Well, today in Victoria it was +10 and partly sunny…just suggesting 😌

 

+10 and partly sunny you say?

Oh well, at least it’s not supposed to snow again here for at least a week!

 

Our weather has remained quite nice for December although warm (in relative terms) and fresh snow don’t always combine for the cleanest driving experience.




After a reasonably good cleaning at the end of the week, it was right back out again yesterday.

 

10 degrees?...I believe I will stick with Tennessee.

 

It's about 10 degrees here too, but in Centigrade.

 

50 F Randy, sweatshirt weather.

 

Here in Edmonton it’s Celsius so -10C is the same as 14F.

At the moment today it’s -19C (-2F).

 

Duplicate - apologies.

 

Questions for the forum:

These pieces were presumably firmly attached since I have owned the car:

I'm presuming from what I can find on line that these are/were the front driver's side brake cooling duct; that the longer piece went from the inner fender liner to the inside of the front bumper (?) and that the square piece would have been fastened to ir from the wheel arch side of the liner at the opening seen in the not very high quality second photo.

My questions are:

(a) how easy is it to "refit" the two pieces at home without a hoist (although I am happy to jack up the car and remove the front wheel if need be) and how are they fastened so they don't simply drop out again. If they simply snap together from opposite sides of the liner, it looks like a number of the retaining clips from the square piece are missing/bent our of shape. I'm assuming that would have happened with a block of ice/snow impacting one or the other of them but likely the vent piece and keeping it in place until it melted in the garage at which time the vent piece dropped out allowing the duct to work loose and fall out while driving (I heard it bounce off the pavement and saw it in my rear view mirror and managed to circle the block to pick it up before anyone else drove over it.

(b) how important is it that this be done sooner rather than later?

 

Ken

I had to do one side of my car when I bought her (nearly 10 years ago). Wasn't hard to do from the ground with the car on a car stand and the wheel off......

I'll take some pictures if/when I can.

BTW yesterday here in Western Sydney it was 42 degrees (C) - just under 108 F.......

Lyndon
Down Under

 

Thanks Lyndon!

I opened a separate thread asking the same question and got similar responses so I think I’ll postpone trying to reinstall them until April when the snow tires come off.

Pictures would be much appreciated if/when you do have an opportunity to take some.

BTW our temperature this evening is -24C/-11F.

There’s a 50% chance of snow in tomorrow morning’s forecast that I hope will turn out to be wrong.

 

She was a Cold Kitty on our errands this morning.






It’s -19C at the moment and snowing once again although it’s supposed to stop in the next hour so it will be back to shoveling once again.

 

To all I would simply like to wish a Merry Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Yule, winter (or summer for those who may be reading this on the other side of the equator) solstice...

Regardless of which celebration you partake in this time of year - or none at all if that’s your choice - I would like to offer my own best wishes for the season to all of you. May you all enjoy health and happiness above all with your family and friends - as everything else comes from that and nothing else has value without it - both for the season and throughout 2025.

 

and Merry Christmas to you.

 

The new year started mid -20C but we’re in the middle of an unseasonal early January thaw that reached +6C this afternoon - tough weather to try and keep a car clean.



The tall building in the background is a 28 story office tower that was one of the projects I developed in a previous life.

 

The unseasonal January thaw has left us and February is reminding us it’s still winter here.



At the moment there is a 50 degree Celsius difference between the temperature inside and the temperature outside.



Last week we could see the table top and the deck.

I was going to run some extra errands this morning but I’m thinking about putting them off for a couple of days.

 

After a couple of enjoyable but false starts to spring, this one looks real and I was thinking about swapping out the snow tires on the XJR this weekend and seeing about getting the Series 3 VDP in for the odds and ends that didn’t get finished last year. Then I looked at Thursday and Friday:

 

Keep it going ken. Your car makes those others look like the scrappers

 

Thanks Scott! I have every intention to "keep it going" even if it's on her Michelin X-Ice3 and Penta's and not quite yet on her Continentals and Asteroids. The intention isn't to make any of the others look like scrappers as much to prove that these cars are meant to be lived with and driven, not set aside for the occasional Sunday afternoon outing on the off chance the roads and the weather are nice enough (it's always nice enough!).

As for what she looks like, she was a gem when I picked her up three years ago ( https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.jag...f8739b8ad4.jpg ) and credit for that goes to Gregory (sov211) and her previous ownership - I simply hope to keep her as close to that as I can.

 

Jaguar paint is by far the best i have ever had. Mine looks new when waxed. Just an extra for owning a jaguar