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It's already been mentioned but Primera GTs are brilliant. They drive better than any other saloon car of the period, they are dead reliable, dead cheap and a really low insurance group. A much better car in many respects than the Alfa 156 I replaced it with. The Almera GTi is a good shout too. I quite fancy one to replace my Audi if I can find one that isn't in Cornwall.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Swap for an Audi Avant with no MoT and emissions issues?
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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If that's a little rich for your blood, your local Home Bargains store will flog you Gulf 10w40 semi synth for £9.99 for 4 litres.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Go on, have a free bump. I've seen this in the metal and it's remarkably solid.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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That can be summed up as pretty much all of my favourite cars. I might buy a lottery ticket tonight now.
Great pics, thanks for sharing.
(And yes, the new updated photobucket is shocking unless your PC is the very latest with 87,000Gb of RAM and a nuclear fired processor)
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jul 21, 2013 17:05:25 GMT
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I have vaguely similar issues with my old Audi. I could try replacing the lambda, then the temp sensor, then the TPS, then....
However, my MoT man recommended a local specialist who is confident that for £45 he can either fix it or pinpoint what is wrong for me. When I return from holiday, that's what I'm going to do I think.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jul 20, 2013 15:42:02 GMT
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It's not urgent. It needs to come off at some point because the caliper bolts are chewed up. I thought it might give trouble so I tried the nipple before pulling the caliper. We're planning on selling it in September but my conscience won't let me do that without sorting it.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jul 20, 2013 13:52:58 GMT
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That got your attention!
I've managed to round off and then snap a brake bleed nipple leaving it flush with the caliper. Is it worth farting about with cheap stud extractors from ebay or will I enter a world of pain and be better off forking out 20 notes for a 2nd hand caliper?
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jul 18, 2013 10:22:40 GMT
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For £250 with 10 months' ticket I don't really see how you can go wrong.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jul 13, 2013 13:34:53 GMT
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The new one is a pattern part (genuine ones for 20 year old audis are hard to find. The old one was the original I think.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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The car is my 1993 C4 Audi 100E 2.0 8v.
Last week it failed its MoT on, amongst other things, a massive split in the exhaust just upstream of the cat and emissions.
Last week’s emissions were:
Fast idle test
CO = 0.36 (needs to be no more than 0.3) Fail HC = 73 (needs to be no more than 200) Pass Lambda = 1.083 (needs to be between .970 and 1.030) Fail
Natural idle test
CO = 0.5 (needs to be no more than 0.5) Pass
What I didn’t realize at the time was that the idle stability control valve was connected to the hoses but the multi-pin was off. I replaced the cat this week and reconnected the ISCV. After that it was idling rock steady and driving really well. However, my emissions now are:
Fast idle test
CO = 0.6 Fail HC = 109 Pass Lambda = 1.028 (Pass
Natural idle test
CO = 03.62 Fail
To sum up, the lambda levels are now within tolerance but the CO level is worse, and much worse at idle.
The MoT tester said he’d usually suspect the lambda but the lambda was now within spec. After that he’d suspect the cat but that’s brand new. The question is where to go next.
