After doing it the hard way twice a year for the last 20 plus years, I purchased a 2 ton trolley jack and a tire inflator this spring.



From Michelin X-Ice 3 on Pentas to Continentals on Asteroids in just over an hour and a half.

And now that that’s done, over the next few days she’ll get a good cleaning, a good claying, a hand polish, and a fresh set of wax coats.

And hopefully by then the yard will have dried out enough to start on it.

 

Had had a series of recurring on-dash warnings come and go for a few days - low coolant, restricted performance, check engine light. They would typically disappear shortly after coming on or on restarting until yesterday morning when the check engine light was on when started and stayed on. So it was off to my indie to see what's what as I'm still without a code reader and have a trip to Jasper scheduled for Sunday/Monday and didn't want to do that starting with something untoward.

Interestingly enough, his full size Autel scanner wouldn't read the XJR any better than the Innova readers I returned last month (see previous posts) so it was out with older slower JLR unit. It didn't identify anything on the first go-round but the check engine light that was cleared returned on restarting. A second go-round with the scanner identified the issue as running rich so the MAF I cleaned last month was replaced. So far, so good so hopefully the problem is solved!

 

Big cat and bigger Cat:



For perspective, the bigger Cat was probably 150’ away.

This was at an out of town project meeting so approximately 80 km round trip. No check engine light, no dash board warnings and no hesitation or stumbling at idle or anywhere else up to 5,500 rpm.

Good to go for Sunday’s trek to Jasper and Monday’s trek home which will be about 800 km round trip.