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Jaguar XJ12, 6.0lt V12, X300, LPG conversion - Intermittent electrical fault.

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Jaguar-XJ12-6-0lt-V12-X300-LPG-conversion-Intermittent-electrical-fault
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SPALDING, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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330777574159
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Last updated on  19 Aug, 2012 18:52:24 BST  View all revisions

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Year: 1995
Transmission: Automatic Manufacturer: Jaguar
Fuel: Petrol/LPG Type: Standard Car
Seats: 5 Doors: 4
Drive Side: Right-hand drive Colour: Grey
Previous Owners: 4 Reg. Date: 25/08/1995
Safety Features: Alarm, Anti-Lock Brakes (ABS), Driver Airbag, Electronic Stability Program (ESP), Immobiliser, Passenger Airbag, Rear seat belts, Safety Belt Pretensioners Mileage: 81,132
Exterior: Alloy Wheels, Catalytic Converter Engine Size: 6,000
Interior/Comfort Options: Air Conditioning, Auxiliary heating, Climate Control, Cruise Control, Electric heated seats, Leather Seats, Power-assisted Steering (PAS), Power Locks, Power Seats, Power Windows, Sunroof, Tilt Steering Wheel MOT Expiry: 09/2012
In-Car Audio: AM/FM Stereo, CD Multichanger, CD Player, Navigation System, Premium Sound System Road Tax: 12/2012
For auction Is My Jaguar X300 XJ12 6.0 Ltr V12 Saloon. I have owned this car since august 2006 and it has been the best car I have ever owned. The Car has a Professionally installed LPG Conversion done in September 2006 and it is shown as such on the logbook. There is an LPGA green certificate to go with it. I have done various upgrades to the car since ownership namely a stainless steel exhaust system (£630), brake calipers stripped, cleaned rebuilt with new seals etc and coated in a special red coating by the Bigg Red caliper company (£250). Replacement auto gearbox and rear diff pinion seal (£2200), BRC LPG conversion (£2000).  Dotz Muggello 19" alloy wheels (£1000) (had them professionally recoated in gold last year £260), I do have the original Jaguar wheels if you want them but they are only 16" and not good looking really.  Further to this I had installed a top notch sound and navigation system with a kenwood touch screen slide out head unit with built in all region DVD player coupled with a kenwood DVD navigation system that covers all western Europe and uses full postcode selection if required. There is a also a separate DVD 10 disc multi changer in the boot that plays all region DVDs to either the front head unit or the separate LCD screen in the back of the car or both. You can watch a film on the DVD in the front whilst the backseat passengers can watch a choice of 10 films from the multichanger on the rear 7" kenwood screen in the back at the same time and they can control the multichanger independantly via remote control with no input needed from the front head unit (front head unit doesn't even need to be switched on). The rear passengers have wireless phillips headphones that work with the rear screen so front and rear can watch or listen to different things at the same time, the headphones charge up in the car when not in use. There is also A Kenwood keg music player that is connected to the head unit that plays MP3 and other formats like WMA etc from a 10GB cartridge that slots into the keg player.  This cartridge is loaded with the MP3s on your PC using kenwood phatmanager music software and a cradle conected to your PC via USB,  I have 1 10Gb cartridge but you can buy other cartridges if required up to a 40GB cartridge I believe.  The kenwood keg has been discontinued by kenwood due to not selling many units as they were expensive and then ipod connection took over the scene anyway.  All this was installed by Ice Direct in Peterborough and cost me over 3k in total and took them nearly a week as I wanted it doing properly with no wires showing Ect.  This is all going to stay with the car regardless of the sale price as it would cost me anther £500 to have it all properly de-installed again so I cant see the point.  The car has been professionally resprayed at the end of 2008 in House Of Kolor Shimrin grey and a panther black to the roof (total cost £2430), there is a slight bubble coming through on the rear arch but the paint has not been broken through and I have some spare paint for you to get it touched up if you want although it is barely noticeable at the moment, I keep the car out all year round so if you garaged it the paint might do better in future. To the car itself well as mentioned in the listing it  has an intermittent electrical fault that sends the car into fault mode and then will only run in first gear until you reset it.  This might happen 3 times a day or once a week or once a month it is just so unpredictable.  To reset it you have to stop the car and then switch the ignition on and off about five or six times, this will then take out the fault light and the car will run normal again until the next time it happens which might be half a mile down the road or in not for another week or month you just never know when it is going to come back on.  