March 2022
A well known sunday broadsheet is speculating on diesel rationing this morning.
Why not petrol too? Read more
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-60722727
Let's hope his repairs are more than 'Alright For An Hour' :-) Read more
When Rod was asked to comment he said "I don't want to talk about it. Have you seen the rain?" Pushed to talk more about it he reckoned he'd soon be sailing along the road, the work was giving him hot legs and it's a heartache, but thought tonight's the night.
For a final comment Rod said "I was only joking."
rattle, like hand clapping in and around rear wheel/axle when driving over a rough surface Read more
Welcome to the forum and thanks for giving that interesting perspective, I always wondered how the RWS worked on the ZX compared to more complex solutions such such as on he Honda Prelude. Maybe in the case of the ZX it was a case of taking KISS a bit too far...
please help me with stereo code M031107 please Read more
thanks a lot
please help me with stereo code M031107 please Read more
My 2015 X250 XF 3.0D S had an advisory for a rear differential fluid leak on its first MoT in 2018 at 15,000 miles. A new seal was fitted by the Jaguar dealer in 2018 and I assumed the problem was fully resolved. However, I took the car in for a Jaguar dealer service today at 40,000 miles and was told there is a noise coming from the differential and that rear diff pinion seal is moist. The noise is very slight and I can only hear it from the passenger seat, it just sounds like the air conditioning fan is on at a very low setting speed. The car still drives 100% fine.
I've read lots of horror stories online about XF rear diffs failing and it costing a fortune to replace them. Can someone recommend the best course of action to take?
I've found a transmission/differential specialist not too far away and I was thinking they should be able change the diff oil and put a new seal on. However, if the diff is already making a noise is it already damaged to an extent that a diff oil change won't improve things?
Also, I've heard that changing the diff oil and seal involves rebalancing the diff and this is a tricky job and that the diff won't be as smooth afterwards. Am I best to take it to a transmission/diff specialist rather than the Jaguar main dealer? I can't imagine the Jaguar dealer has that much experience of changing diffs unlike the specialists that work on transmissions and diffs every day and the Jaguar dealer wants £132 just to look at the problem again!
Am I best to get the diff oil and seal changed at a specialist and hope that the noise is resolved by this. Which is the best type of diff oil to use and am I correct in saying 0.85 litres should be used?
In the very worst case scenario, if the diff fails in the future, I have seen a few second hand diffs on eBay for around £250 - how much would it cost to get a used diff fitted and is it possible to fit a used diff without losing the smoothness of power delivery associated with the XF? I've read online that it can cost several thousand pounds to replace the diff but as I say there are always quite a few used diffs on eBay and I can't imagine that the labour would be thousands of pounds at an independent garage.
Ideally, I'd like to keep this car for many years to come - aside from this diff issue, everything is 100% fine with it but I am worried that this rear diff issue will be a persistent pain. Read more
Ideally, I'd like to keep this car for many years to come
Oops...JLR products are not for the long haul. Get rid and buy a Lexus, Toyota, Honda......
Got chatting to a bloke this week with a lovely Audi A8 hybrid car.
He told me how much he was paying on his PCP, £1020 a month for 48 months.
I don’t know how much he put down as a upfront payment, but I was taken back by the monthly payment.
Of course it’s his money, his choice, etc. But it seemed excessive for a posh pair of wheels.
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Company will be paying for it no doubt, 99.9% of high end metal like this is. Even if I won the lottery I wouldn’t spend money like that on a car, I’d get greater pleasure from helping someone else than seeing insane depreciation like you’d suffer on this.
This comes up periodically but there hasn’t been a thread for a while. And I don’t recall discussion on using an excess to reduce cost. Spoiler alert, that’s where I ended up but my journey was a learning experience.
Our renewal for two of us for personal cover with Britannia came in today. It’s now £127 which includes £29 for my wife’s CSMA/Boundless membership. It seems a bit steep as we don’t make use of any other membership benefits.... Read more
Apologies Sammy if I appear insulted you. But I’m not talking about Whitehall staff who by and large commute to work by train but the run of the mill Civil Servants and Local Government and NHS staff who use the restricted car park at their work. Which is often covered by CCTV and where drivers maybe have more of a conscience if they damage a car belonging to a colleague .
These discounts are not directly paid for by other customers. Rather a case that the company thinks it can generate more volume by offering them. ...
With the price of fuel now rising steeply are members going to cut down on mileage now to save a bob or two? Read more
There may be a fall in the value of gas guzzlers and an upturn in the value of high mpg models
That would be a buying opportunity for those who think that petrol prices will come back down. There was a petrol price spike in 1979/80 and no one wanted gas guzzlers. I got an 18 month old 3lt 6 cylinder for 30% of what it had cost new. I got 25 years out of that car and then sold it for what I had paid for it. No depreciation on the car but the money had depreciated.
Doing some reading and research into the new electric Megane, and I’ve just been finding out about a QR code that some manufacturers put on the windscreen or drivers door glass to aid firefighters.
In the case of the Megane, scanning the QR will tell emergency services that there is an isolator switch under the rear seat cushion that will terminate high voltage circuits, and that there is a port accessible through which the battery can be flooded.
It’s said that a battery fire can be extinguished in five minutes, rather than leaving it to burn for two or three hours. Read more
I'm not sure how much use these QR codes are in the UK. My local fire service uses Moditech Crash Recovery System which can now read number plates using the device camera and display the relevant information for isolating electrics/airbags, and points for using the cutting tools etc for extrication; but maybe these types of apps are not in used by every UK fire service.
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We have to be weary of the media creating a panic. They are interested in spreading sensationalism for the sake of readership.
They created the petrol shortages fiasco and we are still paying for higher petrol prices....