New Daimler! The Walk Around video. Now sold.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Join me as I stroll around my Daimler 4.0 (Jaguar XJ6 XJ40) and marvel and its shambolic state. Yes, I really did pay actual money for this car!
To be fair, it was really nice, once upon a time. Later, I start the engine and end up wishing I hadn't... - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Best quote ever "it was quality once" love it.
duvet1977 hahaha
I have a Daimler that colour, less problems thankfully, it's done just over 100000 miles and it's a 1990. I love it
I have olsa daimler 1990 xj 40.hav ken l fein the steringbox? Ken you help my l am f turkey 00905376040745 my plone nr.
It's interesting what neglect will do to a car like this. I bought a '92 when I was about 22ish, 141k miles, 4.0l manual! It had similar rot around the bulkhead and wings, but far more of the electrics worked and all the bits of interior were still bolted on. Ruinously expensive to run on £15k a year (mainly fuel, parts were quite affordable), but amazingly cheap to buy (which I reckon is why a lot were neglected).
Daily drove it for a year, and occasional use for a couple of years after before I managed to overheat the engine one day by leaving it running to charge the battery and not noticing it had a pinhole leak in one of the coolant pipes. Blown headgasket and rod knock. Amazing. Oh, and set light to the boot when it was half-full of petrol while trying to drain water out of the fuel tank...
So it sat looking sorry for itself for a couple more years (although I did manage to procure another AJ6 for it), until a mate of mine bought a remapped E46 330d. Lightbulb moment as I realised just how nice the XJ40 would be with a meaty, but still refined, 3.0l turbodiesel. Bought a rotten 330d and set to work :) it's not a million miles away from being sorted now, but if anyone's interested I've got a build thread here: forum.retro-rides.org/thread/216608/1992-jaguar-xj40-superturbodiesel Oh, and if anyone's wondering about the AJ6 and 5-speed I'm planning to try and wedge that into a Triumph 2000, because why not ;)
Also also if anyone has one of these. The rust under the corners of the windscreen pillars is caused by these little box section dividers that are sealed into the scuttle panel, and the area filled with silicone sound deadening foam. There's a rubber grommet giving access in the corners of the bulkhead on the engine side. If you excavate all of the foam from here, and drill a hole diagonally into the little divider to let the box sections drain you can save yourself a windscreen replacement. If the foam comes out clean then happy days, but if it's stained orange then it's been rusting in there and you probably need to at the very least clean it, soak it in phosphoric acid for ages, and then paint the whole thing up again (if you're lucky enough that it hasn't broken through). A similar issue causes the rust on the c-pillars which are also filled with sound deadening foam. You can get to these through the boot, where there's some bolt on panels that close off the boot underneath the wing (with the looms poking through them). Bit trickier to get to, but excavating these bits would also be a pretty good idea. Or at least excavating a drain pathway through them.
Surely walking around a car can never seem 'lame' to a fellow car enthusiast. Never tire of button pressing and explanations of why things don't work.
Knowing the electrical system in that era Daimler/Jag, the fuse box in that location doubles as a console heater.
It was worth paying 350 Pounds just to have it to sit in! Every car enthusiast should at some point own a Daimler or a Jaguar, even just for a day.
It barely worked during my ownership, so I often just sat in it to admire the ambience.
haha
I just bought a 97 XK8 for 3 and a half grand, and it's a better car than I would have thought.
Not the XJ40...horrible car. The classic XJ6 on the other hand is a beauty.
Just for a day because that's how long it will last you. x D
Another great quote........”let’s close the door for maximum serenity”
All joking apart they sure knew how to make a plush interior.
Yes they had great carpet.
Daimler of doom.
Please please no more, it's bringing back horrible memories! Mine ceased to proceed (sadly not an isolated incident) the day my wife went in to labour. I kept the jaguar garage loan car, which was a golf GTI (that says it all) for 3 weeks. The garage eventually asked for their car back and returned my Jaguar.....I wished I kept the Golf. Still i love my classic proper XJ6! Great video.
This is my kind of car, I paid £495 for a 1991 W124 Mercedes 260E and I'm still running it now almost 3 years later!
@Delta Fox Didn't know that, but it is true that the cars' build quality isn't what it once was (Mercedes used to be legendary for build quality at one time).
I had a ride in a Mercedes S-class (350 Diesel) this year and was taken aback to find that the so-called "veneer" dashboard trim wasn't solid and certainly wasn't wood; I could push it in as there was nothing but air behind it.
