How much extra do they charge to get the squeak???

 

Let the Jaguar get her beauty sleep today.
Cleaned the MAF and Throttle Body on the SLK.
Pretty familiar stuff, much more difficult to reach though.

 

Oooh thank goodness, got the new tires mounted. Next week is an oil change, and ordering the suspension goodies. And if I get to it, new bulbs for the HVAC panel because I'm getting annoyed at not being able to see the temp settings at a glance!

 

My chrome gauge bezels from the UK arrived today, thanks to fellow forum member ericjansen for the heads up ! I plan to polish them, then thoroughly clean the car & install.

The last couple of weeks here in lovely coastal NC have been super varied w/ temps fluctuating 30 degrees FH in a matter of hours & involving torrential rain,sleet & snow. Safe to say the cars are in need of some TLC lol.

 

Installed the Mina Gallery door handle chrome finishers. My door handles were quite worn from years of hands rubbing off the clear coat and paint and instead of getting them repainted I covered em up. I like the look, goes well with the chrome around the windows.

 

Looks good! I'm torn between them on mine, since mine is black. I haven't looked through to see others with black cars that have them, but I'm wondering if it might be JUST a little out of place - enough so that it'll detract from the overall look. Does look quite nice on yours tho!

 

Can't be too much out of place, as the Daimler and Jaguar Vanden Plas had them standard (but of course with some more chrome here and there ..).

 

Does well with your red color!
On a side-note; looks your roof didn't close well on the picture.
You will need to realign the rear side, it should be flush, not sticking out.

 

I quite like that - and we have the same car..... (although my steering wheel is on the correct side.... )

Lyndon
Way way Down Under

 

Eric, how do you notice such tiny details in a photo? You are indeed correct the alignment is off, hence why it leaks in the rain. I have read up on the procedure for fixing it and it looks like a nightmare. I am not going to think about that right now as I am too busy admiring my shiny new door handles...lol.

 

Finally fitted the heated windscreen harness, since the preowner refitted the windscreen, but not the harness.
Couldn't test it yet...I'm waiting for frost and ice :-)

 

Well, that was pretty obvious, although you tried to take the attention away by fitting some shiny new chrome door handles .

On the leaking, I think every x308 sunroof is leaking, and water is collected in the underlying frame, then drained through 1 of the 4 drains on each corner.
You might try to check the drains, I read they get stuck over time.
Sure someone with experience can come to your help on this matter.

 

Finally got the XJR back together, and drove her a few miles, just got to check all the bolts are torqued down properly after they have settled !


I had forgotten what a nice car to drive these X308s are, been driving around in an old diesel VW Passat automatic, what a difference!

 

I run into this issue on my XKR. In 'murica, we got chrome door handles, and on that car it looks tacked on given the lack of other chrome. On an XJ, it's fine and looks nice since it has tons of stainless and chrome.

Here's a non-chromie example XK (link on purpose, don't want to clog up x308 with x100 images):

http://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.jagu...0f436a0cdc.jpg

with Chromies example XK (link on purpose, don't want to clog up x308 with x100 images):

http://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.jagu...6bcd3362f8.jpg

 

Drove my X308 today and enjoyed a little conversation wirh an XF S driver at a set of lights. He has the power, I have the sound

 

Eric,
I would never insult your intelligence by trying to distract you....look, SQUIRREL!! :P

 

Took care of the pealing hood on the 98

 

Replaced the rear shock bushings, both uppers and one lower side. Turns out we didn't have exactly the right size socket or fitting to press the new ones in nicely, and since they actually weren't that bad, I just left the old one on the other side. I did however, find that the rattle in the rear wasn't the shock bushings (they weren't really that bad but hard to know for sure until the assembly is out and at that point, no point not putting the new ones in), but rather, the sway links had basically disintegrated on each end. No bushing left at all on either end. And guess who didn't bother to notice that earlier, and so didn't order any? I found some that will work though at AutoZone, and since I can pretty much do that in the driveway, I'm replacing them tomorrow. I left them out for the drive up from my step-brother's and it's SOOO nice to have quiet in the back.

I also had intentions of replacing the Vee mounts in the front. And guess who never bothered to check the package and realize he only ordered one by mistake? So that'll wait until next weekend, or at worst, the following. Kicking myself for that. And since I didn't bother with the front end, I also didn't bother replacing the sway bar bushings, nor the upper shock mount bushings. Sways are nothing, but the mount bushings will wait until the Vee's are going in too.

Overall, productive anyway, and sure quiets down the rattle in the back. Now to sort the front out before my road trip, change the oil, and call it good for a bit.

 

Does this thread really mean my XJ? I've been working on a boiled 2001 Daimler V8 since Friday. Owner drove it with no coolant, after the thermostathousing cracked. Result is that all the exhaust valve seats have dropped and the engine is a capital piece of poop. The car only has 110k km (about 70k miles) on the clock.

So I've been rebuilding heads (new valves in some raw heads), assembling it and etc. The engine now looks like an wngine again, I just hope the first start upnwill show that it will run normally again. The VVT was very sticky, so I hope I haven't got to touch that again...

 

Took my 99 XJR on a 2 day trip from Fort Myers Florida back to Toronto Canada .. just over 1600 miles in 2 days..... Trouble free ....

Hit the 100,000 km (62,000 miles )mark on the way home .... Hard to believe in just over 6 months of ownership I've racked up 20,000km ( 12,500 miles )

I just don't want to get out the the driver's seat ....