my gf used my car the other day and despite my coaching her of what a proper parking spot looks like and the extra time it actually takes to find a perfect spot..she comes home with a door ding. small but I know it's there. really pisses me off that some *** hat parks next to a car that is clearly pristine and fastidiously kept...and thinks it is ok to put a door on it. people really could give two schist

In any event, how is the door panel removed? I have looked for videos and searched this forum but only see instruction for the xk8. Any help would be fantastic as I hope to get this fixed immediately so I can get out of my funk Thank you all.

Peter

 

It's section 76.34.01 in the Workshop Manual which is available for download here:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...guides-215509/

Here's the section:










Take great care removing the speaker housing. See photo in this thread:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...cement-210597/

There's photos of the inside of the door in the same thread which will give you an idea of how easy or difficult it's going to be to access the back of the ding.

Graham

 

graham, thank you. I will study this and work on the dent removal. much appreciated on this sunday!!!

peter

 

But, rather than removing the door panel, wouldn't it be better to consult one of the "paintless dent removal" specialists? I don't know why I phrased that as a question since I know that this would be the better and less invasive solution. I have had this done many times on different cars, always with perfect results.

 

With aluminium body panels?

Graham

 

I'm sure that being there are other aluminum panel cars out there there are paintless dent removers who can do the job. I would go that route also.

 

My '07 XKR was parked under a walnut tree when a southerly came through and blew lots of the walnuts off the tree. The car was left with a number of dents on it so I arranged for a paintless dent remover to take them all out for me and it was perfect once he had finished.

He did some work for me on my X350 as well so I don't think that there are any issues working with aluminium.

 

Absolutely! There are two techniques, one from the inside and the other from the outside. Both require special tools, methods, and possibly adhesives. I've had two small dings removed, the first caused by a large pine cone that landed on the tonneau cover and the second caused by a careless passenger in the car parked next to me who dinged my right rear quarter panel. Both repairs are invisible and I know where they were and can't find them. David is great! See: https://dentsdings.com/
P.S. That's not my XKR in his photo gallery.

 

consensus wins. I will contact paintless dent guy this week. the ding is very hard to see unless the light is just right but I know it's there. The dent guy will not have much to work with but a tad bit of the bend in the door. will need a light but careful touch.

Thanks for the help all.

peter

 

There's a reinforcement beam runs the length of the door. Depending on where the ding is, he may have to work around it:




This is my RH door.

Be interested to see "before" and "after" photos of the repair.

Graham

 

Thanks GGG!
I'm in the process of removing mine due to an unhappy inner door handle and had no clue how to remove the panel.
Best Jag forum on the planet.

 

If you need to remove the inner aluminium panel, check the release cable moves freely before refitting the door card. If the outer (black) tube isn't positioned just right where it comes through the panel, the inner door handle doesn't move smoothly.




Graham

 

... and that picture from GGG is one of the reasons these cars are around $100k.

 

+1

I was impressed that the Jaguar door build is good design and engineering.

However, you don't always get what you pay for. Compare the door of my Bentley Continental GT which was more than twice the cost of the XK. Very similar design but the Bentley inner panel is plastic:





The wiring harness isn't routed as carefully as the Jaguar and the window mechanism (the reason I had the door dismantled) is a regular failure.

Graham

 

Yep the door is involved.
So this adventure started with the door beeping twice when the door handle button was pushed to lock. I found if I pushed the inner door handle in before closing the door it would sound like it locked with no beep. Which is normal, however the door is not locked. The car thinks it is. If I come back without any key in my pocket the door will open right up and the alarm goes into freak mode. So after reading up on related posts it sounded like the lock mechanism needed to be cleaned lubed and worked over to get it moving freely again. Getting the latch assembly out of the door is involved and not very straight forward. Anything else I should be looking at? Could it be a simple micro switch not happy? The latch assembly is not out yet as I have to disassemble the outer door handle to remove it. From what I can tell it seems to be very free in movement so far. Me work on it again tomorrow.

 

The problem is very likely to be a microswitch in the door latch. Here's my RH door latch assembly. Latch and (broken) door reinforcement on the right and new reinforcement on the left:




The door glass has to be disconnected from the lift mechanism to get this assembly out.

Graham