View Poll Results: What color is your 2012+ XKR-S?
French Racing Blue
20
27.03%
Polaris White
14
18.92%
Stratus Grey Metallic
6
8.11%
Ultimate Black Metallic
14
18.92%
Italian Racing Red Metallic
15
20.27%
British Racing Green Metallic
5
6.76%
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Correct. LED lights are always on when car is running. Even if headlights come on in auto setting (when it's dark) or if you turn them "on", LED lights remain on. Only time they are not is when the turn signal is on, the led on the same side goes off. However, if the headlights are on, the LED's are not deactivated by the turn signal
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Yep, I also expected it to just be there, particularly as it was in the XKR-S Coupe I test drove and is in all other Convertibles up to the XKR. I'm going to add Sirius to my iPhone - not as instantly available as being built-in to the car but good enough, and I can use it in all my other cars.
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Matt in Houston (04-03-2014)
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Your car is looking good! I put the clear side markers on my car, which is a big improvement on a white car. Mina is switching to a new manufacturer for the carbon fiber hood louvers, so I'm still waiting for them.
If anyone is in so cal, my car will be at the Mother's exotic car gathering at LB GP next Sunday.
If anyone is in so cal, my car will be at the Mother's exotic car gathering at LB GP next Sunday.
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Matt in Houston (04-04-2014)
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Dropped my XF off to service today and sat in the XK-RS and now i know why you guys like XKRS so much. It's a beautiful car in and out. It's gotta such sexy lines....
It was black on black with lot of carbon fiber inside and little bit on the outside like the center part of the rear wing.
It was black on black with lot of carbon fiber inside and little bit on the outside like the center part of the rear wing.
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The Mina had drone at about 1,200RPM, so that was only noticeable in city driving during lots of stop and go and low speeds. Any highway speed around 2,000RPM and I hear no exhaust at all, all wind and tire noise. It basically was deeper, not louder, no raspy, no burble, a little drone in low rpms.
Now I hear no drone. The exhaust guy was a little puzzled because of all the piping he did in the rear. Instead of placing the mufflers at the end and just attaching tips he made the beautiful piping which looks from behind very reminiscent to an E-Type except they split and do not come out in the middle. It took him 6 hours.
I am now considering race cats. This shop has 5-6 different kind and he said he can install them for about $700. That would increase the sound level without adding any drone. So if you are happy with the XKR-S exhaust and just want louder go just race cats. If you want deeper I would replicate the Quicksilver exhaust with one center muffler. I paid $700 for the custom magnaflow exhaust. I was quoted $500 but the additional piping and bending added the cost but IMHO the aesthetics were worth it.
I am sure you can get a Quicksilver style exhaust custom made for under $1,000.
I think you will be less prone to drone in a vert. My roof line in the coupe extents to the end of the car and includes the mufflers. If you have just rear mufflers they are well outside the roof line of the vert so no resonating. You may have some vibrations throught the chassis still depending on exhaust.
Of course deeper will introduce some vibrations. My exhaust guy does resonator tubes of various lengths to counter act drone but it was not necessary for me.
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Newby here.. Not too new to Jag only the R-S.. Great to be part of the team..
This is my introductory thread:-
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...er-r-s-115597/
This is my introductory thread:-
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...er-r-s-115597/
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Matt in Houston (04-21-2014)