While changing the passenger's front seatbelt assembly on Mari's 98 XK8, we came across this small tag of paper lying loose under the panel. It is about 2" x 3" and looks like some kind of build/check list. Any ideas?

 

This is an "in system process control check" by the seat manufacturer before it gets shipped over to the plant. Shame there isn't a "make sure you chuck this tag away check. TS

 

Lear Corporation was the seat supplier to Jaguar for X100 so that will be their build sign-off for one of the seats.

A mystery why it would ever get behind the quarter casing panel covering the seat belt assembly.

Graham

 

I recall a very similar looking one inside the door cards when I had them off so it wouldn't be surprising if the quarter trim came from the same manufacturer.

 

This is the back of my (soon to be refurbished) "A" pillar.


Is it the same company that made the Lear Jet, and is it true that Mr. Lear deliberately named his daughter Shanda as a joke.
I guess Google probably has the answers !!
Cheers,
David.

 

The A-pillars in my XKR also have them:





Best wishes, Colin

 

OK - I decided to answer m7y own question.
Yes - he did
Four wives and seven kids - what a guy !
Lear had a total of seven children, born from 1925 to 1954. With his first wife, Ethel Peterson Lear, Mary Louise was born in January 1925. He married his second wife, Madeline Murphy, in October 1926. Their son, William Lear, Jr., was born on May 24, 1928; he died December 14, 2009, at age 81, in Daytona Beach, Florida.[16] Daughter Patti was born in 1930.
Lear's third marriage, to Margret Radell, was childless. In 1941, Lear married his fourth wife, Moya Marie Olsen, daughter of vaudeville comedian John "Ole" Olsen.[17] Bill and Moya Lear would have four children together: John Olsen Lear was born in 1942, Shanda in 1944, David in 1948 and Tina in 1954.[18] Lear's son John is an accomplished pilot and ufologist, noted in the latter field for promoting a variety of conspiracy theories which were based, he claimed, on information obtained from military contacts.[19]
Although Lear had a reputation of being difficult,[20] he reportedly had a notable sense of humor, as evidenced by naming his second daughter Shanda (~"chandelier").

 

Thanks guys!