The next bit of maintenance

We've put quite a few miles on the Daimler over the past 10-or-so days. We should have invested in a communal Jaguar much earlier. There really is no better way to arrive somewhere than in a pipe-smoking, slipper-wearing person's car. I must admit to being rather taken with it.

So far it's been relatively trouble-free but there has been a little oil mark developing on the drive and today it got a lot worse. It seems to be coming from the front right of the engine block so needs some investigation this weekend unless it's snowing, or in any way cold.

Must check that our trolley jack is man-enough to raise such a beast of a car off the ground.

Simon.

Disaster Averted (for now)...

Got the handbook out this morning. Would you believe that the XJ-40 has FOUR fuseboxes?!

What bothers me is that fuse C1 is for the Radio and it was fine. C2 should be a 7.5A fuse and is for the interior lights but it was a 15A one instead and in blowing had taken out the radio. Work that one out...

Miraculously enough the radio code was present in the car's documentation and we are going again. It bugs me that the radio stopped working because the fuse for the interior lights fails. Oh, also that the fuse should have been a 7.5A one and was 15A instead, but still blew! Still on the positive side, Fuse B4 didn't go. That one's for the Central Processing Unit (CPU)! Why does my car need a 20A fuse for a CPU?! That's a 240W processor.

I can't say I wasn't warned about the XJ40 and its electrics.

Simon

Disaster!

We have lost radio contact. The first tragedy has befallen our supposedly trusty steed. Driving home from work today - purely to become accustomed to the car, of course, not because it is so much more fun to drive than my knackered old Austin Maestro - a terrible thing happened: Radio 4 clicked off and couldn't be encouraged back by any amount of knob twiddling.

As if the loss of Radio 4 wasn't bad enough, the trip computer and interior lights have also ceased to be. Just electrical gremlins, of course, but we'll have to add it to the top of the repairs list as it just isn't the same drive without Brian Perkins' soothing voice.

Matt

Whoop! We have our S2N Ride. And it's a Daimler!

As this is the first post, I'm guessing you're wondering how organised we are, right?

Well the presence of a website is a good start, but I always said I wasn't going to start in earnest until we got ourselves a decent motor.

Last month I put a cheeky advertisment in the Jaguar Enthusiast monthly magazine basically saying 'I want to buy your XJ-40 for £100'. As it happened I got a really good response and ended up with a 1992, 170k mile Daimler 4 litre with from a kind chap in Stockport called Kieran (on the right in the picture) who requested that I give the £99.99 for the car to our charity.

So that's what I did today. You can see the progress on JustGiving.com.

So as it stands, we have a car that is basically a go-er with MoT until July and a few jobs to do to get it ready for September.

Simon.