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    Preston, UK.

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    Jaguar XF SV8

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  1. That's reassuring, I already got one of those cut-to-length rolls of jubilee clip with the clips and made one that wrapped diagonally around the pipe and the mount underneath it. It's good to know it isn't just me that had this problem - in fact I had the same issue on my Golf previously too.
  2. The mount on my mid-section has gone, and I've got the same dilemma. It has already been welded once and there's just not enough metal there to take another weld...it would just burn through. But apparently the system from the cat-back is one piece from the factory which means any issue with any of it from the cat back requires you to buy both back sections to sort it?
  3. Steering tie-rods or trackrod ends could be the culprits. I've got play in the O/S tie arm in the joint that meets the rack, so I'm replacing it with a new trackrod end soon. It makes a similar noise to yours. If you jack the wheel up and can't feel any play top-to-bottom but can feel it side-to-side it would point to the same problem.
  4. That happens anyway. I cleared about 3kg of mud and silt out of my inner wings when I fitted mudflaps. The one thing they do effectively is stop the front of your sills getting eaten alive by stonechips. Mine have never scraped the floor btw apart from in snowy conditions.
  5. What connector type does yours have to the loom? If it's the exposed blade type I have a spare motor & linkage which I mistakenly bought that you can have cheap?
  6. I used to get 290-320 out of my my00 Scooby, sitting at 60mph on the motorway every day. I thought 'whats the point?'. I think that worked out at about 26mpg and even on a long run the most I ever got was 29mpg. Drive it like you want to and it would be the high teens at best. So having something like the vRS is great, albeit with less grip and a less able chassis but similar power since the remap. Even if I nail it I'm still in the 20's, and have the option of 40mpg+ if I can be bothered to sit at 60mph on the cruise control.
  7. SAI is the secondary air injection, a system that's there to reduce emissions from a cold start.
  8. FFS :no: Life's too short to worry about mpg all the time. As long as it's high 20's or in the 30's don't worry about it. I've even recently stopped resetting my trip meter each time I fill up, what's the point? You just end up trudging around everywhere and it does your engine no good. I worked out a while ago that the difference between me just driving it how I wanted to (briskly but not daft) as opposed to mpg-hunting, was only saving me about £10 a week. I'm more than willing to pay a tenner to be able to drive how I want to. I want to be able to look back at all the great drives I have in my cars, not look at how many pence I've saved.
  9. I saw an old 70's Ford Cortina a few months back in Leyland town centre, he was running hydraulics that popped the front up about 5 foot in the air Gotta say, I know they're not cool over here and people don't see the point, but I love em, especially the bouncy ones that jump several feet in the air (and tend to land on the roof)
  10. I have a similar adapter (mine's a Grom box) which does the job nicely. I bought a 30gb iPod for £45 and it prett much just lives there. I mounted the box up inside the dash and ran the leas out to the shelf where the OBD port is located. The stereo treats it as a cd changer and you can control the playlists with the cd number buttons.
  11. You can download a Pdf of the manual on their website. What do you need to know?
  12. why couldn't my wiper motor decide to fail in summer? :o(

  13. +1 Wot he said. They normally snap right at the top, making it tricky to notice anything's wrong up there. This is a pretty common problem. I had to replace them on my last Golf, and my Octy that I bought since has receipts that show it also had a set of front springs replaced. I would recommend you replace the pair, along with the upper damper bearing (while it's all off anyway). It's an inexpensive job if you can do it yourself, but it is a bit of a PITA.
  14. You won't get much DV noise at all with just a straight replacement. A panel filter gives a bit more noise, and a CAI gives quite a bit more!
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