That is interesting, the dealer thought they had switched to aluminium but then came back and told me parts said no only the plastic are available. I will send him this Monday? Thanks for your help.

 

Waiting to see what you post back as I am still learning about this and we really need some facts if there are any?
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I saw these on eBay, in case anyone's brave enough to roll the dice on them:

 

Okay dealer got back to me and after digging says they can find no info on aluminium pipes from Jaguar. I sent them this image and they said the part number with the -A doesn't exist that they can find. He suggested maybe that part is only available in a different market. The part number without the A is the part in plastic.
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The letter A obviously stands for the word aluminum. The question is did the seller just create a fake part number and add the letter A representing aluminum or is it legitimate part number.

 

Hard to say but if he did he also cast in the JLR emblem and the leaping cat plus some numbers. That's a LOT more work than creating false labels.
With after market Aluminum pipes already released for a year or more why would anyone go back and add those markings to the castings if they are NOT made by JLR?

Seems like there would be no reason to do that?
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