Which is better 4.4 or the supercharged 4.2 V8

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StuckAgainSteve said:
If has always amazed me that Citroën haven't brought out a 4x4 with their wonderful oleomatic suspension, a match made in heaven; The DS5 looks great - really nice interior - but rides like a BMW - terrible! What a missed opportunity! The only people who are going to buy big Citroëns are people who like big Citroëns and if you make them ride harshly, big Citroën buyers won't want to know - the definition of a lemon!
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Or how about a Renault Safrane all road. ?

Your right, Citroen know their onions, please Citreon, design us an Uber 4x4, sell rights to Toyota, stick a Jag badge on it, had an Xj coupe years ago, lurvley. :)
 
myfirstl322 said:
Personally, i would have loved it if they adopted the Citroen type suspension as opposed to air, i feel the ride, whilst good, is not all it could be, it may be mine off course, but i feel they they didn't go far enough in the this department, Bmw influence? I want waft, maybe electro magnetic dampers would bridge the gap here, but halfords don't list them Lol.i also had an X3 on hire for a few weeks (Horrible) and it was like going way back in time getting back to L322, the steering wheel felt massive !
It is a 40k car hyped up to 70k+ no doubt. For rich ****s.
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Nowt wrong with air, it's the Germanic influance, park bench hard seats and hard ride.
As for rusting, a mate hade a big merc estate, can't remember the exact age but it was 7 or 8 years old, it failed the MOT, the chassis rust was so bad that it was scrapped.:eek:
 
Who doesn't remember Alfa's and Fiats... Rusting on boat over ...

Russian steel,, Fia/Alfa paid Russians for top grade steel, but recieved poor grade, or badly made good steel ( i know what i mean LOL):)
 
myfirstl322 said:
Or how about a Renault Safrane all road. ?

Your right, Citroen know their onions, please Citreon, design us an Uber 4x4, sell rights to Toyota, stick a Jag badge on it, had an Xj coupe years ago, lurvley. :)
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As for riding like a bmw, the L322 is an X5 with pretty badges all over it. look carefully at half the original parts, they say BMW on them. haha
 
Handscomb said:
As for riding like a bmw, the L322 is an X5 with pretty badges all over it. look carefully at half the original parts, they say BMW on them. haha
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Yes,and the large majority of the common failure parts are BMW in origin - real German quality....
 
I will try and post some pictures of the rust when I'm back on shore again.

May have to take the 4.2 for a test drive to draw a comparison. Is the LPG a problem on them. read a couple of people having problems.

Anyone recommend a good range rover garage in central Scotland (lanarkshire)??
 
The Supercharged would be a very different (and poss More enjoyable?) car to your 4.4 V8. It has all the toys I think. Also others have reported not much of a difference in consumption, only 2-4 MPG.

Supercharged have had probs in the past with LPG, esp the 4.2 Jag engines due to slipped valve seats? Some have got the 5.0L LPG's and seem ok.
 
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dolphinboy said:
The Supercharged would be a very different (and poss More enjoyable?) car to your 4.4 V8. It has all the toys I think. Also others have reported not much of a difference in consumption, only 2-4 MPG.

Supercharged have had probs in the past with LPG, esp the 4.2 Jag engines due to slipped liners. Some have got the 5.0L LPG's and seem ok.
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Slipped liners on a Jag AJ motor? They had failures of the Nicasil coating on the alloy block but I've never heard of a slipped liner:confused:
 
squaresausage said:
I will try and post some pictures of the rust when I'm back on shore again.

May have to take the 4.2 for a test drive to draw a comparison. Is the LPG a problem on them. read a couple of people having problems.

Anyone recommend a good range rover garage in central Scotland (lanarkshire)??
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The key is to use gas injectors that can handle the extra BHP and setting them up can be fiddly. It tends to require the help of a top quality LPG fitter rather than run of the mill.

There is a compromise where you can run a system that converts back to petrol when giving it some beans.

As has been said the early 4.0 Jag V8's suffered nikosil issues not slipped liners and as far as I'm aware the latest 4.2's haven't suffered either.

My opinion is to run these supercharged engines on liquid gold only and suffer the cost. But beware, I run a supercharged Jag and driving like Miss Daisy can get around 25 mpg, but on a recent track day experience I reset the trip comp and managed to average 4mpg !!!!
 
Data, sorry got mixed up with the old P38 engine. Think it was valve seats (?) in the L322? Deffo stg not liking LPG in them. Lots on this on fullfatrr.
 
Not quite the same thing, but my 4.4 lpg hates being low on gas, if you wellie it whilst low, an alarm sounds and the switch/guage flashes quickly between the two options of fuel, it calms down if you switch manually to petrol then back to gas, i'm presuming the tank is not baffled, and if low causes this issue....?:scratching_chin:
 
myfirstl322 said:
Not quite the same thing, but my 4.4 lpg hates being low on gas, if you wellie it whilst low, an alarm sounds and the switch/guage flashes quickly between the two options of fuel, it calms down if you switch manually to petrol then back to gas, i'm presuming the tank is not baffled, and if low causes this issue....?:scratching_chin:
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My 4.4 on LPG is faultless , never misses a beat and has seemless transition from petrol to gas and back again
 
myfirstl322 said:
Not quite the same thing, but my 4.4 lpg hates being low on gas, if you wellie it whilst low, an alarm sounds and the switch/guage flashes quickly between the two options of fuel, it calms down if you switch manually to petrol then back to gas, i'm presuming the tank is not baffled, and if low causes this issue....?:scratching_chin:
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The tank more than likely won't be baffled. In most setups it sloshes around under hard acceleration and uncovers the pick up, google lpg tank slosh and you'll probably see lots of threads from lpgforum.co.uk.
 
jacckk said:
The tank more than likely won't be baffled. In most setups it sloshes around under hard acceleration and uncovers the pick up, google lpg tank slosh and you'll probably see lots of threads from lpgforum.co.uk.
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Yeahhhh, dats wot am talkin aboot, NOT just a pointless 'Im alright' response, Thanks jacckk.
 
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myfirstl322 said:
Ok Paul, im very happy for you, was actually anglng for a response concerning LOW volume of gas and flooring it,, but it may just be mine.:scratching_chin:
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There's also no problem with flooring it with low volume. I usually let my gas run out before I refill and there's no indication to when it's about to happen
 
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