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I opened the bonnet on the XK today & found some brutal damage to one of the plastic components (air intake?), located directly in front of the engine.
I was reluctant to remove the piece to avoid further damage, as the piece is extremely brittle. I have no idea how the damage occurred, however the Middle East summer temps have no doubt contributed.
I'd appreciate any help ID'ing the part & any help with the Part No would be brilliant.
Up in the stickies you will find a link to the workshop manual and electrical information. They can both be downloaded at no cost. You are correct about the part being pat of the cold air intake system. You should be able to find what you need there. If not, another member of the forum more knowledgeable than I will probably jump in with more specific information.
Cunjie make sure you change your oil immediately. Your engine took in a lot of sand and its in the oil.
You can use aluminum tape (available at air conditioning supply companies) for now to fix it, it will last for many months.
Just make sure you break all the lose pieces as that can go through you engine.
Important, before you seal- replace the air filters. you will have sand on the back of them, which will get sucked in after you seal and give the engine full suction.
Another thing you can do is just cut that entire section of pipe and replace it with a rubber hose or plastic pipe of same diameter. You can find cold air kits on ebay that use same size tube.
You may think this is a bad thing to do, but if you are correct that the heat has started to break the plastic, the rest of it will also break soon and you will have to find complete assembly.
Sheesh* sometimes I'm glad I live in the UK with our inclement weather of 14c/56f annual average
No peeling dash leather and certainly not the plastic damage you've shown.
There was a very interesting article 2 days ago. About XK reliability in the extreme opposite of environment it was designed for.
Eye opening that the XK did better than a Dodge in the climate Dodge was made for.
Long-term wrap-up: Jaguar XK is an interesting contrast to our Mopar muscle
by Mashfique Hussain Chowdhury. January 6, 2020.
Our Jaguar XK never had a fair shot in this market. While the car is perceived to be a modern classic in the United States and Europe, it had a weird reputation here — a mix between expensively unreliable, driven only by old British men, and expensive enough to get a ton of road respect.
There’s some truth to all three assertions, but not entirely accurate. It is “only” as expensive to run as any other luxury-branded German car, as we have proven multiple times over the last 6 years of ownership. While it is popular with old British men, there is a younger mostly-European following as well here. And while it gets the prime spots at valets, it’s cheaper to buy used than a new Kia nowadays.
But what no one looking in from the outside understands is that the Jaguar XK is more of an old Mustang than a Porsche. Our 2008 model’s old 4.2-litre V8 is lazy and full of torque. Mated to a 6-speed “J-gate” automatic with paddle-shifters, it was ridiculously fun to drive when there was enough space to open it up, with a raucous exhaust note and a tail-happy demeanour. It becomes a big old-school muscle-car when pushed.
The XK was like a refined alternative to our wannabe-luxury SRT-badged Mopar muscle, except with more durable leather, real aluminium trim and general upholstery that has lasted a decade instead of falling apart every summer. At least you get your money’s worth.
The last bit of work done was an a/c gas refill and cleaning of the a/c filter/evaporator/condenser for Dhs 275 from a quickie Fast Track garage.
Unfortunately our Jag failed the RTA annual testing this year, not because of emissions or actual safety concerns, but because the rubber bits on the suspension looked worn and the space-saver spare needed a replacement. They never thought of these as a problem in past years but decided to catch it for some reason this time. Literally no one beyond the dealer had a tyre for the space-saver spare, and the other work would’ve cost about a third of the car’s value. The ice-cold a/c was also recently showing signs that it might need another refurbishment, having never been fixed properly by the dealer years ago.
So it was a choice between pouring in more money into the car that we’ll never get back while wasting time at a garage (which we definitely would if we were keeping the car longer), or sell it to some poor sucker who doesn’t know what he’s in for (which is not our style). We did the honourable thing — even though our XK works 95% like a new car, we offloaded it at one of those WeBuyCarYouSellForCash-type outfits for a measly Dhs 13,500, out of which they even ate up Dhs 500 as processing fees. These much-hated places basically make you sit around (3 hours in our case, not the promised 45 minutes) while the car is put on an online auction for used-car dealers. If time is an issue and money isn’t a factor, this is still a quick and easy way to ditch your depreciating asset instead of giving test-drives to tyre-kickers at odd hours of the day. But whichever anonymous dealer bid on it will get a car that’s rather excellent for its age, and can clean it up a bit and sell it for more than twice that amount.
It still worked out well for us too. We got to drive a semi-exotic for 6 years with a total expenditure of only Dhs 150,000 (please don’t pull out your cheapskate cost-per-km calculator — it’s not that kind of appliance), which is less than just the depreciation suffered by the first owner in the car’s first 5 years. It definitely opened a lot of doors in terms of image, because it looks great when you roll up in one of these for a business meeting, so it’s paid back many times over already.
But to keep our fleet fresh, we were planning to sell the car anyway, and this just gave us that final push to let it go. It will be missed, as there is literally nothing like it around any more, especially as Jaguar is busy building little crossovers now and don’t even have a grand-tourer any more. We predict it will start climbing in value about 10 years from now, at least in Europe.
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