Considering the 21 year span and the fact you have 6 cylinder and 12 cylinder issues,,why not SPLIT the forum accordingly?
THX
3rdtimearound
1996 XJS

 

Should we then also split up between:

5.3l V12
6.0l V12
3.6l AJ6
4.0l AJ6
4.0l AJ16

I mean, if you want to split the engines, do it properly...
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Oh, then also come the V8 conversions... So we want 6 forum sections for a car with 120k units?

Doesn't make mich sense.

 

Not something that l ever really thought much about and can see two sides but....while there are engine and gearboxes differences the vast majority of components and in car systems are common across the entire range.

 

I don't see any particular advantage to splitting the forum. If a split was called for....and am not advocating for one, mind you....I think facelift and pre-facelift might be the better choice.

Cheers
DD

 

A reasonable question but as baxtor said, there is a huge amount of commonality across the range.
Do it by colour?

 

I think it's clear: split it into 1992 V12 XJS coupes in Kingfisher Blue, and all the rest.
Wait, no: that means no one will comment. Perhaps that's not such a good idea after all.
Anyway, no, I don't think there's any point to it whatsoever as long as people are clear about what car they're talking about. I do see some comments that show confusion between, say, pre- and post-facelift, so Doug's probably got the most sensible approach, but I still don't like the idea of splitting. I wouldn't even be averse to merging with the SIII/Double Sixes which share the same engines and much else.

But I agree with one split: XJSs lumped with V8s should be split off into their own forum. One that's far, far away....

 

I'd say we split the forum into colour combinations.

So, one forum for Arctic Blue with Oatmeal interiors.
One for Red with black interior.
one for black with black interior.
...

Those who have piping in a different colour should look for their piping colour in the forum name. So like Blue-Creme-Brown.

And then the special LeMans and Collection forums. As well as XJR-S, XJ-SC, TWR XJ-S, ...
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May I have a subforum for my car, please?

 

Oh, and we need to divide the forum between Right-Hand Drive and Left-Hand Drive. That'll get rid of all those posts that say "the perambulator cross-check valve flanged thrombosis wingnut is located on the driver's side," when it's actually on the passenger side.

 

How about splitting by smell?
Anyone who has a car that smells of petrol, exhaust fumes, leather and mildew can join my clan.

 

That's the entire Jaguar Forums!! Well, perhaps not those weird people who drive modern, new Jaguars that don't require constant attention....

 

Ahh, is there a formula like Harley Davidson used to have? I.E. riding time is equal to subsequent wrenching time.

 

At least for the X308 XJ series I can say: 1 hour repair time is required for every 10 hours of driving. Sometimes less. Mostly more

My XJ-S has had about 20h of driving in 5 years. The rest of the time I've been working on it And my former XJ of course...

 

I have had my car for 722 days. During that time, she has been in the shop for various reasons, some more critical than others, and including some days when I wasn't able to pick her up immediately, for 219 days. That's 30% of the time. Bloody hell.... Okay, a huge chunk of that was right at the start, when I was waiting on parts. Another large chunk was getting her seen by the specialist, and needing an extra couple of weeks before I could collect her. And another chunk was getting the fuel pump fixed. So a lot of that time was waiting for parts. But still... nearly a third of the time I've owned her....

 

I think most XJS posts are assumed to be V12, but plenty aren't and the OP simply denotes this in their post or in their signature. There are far too many people that have general knowledge that are willing to be helpful in posts outside of what they own to do this.

In other words, if we split off into 6 cylinder and 12 cylinder, there will suddenly being a bunch of V12 folks who could help XK6 or AJ16 folks that suddenly aren't even seeing their posts. Lets not forget that you are only talking about the engine and transmission as well! What if the only guy who knows about X part for the window switches in over in the XJS12 forum while the guy who needs help is in the XJS6 forum?

 

The engine management system and transmission is completely different between a 1975 V12 and a 1995 V12, so even splitting on V12 lines doesn't make a lot of sense.

 

 

lol, it would devolve into the most pedantic clique sub-groups...like Oh...yours is a lucas ignition?

Filthy lucas peasants. *BAN*

 

A sensible answer - As well as a couple of Jags I also have a 1998 BMW Z3, and participate in a couple of forums for that car. One of the forums is split into two sections: one for ///M cars and one for non-///M cars. The other forum keeps them together.
The one that keeps them together is far-and-away the best because almost all problems that people have are common across both. The other forum suffers from having people not looking at both and common questions not getting the support they need.
If someone on the XJS V12 forum had a question about rear brakes, would someone with a 3.6, who has loads of expertise on brakes, even see the problem being posted? Want to replace the headlining on a 6 cylinder? Is that different to the headliner on a V12?

And so on.