Yes, if you remove the side leaper badges, there’s a wire harness behind there that you can connect to a lamp assembly. The X300’s 95’-97’ had amber lamp assemblies there if I’m not mistaken. However, in the trunk lid of your X308, you have clear lenses there that could just snap in place on the front fender.

 

Cool, thanks for the info!

 

Hmmmm...I am wondering if you couldn't drill out the jaguar figure in the badge and
install an amber light behind it, I think it would look cool!.

 

As is yours—many thanks!

 

More like what i was thinking.

 

While out earlier today the odometer rolled smoothly over from 5 figures to 6.

 

Zircon blue but the clear coat wasn't that quality not bad for 350$ paint job imo

 

Hey Mobil1, good to see ya,...it's been awhile.

 

Oh ray good to see you too ... Yup been a while back again
what you think about the paint work ?

 

It doesn't look bad at all, did they redo all the paint or just the clear coat?

 

Yes ​​​all the paint , my mistake I choose Nexa auto color paint and HS clear coat I had better results with debeer from valspar

 

I took mine into a highly recommended paint shop to discuss the clearcoat issues i am having. Only solution is a complete respray for mine. Even with a full sanding, there is supposed to be a chemical as well as physical bond between color coat and clearcoat. Until I am emotionally prepared for a complete bare metal respray, he likes what I am doing with building up the clearcoat and wetsanding to smooth.

Interesting point was that the leading edge of the hood was clearcoat, the cracks are clearcoat, but the bigger flakes on the roof and trunk lid were failures between the initial coat of color and the second coat of color due to the depth.

 

Even though on other cars I have had great results, on the Duchess my
success has been limited. Ther is some step I seem to be missing when
doing the paint. Maybe Quartz is an oddball color.

 

Changed the arm rest leather it was in bad condition Opened it and took it to furniture restoration shop thankfully cost me 20$ the leather nice it's not as quality as the OEM but it's nice one

 

Wow for $20 that's a bargain!!

Did they completely recover it, or repaint the existing leather?

 

they removed the old one there was thin sponge layer under the original one they cut new leather piece and shape it to fit the arm rest took less than 1 hour

 

New leather is WAY better than new vinyl. Does the color match well?

 

yup I would say the color match the original oatmeal by 90%

 

im done with iridium it doesn't last that long iridum suppose to last at least 50k miles !! my ngk burnt around 20k ! 5 spark plugs burnt supra guys with 600 hp using autolite copper i tried it it works fine if nkt better responsive at highr rpm i will never buy iridium personally i even tried denso TT bad spark plug i will stick with copper this one dirt cheap from rockauto autolite 3924

 

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