24,777 Miles From New!
A few months back we carried out a full inspection report to this fabulous 24,777 mile black beauty!
A 1983 Jaguar Series three 4.2 saloon in our opinion a very nice car indeed. We did however, find a number of faults with the vehicle on closer inspection including a broken n/s front spring which had not been picked up by the previous owner or any other inspection for that matter prior to the vehicle arriving at out workshop, so that for us was an absoloute priority and decided to fit a new pair of front springs rather then just the broken one which just makes sense. She also had worn top and bottom ball joints, worn anti roll bar bushes, and top shock bushes were also showing signs of deterioration.
Both anti-roll bar staberliser link arms had worn bushes and the link arms were badlly corrosive, so we decided it was nesassary to be replace both for safety reasons. We replaced all the anti-roll bar bushes with uprated polyurathane replacement. These type of polyurathane bushes are more durable and have a much longer life span, unlike the original the material was not so oil resistant.
The sump oil filter housing pickup pipe had bad oil leakage where the hose had become saturated and the sump pick up pipe 'O' ring was worn so leaking oil.
The r/h fuel gauges had a low readings,and the l/h fuel gauge showed no reading whatsoever despite having a full tanks of fuel. Both were checked and rectifed using new parts as required.
All in all we did expect to find some issues with the vehcle as at some point the car had been laid up before recomissioning. Our customer agreed to have all the work carried out including a full comprehensive service.
We were also asked to remove the old steel wheels, hub caps and wheel nuts and replaced them with a new set of Kent alloys this gave the vehicle a real face lift which complimented the rich black metalic paintwork and transformered her appearance. We also fitted a pair of rear intertia seat belt as these earlier cars were not fitted with them as standard from the factory.
