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Old 05-15-2008, 08:26 PM
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Alfa 164 / XJS
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Originally Posted by Alfissimo Int. View Post
I love old jags but they always had trouble until lately. Man we had a few including a XJS and XKE.
They are far from totally reliable. I don't know? I saw more of those towed into the shop than alfa's! The lucas electricals where far more unreliable than the Alfa V6 timing belt.

Jason
I love the XJS's, however, Pat would never let me have one because we would either owe all of his time or his money to a repair shop because of their unreliability. We've had several friends that owned them and ended up getting rid of them because of continual hose leaks, especially, in the power steering.

He was o.k. with owning some of the older jags and by older we're talking about the ones that had the "wrong" way opening doors as we would recognize them today. Called suicide doors, I believe.
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