Old Peter

Hi Mannix, The s type battery is quite a powerful one, a lot more than the x type. A member bought a car from a small dealer and found loads of minor faults. He sent me a photo of the battery and it would have just about powered a mini. A new bigger battery and everything worked. My s type has a Varta 95amp hours. You can get batteries at quite a few places if you shop around. Andy has given you a good supplier. Peter.

Hi Robert and welcome to the club. I am not an electrical expert, but that sounds serious, and I would take out the battery, and clean up any connections and then get some expert advice. Those with more electrical savvy than me will advise. Bertieboy knows a great deal about X Types, and there are several members with great electrical expertise. Peter.

Hi Peter, Getting those bits sorted won't be a difficult job. The radio code can also be obtained without difficulty, if that is the problem. I was talking to and old gentleman yesterday who had a similar model just 12 years which he has had from new and it looked really good in a metallic blue. He had a chauffeurs peaked cap and a pair of white gloves on the rear parcel shelf which he told me often gets him into special events very easily! It will be a drag through the week but well worth waiting for. Regards, Peter.

Hi Mark, Sit in the drivers seat and feel underneath the panel a bit below knee level on the left. Very easy when you have done it once. Peter.

Hi John and Welcome to the Club. There was a member posting a few days ago who is selling his e type, which he bought from its first owner around 1974. As you said, though, funds permitting, as a good e type with a service history will not come cheap! I think the XK is a great car but it lacks the space to carry grandchildren around! A Future classic. And I think Jaguar might well produce a Mark 3 s type one day! Meanwhile let the leafy lanes of Cheshire see your XF.. Regards, Peter.

Welcome to the Club, Peter. The Jaguar experience is a great one and that XJ model is a real looker. There are several members with similar models who will assist with advice when requested. My insurance [without breakdown cover] is £601 in the City of Birmingham!! Regards, Peter.

Hi Richard, and Welcome to the club. I think the manual and the Sat Nav are not working together, as it were. I have the rather simple S type Sat Nav, but at a guess I think that waypoints might mean POI. I think members with a similar car could assist, though. Peter.

Hi Simon, and welcome to the club. I think that you could look up the item on a Parts Catalogue [try the David Manners Group], and I think it will show the model that it fits. I think both the gearboxes are ZF 6 speed boxes and there cannot be much difference, I guess. Regards, Peter.

Hi Ian, and welcome to the Club. I paid £9,750 for m S Type 2.7 Diesel with 48k on the clock in June 2013 with all the bells and whistles, even a proper spare wheel, so that is not a bad price at all. You will enjoy the S Type -- great car to drive. Regards, Peter. Lancastrian in Exile.

Hi Steve, This is a very interesting topic. The only code I have had was P0402 -- too much exhaust gas at EGR valves, which in layman's term equals a sticky egr valve which needs a good blast or a can of EGR Cleaner. That and Parkbrake Fault -- usually stuck on & cured by disconnecting the battery for to minutes. [remembering your radio code]. Not very scary, I'm afraid but SWMBO won't allow anything dodgy to take a chance with. Regards, Peter.

Welcome to the Club, Harvey. NextBase are currently advertising a dual camera, though I would not know how good that would be on an XK. Regards, Peter,

I used to commute 25 miles to work and the same back by motor cycle. One evening coming home it broke down, and although I managed to get it home through a kind young man who got it into the back of his van, I had to get transport for the next day, I was nice and sunny so I got my rather nice racing bike out and did the 25 miles in about an hour and a half. Different!! Pater.

Hi Maciek, and welcome the club. Good luck with your move to England. All you need now is a nice Jaguar. Regards, Peter.

I had my S Type Terracleaned about 18 months ago and noticed a vast difference in performance and mpg. The Mobile Service I used advised that every 15k miles would do the engine very good. A week after having it done I had to drive the 90 miles to Sheffield and the outward journey on a restricted speed due to road works on the M1 the car returned 53 mpg. The return journey on a different route returned a little less, and the round trip was 46.2 mpg. I would recommend it. Peter.

