My car is a 2004 XKR portfolio car with the dealer sticker saying it has sport suspension. Anyone know what that is or how I find out? Reason is the front ride height is supposed to be 15.78" and mine is 14.5". The wheels are OEM BBS 20" and scrape the inner fender liner on hitting big dips in the road. There is a shock mounting plate on the upper end that is big and has some kind of foam sandwiched between two metal plates that collapses. I'm amazed that mine could have collapsed 1" or so. There is a polyurethane replacement but I'm wondering if that is too stiff. Anyone have any experience with this mount?
Thanks
John
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That's a common replacement item on both XK8 and R's. My ride height was 14.5 and replacing the upper mount brought it upto 15.5. Of course while I was at it I also replaced all ball joints, tie rods bushings and the shocks as with 90K plus miles it was time.

Do a search and you will find lots of info
04 2004 Jaguar XKR Shock Mount - Suspension - APA/URO Parts, Eurospare, Genuine, Front Left Upper, Front Right Upper, Front Upper, Rear Left Upper, Rear Right Upper - PartsGeek

 

John - do a search and you will find plenty of threads on the upper shock mounts including some who have used the poly replacements.


My original upper mounts lasted for 110K miles so I just went with the same and replaced mine with a set from XK's unlimited


JA-MJA2170BD - Spring/Damper Mount, Aftermarket Version Of Original