There are no other symptoms of a problem, it’s running and idling fine. It is getting up to temperature properly and the cooling fan is cutting in as you would expect.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jul 12, 2013 12:22:22 GMT
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I saw an ordinary F for the first time the other day and it's a good looking machine. That is quite spectacular.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jul 11, 2013 12:46:10 GMT
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Final update. A nice package was waiting for me when I got home last night. I wasn't in when it arrived and didn't open it until this morning. I wasn't entirely happy when I found this. However, some work with various hammers, pry bars and the vice soon had it returned to something like shape. With that crisis averted it was up onto the jacks again. First job was to adjust the handbrake. The usually thoughtful and sensible Germans decided to hide the adjuster under the exhaust heatshield right under the car. The idea is that you access it via an aperture in the shield with a long reach socket but I could only find my 1/4" drive long reach 10mm and it wasn't long enough. Those of a sensitive disposition should look skip the next paragraph and picture. Because I grabbed my hand nibbler, cut a slot in the heat shield, and bent the ******* out of the way. No choice really because the screws have been in the 20 years and weren't for coming out. With that done, it was a minutes work to take up the slack in the cable. The handbrake is now good enough to stall the car. Before the cat can go on, there's a fire ring that fits in the end of the old cat that has to be transferred to the new cat. You can't use sealant on this join so this does all the work. It's a tight interference fit and after 20 years, it took some shifting. Once out, it didn't want to go in its new home so I broke out the die grinder and cleaned it up and shaved a midge's **** off until it eventually got battered into place. It finally got bolted back onto the car so it's now leak free. Retest is on Friday. I'd also like to show you my new invention to stop my arms getting filthy. My family claim I look even more like an old tramp than usual.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Nova saloon. The hatch was quite neat with it's dinky little IMSA arches, the saloon on standard steel wheels and skinny little tyres was just wrong. I suspect with bigger boots and a serious drop, it would look a lot better.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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It's a long time since I updated this. I’m now the proud owner of a chronic MoT failure: Reason(s) for refusal to issue Certificate Offside Front Side repeater excessively deteriorated so that it is not visible from a reasonable distance (The bulb holder had fallen out and was dangling down inside the inner wing - fixed already) Front Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases (new cat required because the pipe has rusted and cracked ) Nearside Front Tyre tread depth below requirements of 1.6mm (4.1.E.1) (This I knew about. The good tyre had a slow puncture so I put the bald one that holds air on whilst it’s been sat about.) Nearside Front constant velocity joint gaiter insecure to the extent that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt etc (2.5.C.1a) (The cable tie has snapped. 2 minute job when I change the wheel) Parking brake efficiency below requirements (It's on 14% efficiency and we need 16%) Exhaust emissions carbon monoxide content at idle excessive (New cat should fix) Exhaust emissions Lambda reading after 2nd fast idle outside specified limits (new cat should fix) Parts bill about £80 I think. Not too bad for 184,000 miles and twenty years of abuse. I've now claimed ownership of my daughter's old camera so it's become my greasemonkey cam. First job was jacking up. As both nearside wheels need to come off, I did that first. He's right, that's definitely leaking. Slightly crusty rear brake. Strip, clean, lubricate, free off.... By now it was lunchtime so I knocked up a butty and my daughter got me a drink to match the car. With that eaten, I turned the car around with a bit of precision reversing and got on with the other side. I do like Audi's clever and simple spring clip for holding the handbrake cables on. With that done, it was bleeding time. For this you need a tube, a bottle, an 11mm spanner, and a surly teenager. Finally back on with the wheels. Use of the windy gun speeds things up quite a bit. Took the cat off on Sunday morning and shortened those ridiculously long bolts. I jacked it from the front so couldn't get at the handbrake adjuster. Remaining jobs: 1. Adjust handbrake. 2. Fit new cat. 3. Retest We are going to Scotland in it next month and then it will be time to move it on I think. There's an itch that needs to be scratched in the form of a MKII Golf. If you've got one and fancy swapping it for an ancient estate car, please get in touch.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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A couple of long range spots (phone has no proper zoom).
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Last Edit: Jul 3, 2013 19:00:16 GMT by keithyboy
Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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I'm jealous. I don't really go in for bucket lists but Bonneville is probably the one place I would really like to go to. I'd say enjoy it but I can't really see how you couldn't to be honest. I will look forward to seeing shitloads of pictures.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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My dad has a two-tone blue and silver 1.6 Exec auto back in the day. Lovely old thing it was too. Despite it being pretty much mint, he traded it in on a Corsa for my mum when he stopped driving.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jun 20, 2013 20:03:55 GMT
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Cracking looking little car. I'm going to flog my Audi Avant after we've been on holiday in it this summer. Really torn between a Polo and another MKII Golf.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Jun 17, 2013 13:55:54 GMT
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I've used Radweld a few times and mostly it's worked fine. The only time it didn't was on a seriously knackered Mini rad. It fixed the leak, then it started leaking somewhere else, fixed that, started leaking somewhere else..........
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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