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Depends on your understanding of the word "dealt" i think.
This is the XF form, they brushed off any interest if it was not an F-type. So there's that.
Several phone calls asking questions, each one sounded more like I was a bother than the last. Seemed uninterested in making me a customer, acted like they knew it all when it comes to tuning a car. I owned a custom car shop back in the day and my partner had the same "customer service" mindset because he was a well known tuner. I had to make sure we treated customers and potential customers like gold or we would have gone out of business.
I Stopped by their shop would not give me a time of the day. So yeah, I dealt with them enough to decide I did not like their attitude, and I'm from Philadelphia. I should have said if you have an XF and like to get treated like **** before "dealing" with them, they are your guys. Maybe that's why there are so few of their cars out there, in my opinion of course
I know what a beast that would be. If I still had my shop we'd be looking at dong a swap and making it a show car. I LOVED my XFR in CA, but back in CT it was just not practical
I would love to know when you stopped by the SHOP and where was THE SHOP. I am just asking because I meet with every customer or potential customer and we never turned down any Jaguar XF. You know... I am the owner and it's not fair to post such lies. Please tell me about THE SHOP since it's NOT in Westport. In Westport is only a management office and our online order fulfillment.
..... I Stopped by their shop would not give me a time of the day. So yeah, I dealt with them enough to decide I did not like their attitude, and I'm from Philadelphia. I should have said if you have an XF and like to get treated like **** before "dealing" with them, they are your guys. Maybe that's why there are so few of their cars out there, in my opinion of course. .....
Originally Posted by FType17
I would love to know when you stopped by the SHOP and where was THE SHOP. I am just asking because I meet with every customer or potential customer and we never turned down any Jaguar XF. You know... I am the owner and it's not fair to post such lies. Please tell me about THE SHOP since it's NOT in Westport. In Westport is only a management office and our online order fulfillment.
I'd like to see further details too.
We don't allow "dealer bashing" on the forums (and this extends to independent shops and specialists) but justified criticism is acceptable. There appears to be reasonable doubt about this "visit" when it apparently wasn't to the correct location.
I won't allow a tit-for-tat series of posts about this with claims and counter claims but if the visit did actually happen, let us know the details.
We don't allow "dealer bashing" on the forums (and this extends to independent shops and specialists) but justified criticism is acceptable. There appears to be reasonable doubt about this "visit" when it apparently wasn't to the correct location.
I won't allow a tit-for-tat series of posts about this with claims and counter claims but if the visit did actually happen, let us know the details.
Graham
I apologized for my personal impression and sharing my opinion about how I felt I was treated on the forum responding to a PM from the owner.
Westport?, Fairfield?, in CT you can be in a new town every 50 ft on the Post road,
I did not use any of their services or work and have no comments on those.
I suggest to anyone (and that's why you join a forum) to learn as much as you can about anyone (including a forum member like me) sellers, techs, whoever, before taking anything into your consideration into what they say.
My final general comment is for anyone who is thinking of spending thousands of dollars on your car to make changes that has the potential to have issues or need support in the future to talk to as many people you will be dealing with as possible and go with those you feel most comfortable with.
Again, I apologized to the owner and will not comment in this thread any longer.
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I was contacted about a post that you wrote about STP Tuning. I replied to you, I am the owner of STP Tuning and I know that you never stopped over nor had any interaction as you claimed. Why making up this stuff to bash a company? Please tell me a bit about the "SHOP" that you visited, since the "SHOP" is NOT in Westport but Fairfield and Newtown...
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I get it, I am from the south and we are just more friendly, learned new England is not that type of place. I will apologize in the post
But, Just in case it matters and it shouldn't because it was about 2 years ago, so I don't really remember, just the impression I was left with.
just l started to looking into a tune my car I talked to someone on the phone. Whoever I talked to said 2013 XF 3.0 did not have a tune. Talked to another tuners who said they do because it had the same ECU as the F-type from a different year? I don't really know . Called your "place" back, again was told it won't work, felt like I was dismissed off hand. Pretty curt, but just my opinion. Also made me think your "shop" did not know as much as others. Seemed like it was a re-selling deal only. Again, in my opinion and I did not post about that. .
Didn't say anything bad about your service, or workmanship. Neither of which did I say I used. I am sure you do good work, I just did not get the friendly customer first feeling. Sorry if my impression is wrong.
Sorry I thought I was in Westport, probably in Fairfield then again it was 2 years ago), all those little towns run together as you drive down the post road
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Originally Posted by FType17
I was contacted about a post that you wrote about STP Tuning. I replied to you, I am the owner of STP Tuning and I know that you never stopped over nor had any interaction as you claimed. Why making up this stuff to bash a company? Please tell me a bit about the "SHOP" that you visited, since the "SHOP" is NOT in Westport but Fairfield and Newtown...
Charles A. Ambrosecchia - Mobile 203-964-7181
I get it, I am from the south and we are just more friendly, learned new England is not that type of place. I will apologize in the post
But, Just in case it matters and it shouldn't because it was about 2 years ago, so I don't really remember, just the impression I was left with.
just l started to looking into a tune my car I talked to someone on the phone. Whoever I talked to said 2013 XF 3.0 did not have a tune. Talked to another tuners who said they do because it had the same ECU as the F-type from a different year? I don't really know . Called your "place" back, again was told it won't work, felt like I was dismissed off hand. Pretty curt, but just my opinion. Also made me think your "shop" did not know as much as others. Seemed like it was a re-selling deal only. Again, in my opinion and I did not post about that. .
Didn't say anything bad about your service, or workmanship. Neither of which did I say I used. I am sure you do good work, I just did not get the friendly customer first feeling. Sorry if my impression is wrong.
