There not the only ones, its lovely

 

Arden tuned Jaguar XKR Supercharged silver metallic under grey sky's

 

^^^ that's so cool!!!

 

My 1998 XK8 Jaguar Convertible with 30,000 miles on it...

 

Took the girls out to participate in the Boise Independence Day Parade (with an English car, of all things). I did spot a Land Rover pulling a float so I wasn't the only one. I will admit the Jag had to be the most stylish car in the parade. All had a good time despite the almost triple digit temps.

 

Aleather, Really nice looking Convertible! Must keep it parked a lot to only have 30,000 on it.....You should drive it more and enjoy it! Back in 1998, I had a Topaz Coupe.....of course the right Chain Tensioner broke and only bent 3 Valves....I was lucky!

Billy Clyde in Houston

 

Topaz, I heard allot about the plastic Chain Tensioner and other plastic parts that I should replace, but so far no problems with the engine. I may be pressing my luck by not replacing the plastic engine parts? <grin> Car rides like new and had minimum problems so far...It's basically a summer car.

 

Aleather in Cape Cod, You are one Lucky Guy but you need to be realist my Friend....The first thing I would do tomorrow is very carefully drive to the nearest Jaguar Garage or Dealer and have those little Mistakes changed out. If you do that, it will, I guarantee it, save you $1,000.00's of Dollars.....Just think of what could happen.....Bent Valves, a Hole in the top of a Piston.....Absolutely nothing good is just waiting to happen! Been there and done that!

Billy Clyde in Houston

 

Nice Jag

You've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?

 

My local Jag dealer in Las Vegas did mine (2001 at 40,000 mi) last year and charged me $1500.

Brad

 

Please note that plastic tensioners become brittle and crack not because of miles, but because of time. Your car is 20 years old; I guarantee the tensioners are already cracked and waiting to shatter. It would be a shame to junk such a beautiful low-mileage dream car for want of a simple repair. (You need only replace the upper/secondary tensoners now--an easy repair--as the lower ones are much less likely to cause the chain to jump teeth when they shatter, and you'll certainly hear them when they do.)

 

BACK ON TOPIC, PLEASE ....... there's plenty of threads available for discussing tensioners. This one is for PHOTOS.

Graham

 

I'm a software engineer who is lead developer on our customized CMMS and I work on as a developer/trainer/qa and tech reg expert on our fully in house developed MES. I have a decent sized office and dress business professional.

I wondered why no one kept taking that spot and when I was in the end stall on the bathroom at work some of the ladies actually were talking about it and all the people upstairs think it's a reserved space and that I'm a director lol. I still feel like I'm pretending to be an adult. I'm not going to correct them.

Funny part, the old Blazer is my bosses car lol.

 

Sounds like your firm holds gossip conferences in the ladies room....

 

Bought this little jem for my wife on our anniversary.

 

I just made it a bigger gem.

Graham

 

Lazy Sunday, going places

 

Looks a good bit like Texas, with the exception of the broken stripes out lining the lanes!

Billy Clyde in Houston

 

2003 XK8 4.2, ZF6, 155k KM <br/>



Anthracite grey, beige leather interior.

 

Nice! You lived up to the name of the thread with this one.