The 2007 V8 Jags are £735 VED per year !

some of the petrol XJs are ULEZ compliant (even Euro 4 for Birmingham etc as well), but, have horrible VED (road tax) rates. The super charged ones are quite sought after, but an X350 3.5L V8 for example, not so much. How do VED rates work with EV conversions?

It's not an X Type. What an insult !

I did manage to reverse engineer enough of the CANbus packets going to the ABS to keep it happy, and Andy Revill modified a Rover 75 ECU for me so that it pretends to be a Freelander ECU. The data is out there (page one of the EV thread), but you would need to create something that sends those...

also, I have no idea how to correctly plumb in the transmission cooler. There's no diagram of the V6 cooling system in the Haynes manual, and I don't really understand how the external thermostat arrangement works. The pipe diameter looks somewhat similar to the hoses that go to the heater...

If I turn the bottom hose the other way around, so the corner nearer to the rad and further from the thermost, and can kind of force it all to fit. The reason for this distortion is that the metal pipe that goes over the top of the gearbox had to be bent up a couple of centimetres. this...

maybe, but I think it's easier just to get some spare hoses and cut them up to move things where I need them.

personally I'm going to remove the fan controller and replace it with relays. That's because I'm using a Rover 75 ECU and it doesn't use a PWM output for the fans, just a hi speed and low speed output. I got a fan controller from a breaker so I can just steal the wires and connectors to make...

Here's my bottom engine mount arrangement

The engine has moved nearer to the right inner wing a fair bit which has pushed the A/C compressor quite near to some metal but it's not actually touching. If anyone has a 1.8 with A/C please post a picture of how the compressor pulley looks compared to the shell.

Got a bit of a clash between the K series thermostat and the gearbox. I can't remember what the bracket on the front of the gearbox is for.

that's why I drive this

Also none of these easy to weld beasts are ULEZ compliant so no good to me. I don't think that my wife wants to drive a late model 4.6 P38 around the suburbs of London. There's nothing wrong with a small, economical 4x4 estate car that's pretty capable off road. It's probably why they sold so...

I bought one. It was just a generic profile of bent metal, which didn't even match the profile of the original sill very well. Additionally the shape of the sill is actually quite complex and those eBay ones simply don't have the right shape.

where would you buy them from?

I know of one and the owner is thinking (possibly) of selling it. PM me I guess.

Thank you for such a useful response. I also appreciate how quickly you replied. It can't have been easy to provide so much useful information as you came out of the pub at 23:18.

thanks, but it's worth it to pay £50 more to get one from someone that I trust who's only a 20 minute drive from me, and I need some other parts off him as well.

there are no scrappies in London

I've been offered a known good IRD from a facelift 1.8 for £125. I might just grab it to save hassle.