[Andysvogue]

Use Google to look up that year of L322, that's what I just did and it came up as 5 speed wherever I looked.
Bad year to buy as it was in the midst of a changeover, lots of oddities by all accounts.
You should be able to get all the info from the VIN I think, just because it was registered in 2005 does not mean it was made in 2005.

Is any year a good one to buy! Lol

 

[Datatek]

Is any year a good one to buy! Lol

2006 on are supposedly better.

 

[Thor1950]

Use Google to look up that year of L322, that's what I just did and it came up as 5 speed wherever I looked.
Bad year to buy as it was in the midst of a changeover, lots of oddities by all accounts.
You should be able to get all the info from the VIN I think, just because it was registered in 2005 does not mean it was made in 2005.

could be a 2004, 2005 or 2006

 

[Andysvogue]

could be a 2004, 2005 or 2006

That's true lol it does have the touch screen nav and crawler cam tho

 

[StuckAgainSteve]

If it feels as sweet as a nut to the red-line and that it'd rev forever - it's the Jag engine! There was a batch of LR specific AJ-V8s which had incorrectly torqued bottom ends - but it should have gone bang by now if it was one of those. As Datatek said they don't take kindly to LPG. I've put many. many faultless miles on AJV8s (probably something like 250K) - never had one miss a beat and I thrashed the cars mercilessly - they happened to be fitted to Jags. One of the world's best engines ever - early (non LR) ones had a few teething issues but they are pretty bullet-proof these days. Of course any engine can go bang if servicing is neglected, they are thrashed cold or you're just plain unlucky!

As a note I thought there were two capacity Jag engines fitted to older Jag L322s, 4.4 (na) and 4.2 (Supercharged) - of course they used the 3rd generation 5.0 AJ-V8 from 2009 - but I don't know what they're like - never driven one.

 

[Andysvogue]

If it feels as sweet as a nut to the red-line and that it'd rev forever - it's the Jag engine! There was a batch of LR specific AJ-V8s which had incorrectly torqued bottom ends - but it should have gone bang by now if it was one of those. As Datatek said they don't take kindly to LPG. I've put many. many faultless miles on AJV8s (probably something like 250K) - never had one miss a beat and I thrashed the cars mercilessly - they happened to be fitted to Jags. One of the world's best engines ever - early (non LR) ones had a few teething issues but they are pretty bullet-proof these days. Of course any engine can go bang if servicing is neglected, they are thrashed cold or you're just plain unlucky!

As a note I thought there were two capacity Jag engines fitted to older Jag L322s, 4.4 (na) and 4.2 (Supercharged) - of course they used the 3rd generation 5.0 AJ-V8 from 2009 - but I don't know what they're like - never driven one.

Thanks for that info mate much appreciated. I'm gona go view it anyway see how it feels ect. I've driven the td6 and bmw v8. Loved the bm v8 tbh. Td6 was a little noisy tbh and not that much power but It had character and I quite liked the noise lol. V8 was awsome tho so will be good to try the jag v 8 with a little more power and torque

 

[Saint.V8]

As above, that's the Jag V8 in your pic....

These are the gearboxes as fitted to the L322 upto 2011...

 

[Andysvogue]

Cheers for that saint so as it's a 55 plate with the jag engine will defo have the 6 speed box, great info!

 

[Datatek]

Cheers for that saint so as it's a 55 plate with the jag engine will defo have the 6 speed box, great info!

I wouldn't count on it having the 6 speed, LR were in the habit of using up old stock wherever possible