XJ40 spares help please in NW
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A friend of mine has called me from overseas and has asked me to help him find a replacement fuel tank for his 1993 XJ40.
He found one in Crawley on Ebay but the seller won't ship, not even in the UK and it would be a 500 mile round trip for me to collect.
Can anyone suggest any breakers in the NW who may have an XJ40 or another source for a fuel tank please?
The ones I've tried have all said they haven't got one.
He found one in Crawley on Ebay but the seller won't ship, not even in the UK and it would be a 500 mile round trip for me to collect.
Can anyone suggest any breakers in the NW who may have an XJ40 or another source for a fuel tank please?
The ones I've tried have all said they haven't got one.
Leylandeye said:
A friend of mine has called me from overseas and has asked me to help him find a replacement fuel tank for his 1993 XJ40.
He found one in Crawley on Ebay but the seller won't ship, not even in the UK and it would be a 500 mile round trip for me to collect.
Can anyone suggest any breakers in the NW who may have an XJ40 or another source for a fuel tank please?
The ones I've tried have all said they haven't got one.
There is a poster on PH who breaks Jaguars called Naki. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?me...He found one in Crawley on Ebay but the seller won't ship, not even in the UK and it would be a 500 mile round trip for me to collect.
Can anyone suggest any breakers in the NW who may have an XJ40 or another source for a fuel tank please?
The ones I've tried have all said they haven't got one.
He is well known and reliable (I have bought parts from him). He has a lot of parts and will probably have a fuel tank for a '93. I should think he is likely to ship abroad, though that may depend on where your friend is of course. He seems to be far more active on www.xj40.com where he posts as naki_k. It may be worth you joining the site to ask him if he doesn't see this.
Edited by dbdb on Friday 13th December 00:29
The problem with a fuel tank may be more to do with shipping than someone prepared to sell one. I'd have thought a lot of couriers would be very wary of handling one, fire risk, fumes, smell, contamination, leaks etc...
I know that when I sold an engine from an XJ a few years back persuading people to ship it was a problem. I'd initially thought that I could just pop it on a pallet (actually I'd advertised is as for collection only) and that would be easy. Nope. Eventually pallet line agreed to carry it when I assured them it had been empty for ages, I'd taken the sump off it and cleaned it out, then I had to wrap the whole thing in lord knows how much cling film like stuff.
I'd have thought a fuel tank would present more problems.
I know that when I sold an engine from an XJ a few years back persuading people to ship it was a problem. I'd initially thought that I could just pop it on a pallet (actually I'd advertised is as for collection only) and that would be easy. Nope. Eventually pallet line agreed to carry it when I assured them it had been empty for ages, I'd taken the sump off it and cleaned it out, then I had to wrap the whole thing in lord knows how much cling film like stuff.
I'd have thought a fuel tank would present more problems.
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