@Delta Fox
Mercs were more reliable than hags and Daimler s in the 70's aa Mercs could sustain constant 70 effortlessly but jags found it difficult to without having problems
If someone had said in the 70's when jags and Daimler had two fuel raps to fill that jags would be electric in 2020 owners would have laughed but technology has moved on a bundle as has design
The picnic tables also appeared in the Vanden Plas version of the Austin Allegro.
It looks fine from 200 yards....in the dark....if you squint........she's a blinder
use to work on these and jags back in the days I was a mechanic we loved customers who bought them because they helped to pay my mortgage with the constant problems they created with their self destructive build quality!
'Used to' being the operative word. Must make you feel very proud to be able to say that I'm sure.
And now I only desire XJ40/81 more than ever.
It's my dream car since early childhood and still the most favourite and desirable not only just an XJ, but the most beloved Jag ever - even while literally every Jag is my dream on its own. It could be said, 2nd gen XJ hands-down is my beloved car among any other car in the automotive history. It's more precious than other Jags - even the '63 S-Type, 420, Series I XJ, X350 XJR, Series III Eagle or XJ-S/XJS, than any 911 - even the G-serie 911, than any Alfa - even the GTV6, than Saab 900... All these mentioned cars - including some other - I give all of them my 10 out of 10. While that rusty, unfortunate, unreliable but still glorious cat easily gets mine one extra point from the very bottom of heart of mine. I admire that boxy sleek thing. I adore that ridiculous 2-spoke steering wheel. I've even saw it once with my very eyes: grey Soverein RHD, probably '90. God that thing is low and long and wide! Even with two flat right tires and a couple of rust on literally every corner and edge, staying outside under the sun and rain it was still looked like a king, better than any car parked near him or driving on the roads past him.
I'd even buy a few scrapped Jags and learn to proper bodyworking - incl. cutting and welding - only to make one decent car. We're not gonna say that Frankenstein monster will surely fall apart by these welding points, are we? Totally electric and engine rebuild, total body restore, tons of money, hundreds of hours. But who cares in the end? What a sane man would rather think about buying Camry while sitting in V12 Daimler? C'mon mate, you're in the bloody Jaaaag.
4.0 is still awesome, anyways. But V12 is something entirely different thing.
Love the enthusiasm mate. My guilty pleasure is also a series II XJ12 as well. However, I go through that mission with a Holden HQ over a decade now. Loads of money, time, workshop manuals, tools, scrap cars and extra parts. Need another life or two to do that mission with a Jag though
i can smell arthur dailey all over it.
And please do NOT remove the carpet. It's holding floor pan in.
Your videos are great I’m enjoying getting threw them 👍😊
One of your funniest video's, now coming back to it as I've just bought one of these 😂
A fine car with some impressive grab handles. I recall meeting it and although it left fluid patches on the ground at 10 cm intervals, the interior looked marvellous. I hope to own an examole one day, even if it's just to sit in!
Grab handles. They're technically "dowager straps" - I had them in an old XJ6 and when I replaced them that's what appeared on the bill (along with a big number).
Haven't laughed so much in ages, thanks
Many poshes. Outstanding.
Ive just discovered your channel and Im in motoring heaven, cheap bangers galore!! Right up my street. Looking forward to checking all your old videos.
Love it. Denial is the best solution.
Similar quality in Cadillacs and Lincolns of the same period, but the Jags would go around a curve quite well, it took our brands a while to discover corners. never knew about the Daimler brand.
Err no, Jags were still better quality.
I'm sorry that you had to sell this car. Although I enjoy watching your Lexus repairs, I would've enjoyed watching the repair works if you kept this XJ40. Cheers!
The restoration project of this car would end up in the hundreds! Sadly, I didn't have time or budget for that. Also, I doubt it would have fitted in my garage, even after I'd tidied it up!
I hear you. My car has been parking outside for almost 11 years. Need a paint job. I wish I was in the hundreds in my car but I'm in thousands and I do my own repairs. Do you consider to buy another XJ40 in the future if you have the budget for it? Or your Lexus is a keeper?
The 2CV is the only keeper I've ever had. Lexus won't be around forever. An X300 is quite appealing.
X300 is the most reliable Jag with a I6 engine. Have you started to search your future Jag?
No, Project Invacar is taking up all of my resources at the moment. Who knows what fleet changes there will be in 2018? I certainly don't.
very good video.
most people don't go into as much detail.well done.
