Recent content by Charlieepie

So another post from me about a funny smell. The last issue (smell of oil when parking up) was investigated by my local garage and they said my engine bay is absolutely spotless, so nothing is leaking oil at least. Anyway… Last Sunday I started my car up after she’d been sitting unused for a...

Hi all! Just after a bit of advice/opinion. Couldn't find much on the forums searching RE this apart from a couple of much worse problems. Anyway I've noticed the last 2-3 weeks that when I've driven it and park up there's a bit of a whiff of oil when I get out the car. At first I thought it...

Hi all, Car is coming up to a year in my ownership (time flies!) and I've got a month or so left of my year's warranty the garage (a main Toyota dealer - not Jaguar) sold it with. It's a 65 plate MY16 so it's a few years old now! I've had a look at third party warranties (mainly AA or...

Hi all, I've had my F-Type for about a month now and over the last couple of weeks have noticed a slight noise coming from the engine bay when the engine is cold. If I drive it somewhere and the engine warms up, when I restart the engine the noise will have almost completely gone (sometimes...

Hi everyone. I'm recently the new proud owner of a 65 plate F-type S (V6, RWD). Beautiful drive! She'd been on the forecourt of my local Toyota dealer for a couple of months when they phoned me up asking if I wanted to trade my PCP GT86 in early and that was that, I had to have it. Had it...