One suggestion given to me was a possibly fault in the alternator voltage unit or possibly starter motor voltage although it starts fine so no worries about the car starting.  The fault aside the car runs beautiful and the six litre V12 is smoother than J-lo's ass although because I went for a sports exhaust with only 2 silencers instead of the usual 5 there is more noise in the cab than usual with these cars as I wanted a sporty growl from the car and that is definitely what you get. Most things work fine with the car but there is the usual LCD clock fault but this can be changed or repaired very easy and  the passenger window needs a bit of help to come back up but this is probably just a WD40 job on the runners behind the door.  The key remote central locking Fob that opens the doors has recently stopped working but it could be the battery or worst case you might need a new fob from jaguar that will probably cost around £40 to £50 is would guess, I just use the key to open the doors anyway.  The reason I am selling is that I just don't go any where in the car any more, not because of the fault but because I work from home so I never go out and we have a seven seater for the school runs and my eldest daughter also has a car now so if I do need the use of a car on the odd occasion I am sorted anyway and I cant see the point in paying insurance and tax for a car I don't really need any more.  Don't believe me?, then check this out, last MOT mileage was 80277 now go and look at the picture of the cars speedo and read the mileage, (the picture was taken today by the way) and tell me if you think this is a car that is needed or used by its owner.  That mileage is almost a full 12 month and you can see the proof on the MOT when you collect the car and if not as I have said you can have it for nothing.  This is the reason I have not really tried to have the fault fixed because I don't want to spend money on a car I am not using anyway and it will be best for someone to get a bargain and have it fixed themselves or maybe they can fix it themselves for free if they have the knowledge and get an even bigger bargain to boot.  Obviously I don't really have a clue what is causing the fault, I have been told by a specialist mechanic friend that it is something electrical but it may in the end turn out to be something else so I am not giving any false hopes that it will be a cheap or easy fix to please don't take it that I am, the fact is I just don't know because I have not had it looked into properly and once you take the car away you are on your own with no comebacks or complaining whatever the outcome of the fault and you are buying on this understanding or please just pass this one by.  After all is said and done this is a 17 year old Jaguar if you know what I mean and all the usual rules go out of the window with these cars.  Nuff Said about that. The MOT runs out on the 12th September but it went through the last 3 MOTs with not trouble at all and not even an advisory on the last one and it has done 1000 miles since then, the only thing mentioned by the tester was there is a bracket missing on the exhaust but the exhaust is tight and secure and not in any danger of coming loose so he just mentioned that I might want to get it done but didn't put it as an advisory as it is so minor, the reason I mention it is I cant guarantee an examiner elsewhere might insist you get it done for the MOT as some examiners are OK and some are pricks and I don't know what yours is like so I thought I should mention it just in case you get a prick.  The car is up on a no reserve winner takes it home auction and there is the lowest of the low starting price as well, this is as fair as I can be and you the bidders will decide what you think it is worth not me.  If you want to view the car before the auction ends please call me on 07846609631 but once the auction has finished the buyer buys and that's that, not testing no kicking, no quibbling, you just pay for it and that's that, if you don't want to do this then it might be better for all concerned if you passed this one by.  If you are unsure at all I suggest you come and view first before bidding or as I said just give it a miss. Would prefer cash on collection but any way all funds must be cleared before you drive off into the sunset. The Jaguar alloy wheels are free if you want them as is the original cassette stereo and CD changer should you be crazy enough to want to put that back in.  The private dateless plate is also included in the sale and came up as worth £800 when i put it into one of those sell your plates websites about a year ago so could be worth more or less now but anyway it is better than having an N reg.  You may have some questions I have not put in the listing so please call me or contact though ebay to ask but only if they are sensible or relevant to the car or the sale.  Good luck and happy bidding. 

