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You're like me, I like a clean car, especially the shiny chrome bits. I see you also keep the exhaust pipe trims polished just like I did with my XJ6. (and also with my Mazda Xedos). Your car is almost identical in colour to my Rover 75 in Wedgwood Blue. What do Jaguar call theirs ?
PS - you'd better not see my car right now, we have had a bad winter here in the UK and it continues - salt everywhere, Ugh !
PS - you'd better not see my car right now, we have had a bad winter here in the UK and it continues - salt everywhere, Ugh !
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It really is the best feeling when you uncover the car when you get home after a long time! She is in for a treat when I get back new pads and rotors all around. I'm going with EBC slotted rotors and the Red Stuff pads. One of the wheels has been squealing like a banshee and I have been told that all four corners are under 1/3 pad life left. When I go back for summer break i'm ordering up a new wiring harness so I can finally install the Navigation screen and computer that I bought last summer. A buddy and I tried wiring up the whole thing ourselves but when it was finished the image on the screen was ghosting pretty badly and I could barely use the touch screen at all. I understand that that's because the wire we used wasn't shielded and that a new harness should fix that. I just had the serpentine belt done over winter break and now the engine sounds so much smoother if you can believe it. Hopefully over the summer I will also get the door fixed from somebody sideswiping my car in a parking lot and then i'm going to get her professionally detailed (its been almost two years since she's had a waxing) and then she will be perfect. This summer is going to be great!
Fraser- The color is called Zircon Blue
Mat
Fraser- The color is called Zircon Blue
Mat
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Thanks for the comments everyone!
Jim- the cover I bought is very soft and I haven't seen any scratches forming at all i'm keeping my fingers crossed and hopefully I wont have any problems with it in the future.
Fraser- ouch luckily the damage wasn't too bad for me with the serpentine belt at $200
While I was shopping around for the EBC brakes I saw that they produce their own fluid. Is there any advantage to using theirs over the normal stuff that I would get when I do the brakes?
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Jim- the cover I bought is very soft and I haven't seen any scratches forming at all i'm keeping my fingers crossed and hopefully I wont have any problems with it in the future.
Fraser- ouch luckily the damage wasn't too bad for me with the serpentine belt at $200
While I was shopping around for the EBC brakes I saw that they produce their own fluid. Is there any advantage to using theirs over the normal stuff that I would get when I do the brakes?
Thanks,
Mat
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I had a look on the EBC website, and it states that their brake fluid is subcontracted to a sister supplier of brake fluids not named. From what they state on the fluids they sell they will be as good as most others, probably better. There is a lot of information given on how to choose a fluid which makes me think they know their stuff.
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Thanks Fraser I think I will go with the fluid then. I'm probably going to buy from perfectbrakes.com I'm a little worried though as they don't have the XJ8 listed but they do have the VDP 4.2 listed as 2003-2006 and the XJ8 listed as 2006-2008 but I'm pretty sure that the VDP is the same mechanically as the XJ8 its just the interior thats different. I priced it out with the EBC redstuff pads front and rear and the EBC ultimax plain rotors front and rear, plus the fluid and it came out to $395.34 which is a lot better then what Jaguar is probably charging for the parts. Am I correct in assuming that the parts they have listed for the VDP will be exactly the same for my XJ8?
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George,
I will definitely be ordering the chrome mirror's, I found a guy online who actually has the OEM caps new in the box that came with the VDP I think it will look like a factory fit with those instead of the 3M tape cap that Mina Gallery is offering. I also just finished ordering the brakes! i'm so excited to finally get new brakes put on because I always thought that the brakes on this car weren't the greatest.
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I will definitely be ordering the chrome mirror's, I found a guy online who actually has the OEM caps new in the box that came with the VDP I think it will look like a factory fit with those instead of the 3M tape cap that Mina Gallery is offering. I also just finished ordering the brakes! i'm so excited to finally get new brakes put on because I always thought that the brakes on this car weren't the greatest.
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Hello Mat, just a quick question about the wiring harness. I have all the bits and was going to make my own harness based on info from another post. However, the connector into the existing heater/air array is different than what goes into the new Navi head unit. Any idea where to get an adapter for that???? Or, where are you ordering your harness??
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Tim
Thanks,
Tim
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