How wonderful - really wish i had caught them.
Anyone have a spare one for a reasonable price?
I have a 1998 XK8.
I'm in London UK.
Cheers.

I've seen them on Ebay and at breakers yards, but I can't remember prices. Try breakeryard.com

Don't have one for you, but have sympathy for the victim of a senseless crime.

Sorry to hear that mate - the little buggers. I remember the early 1980's hip-hop boys nicking the badges off VW's to hang on their Mr T style chains. Hope that's not making a come-back! What part of London were you in at the time ? (I don't wanna go there!)

£65 off Adamesh - or as suggested try breakers/e-bay.

Good luck.

i'm in quite posh Notting Hill - my car has the leaping mascot on the bonnet - i'm only glad he never tried to wrench that off too - i'm a pretty dangerous big Scots guy (most of us are ) and if i'd caught them i'd have beat the living daylights out of them ...

New one is $130 US, ouch. I've replaced my wheel caps twice, last time I replaced them with the cheap Chinese ones from ebay and they still took them. +1 on the daylight dimming.

Hi guys - I managed to buy a s/h badge - any tips on removing and replacing the front badge? - seems to be very little access, do u have to remove the bumper? say it ain't so.

can someone reply to my above question please?

The badge has locating pegs on the back which go through holes in the front bumper to position it correctly. It is originally held on with a star washer (item 3) and double sided tape.



After having my XK8 front bumper painted, I just refixed the badge with double sided tape and it was perfectly secure - never moved in the next two years I kept the car.

The advantage of this method is no dismantling involved.

Graham

yeah but you don't have little ******* near u who think it's fun to take your jaguar badge off do you? i need to remove the backing for the original badge first and then affix the new badge complete with backing and it's really tight to get at ..

1. cover the front bumper around the broken badge backing with masking tape to protect the paintwork
2. soften the double sided tape using a hair dryer
3. ease up the top or bottom edge of the broken backing with a paint scraper
4. grip the backing with pliers and break it off

The securing peg and star washer will fall off inside the bumper. The locating peg will stay on the backing.

5. clean off the tape residue from the bumper with nail varnish remover (my wife is a great help with car maintenance!)
6. polish the bumper
7. fit the new badge

Graham

Thanks for trying to help - but i want to unscrew the old badge backing and screw the new one on - i just feel there is very little room at the back to get at it and was wondering if anyone has done it on here? I don't want to stick it down with double sided tape. cheers.

I'd be careful with this fix. If you attach it permanently with screws, the vandals will destroy your bonnet next time trying to get it off.

That's what I was thinking too.

Back in the summer of 1987, my wife and I walked out of a restaurant and towards my 1986 Alfa Romeo Spider ragtop. It was dark but as we approached I could see some punk probably in his early 20s messing with the drivers door. I yelled at him, he turned to face me, and I got a good look at him before he took off running the other way. Because my wife was with me, I didn't pursue him although it took a great deal of restraint because I certainly wanted to....

About a week later I was in the same shopping complex during the daytime. I walked out of the hardware store that was a few stores down from that same restaurant and there was that same punk, this time leaning over the drivers door (I had left the top down for a quick trip into the hardware store) and apparently going after my audio unit. I was alone this time with no spouse to worry about so I snuck up on him, picked him up by the back of his collar, threw him to the pavement, and beat the living **** out of him - all in less than thirty seconds. As he lay on the ground with what was obviously a badly broken and bleeding nose, I told him that if I ever saw him within 50 feet of my car again, he would not be seeing the next sunrise....

I drove off with him still lying there, got a few blocks away, and began to have second thoughts about how badly I had beaten him. So I drove back to the site, but he was gone. Just a big pool of blood on the pavement....

Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do....

Here in Alabama we don't have much of that kind of crime, probably because the guys who do that kind of thing don't last long. They may get a away with that a few times but eventually they will get caught and shot and that will be the end of that.

Mine wasn't stolen, but it did delaminate and fly off.

Here is the procedure to replace it:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...dge-faq-68508/