The bottom of the screen has delaminated because of expanding rust under the scuttle/bulkhead area is stressing the glass. It ain't going to be pretty under the trim panel.
It isn't. I was going to include a photo, but forgot. Had to edit it quickly last night, and my bed was calling...
Could always smoke around in it until next mot. Get those rear tyres spinning (but not on public roads though 😉)
With the rust on the bulkhead and under the screen, this car really needs a screen out and engine out just to repair the rust properly.
Good news, Ian. You did get better - much better!
@9:15 An "MoT issue I have is that the washers aren't working". LoL, I'd say that is your smallest problem.
Buy another one (with less rust but maybe trashed engine) and canabalise them to make one good one. That engine does not sound bad. I've driven one a few times, and lovely to do so.
My word that welding, straight over the untreated rot no doubt, you made the right decision to sell!
A brave man. Many things didn’t work on these straight from the production line. Good luck getting any of it working again but it all makes for entertaining viewing.
you are a brave man taking that old xj40 on. i had one when new and nothing worked properly then either.
Brave or stupid? I guess we're going to find out!
Less rust when new
HubNut
223 BHP
Pat Phelan . How's Eileen ?
They are great cars, who cares if it only cost 350 quid and has loads of faults. It will still make you feel good when you drive it 😊😊😊👍anyone into cars should own a Jag or Daimler at some point. I'd rather have the Daimler over the Allegro you drove lolol
it's amazing how bad it is
Hmm, once so nice...it would be interesting, especially for those of us who haven't "invested" in the car to see how you progress some repairs. We are with you in spirit and if I lived closer I would help honest......
The best thing to do is go back into the house and pretend it has not done that. LOL. Entertaining stuff.
8:40 cool.. so there was pretty much a straight up fire going on in the fusebox at one point. lovely
Aye. Great thing to discover!
My Ford Focus has more lights flashing on it than yours - ignore them, they’re just attention seeking, keep driving it till it blows
Daimler was the one to go for, all the toys
Had that run away feeling many times with the said motor vehicle, I live in simpler times these days and don't have what is that burning smell anymore when I turn the key...
“J Gate” otherwise known as the Randal Handle after it’s designer. BMW, Audi, Merc, Porsche etc managed a solution which only consumed the same girth as a non multi-purpose gear shifter saving space for the seats..
You sold it !!?? The spirit of Arfur Daley lives !!
This may not have been his best purchase but I often fancy buying one of these but never do and he went for it despite it falling to bits great video
Ugh! Just spotted that troublesome hydraulic brake booster... so glad they fitted a proper servo in the X300s...
I know used cars are cheaper in the UK. But dang $1500 any day in the US. It needs work but it would part out for more than you paid I say well bought. Plus it a dream car and used parts are your friend
“The pads are low, fuse 1 is low” 😂
Love watching your vids.....Always hankered after a Jaguar.
And now the owner of an X-type 3.0 awd, thankfully it's not as bad!
Watch those sills. ;-) Sadly, this one is departing today. Too much wrong with it. Had one nice drive in it though! Would love another.
I have...Lol, and this one was the first one I looked at that actually had metal in them! its a really solid car....Surprised me I'll say
+HubNut where is it off to? The nearest skip? Poor thing
Callyy F Probably. Sold to an XJ40 owner though, so bits of it will live on.
Wow. Such contrasts , sublime to sad.
Another cool and really interesting video.
Ouch.. And they are just the good bits! :) Suspect bigger horrors await beneath? Looks like a massively big and expensive project.
The years of complete neglect are all to clear to see..
Wish you all the best with it though. Exciting times ahead im sure !
For future reference if you are annoyed by the 02 sensors fault just unplug it until you can replace it
This video appears to be published in May 2017, not surprising the cars days where over in the same month according to DVLA
Only 109.000 miles…that’s great
I'm so glad you said was once a nice car because it sure isn't any more I'm new to your channel I can't wait to see if you can rescue this car
There are good ones I'm sure, but they are a car that needs to be treated as if it is a fancy horse drawn carriage. I'm sure all those owned by Royals would run forever if they kept the meticulous maintenance and dry garage storage.
Bonjour , je sais que cette vidéo est sous forme d'humour :) mais j'ai un ami avec une xj 40 c'est un excellent véhicule elle a plus de 400 000 kilomètres et zéro problèmes une fiabilité exemplaire !
The Maxi was better, just about everything worked !
