Well, we have had our first Jaguar for 6 years now (the 2003 VDP). Before registering today, I had visited the forum on occassion and found it useful for fixing the VDP (like to do a lot of the repairs myself). The wife does not want to trade or sell the VDP eventhough it is past 100,000 miles as she loves it. She thinks the car has saved her a few times when her previous American made car would have crashed. So I guess I will have to learn how to fix everyting on it since she wants to keep it forever.

Since I wanted to have spare parts handy for her, I bought really cheap a 2003 XJ8 to have for spare parts in the drive way. Well reading the forum has helped me diagnose a the few major issues it had (electrical, wiring and throttle body mostly) and now I am driving it!!! while my US made car has been in the driveway parked for the last 4 months. I love it, but it still has a few ghosts that I need to deal with.

I intent to share my learnings in the last 3 years. I have also bought the Jaguar option for a specific code reader suggested by some members and it has saved me a lot of guesswork. Looking forward to sharing info. I will try to update later with pictures.

 

Welcome to the forum JETJO,

Sounds like the VDP has been pretty reliable over the past six years. 100k miles is really only another number and many members here are well beyond that. Check this thread for recent discussion about it:

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/o...barrier-78705/

Great result with the parts car becoming your daily driver. You're going to need a third one for parts now!

No need for me to give you the link to the X308 section as you already know your way around.

Please also visit the Lower Atlantic Region section Lower Atlantic - NC SC FL GA - Jaguar Forums - Jaguar Enthusiasts Forum for other members and events in your region.

Enjoy the X308's and the forum.

Graham

 

Welcome to the forum.

Good to hear that you have been helped.

Enjoy the forums.

 

Welcome to the forum Jetjo,

Good to have you with us.
Enjoy the forum.

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

 

Thank you all for the welcome.
While new at the forum I am not at Jaguars.
Always admired then as a kid and I promised my self one day I woudl own one (never thought I would own 2). Love to do most small jobs on them myself.

Looking forward to help others too.
I will try monitoring the new posts once a week.

 

Hi Jetjo & welcome aboard, good to have you here with us

Glad we could help out some here n there and look forward to your insights....

Any useful information you may need such as how to post pictures, edit signatures, add videos, use the search facility etc, can be found here
Helpful_information

Why not drop in and visit the regional section for your area?
There are lots of members local to you with the same interests.
Regional - Jaguar Forums - Jaguar Enthusiasts Forum

There's a really great mix of information, camraderrie and fun here.....


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

I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view the whole site and all its features

Please Jump on in and enjoy the site...............

 

Welcome to the forum Jetjo,

Good advice given above.

Enjoy the forum - Anthony