Laurence Jones

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  • in reply to: Running 3.6 litre Engine for sale – 1984 #9201
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Claudiu

    If only I still had the gearbox too, you could have had this 3.6 engine for sale (mine) for your car – we’d have kept it safe at the garage and helped you organise the shipping.

    Oh well, may someone else will buy it soon 🙂

    Laurence

    in reply to: Wecome new Cabriolet member – Claudiu Antal #9189
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Claudiu

    Your English is pretty good – no problem understanding you at all

    Thank you for posting some photos of your Cabriolet

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    When I checked the records, it shows that your Cabriolet was originally Steel Metallic – Did you choose to paint it Red for your wife ?
     
    Laurence

    in reply to: Correct Vin numbers #9175
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi John

    You may recall we discussed this via email a couple of weeks ago, and I explained that indeed Denis had sold his Cabriolet 124809 and it was now in Malta, but if you checked out Denis’s profile entry it showed as Still owned = No.

    In the email you sent me you mention that it was sold to Ron Azzopardi (who is not a member) but above you state Roland Cassar (who is a member).

    Does that mean Denis sold it to Ron who has sold it to Roland ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: looking for BCC 5587 #9152
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Pascal Ce n’est pas un probleme monsieur.

    I have corrected the title from BAC5587 to BCC5587 🙂

    So, you are looking for the catch for the Hard Top hood. I’m afraid that’s not something I’ve seen available – the Hard Top hoods themselves are quite difficult to obtain.

    Sorry, hopefully someone else might be able to help.

    Laurence

    in reply to: looking for BCC 5587 #9149
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Pascal

    I can’t find the part BBC 5587 in the documentation – could you please describe the part and where it is located.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Running 3.6 litre Engine for sale – 1984 #9141
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Here’s a couple of photos of the engine, ready for sale.

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    Cheers,

    Laurence

    in reply to: Profile information in Discussion Topics and Replies #9073
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Robin

    Thanks for your input.

    It’s difficult to add information alongside the topic/reply discussion because there is little room to do so and hard to decide what to add and what not to.

    However, what I can do is have a look at enhancing the Profile Page that you route to when you click on the member’s link.

    I’ve some ideas, but will give it some thought 🙂

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome messages.. #9072
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    It does seem we’ve been having a lot of new members join recently – which is good news 🙂

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome messages.. #9071
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Robin and John

    I have just this minute launched the revamp of the Forums for all members. There is a new navigation route via the Discussions option on the main menu bar. This has the following features :

    1/ Just click on the Discussions button and you are taken to the list of all discussions (topics/replies) that have been posted on our Club website

    2/ Hover over the Discussions button and you see a drop down list
    ==> Top 10 Most Recent Discussions
    ==> All discussion topics (same as just clicking on the Discussions button
    ==> Then the specific Discussion forums – enabling you to focus on just Technical discussions

    I’ve standardised these views for all logged in Club Members.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome messages.. #9015
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Robin and John

    I think that due to some many new members joining recently it has made this issue more apparent. I can indeed set up a forum specifically for the welcome messages, and I think (note think) there might be away to present two views :-

    1/ All the discussions from all the various Forums, including the welcome forum

    2/ All the discussions from all the various Forums, but not including the welcome forum.

    You may have both noticed that I’ve amended the menu bar today to provide a drop down of the different discussion forums. This was as part of the move to make the site more friendly to use on a mobile phone or tablet, but I believe I can take the development further to make the whole site experience better (including what’s discussed above).

    Thank for the discussion Robin, I’ll work on this over the weekend.

    John, the point you make about non reply is valid, though occurs across many forums and multi-media platforms including Facebook. We’ll have to see whether the situation improves once I’ve undertaken the rework.

    Cheers,

    Laurence

    in reply to: Speedometer HELP PLEASE ! #8959
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Greg

    Have you managed to make any progress on this ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: Wanted – Cabriolet hood frame and other parts #8958
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Claudiu

    Cabriolet’s hood’s metal frame – do you mean the heavy metal bar that has the locking knob and catches, or the chrome assembly that is either side of the hood that controls how the hood folds down ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: Cabriolet parts wanted #8962
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Thorleifur

    I have some of the chrome parts from when I swapped things around to get my cabriolet up together, but they’re rusty.

    I’ll see if I can put together a complete set for left and right side.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome new Cabriolet member – Scott Shearman #8916
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

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    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    We had a very successful meet up at The Bull, Gerrards Cross, Bucks
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    We had 3 Cabriolets and 3 Convertibles – which drew a lot of attention parked outside The Bull
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    There were 10 of us sat down for a lovely Sunday Carvery Lunch in the Hotel’s restaurant – thanks to Scott Shearman , Graham Vandervelde , Dave Green , Rob Baker and Trevor Kent for bringing their cars and their guests.
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    Look forward to venturing down in the New Year for another friendly meet up.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome new Cabriolet member – Scott Shearman #8894
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi John

    Scott attend the XJS Soft Tops social meet up today at The Bull, Gerrards Cross, in his recently acquired Cabriolet. It is indeed look a very nice example.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome new Convertible member – Adam Bokwa #8891
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Adam

    1987 means your car was converted by Hess & Eisenhard before Jaguar had finished producing the XJ-SC cabriolets.

    I’d be really interested to see some more photos of the roof, to see how much different it is from the early Jaguar built XJS Convertibles (from about 1988 I believe).

    Laurence

    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    4 Club Members and passengers are booked in for Sunday Lunch so far, with another couple just checking diaries.

    If you’re considering attending please do, you’ll be most welcome.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Jag start/tickover probs #8824
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Dave

    I had exactly the symptons you have described with my own 3.6 Cabriolet last year – Slow running seemed to be a random thing that the car either decided it wanted to do or not on a whim. Made driving it very hard and unpredicatble – sometimes needing to be sat at traffic lights bliping the accelerator like a boy racer to keep it going and others the car being perfectly behaved.

    We swapped a the same sensors as yourself, with similar results to your own – it would work for a while then start messing aroudn again. Then one day the car wouldn’t start at all -dead 🙁

    Subsequently we HAD to change the ECU to get the car going and borrowed one – and all the random yet persistent slow running issues went away. Replacing the ECU was not on the list of things to try, but I wish it had had been right at the start.

    I’ve met a couple of other folk who have had similar problems and it does seem to be that if you have this random slow running issue that its cause by the ECU – when it’s a consistent and persistent slow running problem then it seems changing the sensors does fix the problem.

    I’d be interested to know if others in the Club have had the same experience.

    Hope this helps,

    Laurence

    in reply to: Site functionality question to Laurence #8798
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi John

    I have amended the settings in the Photo Management software so that now when you click a photo that has been inserted into a topic or reply using the code

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