[JAGNUTS] Latest up date: XJ12 VDP Trials and tribs

[ed]

Ken:

You can usually find what you need in the used parts auto wreckers have 
listed at  www.car-part.com .  Just search one up, but you might get some 
frightening prices..

Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Exner" <kexner at sasktel.net>
To: "JAGNUTS Regina" <jagnuts at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 8:46 AM
Subject: [JAGNUTS] Latest up date: XJ12 VDP Trials and tribs


> Hi all, I am still in need of one part to make this car pass the
> inspection... is anyone aware of a spare right side- out board headlamp 
> lens
> (the one in the fender- in Canadian English terms) for the series 3 Vanden
> Plas that may be hanging about where no one is watching,,,er better still
> ... one that I can buy (even for more than it is worth), beg, borrow, 
> pilfer
> (that word is so less criminal like) or reacquisition just for the date of
> the inspection.  I want to get this one passed and at least moving  until 
> I
> can find that particular part.  At $20.00 / day to permit while moving it
> around can get a bit out of line and cuts into the Jaguar fund.
>
> Ken Exner
>
>
> --Original Message-----
> From: jagnuts-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:jagnuts-bounces at autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: July 16, 2009 9:24 AM
> To: JAGNUTS Regina
> Subject: Re: [JAGNUTS] Up date as the new owner XJ12 VDP Trials and tribs
>
> Hi Ken
>  New brake pads [front] for my car were $60.00 at Phoenix...I didn't need
> rotors, but they were available.  I seem to remember they were the same as 
> a
> Ford halfton[?].
>  Good luck, and look at all the money you saved.
> Mike.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Exner" <kexner at sasktel.net>
> To: "JAGNUTS Regina" <jagnuts at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:02 AM
> Subject: [JAGNUTS] Up date as the new owner XJ12 VDP Trials and tribs
>
>
>> Here is the update as the new owner of the XJ12 VDP, the Provincial 
>> Safety
>> Inspection did not go to well as the car did not pass...having said that
>> there are no real major issues with the car! It is quite structurally
>> sound
>> and has no serious mechanical/drivability concerns. Most of the
>> deficiencies
>> are maintenance issues such as tyers (which I knew about already), leaky
>> seals (no surprise there either, just show me a Jag over 5 years old that
>> isn't oozing some kind of goop) and worn steering components (ball 
>> joints,
>> tie rod ends) and last on the list, the brake rotors and pads did not 
>> meet
>> the safety specs for thickness. Overall should I have to put a couple of
>> thousand into the car for these issues I still think I will have come out
>> on
>> top with this one.
>> Did you know that in 1989 a Series 3 VDP sold for $67,900.00......I am 
>> gob
>> smacked!
>>
>> Anyway, that is the latest.
>>
>> Enjoy your run to S'toon! Cheers
>>
>> Ken Exner
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jagnuts-bounces at autox.team.net
>> [mailto:jagnuts-bounces at autox.team.net]On Behalf Of ENGL
>> Sent: July 13, 2009 8:45 AM
>> To: 'JAGNUTS Regina'
>> Subject: Re: [JAGNUTS] The new Owner
>>
>> I was wondering how long you could be without the trials and tribulations
>> of
>> British car ownership.  Well done Ken!
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jagnuts-bounces at autox.team.net
>> [mailto:jagnuts-bounces at autox.team.net]
>> On Behalf Of Ken Exner
>> Sent: July 12, 2009 10:49 PM
>> To: JAGNUTS Regina
>> Subject: [JAGNUTS] The new Owner
>>
>> Ok .. Just in case some of you were wondering ...I bought the XJ12 VDP
>> today
>> will get it sometime tomorrow.
>> Thanks for your help and the moral support in the investigation. (of the
>> car). Any one know a good place to get it safety inspected ..you know the
>> ones that have broken their magnifying glass.
>>
>> Ken E
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