Faults:

LED dash display flickered on and off.

Vehicle status monitor kept giving warnings that wern't true.

Rear electric windows only worked off driver's control panel.

Rear passenger's reading lights inop.

Poor starting.

Interior heating fan inop.

Clonking noise from rear suspension.

General Comments:

You'd think from the above list that this car was a complete disaster, but I actually quite liked it.

I had caught the Jag bug and decided to buy one and this came along for a grand and looked like it was in good nick-indeed the interior and body were fine, it was in British Racing Green with cream leather.

It was only run as a 3rd car so most of the problems wern't too annoying, apart from having no interior fan what so ever!

Performance was best described as 'you'll get there in the end', it had the longest gear lever action of any car I've ever owned, and handling whilst I'm sure was good in it's day, required a degree of praying if you came to a sharp bend.

I think these things were too complicated for their own good electrics wise as well, as things were always flashing on and off at random, and various things worked very intermittently. And I understand they were like this when new as well!

But, I still liked it, the ride was Rolls Royce like (you didn't even notice speed bumps), I think they have a timeless look and it's the only car I've owned which made me feel patriotic and wanting to play 'God Save the Queen' on the stereo!

However I run a BMW 735i Auto on an A-reg now as a 3rd car, and this has no electrical problems, corners better, and every single thing works on it.

Still love Jags though!

Faults:

Several instrument failures.

Erratic lighting.

Countless switch failures.

Misfire when cold.

Intermittent wipe packed up.

Drivers door dropping.

Rattling timing chain.

Uses a bit of oil these days (expected).

General Comments:

I bought this off a mate for £750 two years ago. Infuriating as it can be, I love this car.

It's drastically underpowered and it's criminally unreliable like a BMW just wouldn't be, but when you sink into the cosseting leather seats, select "D" on the J-gate transmission and waft effortlessly away, the sheer class, refinement and magic carpet ride just blow you away.

The handling is incredible for such a big car with no floatiness or wallowing when pressing on, even with 165k on the clock. The 2.9 engine is very sweet and refined, but overwhelmed by the sheer bulk of the car. Prodding the throttle sees the autobox working overtime to provide remotely decent acceleration. Once rolling though, the performance is effortless, and the car will cruise all day at anything up to 100 mph.

Fuel economy averages about 25 mpg which is okay for the size of car and considering that the engine has to be thrashed constantly to make it go anywhere.

Service costs are very low outside the dealer network, and mechanical reliability seems to be good. I just hope the people responsible for the electrics were fired a long time ago!