It didn’t come like this. I wish I had before photos. Years of crud layered with power steering fluid. Thanks for the kind words and sorry for the off topic post.

 

Its ok John, photos of Jaguar engines are always welcome on the forums, no matter the topic. Especially the V12 kind. I threw one in to start off the thread!

I try to keep things clean under the hood but it's not quite as pretty as yours. And you haven't seen the underside of MY engine, and you probably don't want to. Remnants from the oil hose burst still cling in dark places underneath.

 

I am taking apart the frond end of my car in search for a aircon gas leak and to clean the right hand side in front of the powersteering reservoir. It seems that quite some time ago there was an oil leak on the front right which has made a very sticky black mess of everything down there.
So why not change the belts while I have everything apart and excessible.
Before consulting this thread I had found a supplier in the UK, British Parts UK that offered the three belts for around £6 each and an idler for around £28. Trouble with ordering parts in the UK from Europe mainland is that import taxes need to be paid and a somewhat heftier shippingfee.

Once I got the parts it turned out that they were all Dayco belts, one of which was the NNA4705AA. That was what was indicated on the wrapping but the original belt is 146cm and this one was only 115cm.




That was the moment that I consulted this forum. I happened to be in the States that weekend so I ordered the Continental belt fron RockAuto as described above. This belt is indeed 1cm shorter than the original Jaguar/LandRover belt which is also made by Dayco by the way.
Meanwhile I consulted British Parts UK and they consulted their suppliers with all the information I supplied to them. Much to my surprise they sent me, free of charge, an original Jaguar belt which is around €55 from the dealer. Great service!



left the belt that came off, right the new one.

Right now I am still in the process of cleaning the black goo off so I cannot tell you if the Continental belt fits equally good as the original one. I will update as soon as I have put the belts on.