Exactly

 

Here are a few more pics up close so I can try and prove to Q & C that I am not driving around with Pink stitching, Hopefully they show it a little better, plus I am still going to go over it at least one more time to try to do my best to saturate the stitching.. Only time well tell how it holds up, my main concern will be the seats of course. But if I have to reapply at some point so be it...

 

That looks good. i tinkered with doing my stitching black on my console and wasn't impressed with it. One little boo boo and I had black on the tan leather that was a PITA to remove. Granted my console looks like it came out of a taxi but still... Couldn't see doing the dash and door panels.

 

Raining today so I just changed the oil and filter. If it clears up she'll get a nice wash, fingers crossed.
I'll be off to Memphis at the end of the week and will pick up another couple changes supply of Edge Pro 0w-20 for the next oil cycles. It also gives me a chance to look their inventory over while I'm at it.

 

 

[QUOTE=TexasTraveler;1935060]Here are a few more pics up close so I can try and prove to Q & C that I am not driving around with Pink stitching, Hopefully they show it a little better, plus I am still going to go over it at least one more time to try to do my best to saturate the stitching.. Only time well tell how it holds up, my main concern will be the seats of course. But if I have to reapply at some point so be it...

Just a question as this looks great and nice job. Did you consider using a fine point red magic marker ?

 

[QUOTE=jagtoes;1935183]Actually the marker I used is a #2 fine point tip that is reversible, so once the tip starts wearing out and getting blunt, you can pull it out and turn it over have a fresh fine point tip again. By the time the second tip starts wearing out your out of ink and time to open new marker... I used 4 markers so far at $2.50 each, but probably will buy another two just to go over it once more, so I will be in a total of $15 when finished...

 

Contrast stitching looks great and goes on easy, damn another thing to add to my "to do" list. When I redesigned my Pantera's new leather interior, I did the black leather with red stitching and thought it came out just terrifically. Now I can have the same look in my XKR. Just got to find the time.

 

I noticed the rear seat right side trim/wall was loose on the top. To get to it, I dismantled the rear seats, if they can be called that, being just a bunch of leather pads clipped into the interior. Anyway, turned out the top clip of the trim was not mounted properly. Doesn't look like the sort of thing that would come undone by itself...


After removing the rear seats, I had a look around, and spotted two amusing things. First, the chassis has its chemical formula stamped on it. Not sure how common a practice this is.


Second, the adaptive suspension control module has this sticker on it:

 

My 2007 (VIN 00201) has the same sticker.

How about in the spare tire well: does your car have any notes written by hand in that area? Mine does, it looks like someone was evaluating the quality of the welds in that area, or some such thing.

 

[QUOTE=TexasTraveler;1935189]I would like to do this but unfortunately I have the charcoal interior with charcoal threads.

 

Interesting, yours is pre-production as well (00379 was first official production model).
I had a look at the spare tire well, but didn't spot any writing. The welding in there is pretty atrocious, though, unfortunately too dark now to get a photo.

 

driving along freeway and heard what i thought at the time was a rock, turns out the nut holding the down piping onto the header had worked itself loose and flew off

Exhaust leak fixed new nut sourced and put back on

 

Nice work - but I hope you did not get under the engine with the rear tire floating in the air and the rear of the car not also held up with a jackstand?

 

funny enough I went off at the apprentice for exactly that ..although he had no jack stand under the car.

 

Tinted headlights today myself, looks alright but am gonna do it again tomorrow but better

 

pics please

 

I used a cork to internally block the "noise tube" (thanks to the Coppella claret for that donation) . I was blown away at how much quieter the cabin is now with the top up! The exhaust sound seems more pronounced without the distraction of the fake gimicky throttle sound.

As others have noted though, I wish Jag had shifted the expense and effort from that needless device in favor of a coolant temp guage instead.

 

Changed the oil and filter! Air filters are fine. I still need to do the Service Reset procedure, but that's easy.

Dang I love the suck-out-the-top changes, that makes oil changes So Incredibly Easy.

 

Well I finally have started on my defrost vents. Both of my vents had a crack that spanned the entire width and had some other smaller cracks at various spots. So I used the superglue and baking soda technique to repair and reinforce the vents. I then sanding them down, primed and shot them with some black paint which is now in the drying stage. After completely curing I will then give them a final sanding/buffing and then vinyl wrap them to match the wrap I used on my wood pieces which is black aluminum. I will add some pics of vents once wrapped...