Very entertaining have subscribed well done mate.
Thanks for your vlog Richard uk Coventry England take love them 29 40 32 but there rubbish cars but I still think they're GT
My dream car
Dunno how I missed this phase!
This thing is absolutely fucked. I'd still take a punt on it though.
"This thing is absolutely fucked" couldn't have summed it up better! I'm not surprised he wanted to run away from it, that car is more tired than me on a Monday morning!
Luckily enough Morris marinas all came with a complimentary bus timetable,
Somebody bought that? Did they need a knackered parts car?
Thanks a lot for this video. I always get blinded by posh English cars, like this one. But this Daimler type turns out to be some kind of a "please, don't blow my bubble" car.
In the late 80s I knew a bunch of guys in Groningen (NL) who had bought 4 Leyland Daimlers and they tried to build one decent car from them. Well, they didn't. Even 4 proper doors appeared to be impossible.
I'd love to know how a car could go that far south in just over 100k? Though, if those picnic tables were used for more than just food,,,
Yes a beautiful car ONCE!!
Certainly you have a job ahead of you, the engine has few MPs (170000 KM) you have to see if the gasket is not burned, and the viscous coupling of the fan of the radiotor is still in good condition (if there is no risk of cooking the head)
Sadly, I gave up on this one. A project too far!
It would cost £60k at least to have it dismantled, fixed as new and rebuilt. A really good paint job, including detailing, is £20k. But it would be brilliant. Needs a turbo and a 5 speed auto box, and 350bhp.
Yeah or just buy a better one for a bit more money
3.58 Old Chinese proverb Confusing say ..... better to have fuse box easily to hand inside dry car in convenient place , than anywhere else
Probably turned into concrete mesh steel by now.
It was expensive once.
there's something creepy about this car, is it haunted?
Yes
@J J Christine's fat old cigar smoking uncle who likes you to sit on his knee for a bit too long when he visits at Christmas.
Arthur Daley died in it.
Lovely! The rough tickover is just a symptom of the knackered lambda sensor isn't it? Is it ok when warm?
Lambda doesn't kick in until it's warm. It keeps going very, very rich - the plugs come out black. I think the temp sensor may be duff.
I wonder what state the others that are still on the road are in? It will be a shame when all these disappear if they haven't done already. Given that this was a later example I suspect most will have similar rust issues. I wonder if anything could have been done to stop area around the windscreen rusting?
I saw reported at the XJ40 launch that the electrical connectors represented a thousand man years of development work. Not actually very impressive it's just a measure of how far behind Joe Lucas were...
Daimler. ; oh so brilliant and yet oh so HubNut. Pete UK
This is a prime example of why you should never buy a car blind. I've had a few XJ40's, paid way less than £350 for some and not much more for others. All been decent cars, some better than others but I inspected every one before I parted with any cash.
I always buy blind. More than anything, it's a prime example of why you should never buy a cheap Jaguar...
@@HubNut I've never bought blind, not brave enough but I've probably missed out on some real bargains. 10 years ago you could buy a good, cheap Jag. I won a gorgeous XJ40 3.2S on an ebay auction for £535, but I'd viewed and test drove it before bidding.
My weaknesses are not being able to resist stuff that seems too good to be true and buying the first example I see.
Bought a poverty spec XJ40 (with plastic wheel trims!) from North Wales, full of water from a leaking sunroof for £150. It promptly failed a few miles from the seller and was brought home on an AA recovery truck, proving you can't guarantee anything even if you've seen it and driven it before buying!
Dude, This type of car has to have a nut n bolt resto !! you will chase rust forever and the costs oh the costs !! I would lovve to see cars like this returned to there former glory, But there cheap as at the minuet there not viable resto's
best of British to you (: fine machines in there day
made me smile which is always good.
I do hope it is your intention to fully restore this magnificent machine.
I sold it. It got scrapped. The diff is now in a Cobra replica.
@@HubNut With this news, you have just ruined my day/week/year/life.