On 12-Aug-12 at 17:31:38 BST, seller added the following information:

Forgot to mention that I have also had the air conditioning system completely replaced with new condenser and pump and most pipework due to a leak in the system that caused damage to the system.  This was all replaced then re-gassed and now gets ice cold air after about 5 to 10 seconds on the hottest of days.  It really is ice cold no messing.  This cost me £1500 in total.   Also it is the drivers door window that needs help in coming back up and not the passengers side as previously stated.  Just took the car out for a 10 mile drive to blow some cobwebs out and is sweet as a nut, the fault did not occur either so were on a winning streak at the moment.


On 19-Aug-12 at 18:52:24 BST, seller added the following information:

IMPORTANT UPDATE !!

Gave the car a good clean and polish today ready for its new owner but when I got it clean and sparkling I noticed some things I had not seen on the bodywork that I did not put in the original listing and a couple of other items i have just remembered so I thought I should mention them before the auction ends.  Firstly there is some paint bubbling on the roof of the car that will need attention by the new owner, its not bad and I didn't notice it until I cleaned the car but it will probably get worse if not attended to. The rubber seal around the sunroof has gone a bit bit hard and cracked and has come away slightly in one place but the sunroof is water tight as I have tested it with hosepipe but you might want to see to this before it gets worse in the future. There is also some extra bubbling ina couple of places on the rear wheel arch that I did not notice before and again this only came to light after cleaning the car and is not really that noticeable, there is also a slight bit of bubbling at the front passenger side panel at the bottom of the panel  between the wheel arch and door, again only a bit and only saw it when car was cleaned and polished.  There is slight bubbling at the base of the leaping cat on the bonnet but hardly noticeable. There are a few stone chips at the front bumper but this is true of almost any car but I am going to mention it anyway. All this is easily remedied and I am probably going a bit over the top mentioning all this but I prefer to do things this way and I want to make sure there is no moaning after the auction ends.  I have some left over shimrin grey paint for the job and the black roof is just Ford Panther Black and you can get that colour easy from fords or any paint shop as it is a popular colour.  Like I said before I keep the car out all year round and this is why the bubbling has probably occurred so if you were to get it all sorted and then keep it garaged you should have no problems in the future as the car is basically very sound.  Also the automatic aerial doesn't go all the way back down when you shut the stereo off and stays up about 8 inches but it does go all the way up when you turn the stereo on as it should. This is neither here or there and it has never even bothered me hence why I forgot to mention it first time around. The front drivers seat has the usual slight wear on the side bolster but is not torn at all and just looks right for the cars age. So there you have it warts and all and I have mentioned this now before the auction ends to give any current bidders a chance to retract their bid if they now want to or for prospective bidders to have the full information before bidding.  You can see photos of these points I have brought up if you email me direct on bernielane@me.com and I will reply with an attachment of the photos of the paint bubbling areas if you think you need to see them before deciding what you want to do, or you can arrange to view the car if you want to as there is still just enough time before the auction ends.  The car is still awesome and looks fantastic after its polish and all these points don't really detract from the car as they are quite small anyway and not really noticeable unless you are looking closely like I was today but if your one of those who likes your 17 year old cars without so much of a mark on them or an Ebayer who comes to collect his cars armed with a microscope and a list of excuses why you don't want to buy it then you had seriously better pass this one by as you wont be happy with it and I certainly wont be happy if you mess me around and I want and fully expect a quick and smooth transaction once the hammer falls on the winning bidder so please bear this in mind if you decide to bid and buy this car.   
 IF IN DOUBT PULL OUT !!!!.

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