Jaguar XJ Problems?
Discussion
Hey up everyone, a friend of mine is contemplating buying an R Reg XJ that's had an LPG conversion. I've not looked at it yet, so I don't know about the mileage or even which engine it has. It's up for £6,500 and I was wondering if there were any common faults or things that go boom around particular mileages that I should look out for?
Cheers for the help,
AL
Cheers for the help,
AL
Check out this link:
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=195961&f=85&h=0
Doesn't cover LPG issues, but is an excellent guide to the potential pitfalls of the XJ8.
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=195961&f=85&h=0
Doesn't cover LPG issues, but is an excellent guide to the potential pitfalls of the XJ8.
That's an interesting one - an LPG conversion. I wonder what affect that has on the Nikasil issue? I have just bought an R plate XJ8 for £6k. It was obvious with my example that it had been so well looked after by the right professionals and had a bullet-proof service history (it even had the original recall letters from Jaguar). That's the key - and get it looked at by a specialist.
XJ_Wanty said:
That's an interesting one - an LPG conversion. I wonder what affect that has on the Nikasil issue? I have just bought an R plate XJ8 for £6k. It was obvious with my example that it had been so well looked after by the right professionals and had a bullet-proof service history (it even had the original recall letters from Jaguar). That's the key - and get it looked at by a specialist.
LPG doesn't contain sulphur so the car will be fine.
BTW nicasil hasnt been a problem for BMWs either, in Germany, because the fuels always been better.
There are no Nicasil worries when buying an E36 BMW 328i here and it's a similar story for if the engine was predominantly run on LPG.
Get a blow by test or compression test done
Marquis_Rex said:
XJ_Wanty said:
That's an interesting one - an LPG conversion. I wonder what affect that has on the Nikasil issue? I have just bought an R plate XJ8 for £6k. It was obvious with my example that it had been so well looked after by the right professionals and had a bullet-proof service history (it even had the original recall letters from Jaguar). That's the key - and get it looked at by a specialist.
LPG doesn't contain sulphur so the car will be fine.
BTW nicasil hasnt been a problem for BMWs either, in Germany, because the fuels always been better.
There are no Nicasil worries when buying an E36 BMW 328i here and it's a similar story for if the engine was predominantly run on LPG.
Get a blow by test or compression test done
The issue with sulphur and fuel in Germany was more likely to do with the illegality of using the normal component in the catalytic converter to deal with the sulphur dioxide. Hence the problem we used to suffer when following a German built car with a cat.. quite simply THEY STANK!
AL666 said:
I've had a look at the car and it's an XJ6 3.2 Executive, but I'm not sure about the mileage because I had a look at night.
Isn't the Nicasil problem only a problem with the XJ8?
Isn't the Nicasil problem only a problem with the XJ8?
Yes the problem is just with the early V8 engines. The XJ6 3.2 is the inline 6 using the AJ26 engine and is generally regarded as being fairly bomb proof. The price seems a little high for an "XJ6 3.2 Executive" although I'm not sure how much the LPG conversion would effect that.
A recent discussion on Jag-Lovers about mileage on X300s someone was reporting over 200,000 miles on the original drive train.
AL666 said:
Cool, thanks for the reply, I'll have to find out about the mileage, if it's low I can see it being worth 6,500. It's at a dealer BTW, although not a Jaguar one.
My "M" 3.2 Sport has 55K on the clock, so I'd be interested to hear of XJ6 worth 6.5K
The JEC rag that arrived this morning has 2 XJR6s for under 6K, one gives the mileage at 54K.
There is also a dual fuel 3.2 in black with cream, which is the combo to go for but no price just a mobile number.
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