New Life to my original tan colored jag. Still Tan underneath the wrap changed the look with out painting. Everything that was chromed is Blacked out.. Black Powder coated 20 x 10 rear wheels 20 x 9 front rims (Staggered) brake calipers yellow.. Only because red is cool and common in these parts.. So why not be different? All Purpose Luxury Vehicle.. Rear back-up camera as well. Kept the top tan to keep the Army theme.

 

Not for me but it does look Kool..

 

If I was a general, that would be the car for me.

Wayne

 

In your post, you mentioned swapping out your old audio for some more modern equipment. I am in an old ('01) XK as well, and have no use for the cassette, my CD changer doesn't work correctly and I'd really like to
have at least aux. input for my iPod, but Pandora streaming also would be great.

Did you retain original speakers/amps/subs and such, just swapping out the head units, or did you go for the whole enchilada?

Can I ask what brands were installed and how much each upgrade cost? Would you do it again?

I've been in or owned cars with amazing sound systems, spatial-input settings to imitate a large or a small venue - both OEM and expensive after market. Honestly, there is something about the system in our cars that is very appealing - very basic, but loud and clear - I dug up some old cassette tapes and the old Talking Heads music cranked up to 28 or so was like getting a hard slap in the face!

Anyway, thanks for listening to me ramble - if you can, please tell me more about what you had done (or did yourself) please.

Jeff

 

Some details on the back up camera install also please!

 

I am not sure if I like it or not....... I think its the roof that puts me off and for me a black roof would look better.... But I guess that is not quite the theme you are after..... But I do agree it looks cool.....

 

Your car is waiting, General Wayne:



Graham

 

(Regarding The Back -Up camera) basically it was a feature that my Kenwood Radio offered (kiv-bt901) I'll try to offer you pics on this..I took a riskier approach. instead of using a license plate frame camera I had one installed via the trunk next to the license plate it's self. (pics soon)

 

Hey, fair response!..lol when I first done it I was like Whoa it's GREEN!!..but when I woke up the next day and seen that it gets darker as the sun sets and the response and thumbs up driving thru Beverly Hills, safe to say it took just a day in person to get used too.

 

The vertical (up & down) shadow on the door distracks from the car. Try a picture with out it and I think it would appeal to more............

 

yeah, no use for cassettes as well for me. nor CD's for that matter.. so the (Kenwood KIT-901) became an option at that particular time. hooked my extra ipod to it and occasionally my iphone 5 soon to be iphone 6 as it's about to come out. But the benefit for me was no clutter of CD's to maintain. I did replaced all speakers nothing major only because of the life of the original speakers expired. Now, I will look into changing the the amp due to the original one seem to clip (gets heated) from long use (remedy for now turn my music down for couple seconds and then everything is ok) don't want to bore you, but hope that answers your question.

 

Every pic of the car will be different which is kinda cool for me and hard to show the color of it at the same time. Lol in person totally different car..