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It's an R if you zoom in

Is that an "S" or "R" badge? Where's the badge police when you need them. The reg says it's a 2014 PL 3.0 D.

 

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Got back from Scotland late on Friday. XJ behaved perfectly.
We left home on Monday and as I sometimes drive faster than I realise I set the speed limiter to 80. This went well until I encountered a camera van on a bridge over the M80. I'm awaiting a brown envelope through my letterbox. This was the only really bad part of the whole trip (minor annoyances were the average speed cameras on the entire A9, the 20mph speed limits and the tedious but very pretty return journey down the A68). At our first stop at a hotel in Hexham I saw a very nice XJR (an X350, I think, reg ending in XJR) but no sign of any X351s. On the way home there was an X351 on the M1, reg ending in DAB. So that's 1400 miles and only 1 X351. Although the journey included a lot of motorway, I was pleasantly surprised to see an average of 49.3 mpg. I only had to fill up with fuel once and found that Tesco in Dingwall was selling diesel at £1.69. When I got home I still had over 100 mile range left. Very pleased with it.

Fingers crossed you don't get a brown envelope, 80 mph is hardly pushing it !

 

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The Hurricane has been safely locked away in its hangar at the bottom of the garden, fit to fly tests back okay, the XJ is primed and ready to be dropped off at valet parking tomorrow morning, so I will be dropping out later this evening. I'll catch up in a couple of weeks.

Have a great trip, I'm not jelaous at all.....

 

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I have a theory that because the X351 is quite uncommon, and is SO DAMN GOOD, that they will become a classic in the future, just as the previous marque is becoming. I will be too old and crusty (or a windblown pile of ashes) but one day these will be sought after and the prices will start to appreciate.

Definitely, it is after all, the last hurrah of the Jaguar XJ

 

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There may not be many X351s around, but this is a true story. Back in 2015, soon after buying my brand new XJL, I followed my wife to Bluewater shopping centre, had a coffee with her, and then left her there to spend money. I went back to the car park, tried to open the door on my new Loire Blue XJ, but it wouldn't open. So I got the fob out of my pocket and tried the button to unlock it - nothing. Damn! The battery must be discharged. So I flicked open the key to manually unlock it, but I had no idea where the keyhole was or how to access it. I went all round the car, checking the door handles, but I just couldn't figure it out. So I had no option but to call Jaguar Assist - but the card with the phone number was locked inside the car, in the glove box. So I thought I'd call the main dealer (Guy Salmon) to see if they could help me - but their details were also locked inside. By now I had spent 5 minutes trying to get into the car. Then I had a brainwave - perhaps the main dealer's phone number is on the tax disc holder! So I had a look at the tax disc holder, and was surprised to see it was a Caffyn's tax disc holder. My immediate thought was - what a cheap-skate dealership Guy Salmon is, using another dealer's tax disc holder! My second thought was - wait a minute, my car doesn't have a tax disc!

So I sheepishly walked away to my own identical Loire Blue XJL parked eight spaces away...

I had a friend who bought a new Honda 400F in 1976 and we went to Oulton Park on it one weelend and parked it near Lodge corner. It was quite a sales hit and when we got back at the end of the meeting there must have been thirty of them all the same blue and I can still remember him walking around and trying the key in various bikes until he got the right one. He couldn't remember the registration number. If MNE 134P is still around his name is written on the back of the number plate.......

 

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My be just me but in this picture to the layman the X350 is unmistakably a Jaguar , the X351 could be any car even if the cars were reversed so the X350 was furthest away.

 

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Haven't seen any for the last 12 days.

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Love the colour of that one !

 

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Strange Registration - 1ETA:
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... on an XJ50?

A mexican lady ?

 

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I've got it, it doesn't stop you kerbing alloys.... lol

get yourself some curb feelers

 

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I'll let him know 😆

He's got a problem coming up when he leaves the motorway if it doesn't work ....

 

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When we went to Simply Jaguar at Beaulieu, my 9-y-o grandson and I amused ourselves by loudly saying "there's a Jaguar!" - and pointing - every time we saw a Jaguar (there were about 500 of them). The wimminfolk weren't amused after the first couple of dozen!

I always play "spot the jag" with my partner when we're on hoilday - first to ten wins. It's surprising how long that can take !! One below is in Florence March 2019

 

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It might be very unlikely but it's occurred to me a couple of times whilst looking at pictures on here that show a time, place and registration number that maybe the owner might not really appreciate a picture of their car with said details on the internet. It's possible that they may be meant to be somewhere else and being confronted with pictorial evidence to the contrary might be a tad unwelcome?

 

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Spotted MI Jctn 14 Milton Keynes ( not by me I might add )

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Clearly playing the same game on the XJ X351 owners FB page
Don't really think the yellow works ( not for me anyways )

Wondering if its a paint job or a wrap?

Jim

I quite like the yellow actually

 

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Love the Rover - I had a Corgi one !

 

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Spotted at the Jag Specialist, some executive type who couldn’t care less.

Bit baffled as to why you think he/she couldn't care less ?

 

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Not an XJ but thought I'd post this for anyone following my rant on Manchester Airport meet and greet.

This customers Range Rover has been left on the street for a while. These people could have saved themselves £100 and just parked it on the street themselves.
However, not getting the 'Secure 24hr parking' you paid for is the least of your worries because judging by the amount of mud in the wheel arches and flicked up by all 4 wheels seemingly going backwards, I'd guess it has spent some time on the grassy knoll rescuing other vehicles. And that probably explains how they've come to break off the lower part of the bumper which is now sat on the bonnet, I'm sure it wasn't perched there when the customer dropped it off.

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Manchester Airport is well known for this kind of thing. Saw a story a while ago about local residents getting angry and painting slogans on cars that have been 'securely' dumped on their streets.

 

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I thought P.C.P. meant Plastic Chinese Parts.

Also nasty stuff best avoided.....🤣

Public Con Program?

 

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I take it all back!

 

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I've never seen a sausage on the motorway either 😂

 

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Because I hadn't had a drink!

So you had a couple of beers and then it was an Autobiography ?