Painted gloss black Nevis wheels..... they look a lot better than I thought they would.

 

Thanks! At risk of sounding pedantic, they're actually powdercoated but I doubt the finish would be much different, just more durable on powdercoating. I was hesitant at first but I found a photo on this very forum of a silver XKR with black pack retrofit (it was never officially available on a silver car) with black Nevis wheels and I was sold after that.

 

I am sorry for my low activity.
Here are two pictures of my XKR. I repainted the car after an accident with a matte pearl white from Mercedes's Designo. I forgot the exact name of the color.


This was at Bahrain's GP track in March 2019. I increased the profile of the tires by 5 both in front and back, 255/40/20 and 295/35/20. I wanted to reduce the error in the speedometer reading and reduce the wheel well gap.


This was in October 2019 when I first got my new wheels on. I had to go with narrower tires because of availability, 245/35/21 and 285/30/21. The wheels are 9/10.5 inch wide.

 

Finally had some good weather for pictures of the new grille. Took a few days to make and install, but totally worth it!. I think this will be my final exterior mod for a while.

 

Added MB AMG V8 emblems. Waiting for a 5.0 emblem for the trunk-lid and I'm done. (I see I forgot the piece of tape on the tire!)

 

Bath time requires a photo shoot.

 

All these gleaming XK's. Here's a filthy one after a fast 2000 miles across Europe to the sun in happier days.





Graham

 

Its a hard and filthy life, forced to escape the pandemic and shelter in a Mediterranean villa.

 

I've got one booked for June but it's looking less likely every day.

Graham

 

Corona-empty Autobahn - and then there is the limiter...

 

British composure limiter.

 

FINALLY I have a picture that I'm not totally em-bare-assed to post in here.
Taken at my M-i-L's house..........

 

Wow - that's some rockery she has in her garden!

Car looks great.

Graham

 

This reminds me of a famous (in Australia) picture that was published in wheels magazine of the road test for the Falcon GTHO where they took it up to 140mp/h on the Hume Highway:
https://www.whichcar.com.au/features...hase-iii-photo

Awesome car moments captured

 

But, 270 KmH is about 167 mph. I know of the stock limiter at 155, then the XKR175 at 175 mph, then the XKR-S at.... I think 300 KmH which is 185 mph, but what/where is the 270 limit? I'm not calling foul or anything, I just don't know.

 

On an unrestricted autobahn and not even in Sport mode?

Fairly well known that the limiters are often not in place on these cars, from what I've read.

 

I was in no hurry. ;-)



And, regarding the limiter: I don`t believe the speedo to tell the truth. According to my GPS 268km/h on the speedo are actually 254km/h.

 

 

Fantastic colour.

 

Some more pictures of the girl.


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