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[SMD]

You have had some nice cars! Are you an aristocrat?

I'm a prole.

With that estate and collection of cars? Very modest too 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Original waterpumps are known to be weak, and some of the belts are labour expensive at garage/dealer prices.  There is an intake pipe that also fails.  Uses the same crappy locking motors as my XJ (about £100 for part), and I think all the XFRs had keyless entry, so same crappy modules in the exterior door handles that fail (£70 for part).

Nope, they only one that uses that switch assembly is the XJ 

[TheBoy]

Original waterpumps are known to be weak, and some of the belts are labour expensive at garage/dealer prices.  There is an intake pipe that also fails.  Uses the same crappy locking motors as my XJ (about £100 for part), and I think all the XFRs had keyless entry, so same crappy modules in the exterior door handles that fail (£70 for part).

Nope, they only one that uses that switch assembly is the XJ 

I bet its the same shitty Continental part inside, just you have to replace the whole handle on an XF, rather than just the module?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Original waterpumps are known to be weak, and some of the belts are labour expensive at garage/dealer prices.  There is an intake pipe that also fails.  Uses the same crappy locking motors as my XJ (about £100 for part), and I think all the XFRs had keyless entry, so same crappy modules in the exterior door handles that fail (£70 for part).

Nope, they only one that uses that switch assembly is the XJ 

I bet its the same shitty Continental part inside, just you have to replace the whole handle on an XF, rather than just the module?

Nope, its a different supplier, might be Lear from memory

There are a few XJs in the  scrappy at the moment

[Doctor Gollum]

That doesn't bode well

[STEMO]

That doesn't bode well

If you crash any car properly, that's where it's gonna end up.

[Doctor Gollum]

That doesn't bode well

If you crash any car properly, that's where it's gonna end up.

I beg to differ. If you crash a car properly, it gets crushed because the safety elves have cut the roof off

[Marks DTM Calib]

That doesn't bode well

If you crash any car properly, that's where it's gonna end up.

And any car which was built prior to crash testing......so not necessarily damaged but, cant be sold (ex-engineering cars in this case).....

[Doctor Gollum]

Ah, the company scrap yard...

[2boxerdogs]

Ah, the company scrap yard...

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Quite miss wandering around scrap yards , got a nice set of alloys off a Granda Ghia for my Granada LX years ago about 40 quid at the time, haven't set foot in one for about 23 years now.

[Viral_Jim]

That doesn't bode well

If you crash any car properly, that's where it's gonna end up.

And any car which was built prior to crash testing......so not necessarily damaged but, cant be sold (ex-engineering cars in this case).....

Talking of cars that can't be sold, does anyone know what the crack is with cars for sale that have to be exported? I've seen a few over the years, mostly JLR products and in odd specs that aren't sold in the UK.

They look like ex-mod or government vehicles of some kind, but I never understood how they came to be for sale here 

[Doctor Gollum]

The person/company that has the contract to dispose of them is based here, but because, AIUI, of the EU type approval, they cannot be registered within the EU.

And people wonder why we voted to leave

[Doctor Gollum]

That said, export them to the IOM/Channel Islands and register them there for a year, then reimport them and register them without issue. 

[Kevin Wood]

That said, export them to the IOM/Channel Islands and register them there for a year, then reimport them and register them without issue. 

Maybe. You'd probably still need an IVA, and they might ask questions about equivalent approvals that apply to the vehicle at that stage.

[Doctor Gollum]

I think the issue is more of a DVLA one, in so far as every vehicle built will have a C of C to suit the original market. Demonstrating conformity with a different market is probably a paperwork exercise