Sorry I thought I was in Westport, probably in Fairfield then again it was 2 years ago), all those little towns run together as you drive down the post road Number one, you posted that you visited the shop, that's not true Number two, we would never say that we don't have a tune for the XF 3.0L SC because we always did and it's the same engine used across Jaguar / Land Rover / Range rover lines Number three, we would never comment on what another tuner offers or if it would / would not work on your specific application Lastly, I don't know why you made this up about my company but it's not cool. If there is any doubt, please send me your caller ID for those calls and I can very easily look up the call records.
I was contacted about a post that you wrote about STP Tuning. I replied to you, I am the owner of STP Tuning and I know that you never stopped over nor had any interaction as you claimed. Why making up this stuff to bash a company? .....
Originally Posted by Jssaab
I apologized for my personal impression and sharing my opinion about how I felt I was treated on the forum responding to a PM from the owner. ..... I did not use any of their services or work and have no comments on those. ..... Again, I apologized to the owner and will not comment in this thread any longer.
A visit that may or may not have taken place. Telephone calls to unspecified people. However, it never got any further than an enquiry and no sale / purchase took place.
This all happened TWO YEARS AGO and an apology has been made although I'm not expecting there will be an exchange of Christmas cards.
A visit that may or may not have taken place. Telephone calls to unspecified people. However, it never got any further than an enquiry and no sale / purchase took place.
This all happened TWO YEARS AGO and an apology has been made although I'm not expecting there will be an exchange of Christmas cards.
The easy decision was to do this but we have knowledgeable members having a valuable and useful discussion. To simply halt this would have stifled the debate and this is the fundamental purpose of having a public forum such as this. If we can't have opinions and differences of opinion then we shouldn't be here. I hope everyone gains something from being a member.
We are all very different people who just happen to share a liking for Jaguar vehicles. It's inevitable that there will be friction over behaviour and disagreements on technical matters but, providing this is done in a civilised manner, it will be allowed to continue.
It's inevitable that there will be friction over behaviour and disagreements on technical matters but, providing this is done in a civilised manner, it will be allowed to continue.
Graham
fine. Then start your own thread....you have ruined this one.
moving on.
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Around 412 PS (up from the stock 380 or 340 PS).
But take it from me as someone who first went "tune only" then added the lower pulley later, the second jump from 412 PS to around 450 PS feels waaaay more than the first jump (in my case from 380 to 412 PS).
But if you are starting with the 340 PS version of the AJ126 then the jump to 412 PS would probably feel plenty good enough.
Ive seen you on this forum quite a bit, so that states to me that you know what youre doing. If im reading correctly (correct me if im wrong) but what you stated was you bought the tuner and had an increase of performance even though the car was all stocked at first? Im interested if so, and would there be an increase in my stock 2012 xf Base V8 if I decide to go that route?
Ive seen you on this forum quite a bit, so that states to me that you know what youre doing. If im reading correctly (correct me if im wrong) but what you stated was you bought the tuner and had an increase of performance even though the car was all stocked at first? Im interested if so, and would there be an increase in my stock 2012 xf Base V8 if I decide to go that route?
Hard to tell for sure but it seems you have a NA (naturally aspirated) engine and not a SC (supercharged) version.
If that is the case then all the talk in this thread about tunes and/or pulleys (VAP, Mina etc) doesn't apply to your car.
I don't think VAP or Mina even do a tune for the NA engine and there is plenty of info on the web/net that there is not a helluva lot you can do simply/cheaply to the NA engine (such as a tune) to increase power or torque, and you will never get the big increases you can get with pulleys and tunes on the SC version.
Another common question around here is "can I convert my NA V8 to the SC version?" and the answer is "yes but not without huge expense, much better/cheaper/easier to sell your NA version and by an SC car such as the XFR". Also to my knowledge no-one has ever successfully converted an NA version to SC.
yeah man I was young and naïve when I purchased my XF I just thought "I have a jag, its the best of the best and has a V8" little did my 20 year old self know at the time there was a supercharged version. Nonetheless I still love my base model and has treated me quite well especially coming from an 02 VW Passat v6.
Although I have been keeping my eye out on this 2015 Jaguar XF S.C (https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/listin...BEgI5zvD_BwE#/) opinions on it? is 27K$ with 55k Miles too much for that many mileage? Also this S.C is listed as FLEX FUEL does that mean it requires e85only or a mix?
Last edited by karamayoko; Oct 11, 2022 at 12:36 PM.
That's a rare Jag! No you don't have to use E85 you can still run just gasoline. It allows the option of running Alcohol (E85 and others). So you can run any mixture you want and the car will adjust automatically.
Do check that it has the yellow tag on the gas cap stating E85 usage.
As far as the car the biggest question will always be can you DIY the repairs? If not it will be an expensive car to own.
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Tell me about it lol, every time I take my 12 xf base w/warranty too jaguar its at least 1500-1200$ repairs but nothing major is what I tell my safe to be sane </3
vegas I read your post and it mirrors where i'm going to be soon, I have a x pipe mina cat back, eurotoys upper and lower pullies, eurotoys tune, put 540/570 to the wheels. Its back at eurotoys right now mike is replacing all the plastic, hp fuel pumps, injectors, vap sport cats, timing set, his bigger heat exchanger and bosch pump and I sent my charger off to be rebuilt and ported. very interested in what the dyno will say after its done. i'm feeling like the only thing left will be cooling the IAT enter a killer chiller but I don't know enough yet
2008 XKR Convertible, (mods: AlphaJagTuning ECU Tune , 1.5lb pulley, (200cel cats( are now melted), xpipe, Bosch 001 pump, 180 Thermostat.
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