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Old 05-15-2008, 10:49 PM
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Originally Posted by usatrade View Post
Jaguars are a bit like Alfa Romeos. their "bad" reputation came only from the bad so called mechanics who worked on them.
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I don't think that's true. I have been around cars and mechanics all my life and worked as a mechanic myself in the past and can't remember anyone saying Jaguars were reliable. Jaguar engines were old fashioned and pretty basic really, I think, and it wouldn't have taken a rocket scientist to work on them, just someone with infinite patience to spend hours on what should have been a simple job. From memory, Jaguar used to quote something like 8 hours to get the engine out of a V12 and 12 hours to put it back in and that was for specialist Jag mechanics!
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