Cheap Jaguar XK8 Part 2 - It broke... Top Hose Coolant Loss Explained and Fixed

My second day with the Jaguar and it's already broken! Thankfully it was a nice easy fix, and a really obvious and well known XK problem
Jaguar XK8 3.2 V8 Coupe
Part 1
My first impressions on the car and a night drive. I also broke it, meaning we needed…
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Part 2
Explaining the common top hose problem which caused the car to loose coolant, and how I fixed it. Or at least I thought I had…
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Part 3
A late night look around the car, featuring a cameo from a Skoda Octavia VRS
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Part 4
Taking the car to JH Cars so they can give it a once over and check my handiwork. They weren’t impressed with my fix… Featuring a Triumph TR7, William Hunt’s Mercedes-Benz CL500 (briefly) and a Ford Granada 4x4.
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Part 5
We parked the Jag up at the school summer fete, and it proved quite a hit. Until we locked all the stuff in the boot. Plus there’s the cheeky bonus of Geoff’s ‘I will pay you a fiver if you can smash my phone screen’ challenge which totally backfired - pun intended.
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Part 6
I spent one evening down at the yard and removed the front numberplate plinth… it looks a whole heap better now!
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Part 7
I little look at the history on the car, and an explanation of all the crashes!
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Part 8
A look through the history file and an explanation of the full story behind this epic Jaguar
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Geoff, chafing is always a cause for alarm! That repair looks, eh, a bit non factory but does the job. Roll on Sunday!

[@GeoffBuysCars]

Yeah I was actually really impressed with how well my fix worked!