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Yes Peter. There was a lot of confusion between engine & bumper mounts. S Type bumper mounts were suppose to have a circular indentation in the back of the rubber (i.e. more give) whereas engine mounts were solid rubber but were frequently muddled.
The front engine stabalisers were unique to all S Types built from day one up until the British Leyland cheapening set in. e.g. Cass' 67/68 car does not have them. The 3 point stabaliser system works well. 1 rear, 2 front.
A bad batch of engine mounts got into Barratts, Manners etc that de-laminated. Cass' fan went straight through his new or newly re-cored radiator. A right Royal mess.
I'm going to use local mounts, they never let go. Interestingly we make EVERY rubber part for the Mk2 locally. From a pedal cover to a full door seal kit ~ I would love to know who talked RUBBER PRODUCTS & MOULDINGS into doing that. Their compounding is far better suited to local conditions. I can't believe it's particularly profitable. Maybe the owner of the company has a Mk2. The UK stuff perishes just looking at it in SA.
Last edited by Glyn M Ruck; Jan 12, 2023 at 08:58 AM.
I put a replacement interior into my MK2 in the early 2000's. I was lucky and managed to source an immaculate interior from a VanDenPlas XJ40. This version gives you the picnic tables to the rear of the front seats and the seat pattern is in the same style as the original MK2 seats. I didn't like the rear seats so had the original MK2 seat seat retried to match. I also got lucky as Jaguar were clearing out a lot of old stock items at the time and I managed to pick up brand new still in the wrapper front seat cushions for £20 each. I now have full electric heated seats that do not look out of place and are great for long journeys.
I think you would have to be very lucky to find a good set now but they are worth hunting for.
Ok, for those of you who have replaced your stock MK2 seats, what did you do with the old ones??
I have been searching and posting for trashed but intact MK2 seats, fronts for sure and may be back as well. Just want the covers but will consider the entire seat if shipping is not too expensive. So far not hits.
Here is my recent post looking for the covers so I can take apart and use as pattern.
Similar but different is what I as a Jaguar MK2 new owner seem to determine. I believe that is somewhat discussed in the thread if read the whole thing.
I want original MK2 covers (seats), not interested in anything else at this point.
are MK-2 seats different from XJ-6 seats ? Just curious because to me they look the same.
Jose, Mk2 seats are at least twice the weight of early XJ6 seats. And the Mk2 front seats are almost one and a half times wider. As for comfort, the XJ6 seats are a thousand times better. Even the series 3 Daimler/Vandenplas seats, generally considered the least comfortable of the series XJ, are way better than Mk2.
once a year i drive from california to ohio and back. it's about 5000 miles and takes about 80 hours of driving.
i recently drove my mk2. seats were re-uphostered about 40 years ago, give or take a few years and i found them to be as comfortable as those in my 2007 cayman and/or my 2007 aston vantage, maybe better as they permitted a lot of movement. no lateral support at all of course, but then again i don't drive fast or take corners at speed when i'm traveling long distances either.
this year it's the '53 MG TD. i've been on some 200 mile per day shake-down cruises around central california with it, so i know what i'm getting into, and i'm not expecting much in the way of comfort from THOSE seats, i can tell you. haha
Your upholstery man must have worked wonders under the new covers all those years back. Mk2's are world known for rotten, uncomfortable, unsupportive front seats. The complaints in our club never cease ~ or maybe it is you that provides the padding in all the right places
About as good as they get.
Last edited by Glyn M Ruck; May 23, 2023 at 02:21 AM.
Ok, for those of you who have replaced your stock MK2 seats, what did you do with the old ones??
I have been searching and posting for trashed but intact MK2 seats, fronts for sure and may be back as well. Just want the covers but will consider the entire seat if shipping is not too expensive. So far not hits.
Here is my recent post looking for the covers so I can take apart and use as pattern.
Thanks jjsandsms
There is a page in Facebook offering new MK-2 seat covers and foams: "Admirable Jaguars for all types" is the name of the page. Watson is the guy selling them and he is the administrator of the page.
Thanks for the additional source of new foam and covers for MK2.
However I am after used generally trashed covers that I can use as a pattern to sew my own custom covers. I cannot use my existing seat covers as they were replaced with non-original pleat patterns.
I like to buy the MK2 seats if you haven't sold them already or know anyone that is doing the same conversion. I have a '68 MK 340 w/ ambala and would LOVE the leather version instead. Thanks!
Please don't put XJ seats in a Mk2. They look awful. Too tall to start with. When you look at a side on view of a Mk2 with XJ40 seats in you can see the top of the seat through the rear side window. Sir William Lyons designed the seats to stop at the same height as the window glass starts so they could not be seen. Yes we all know the seats are not as figure hugging as new bucket seats from a 2024 Jaguar XF but we are not driving a 2024 XF. This is a 1960s Mk2 Jaguar.
Any way the guy is looking for original seats with a leather upgrade not XJ seats.
I have found the Ambla material to be excellent. My S Type from 1967 has Ambla and yes if it had been new I would have plumped for the leather option but that said 55 years on my original Ambla seats look not quite new but very good. Compare them to 55 year old leather seats which have dried out, cracked and faded and well there is no comparison. Ambla far out lives leather.
