View Poll Results: Which is your favorite XK(R) side vent?
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#41
#42
I would have to see it to believe it. Maybe if someone who had to remove one can clear up the functionality.
#43
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...nder-s-222048/
I had the vent open for a few days while waiting for some clips to come in, and did not feel any excessive heat coming out the hole while the car was running... Even after a drive.
The plastic piece that holds the mesh could be cut if you really wanted to open the area up.
#44
The fender is indeed cut behind the vent. See my other thread for what it looks like inside... Just some open cell foam and a strange plastic bag. The ABS module is there as well.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...nder-s-222048/
I had the vent open for a few days while waiting for some clips to come in, and did not feel any excessive heat coming out the hole while the car was running... Even after a drive.
The plastic piece that holds the mesh could be cut if you really wanted to open the area up.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...nder-s-222048/
I had the vent open for a few days while waiting for some clips to come in, and did not feel any excessive heat coming out the hole while the car was running... Even after a drive.
The plastic piece that holds the mesh could be cut if you really wanted to open the area up.
#45
I do feel a TON of heat exiting the bottom of the vehicle while it idles in the driveway for extended periods of time... So there must be some passive mechanism besides the rad fans that naturally directs heat out of and away from the engine bay.
#46
Ian Callum mentions in the interview that a lot of heat accumulates in that area and that's why he put a vent there.
"5. This vent will become a Jaguar design signature. It's functional: There's a low-pressure area behind the wheel that helps draw air through."
https://www.motortrend.com/cars/jagu...7-jaguar-xk-3/
"5. This vent will become a Jaguar design signature. It's functional: There's a low-pressure area behind the wheel that helps draw air through."
https://www.motortrend.com/cars/jagu...7-jaguar-xk-3/
Last edited by Queen and Country; 09-14-2019 at 11:52 AM.
#47
The fender is indeed cut behind the vent. See my other thread for what it looks like inside... Just some open cell foam and a strange plastic bag. The ABS module is there as well.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...nder-s-222048/
I had the vent open for a few days while waiting for some clips to come in, and did not feel any excessive heat coming out the hole while the car was running... Even after a drive.
The plastic piece that holds the mesh could be cut if you really wanted to open the area up.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...nder-s-222048/
I had the vent open for a few days while waiting for some clips to come in, and did not feel any excessive heat coming out the hole while the car was running... Even after a drive.
The plastic piece that holds the mesh could be cut if you really wanted to open the area up.
Last edited by Roarer; 09-16-2019 at 05:49 AM.
#48
Took a few minutes yesterday to look at the vents on my 2012. These are not functioning. There is a black screen but behind it is a black panel which does not have any opening in it. I suspect if you remove the vent there will be a hole in the side of the wing but that would be for mounting only. Also as the car sat idling there is no heat coming out of the vent area. Maybe the vertical vents are different but the horizontal ones are fake.
#49
"This vent will become a Jaguar design signature. It's functional: There's a low-pressure area behind the wheel that helps draw air through." Ian Callum, discussing the new 2007 X150
#50
No "maybe" about the vertical vents. As Q&C pointed out above, they're functional. Hot air from the engine compartment is sucked out through those vents by the low pressure area behind them while the car is moving forward.
"This vent will become a Jaguar design signature. It's functional: There's a low-pressure area behind the wheel that helps draw air through." Ian Callum, discussing the new 2007 X150
"This vent will become a Jaguar design signature. It's functional: There's a low-pressure area behind the wheel that helps draw air through." Ian Callum, discussing the new 2007 X150
#51
Second instinct is cost... which is also probably why the aluminum interior trim on earlier cars is real 'spun aluminum', vs the knock-off spun aluminum/textured metal in later cars. I would guess that when the car was truly the flagship model, it got a lot more funding for the unique parts and features that were 'special' or 'cutting edge'... like ACC, machined fender vents from cast aluminum cores, the pedestrian sensor, and probably others I'm not yet aware of.
Last edited by TraxtarXKR; 09-16-2019 at 05:22 PM.
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MarkyUK (09-16-2019)
#52
My guess: Jaguar was trying to convert a pipe&slippers car to something more modern. Kinda like the old man in the discotheque.
In 2012 they made a lot of superficial cosmetic changes in a car that was fundamentally a throwback car to an even older time- i.e. etype.
Someone from engineering probably pointed out that putting a horizontal vent in that location had some significant drawback. Such as placing the burning coolant smell right by the driver's nose.
So they said lets make it like nipples on a bull, let them be there for show.
In 2012 they made a lot of superficial cosmetic changes in a car that was fundamentally a throwback car to an even older time- i.e. etype.
Someone from engineering probably pointed out that putting a horizontal vent in that location had some significant drawback. Such as placing the burning coolant smell right by the driver's nose.
So they said lets make it like nipples on a bull, let them be there for show.
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pwpacp (09-16-2019)
#53
https://y.yarn.co/454ea720-0a50-4a38...?1568683445612
I'm in the vertical crowd--but body colored, not chromed. Understated elegance masking raw power. No need for flashy bravado.
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