Hello to everybody in this excellent forum. My name is Volker. I live in Germany near Frankfurt and own a Jaguar Mk2, a 2005 XK8 and a 2000 XJR. Living in a country where Mercedes E and S types are extremely popular because of the image of the brand created by an excellent marketing department which Jaguar doesn`t have I still prefer Jaguars for their superior style, elegance and performance. I even have converted the matt black parts of my XJR back to normal XJ8 because I think chrome matches the Jaguar`s style better than matt black.

I have had my Mk2 since 1974 when I bought the car after it had been stolen by some bank robbers who were caught by the German police (real Edgar Wallace / Francis Durbridge scenery in those days). I started rebuilding the car last year, and I am very worried about the safety situation. A frontal crash according to the present legislation would certainly be a fatal accident in a standard Mk2. I am working on some interesting ideas to solve this problem (not finished yet).

Using the forum for the past couple of days I have especially noted the kindness and helpfullness of the members. I'm looking forward to being a part of this community and hope that I can soon contribute some useful information in the future.

Best Regards, Volker

 

Willkommen Volker!

Welcome to the forum! Good to have you here. We are from everywhere.
Hope you will enjoy the nice folks here.

 

Herzlich willkommen ins Forum Volker, froh, Sie mit uns zu haben.

Gawd I hope that makes sense, high school German was many years ago!

 

Well I don't speak German at all. I looked up Welcome so I could greet you with it. lol
And you're not German...you speak english!

Oh shoot, that was Cigar Guy who said that.....never mind.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.....

 

Welcome to the forum Volker,

Nice story, the MKII was the bank robbers favourite at one time.

 

Hello Volker and welcome to jaguarforums.com. I know that you are anxious to get started and we are anxious to meet you and talk about your car. We have a baseline / criteria that must be met before full access can be granted. Please enjoy the forum and be patient once the baseline has been satisfied full access will be granted. Please continue to post and accept my welcome to the forum.

If you haven’t already you need to put your car details in your signature. I am speaking of the Year, Make & Model. Without it you may not get the input you are looking for. To do this go to, User CP, Edit Signature, Add Vehicle Details and such and Save Your Signature.

Please take a moment and read the information provided to you explaining the rules. Be patient and enjoy the site.

Also, should you have questions related to your vehicle please post it in the section for your model year (MY) car. This way you will reach all the members that are familiar with your MY car.

 

BriteREd01XKR, Cigar Guy, Norri and Gus, thanks a lot for the warm welcome. After having filled out the form with my car details I`ll disappear, no not into the distance, but for a 3 weeks holiday in the Swiss mountains with no mobile, no telephone, no TV and no newspaper or any other gimmicks - that is real and pure life !

 

I'm totally jealous! Have a great time!

 

welcome aboard Volker, great to have you here with us. and hope you enjoy your holiday, no doubt catch you around when you get back.

Nice intro full of info and pics too....all good and thanks for sharing and the compliments on the forum. The members are generally the best there is.....a very friendly and helpful bunch of guys / gals

Loads going on, plenty of very friendly and helpful members as well as some excellent tech advice......all good!

In the meantime I've manually upgraded you to full forum access so you can better view the site