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Hi Paul, I have my first Jaguar when I was 77 and my 11 year old Rover 825 Rover Sterling was getting rather tatty and a respray would have cost more than the car was worth. Someone said that a Jaguar was an old man's car --- not so. Driving a Jaguar keeps you young! Regards, Peter.

When driving my 2006 X-Type 2.2d it started to drop into limp mode when accelerating at low rpm. This could be reset by turning the engine off waiting briefly and then restarting. This problem became more and more frequent. After removing and cleaning the EGR and inlet manifold (filthy Job),which were not at all clogged, the problem still persisted so I booked it in for a diagnosis. They diagnosed that the moving vanes that control the effect of exhaust gases within the turbo and hence the speed and impact of the turbo were sticking, probably due to becoming coked up. They had tried to free the movement as a temporary measure but a replacement turbo was the official solution. I took the car away and realising that the vane actuator arm was easily accessible just behind the engine cover, i decided to try to free the vane movement by unclipping the actuator arm (one circlip) from the electonic control unit and move the arm back and forth repeatedly and forceably through any claggy resistance, This seemed to reduce the number of incidents for the moment so I checked out what fuel additives there might be for cleaning turbo vanes. I found that Wynns produce a cleaner specifically aimed at the vanes and added that to the fuel. I then drove the car in lower gears so that the car was revving over 2k rpm with occasional sessions of sustained 3.5k rpm to get the turbo and exhaust good and hot with lots of gas flow. This was interspersed (after things had cooled down!) with a further couple of sessions of actuator arm back-and-forth activity. After about 250 miles the problem had gone away totally but for good measure I have added another treatment to my next tankful and will still do some lower gear and high rev running from time to time. So for under £40 and a bit of screwdriver and arm activity, I seem to have avoided a bill for £1-2K! to replace an otherwise quiet and undamaged turbo. In hindsight I could have also saved the £200 diagnosis cost by first disconnecting the actuator arm and manually checking out how freely it (and hence the vanes) moved through its full range of movement! Ahh the wonder of hindsight! Hope this is useful to someone.

Welome to the Club, Gary. Nice car, and I think you will enjoy it. I almost 60 years of driving, the s type is the best car I have ever driven Regards, Peter.

Less than two weeks to go. Are there any more members who want to have breakfast surrounded by Jaguars? Peter.

Hi If I was picking, I'd go for the 5.0L The 5.0l has the newer gearbox and later spec engine I would say the 5.0l will be more sought after and hold better value I have the 4.2 supercharged unit in my S-type R, Which is a superb engine, but would love to upgrade to the 5L, Just for the extra power and torque cheers Joe

Welcome to the club, David. There will be strong opinion on both sides -- there a quite a few XK owners who will speak from experience. I would go for the tried and tested, personally, as a safe bet. But having said that, both engines are tremendous. Regards, Peter.

Thanks Peter, good to know help is at hand when needed. Have to agree about premium fuel, have always used it in all cars in the past. First time Jag owner at the age of 60+ , learning week by week. Kind regards Paul and wife (Trish)

That's the one I got in 2013, and I was told that there were not going to be any more. My son uses his iPhone to do sat nav duties. Peter.

Fantastic array of cars, Terje!