Change of car

ginja said:
Doesn't the jag engine have VVT though? Still nice cars, if I had a family thats what i'd go for
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I dont have a family but still went for the X Type Jag.

Engine is taken from a Ford transit and played with by jaguar if I am not wrong and the chassis has been tweeked by jaguar with roller bearings in the top of the the suspension struts, so I have read.
 
jamie_duff said:
Hi Tim,

Matt is right. I had a 2004 2.5 saloon. It was the Spirit model with the factory bodykit on it. It didn't have the folding rear seats, it didn't have the Bluetooth phone pack, and I really wished I'd just gone the whole hog and bought the 3.0 engine too.

I later saw the S-Type with the 3.0, bluetooth, folding rear seats and much lower miles so swapped over.

My X-Type was pretty handy in the snow, although the S-Type is still surprisingly useful. Last winter the 2 girls I lift shared with to work came with me the whole time because their cars (Audi A3 and VW Beetle) were completely useless. It's significantly better in the snow than the Rover turbo too, which was similarly useless (the diesel is good though... must be that Torsen LSD making the turbo ****)

Mark is right too; the V6 engines are Ford Duratec blocks, crankshafts, conrods and pistons :) The Mondeo ST220 got the exhaust headers back from the Jaguar version of the engine though. The cylinder heads upwards are pretty much unrecognisable but the basic DNA is there :)
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Hi Jamie

Must try and get my facts right but you are spot on Jamie. I love the speed that it produces as it also holds a small percent of break horsepower back in case you feel the need to overtake. At present I aam using the cruise control at 90 Kpm in sixth gear and loving every moment of the time spent in the drivers seat.

Journey's take longer but when you are in a leather drivers seat why feel the need to rush.
 
Good choice of car to replace the Cougar with Tim, would love to own a Jag one day, might wait a while though, and go for an XF.
 
tim16s said:
I dont have a family but still went for the X Type Jag.

Engine is taken from a Ford transit and played with by jaguar if I am not wrong and the chassis has been tweeked by jaguar with roller bearings in the top of the the suspension struts, so I have read.
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I was on about the petrol engines Tim, whereas you'll be referring to the diesel. The petrols do have VVT amongst a whole raft of other cylinder head and inlet manifold changes, hence the 2.5 litre producing 196PS versus the Ford engine's 170PS. It's benefited from not being quite so cost constrained though, and also from technology a decade younger for calculating optimum angles etc. They also weren't so fussed about the height of the engine as cars had bulked up a bit from when the Mk1 Mondeo and Contour came out.

The 2.0 and 2.2 diesels are knicked straight from the Ford Mondeos as I understand it, with the 2.2 being the same 156PS unit found in the Mondeo ST TDCi? I believe that's a combined Ford/PSA Peugeot Citroen engine. I'm not sure where the block originated from though. Powerful beast. Jag reckoned it had the best in-gear acceleration times in it's class when it came out.

I'm going to have me an XFR some day. I keep hearing rumours from the guys at the local dealer (yeah I'm sad and like to go look at cars, and they're very accommodating and take me out the back to show me the latest beasties which have arrived from the factory) that the XF is to be re-engineered with an aluminium bodyshell like the XJ and XK. If that's true then it's going to become as fast as **** on the standard engines. The 3.0 diesel S with 275bhp already does 0-60 in well under 6 seconds and gives back 40mpg. I think the heart would still say "go for a V8" though. The original supercharged SV8s with CATS suspension can now be had for around £30k. A couple more years of saving and career development might make that a possibility, although I'd dearly love an XK150 (alloy body) XKR which fetch similar money. I suppose being a dad now I should get the supercharged V8 4-door saloon really :LOL:


My X-Type only had the climate control as opposed to the touch-screen satnav. Your dashboard looks MUCH better than mine. The current one hasn't got satnav either...
 
The xtype diesel is quite a robust unit and it also benefits from the variable viened turbo which is a very innovative idea giving you the extra umph for overtaking without the need for twin turbo. it basically acts like a small turbo and comes on boost at low revs but continues to give you progrssive boost quite a way up the rev range.
 
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I would love to buy an Xk and will get one in 15 years time lol, when its done about 150,000 miles and costs about a grand.
I also like the new scirocco, and Audi TT, but looking at the way Audis hold there price I may have to wait 16 years before buying one lol.
 
My X-Type only had the climate control as opposed to the touch-screen satnav. Your dashboard looks MUCH better than mine. The current one hasn't got satnav either...[/QUOTE]

Jamie

Will get some pictures of the screen. I really like the jaguar logo on the screen whilst driving. (y) The screen is a touch screen for the radio, AC, Satnav.

If you go to the jaguarforum there are suggestions of changing the dashboard from standard to a touch screen dash. But the costs of parts is expensive.

I have a DVD in the boot but dont know if it will play out a DVD film etc to the screen, the jaguar is perfect :LOL:execpt I dont have a 6 disc charger,:( but you can't have everything.
 
I read on the forum that retrofitting the touchscreen to the X-type was achievable, and there was a good how-to on the forum for it. The hard part was the wiring loom. I don't believe it's so straight-forward on the S-Type though, and to be honest with you the thought of ripping the interior out of a car that doesn't rattle to fit the touchscreen just seems a little daft, because it'll almost certainly squeak and rattle afterwards! It's nowhere near as easy to get the dashboard apart as it is in the Cougar either.

I'm just too lazy!
 
It would seem daft like you say to rip out the dash just to fit the touch screen, but it has been done.
 
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