New Jaguar for Valentines Day

[Wentzell@netcom.ca]

Thanks to all the responses telling me to stay away from the 87 XJ6 that I asked about in my 
last posting.  I have just purchased a 1986 XJ6 Sovereign.  It has 90,000 Km on the clock and 
has never spent a night outside or been through a car wash. (According to the PO)  The car sort 
of came into my life in a hurry.  I have been looking (not very actively) for a series III XJ6 
for my wife.  I rarely by the local newspaper but I found out that an alignment shop had a 
coupon for half price front end line ups.  My reliable car just happened to need a front end 
line-up so...  It was Feb. 13, I thought it might be appropriate to give her the car for 
valentines day, after all from the sounds of the jag-lovers-list the upkeep on a Jaguar is 
definitely a labour of love!!!  On Feb. 14 am I managed to get the pre-purchase inspection from 
the only Jag dealer in town.  Everything was going great to this point, then the service rep sat 
down with me and told me the car was in great shape, it only needed $4000 to put it right.  
After the service rep helped me off the floor I went to talk to the mechanic.  Good thing to, it 
helped me gain some perspective.  The car needed steering rack bushes, upper a-arm bushes and 
brakes.  It was a good thing I had been scanning the digest for several months, it enabled me to 
work the $ list down to a manageable size.  I'll still get the Jag shop to install a stakedown 
kit and perform a major service but I'll farm out the brakes and do the bushes myself.  So off 
to the bank, while sitting in the bank managers office I gave my wife the bill of sale for her 
Valentines present she was so shocked that she would not drive the car home after we picked it 
up.

I just posted a message about a block heater instalation and I forgot to include my e-mail 
address.  It is:
wentzell@netcom.ca

Chris

1986 XJ6 (Where does the block heater go?)
1988 Sedan DeVille (No Block Heater either)
1980 Lemans (To drive when the others won't start)

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