Timming tensors?

what year did the xk8 quit using plastic tensors. also anyone how many coupes were made in 98-99-20-21?

The tensioner update cannot be determined by VEHICLE DATE but by ENGINE NUMBER/DATE
There is info on this all over the internet.

Engines are manufactured BEFORE the car is made so you will get an engine made before the vehicle manufacture date.

August 13, 2001; engine S/N 0108130000 onward were supposed to have the metal body tensioners.
A car built a few weeks later might STILL have been supplied with an earlier engine.

Read your engine number or pull the cam covers to be sure!!!

bob

thanks Bob for not a guess but an answer