Reply to: Thinking of buying this Jag

[Liamxtype]

I presume it’s ZF gearbox. If the gearbox is stiff when cold; it is working as designed. The oil in the gearbox would be for long motorway journeys.

Thanks Paddy, I didn't know that, wondered at first if I'd bought a dodgy car and was cursing the dealer

[Liamxtype]

WHS - A manual car is a perfect PITA for town driving, especially in London. I'd never go back to manual.

50 MPG for that diesel sounds impressive; but having always had petrol I'd hesitate to go for diesel, because I know I'd accidently fill it with petrol and knacker the engine!

Manual IS a PITA all right, dunno why i went for it, when I've had autos for the last 4 years, deffo auto for me next time.
Diesel also means cheaper road tax, my 2 litre diesel is cheaper than my wife's 1.6 Renault Scenic!

[DimPrawn]

If you're going to have a fairly small engined car with an automatic box I'd deffo recommend diesel - drive using the engine's torque rather than revs.

I once hired a crap car on holiday in greece that had the combination of a slow shifting auto with four gears with a 1.0 litre petrol engine with no torque under 6000 rpm.

Not a good combination.

you want 1000 torques at 1000 rpm and at least 7 speed shifter. Bliss.

[DaveB]

WHS - A manual car is a perfect PITA for town driving, especially in London. I'd never go back to manual.

50 MPG for that diesel sounds impressive; but having always had petrol I'd hesitate to go for diesel, because I know I'd accidently fill it with petrol and knacker the engine!

50+ mpg isn't hard to get with a modern diesel thse days, especially if you do a lot of motorway crusing. I regularly got 55+ from the 2.0 turbo unit in my old Saab and get 46-47 out of the Mondeo now despite only ever driving it 10 miles a day to station and back down the back lanes and A roads.

Of course if you drive like your hair is on fire (like most Audi drivers) you won't get that

[Churchill]

WHS - A manual car is a perfect PITA for town driving, especially in London. I'd never go back to manual.

50 MPG for that diesel sounds impressive; but having always had petrol I'd hesitate to go for diesel, because I know I'd accidently fill it with petrol and knacker the engine!

If you're going to have a fairly small engined car with an automatic box I'd deffo recommend diesel - drive using the engine's torque rather than revs.

[OwlHoot]

All Jags should be automatic. A modern 6 or 7 speed auto is a joyous thing, especially when connected to a mega torquey engine.

WHS - A manual car is a perfect PITA for town driving, especially in London. I'd never go back to manual.

50 MPG for that diesel sounds impressive; but having always had petrol I'd hesitate to go for diesel, because I know I'd accidently fill it with petrol and knacker the engine!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

All Jags should be automatic. A modern 6 or 7 speed auto is a joyous thing, especially when connected to a mega torquey engine.

Yes and no. My XJ has the ZF 6 speed that it shares with the BMW 5 series. It has a number of known issues in both cars.

[Paddy]

Dunno why you presume that - the manual box is the MTX 75 used on loads of Fords. The auto boxes were Jatco.

I though wrong then. My old Mondeo thing had a ZF.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I presume it’s ZF gearbox. If the gearbox is stiff when cold; it is working as designed. The oil in the gearbox would be for long motorway journeys.

Dunno why you presume that - the manual box is the MTX 75 used on loads of Fords. The auto boxes were Jatco.

[Paddy]

All Jags should be automatic. A modern 6 or 7 speed auto is a joyous thing, especially when connected to a mega torquey engine.

Yes, that's what I want.

[DimPrawn]

I drive an 06 plate X Type, mine's a diesel and does over 50MPG. manual gearbox can be a little stiff sometimes, but overall I'm very happy with it.

All Jags should be automatic. A modern 6 or 7 speed auto is a joyous thing, especially when connected to a mega torquey engine.

[Paddy]

I drive an 06 plate X Type, mine's a diesel and does over 50MPG. manual gearbox can be a little stiff sometimes, but overall I'm very happy with it.

I presume it’s ZF gearbox. If the gearbox is stiff when cold; it is working as designed. The oil in the gearbox would be for long motorway journeys.

[Bagpuss]

This little beaut seems relatively cheap for the mileage, and I wondered if there might be a catch.

Maybe a 2.5 litre engine is underpowered for the weight.

Any resident car experts care to speculate?

Not a bad car but too much money for the age, should be able to get a low mileage 06 for that money.

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[Liamxtype]

I drive an 06 plate X Type, mine's a diesel and does over 50MPG. manual gearbox can be a little stiff sometimes, but overall I'm very happy with it.

[doodab]

Or maybe as already pointed out, it's that they are offered with all-wheel drive in other Countries, other Countries spend much more on snow clearing and winter tyres because their climates are habitually colder rather than occasionally.

Countries don't spend money, people do.

He also mentioned that the snow ploughs were getting stuck. Kind of hard to blame that on a lack of snow ploughs, don't you think?