Doing a custom wrap tomorrow. What do you guys think? I’ll post picks after the wrap is completed.

 

Someone a few years ago did a wrap in bright green, though I cannot remember who did it. It looked pretty good, and seemed to be a quality job, going from the pictures.
Another fellow did two wraps, a digi-cam first then swapped it for a normal blue one. Did it himself, although I seem to remember that was his day job.

 

Here is the thread. The guy is a whiz.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...dition-196122/

 

D/A polisher, IPA wipe, Kamikaze ISM.
check this link and watch Todd's other videos.
He has a video on each stage of the process on his YouTube channel.
good luck and have fun!

 

Gave the front upper grille a good polish and installed an "R" badge. I am usually not much into installing extras like this, but since the later examples got it, I figure it's fair game, and I like the splash of color it adds.

 

What a pity you are not close. If would have taken 3 days, but it would be better than when it left factory.
A 30 year hobby of a perfectionist.

Here is a top secret, everyone is self taught.
There is no other modification as rewarding.

PM if you want to borrow equipment, materials or pointers.

 

I did a similar wrap to mine in the front.

 

Painted grills same colour as my wheels with Plasti Dip and painted the growler red! 😊




Will see if I like it when the bumper is painted, thinking gloss black would look nice too and might try painting the gloss black on the Plasti Dip.

 

I've had a constant TPMS fault for about five months now, it used to be intermittent but no longer. Also in the mix sometimes is "Tire Not Monitored" of F-R.
SO, I waited for new tires which I did about a week ago. Brand new Siemens sensors all the way around.
WELL, no bueno. The TPMS fault came back. One thing though is the Tire Not Monitored went away, seemingly for good.

I had SDD fired up a few days ago so I reprogrammed the TPMS module while I was at it.
Again, no bueno. I reset the TPMS receiver in SDD..... still nothing.
My front bumper harness is fine and I've replaced / rotated all my wheel well antennas.

Next thing is evidently a new (used?) TPMS module, which I just ordered off eBay. It'll be here in a week. $60 doesn't seem outrageous for Box-Swap troubleshooting. Hellz, if USAF jets we'd swap boxes that cost $5 million somewhat frequently. Course, those all went to depot to be repaired.

 

Cee Jay, please be sure to keep us up on how this works out. I'm with you the box swap.....it was easy for me then because it didn't come out of my pocket but such is not the case now. lol

 

Cee Jay, try unplugging your OBDII reader and leaving it unplugged. See if message goes away. If it does, the module's not the problem. You could move to a wifi OBDII vs BT, or a higher end one like Blue Driver, or last but not least, get back into SDD and disable TPMS.

 

I have tried exactly that for many weeks, along with resetting stuff in the meantime. A good thought, but I'm ahead of you on this one.

 

Cee Jay,

See this old thread for other things to try, and note George Kale and Brutal's comments:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...s-fault-55340/

Be sure to read Post #1 by flyc2c:
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...repair-143519/

Stuart

 

Yep, already read them both and even some more that I found. I even posted in those threads 'long' ago.
I also think it's sort of funny that the Forum Search is kinda bad, but a Google search mostly displays stuff FROM this forum.

 

Two very small mods today. First up was adding extensions (from eBay) to the gear change paddles:



I don't really think it makes much difference to functionality in my case, but it looks kinda cool and a bit sporty Incidentally, this is the second set of paddle extensions I tried. The first set were 'solid' at the top and I found they obscured the markings on the stalks making it tricky to know how you had the lights and wipers set. The design in the image has the cutouts at the top and, as well as making it look sportier to my mind, also allows you to see through the paddles to the stalks.

Second was 'permanently' installing my new CTEK charger. As you can see, I hooked it up to the jump start positive terminal behind the small access panel in the rear left of the boot/trunk. I connected the ground to a handy bolt close by. As I have the CTEK connector with the small LEDs which monitor the state of the battery charge with a 'traffic light' system, I chose to leave the lead visible in the boot/trunk. If I had the regular lead, I'd probably leave it hidden behind the small access hatch. Either way, it's a neat job and it makes it real easy to hook the CTEK unit up when I am not using the car regularly over winter.



The positive cable connected to the jump start connector:



The negative/ground cable connected to a handy bolt.

 

I replaced all four rotors and brake pads on my XKR, yesterday. The previous set had produced an annoying shimmy feel when braking on the freeway, and I hated it. I had them machined four times to get them smooth but it still shimmied and was quite annoying. I picked up the car yesterday, went straight to the freeway, and touched the brakes just slightly to see if the vibrations were gone and AHHH, that nice smooth feeling of properly surfaced discs was back. I'd put up with it for far too long.

 

OEM or aftermarket parts? Ceramic pads?

 

I ordered the rotors and pads from R1 Concepts.
R1 Concepts Product - R1 Carbon GEOMET Series 2010 JAGUAR XKR All
The pads were their R! Series Performance Sport Pads

 

I just ordered some brake parts from there ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ . One hint.... put stuff in your cart and then EXIT. It will give you 10% off your order!
I didn't, which sucked.

 

Front wrap done and installed new Hawk Performance drilled slotted rotors with Akebono pads. Very please with results.