The RAF Badge reads "Per Ardua ad Astra" --- some people thought it means "It's hard in an Astra" Peter.

Hi Joe, There was a report that several major cities ought to think about banning diesel vehicles from the city centre - Birmingham included. There will be a problem with buses and taxis as well as delivery vans. It is no problem for me as I live close to the Staffordshire Border and Lichfield is nearer than Birmingham. Add to that it takes an hour to drive into the City centre and parking is a nightmare. I have not driven into Birmingham for years as the Local cross city line is an easy walk to the station, and with my travel pass I go free. And trains are every 15 minutes and it only takes 18 minutes to get to your new station - Grand Central Station, formerly New St. Peter.

Hi Steve, and welcome to the club. The S type has a sort of mechanical indigestion, and the gurgling is equivalent to a burp. It is climate control and nothing to worry about. I think that the exhaust colour might have been something from the past. If you clean the guilty one up and see if it gets black again. If it doesn't get black again it will be OK. If it does then a problem will exist and a solution will be found. Regards. Peter.

Welcome to the Club, Andy. There is a mine of information here and all you need to do is ask. The club is about sharing experiences. Regards, Peter. Lancastrian in Exile.

I agree with Harvey, Robin. They are there for a reason if only to catch the bits that you drop. Just really a bit of protection. Peter.

Hi Graham, You get an extra couple of days a year of life getting up early. When I was working for a living I often had to go to Teesside from here - 180 miles -- and hating hotels, I would leave here at 5.00am, stop at a Transport Cafe for a bacon sandwich and a coffee, get to the Steelworks at 8.45 am, have my meetings, leave at 5.00 pm and get home by 8.00 pm. Normally though I went to my Offices before 8.00 am as they were only 600 yards away. Pester GS until they find the cause. Peter.

While not directly concerned with Jaguar, there could be a general effect on emissions testing across Europe. The EU have been more than proactive in controlling emissions on all cars, and to that end, have insisted the manufacturers use various devices, EGR Valves [some Petrol Engines will also have these] and Diesel Particulate Filters. Some drivers, including some members, have blanked these off, either fully or partially, and in respect go the DFP have removed them entirely. Removing the DPF is [from early 2014] an automatic MOT failure, but as the check is purely a visual one, many drivers who have removed them have got away with it. With VW having devised software that will switch on when a car is being tested to falsify emission readings, and then switch off when the car is on the road, I ask the question "What will the EU do to stop drivers avoiding regulations?" My guess is that they will change the visual inspection of the DPF to a check to actually see it is still there----at a cost to the motorist. The EU will certainly do something, whatever it is! Peter.

HI Dave, Kind words from Andrew, and he is quite right about the battery. The s type has quite a lot of electrical equipment, and when the battery is getting old or needs charging the less important electrical bits stop working properly. I had a problem with the heated rear window when I first got my car and found out that the car had been standing inside a garage for 3 months and had only just been charged. If the battery is the wrong size, and I have come across that, it needs changing and if it is over 5 years or so old, check it out. Bad connections/earthing are always worth checking. On the colour try getting a check on the specification as when it left the factory. Ask a Jaguar dealer if they will give you a read out using your VIN number, or try Vindecoderz which sometimes works. [it did for me.] I have never seen an Orange Jaguar, though! Regards, Peter.

Hi John and welcome to the Club. I would suggest that you give the engine a Terraclean service. Check it out on the internet, and it will probably be worth the £100 or so. Regards, Peter.

Hi Graham, I would start with the tailpipe, and then check along the exhaust as far as you can go. The engine mount is probably the last to check. Anything loose, wearing or badly connected will cause vibration. The good thing is that the vibration stops at 1200 rpm. Regards, Peter.

Hi Glyn, I looked up some figures a year or so ago, and the total number was about 340,000, and about 150,000 went to the USA and Canada, with about another 50,000 into Europe and the erstwhile colonies. The Dutch and the Germans liked them! That left about 150,000 in the UK. Regards, Peter.