Don't walk, run away, fast.
this car makes the vandern plas allegro look better
Its a LMSB!!!!!!! Light Match Stand Back
I have a 1990 E30 325i, it has never been garaged as far as I'm aware, and has 200,000 miles on the clock, but absolutely everything (bar the stupid hydraulic headlight angle adjuster) works and it is in much better condition than this thing. It definitely looks like the owners stopped caring about this car some time ago, which is sad. :(
+Acme Yes, this was definitely neglected. Shame. It was once a lovely thing.
nice one mate electrics taken care of with a draper tool love the old bms
Acme ~ miss my e30 tourer alpina engined (engine swap) chasis had 360,000 before head went so we put that in.... but at mot it needed 2k worth of work and we just didn't have the cash. Its still alive. Its a track car now. H591 XUL if anyone wants to try and find her. 2.7 alpina engine. Kept 2 litre gearbox. Acceleration was instant and still hit 130 and it was chipped to rev to 8k instead of 6.5k. Totally stripped. Rare front splitter off of hartge... black. Lowered stiffened and strut braced (properly!) Really well known car in wiltshire area (was) ~ had a personality. If a boy racer in a corsa over took it didn't matter how much you mashed that big pedal..."ellie" didn't wanna know... wasnt worth the fuel.... but when a TT came along....it suddenly decides its gonna tear it up! ~ go figure?
Well youve ticked the Jag box now so alls well that ends well. Bought an x300 sovereign a while back for 600 quid, kept it till the mot was up and moved it on for 300. Was happy with that just to tick the Jag box. Good cars and smooth as but was just a mess of switches etc and a bit boring to drive tbh. My old e32 735 from the same era is a way better car, better built and much better to drive so still got it. A Jag is a Jag i always think👍
Interesting hearing that, based on owning an E32 735 and knowing what utter disasters those cars are the Jag must be next level. The only good euro from those days was the W124, that you can actually rely on.
Whilst they give problems, you'll notice the car got you home with little drama... I laughed as you struggled with the seat belt, (they ALL do that, sir) and noted that you had pretty much all the standard xj40 foibles like the melting side fuse box, sagging roof lining, fuel fail 44, rust in the usual places, and of course, partially inoperative climate control. Your diff sounded OK, which is a big win... BUT in 20 + years of driving these heaps, IME they ALWAYS get you home..
But: if you buy what was a £50,000 motor car for 350 quid, you have to be prepared to invest a bit of time and effort to sort out the stuff that the previous owner couldn't. Most Daimler owners aren't technical types..
Yes, once the price gets low enough, they end up in the hands of people who can afford to buy, but not run a Jaguar. This one was horribly neglected.
wow. had never seen inside one of those. absolutely beautiful! pity about the salt / snow / ice over there destroying your cars.
+Greg Winfield Or sheer neglect in this case! My 2CV is off the road for the winter to keep her out of the salt.
yeah i hear you mate. we see them over here in AU pretty rarely now, but, the same neglect still is here too. just no snow and salt/ice.
I wonder if it ever starred on the banger racing track after you sold it!
Doubt it. The rear diff now lives in an AC Cobra replica kit car apparently!
I owned an xj40 3.2 sovereign a few years back in the same colour combination. Absolutely the worst car I've ever purchased 100%. Purchased another running car to swap parts to get it running again and it ran for a week or so then started to cut out intermittently. Eventually I took it to a car show and tried to sell it for £300 just before I scrapped it but to no avail!
RIP.
Haha I am loving your videos sir, absolutely hilarious! What is that car a 1992? Absolutely shocking quality given the age. To be honest it would only be worth any money in parts in my opinion. Still an extremely interesting video, I look forward to watching some more of your videos.
how petrol did you use to get home.
you did not mention that on your video
That’s a Scottish car too
Sold to a dismantler I hope.
What happened to this car after this .. u sold it yes, .. did u fix much on it? ..what was it like when u sold it .. and how much did u get for it when u sold it?
I like the mid to late 70's jag and Daimler cars preferably the 77 ish coupe etc
I didn't like the early 70's jag or from v reg onwards and never really liked jag again until the
x type etc
I had one in the 90s
A car that promises much but get’s let down by dodgy electronics and rust, I would suggest that this is a high maintenance car
Seems accurate.
You gets what you pay for, generally. Everything on this car is fixable, at reasonable cost if you know where to look. Do your research, learn a few skills(welding being an obvious one) and invest in some basic tools...probably the biggest issue is locating a 'space' to carry out the work. If you don't want to do that then best stick to the 'run if the mill' stuff thats out there......you also run the same risks when buying them....Great video(s) BTW loved the purchase process, the witty comments and as someone has already pointed out the car was full of 'Poshes'.... That did make me laugh...
Thanks. Too big a project for me, so it was sold on again - sadly for parts. Luxury cars can be bad news for DIY projects. Which is why I've just bought a Lexus LS400...