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Old Sep 10, 2014 | 10:04 AM
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Hi, I have interviewed 3 potential European and Vintage car experts in my area and each one looked as though they wanted to drop a clanger ( for you Brits out there ! ) Can anyone suggest a less grimaced face guy within the New York Westchester/lower CT area ?
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Old Sep 10, 2014 | 10:48 PM
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I have used Wehrmann Engineering on my V12 XKE recently and they did a tremendous job.

One <slight> problem however, they are in Hauppauge on Long Island. My car is ridiculously original and kid-glove needed (breathing on it makes my groan), and he did some fairly invasive cooling work (bonnet off stuff) and well as other maintenance prior to me taking delivery, that was top notch.

Hope that helps, but might be worth a call and a trip.

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Old Sep 11, 2014 | 11:56 AM
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not sure he's the best value out there anymore. another member had a bit of an issue with pricing parts.

but raj at XJR auto is a v12 expert. i think he prefers working on them.

only problem for you is they are in manhattan. not sure if that's out of your distance range.

what type of car by the way?
 
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Old Sep 11, 2014 | 12:31 PM
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Feel free to give me a call with your Zip code and I can let you know what garages we supply on a regular basis.. if that helps...?
 
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Old Sep 12, 2014 | 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by SNG Barratt USA
Feel free to give me a call with your Zip code and I can let you know what garages we supply on a regular basis.. if that helps...?
Zip 06807
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Old Sep 12, 2014 | 09:24 AM
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Originally Posted by DrScientist
not sure he's the best value out there anymore. another member had a bit of an issue with pricing parts.

but raj at XJR auto is a v12 expert. i think he prefers working on them.

only problem for you is they are in manhattan. not sure if that's out of your distance range.

what type of car by the way?
xjs 1995 4.0...supposedly the easier one to fix ?
 
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Old Sep 12, 2014 | 04:19 PM
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A little bit north of westchester is Jeff Palmero of International Motor Car Repair in Hopewell Junction, NY. He is about 60 minutes from westchester. I met with him today and he seems like a reasonable person to have work on your car.
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Old Sep 14, 2014 | 12:59 PM
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There's a gentleman around rhode island (my state) his last name is kingston? It's either steve, jeff I can't remember but apparently he's one of few trained on these cars .
 
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Old Sep 14, 2014 | 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by rickjadejag
xjs 1995 4.0...supposedly the easier one to fix ?



What kind of repairs are you wanting done? You might not need a Jaguar whiz-bang guy at all. A lot of XJS repairs a fairly generic, especially the 6 cylinder cars.

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