Looking to relate potential welding repairs to a local auto-welding shop that is good but will never have seen a Jaguar of any kind.

I know that the X-type shares a fair amount with the UK Mondeo (I remember that fondly from the first half of my life!), but that was not sold over in the US where I am now. Is there another Ford US model that has the same sort of construction and structural demands on the sills? Perhaps the Ford Contour?

 

 

Yes. I said that. I wanted to know of another Ford or any brand for that matter that uses the same construction so I can talk to my welder.

 

I, too, think like Dell, that you will not have much luck finding another platform other than the CD132 (=Mondeo, which is more like "German" than "British", as I was in communication with the CD132 team in Germany, while I was in the X400 team in Coventry), which is similar to the X400 (=X-Type).

Normally I would just simply have put a "like" under Dell's post, which would have put my name under Dell's post and would have indicated that I agree with Dell and I could have done without wasting so many words here. I already made DON B. aware of this unfortunate change on this web-site (only a number now as like). He replied that those changes are being done by an organization nobody has control over...

 

Okay. I guess I wasn't clear. I did not mean exactly the same, I know that there isn't. I meant similar in nature.... Thanks.

 

If its a real auto body welding shop I'm sure they've seen similar construction. I'm no expert, but it looks fairly conventional steel monocoque construction.

You could do worse than maybe print off a few of the diagrams to show the shop the individual parts. Start here perhaps?

https://www.sngbarratt.com/English/#...assembly/31774

BTW - Regarding "changes are being done by an organization nobody has control over" - sounds like the Calif Air Resource Board

HTH,. Dave