Tag Archives: Jaguar

Drive It Day

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Pin

The MK2 Jaguar is all ready for “Drive It Day” tomorrow having recently been serviced – an occasion which brings us to a total mileage of nearly 10,000 since we acquired the car at the beginning of February 2011.  To … Continue reading →

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Clutches and costly fluids

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Pin

Re – reading yesterday’s blog suggests that everything has gone according to plan today!  The XK8 has indeed left the workshop, no longer in ‘limp mode’, full of new transmission fluid, and with a centre console which illuminates properly. The … Continue reading →

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Cars arriving and leaving

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Pin

It is a time for change in the workshop this week: The Scimitar has now left for home and chose a sunny day on which to do it. Slight surprise there because I’d rather expected it to be raining after … Continue reading →

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Buying tube safely

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Pin

It seems that it’s becoming a rule of thumb that the busier I am in the workshop, the more sporadic the posts become on the blog!  I have been taken up with a wide variety of jobs since my last … Continue reading →

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MOT time

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Pin

It has been a late night in the workshop today:  I took some time out this afternoon to take the MK2 for its MOT so I have been catching up with all the other jobs awaiting my attention. I’m glad … Continue reading →

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A Case of the DTCs

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Pin

Or to give them their full name, “Diagnostic Trouble Codes”. I have a Jaguar XK8 in the workshop at the moment which drives everywhere in “limp mode” and displays “Gearbox Fault” on the dashboard.  Plugging in the laptop reveals a … Continue reading →

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The Best of British

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Pin

The series 1 Land Rover arrived on Friday as planned and we decided to go ahead with the brake master cylinder conversion.  The original Girling cylinder has had it’s share of trouble over the last year or two:  It had … Continue reading →

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Driving Nicely

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Pin

Went out to run a few errands in the MK2 today – it’s running really nicely. That’s fairly remarkable as it happens, since it doesn’t seem to have had an engine rebuild since new. Admittedly it has only covered 68 … Continue reading →

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The Jag

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Pin

This January we added a new car to the Thetford fleet.  It’s a 1960 Jaguar MK2 2.4 automatic, it is Cherine’s cherished mode of transport and you can see it in the mast – head to the blog.  Since Cherine … Continue reading →

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