrow a family members. They don't mind the trade off, trust me. This happens a few times a year.

 

I always thought that the transport of choice for single occupancy vehicles was a HumVee or some such.

For me, if I was in your position, it would depend on whether I was growing into or out of the family transport situation. Now grown out of.

So maybe the two door, but I also like the big saloon.

Tough decision, to be sure.

 

I finally got access to the images and I wanted to say thanks you to all of you for your support. Now to print and run these over to the shop.

 

welcome to the forum charles
sorry to hear about your probs. Had I noticed earlier I could have upgraded your status manually, but you're there now.
hope all goes well and look forward to a progress report