After buying a 2001 S type 5 years ago and having a great time we now have traded this for a 2001 X type.

Modern cars just dont float my boat. The XF and F type are fab but too much money for us.

Not perfect few bits to look at paint work mainly. Also alloys bit damaged / corroded

Just few queries

1. The bubbling or rust which appears under some door top rubbers. Is that serious are thy easy to replace.

2. There is a piece of undercoat metal stuff which goes right across the car in the engine bay as you lift the bonnet/hood its incredibly hot.

3. It has no locking alloy key nut are these easy to get if I quote the Chassis number to someone at a Jaguar dealer or specialist.

Cheers guys and dolls as always

Derek

 

drobbins, as I recall, you will need to take the car to a shop to have them weld in new metal by the door top rubbers. That is about the only way that you will be able to correctly fix that problem. I think you will find that the price that they are going to ask is going to be higher than you are willing to spend.

As for the undercoat piece, that piece will get hot as it is guarding the airbox from the exhaust manifold. Nothing that you can do about that other than maybe wrapping the exhaust header in insulative tape. Maybe I am thinking of something else. Maybe a picture would help me get a better idea as the piece over the exhaust manifold is the only piece that I can think of based on what you are describing.

As for the alloy locking nut tool, you might be able to get a new one through the dealership. What that is going to cost you, I can not even begin to imagine. If you are willing to get rid of the locking nuts, then send me a PM and I will tell you what you need to do to get them off. I don't feel right about putting it out on the open forums as this is something the local neighborhood kids could use to take your rims and I guard info like that as much as I can.

 

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...eel-nut-75127/

 

Thanks Thermo and Henry.

do you know if the automatic tranmission oil is an easy job or one for a specialist. I doubt its ever been done.

Cheers guys

Del

 

Del, members have done it themselves with no major issues. If you do some looking, there are a few ways that you can do it. Unfortunately, this car is not like the other cars you may have done where you drop the pan to get 90% of the oil out and then swap out a filter and refill. There is no filter in this tranny that you can easily access and when draining the fluid, you only get out about 50% of the fluid. So, to get to clean fluid, you need to do the fluid swap about 3-4 times. You can remove the line going to the tranny fluid cooler and then crank the engine over (disabling the ignition system) and remove the fluid that way. That makes it so you only need to do the fluid changeout once, but it can be a little more invasive.

 

Thanks Thermo. Shes a nice old bus so would like to look after it. Quite good kit too with heated screen and heated seats. Not as essential as parts of the US but still handy in a chilly at times South Devon, england as close as we are to Dartmoor.

 

Some more info.

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/g...ialysis-89745/