Thought I'd post this, my x300

 

Nice, dfieldsend!

I don't know if you've ever tried it, but Meguiar's Natural Shine Protectant will make the coolant header tank and other plastic parts look really nice too.

Cheers,

Don

 

Still got the outer plastics to do, including header tank, and have a little trick in mind for them. Have been concentrating on the metal bits up to this point

 

Very nice! And I thought mine was clean. Guess I've got some work to do

 

Very nice, that's real dedication!

What did you do to the cam cover (I mean the main magnesium cover, not the smaller coils/plugs cover). Did you repaint or just highly polish? - looks great

 

Everything is just polished

 

Looks like the coil and fuel rail covers have been stripped to the base plastic or repainted?

The cam cover looks repainted or plated?

Neither are factory finish but look much better than stock IMO. Nice job!!

 

May i ask what is a header tank? is this the expansion tank where you put water for the cooling system?

 

Yep

 

Polishing the dam cover is where everything started, the two plastic covers (coil and injector) were stripped and painted body colour
(If I could upload more than one picture on an ipad I'd show more pictures!)

 

Looks great, what did you use to polish the mag cover, and how much maintenance is required to keep it that nice and shiney?

 

Just sandpaper, wire wool and autosol metal polish. It does go dull very quickly, but only takes ten minutes or so to bring it back, I also have a spare polished one (the original one) which I have lacquered, but just never got round to fit it yet.

 

Also did the windscreen wiper motor and abs accumulator

 

wow, I can only imagine having the time to perform this type of task... d@mn kids

 

Tim,

Haven't you learned the secret of Jaguar parenthood? Teaching the kids to do the Jag maintenance and upgrades, especially elbow-grease jobs like polishing cam covers!

Cheers,

Don

 

Wouldn't trust my two kids!

 

I wouldn't trust your two kids either!

(or my own, to be honest)!

 

Outer plastics done, black boot polish and clearcoat