I'm getting a guy to drive who is from another branch I got to no him well last year just to find out his thoughts in hope he can go back to JLR and confirm that it's different to other cars and mine is exceptionally quiet for a v8

 

Whereabouts are you based? I'm sure someone would be willing to come with their V8 and compare sound.

 

Telford Shropshire there a a few around here and you can hear them come through the town from my work even the young lad says when one comes through the town except when my other half come to my work and we never even hear it

 

I hope you get it sorted!

 

Is there any difference in sound between the active exhaust button being enabled or disabled? Or do both modes sound identical?

 

Slight change but not as much as before we us to call it the noisy button now it's the meh button.
It's defiantly opening the flaps as you can see them with a torch if you look down the tail pipe

 

Have you lost any power or is the car as strong as day one?

 

You might find this interesting, if you haven't seen it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/szc3vze5ol...haust.pdf?dl=0


I wouldn't have thought you could see the valves, but it's just the V6 that has them upstream of the muffler. The V8 has them on the outer pipes.

 

I really can't answer about the power as I don't really drive it very often now and I drive a peogeut 207 1.4hdi van daily which has about 74bhp so anything feels fast after that I will admit I'm now looking for somebody with a rolling road to dyno it properly
Please don't judge me on my work van now feeling very ashamed

 

No worries, my other car is a hybrid.

 

Your i8 is nothing to be ashamed of.

 

You mean P1?


(McLaren, Mercury, what's the difference?)

 

l believe they eliminated the vacuum tank for 2016.

 

I'm looking through my w/s manual it shoes the Sound Enhancement Vacuum Pump still behind the nearside rear wheel arch for a 2016MY 5.0L.

 

Where did you get the workshop manual? I could certainly use a hard copy. Using the online one is a PITA.

 

Go talk to Matt Spires in the UK. I put his stage 3 on my XKR and it pops and snaps and its not supposed to!!! see if he can fit a new exhaust on that does that.

 

I no I could go and spend money getting it remapped but I don't see why I should after spending best part of 100k on a car I expect it to be right and if not put right under warranty plus remap would void the warranty on the engine as I've already asked.
I no my car is different to other cars I've been and test drove one at another dealership so as far as I can see it should be a warranty thing and not for me to sort out myself.
The weather hopefully should be better tomorrow so hope to get a video of it I have one from when we had it just need a now video.

 

I downloaded the complete manuals for the 2016MY F-Types from the JLR Topix site.
It isn't cheap and takes ages to convert it to .pdf's, but for me I just have to have it!

 

i started on that project and gave up. I was hoping you had a better solution.

 

Quick question just been out to do some sound recordings not listened to them yet so bare with me but just doing Rev in park seams I now have a rev limiter on at 4K never had before just wondered if this was new in the software?