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Thanks for posting the 2 photos of my 2005 XKR Under tray...I wondered where mine had gone,,,,No kidding, someone stole mine and the bolts and all the other hardware.....I ordered another one from JagBits and they insist that I also needed the Wind Deflectors, one for each side. After crawling around under "Sweet Sugar" for about an hour and installing the Under tray, I couldn't find any place to put the "Wind Defectors"!
You are one of the first Jaguar owners that I've run across that knows what an Under tray is, so I'm excited to know if you know or better yet have a Photo of your Under tray with the Wind Deflectors installed or did the 2005-2006 come with "Wind deflectors"? I have (2) that cost around $40.00 Bucks apiece....(see Photo) Please, if you or anyone else knows where they fit, Please let me know!
Billy Clyde in Houston
This is the Left-Side Wind Deflector...Does the 2005-2006 XKR have these attached to the Under-Tray?
What are the odds, I happened to be in Texas a week ago...
I went down the same path and came to the conclusion that the wind deflectors are only for the earlier undertray. Like you, I couldn't see how they could be fitted. The shape of them only looks to fit this type
The undertray on the 05-06 has a different shape on the bit next to the fender liner and as the fender liner is also a different part number for our cars, my thinking was that Jag dispensed with the wind deflectors when they put the updated tray and fender liners on it.
I replaced mine a while ago and kept the old one as a "just in case" so easy to do, here you go.
thank you for the good clear pictures. Billy asked the other question I intended to ask, “what about the deflectors?” I am getting that they don’t appear to be needed. One other question. On my bumper cover there were five threaded clips left of the nine used around the front of the tray. On the bumper blowup diagrams, they show using about 4-5 different kinds of fasteners, ie. rivets, plastic things that the screw expands and so on. Did you use all that or just nine screws around the front? What about the back edge, anything special?
Nine bolts into nut plates around the front and three screws on the trailing edge on mine. Two screws each side into nut plates where each fender liner attaches to the tray.
Unless you live in one of those desert locations where it never rains and rust hasn't been invented, it is, in my opinion, worth blanking off those two access holes visible in the photos, with duct tape. They're only for access to the left hand threaded holes for the towing eyes, but also allow road spray to get in among the front steel cross member - internally and externally and yes it does corrode disastrously if ignored!
Duct tape is easily removed if required and easily replaced if it doesn't last.
Unless you live in one of those desert locations where it never rains and rust hasn't been invented, it is, in my opinion, worth blanking off those two access holes visible in the photos, with duct tape. They're only for access to the left hand threaded holes for the towing eyes, but also allow road spray to get in among the front steel cross member - internally and externally and yes it does corrode disastrously if ignored!
Duct tape is easily removed if required and easily replaced if it doesn't last.
when i replaced my undertray did a little experiment with the old one. it can be repaired with the adhesives that auto body shops use to fix bumper covers. sometimes a reinforcement with a similar material on the hidden side is needed. there are kits for repairing bumper covers that have this material. once this was done, i painted it both sides with pickup truck bedliner. it looks great and the part is pretty much indestructible now.
when i replaced my undertray did a little experiment with the old one. it can be repaired with the adhesives that auto body shops use to fix bumper covers. sometimes a reinforcement with a similar material on the hidden side is needed. there are kits for repairing bumper covers that have this material. once this was done, i painted it both sides with pickup truck bedliner. it looks great and the part is pretty much indestructible now.
i only have a piece 6 x 12 left so that won’t work but that is good information for the future. I am being as careful as possible to avoid parking curbs and oil change ramps that are too steep. I wish there was a way to hook up a sensor in the front like the backup sensors, even a physical “curb feeler” thing like was used back when I was a kid. Anybody have any ideas that might help? Tom :-)
Redline and I are asking if anyone with a 2005 or 2006 XK would please take a photo of your UNDERTRAY? Next time you have the Oil changed, please take your phone and shoot a couple photos of underneath the front of your UNDERTRAY!
This will answer all our questions concerning the Screws and push pins and once and for all....The Wind Deflectors! If we had a good shot of the thing installed...THEN we could determine one way or the other what it is suppose to look like!!! There are not that many 2005 -2006 XK8's or XKR around.....I have been looking for the last 6 months for one here in Houston but there aren't any.....If you have one, please help us out here!
Under Tray photo for 2005 XK8
Mr. Woox4 and my Undertray........
The 2005 or 2006 Undertray!
