PH11TED

Timing chain tensioners wear, very rarely but they do wear and I explained to stratstones workshop manager that after 30 odd years in the motor trade he wasn't going to pull the wool over my eyes,he reckoned there were 2 historical fault codes stored. 1 was a loss of communication from the cruise control and the other was equally irrelevant but I can't remember what it was. I mentioned the fact that I think the cam sensors are saying hang on something's not right here, as the chain bounces around its worn tensioner and he said no no no I've never heard of a tensioner wearing on this engine your getting confused with the older 4.0l and 4.2l. no mate Google it !!! Supercharger is not money well spent then is it ? Perhaps I just need to get over the jag's power and get on with life back in a jap, I ran supras for years. Oh and forums, what about lude generation the prelude forum, or maybe your from south Wales and seen the plate, PH11 TED ?

Repairs cost me nothing, I bought it from stratstone jaguar and it brought on em light and went into limp mode 3 hours after I had it so it went back the next day, they had it 3 days while I drove round in a 2.2 sport r XE courtesy car and gave it me back, then within a week it happened again and they gave me a diesel XE courtesy car, a diesel in exchange for a 500bhp monster was their biggest mistake, and then they couldn't find anything wrong with it. My poor Mrs sat inside it guarding it one evening while I went in ranting that it was ticking over outside in limp mode and I refused to turn it off until they drove it because as soon as you shut it off it would reset itself and pretend nothing had ever happened. That was the final straw, they admitted it had a fault but still didn't know what was wrong with it. So after a long hard think I asked for my money back which they eventually refunded and I went and bought some quality Japanese plastic to replace my quality British leather.

Juke yep got one of them too so I'm guessing that will be my user name lol

Mercedes slk owners club ? I'm guessing your a BMW guy?

Reliability, and the Mrs was scared to death of it, was a toss up between the Z and xkr and when I drove an xkr I just had to buy one. Stupid fast. I went to Silverstone in 2010 and did that Nissan freerace in a 370z and loved the car then but couldn't afford one at the time. The Z has lots of potential and I'm slowly forgetting how quick the Jag was and realising how much better the Nissan is on the in car entertainment front. See now I remember how the noise of those milteks drowned out the stereo anyway lol.had the Z 2 weeks now and it's already in having a bit of a tweak as we speak.

My first post on here and it's xkr related. Just sold a 2010 xkr 5.0l and bought a 370 and find myself chasing more power instantly, the Jag was awesome and the noise from the milteks, well you don't need to remove any sound deadening to hear it. Loving the Z but at 180bhp down on the xkr I'm tempted to get a supercharger kit for it. Anyway my name's Phil and I'm a jagaholic.