When was it last serviced? those air filters look like they are original. While l can understand your frustration on e these few problems are sorted you will have a great car.
Rex B
Last had an oil service last year but prior to that it's been serviced every year I think, pretty much all at main dealers. That's not what's peeing me off, its that nothing goes right, every time I fix something it goes to sh1t, I've worked on hundreds of cars and this is the only one that's been so stupidly unlucky, well maybe the Audi I took both ends off but that was me being a pratt.
Went and got another filter, seems ok now, must have been something wrong with the mating surface on the filter, for future reference it's the same as a 1992 Jaguar XJ40 4.0 litre.