Jaguar, turning everyday people into everyday mechanics
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Jaguar, turning everyday people into everyday mechanics
FOr those that know me, you know my repair list is EXTENSIVE.
It seems like a weekly occurrence that i'm under the jag massaging her undercarriage from bad bushings, to plastic tensioners. From shock mounts to coil packs. I'm getting the impression that Jaguar engineers just hate people. They passive aggressively took out there rage by building these cars to torture the worlds shade tree mechanics.
So today I make it a block from the house and the car downshifts as i slow down and BANG..."oh no, that was loud...what now..." the car then stops shifting.. I put it into 2nd gear and it limps into a parking lot. I shut it off for a moment and put my face in my palms. I give a good long groan, thinking maybe the car will hear me and understand. I hop back in and head back home. she seems fine?? maybe she heard my cries. I come to a stop and she won't move. she revs but nothing. then she stalls. I get a nice little light on the dash to tell me what I already know. "transmission fault". Why thank you... I had no idea. I then turn her back on....nothing. One more try I say before I start pushing. she goes into gear and gets me back to the garage. The fault light went out BTW.
So i hear I sit pondering her fate.....
It seems like a weekly occurrence that i'm under the jag massaging her undercarriage from bad bushings, to plastic tensioners. From shock mounts to coil packs. I'm getting the impression that Jaguar engineers just hate people. They passive aggressively took out there rage by building these cars to torture the worlds shade tree mechanics.
So today I make it a block from the house and the car downshifts as i slow down and BANG..."oh no, that was loud...what now..." the car then stops shifting.. I put it into 2nd gear and it limps into a parking lot. I shut it off for a moment and put my face in my palms. I give a good long groan, thinking maybe the car will hear me and understand. I hop back in and head back home. she seems fine?? maybe she heard my cries. I come to a stop and she won't move. she revs but nothing. then she stalls. I get a nice little light on the dash to tell me what I already know. "transmission fault". Why thank you... I had no idea. I then turn her back on....nothing. One more try I say before I start pushing. she goes into gear and gets me back to the garage. The fault light went out BTW.
So i hear I sit pondering her fate.....
Last edited by viscoussquirrel; 07-22-2010 at 09:08 PM.
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FOr those that know me, you know my repair list is EXTENSIVE.
It seems like a weekly occurrence that i'm under the jag massaging her undercarriage from bad bushings, to plastic tensions. From shock mounts to coil packs. I'm getting the impression that Jaguar engineers just hate people. They passive aggressively took out there rage by building these cars to torture the worlds shade tree mechanics.
So today I make it a block from the house and the downshifts as i slow down and BANG..."o no, that was loud...what now..." the car then stops shifting.. I put it into 2nd gear and it limps into a parking lot. I shut it off for a moment and put my face in my palms. I give a good long groan, thinking maybe the car will hear me and understand. I hop back in and head back home. she seems fine?? maybe she heard my cries. I come to a stop and she won't move. she revs but nothing. then she stalls. I get a nice little light on the dash to tell me what I already know. "transmission fault". Why thank you... I had no idea. I then turn her back on....nothing. One more try I say before I start pushing. she goes into gear and gets me back to the garage. The fault light went out BTW.
So i hear I sit pondering her fate.....
It seems like a weekly occurrence that i'm under the jag massaging her undercarriage from bad bushings, to plastic tensions. From shock mounts to coil packs. I'm getting the impression that Jaguar engineers just hate people. They passive aggressively took out there rage by building these cars to torture the worlds shade tree mechanics.
So today I make it a block from the house and the downshifts as i slow down and BANG..."o no, that was loud...what now..." the car then stops shifting.. I put it into 2nd gear and it limps into a parking lot. I shut it off for a moment and put my face in my palms. I give a good long groan, thinking maybe the car will hear me and understand. I hop back in and head back home. she seems fine?? maybe she heard my cries. I come to a stop and she won't move. she revs but nothing. then she stalls. I get a nice little light on the dash to tell me what I already know. "transmission fault". Why thank you... I had no idea. I then turn her back on....nothing. One more try I say before I start pushing. she goes into gear and gets me back to the garage. The fault light went out BTW.
So i hear I sit pondering her fate.....
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And by that do you mean how nice and peaceful it will be after my wife kills me and buries me in the back yard due to the hole in my garage i keep pouring money into known as a jaguar?
Last edited by viscoussquirrel; 07-23-2010 at 06:03 PM.
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