Not for everyone to be sure....but what a great time this father/son project has turned out to be. We did all the disassembly and reassembly: lights, spoiler, antenna, door stay, plinth, door card, etc...The wrap was done by a pro. I had this in mind when I bought the car which is why I wanted black interior.

I have made a pact with my son that in exactly 4 years this goes back to "the old man" color as he calls it. I let him design a color scheme with my approval. I love the FRB and this was in the "ballpark". The color looks very different in different light as you can see.

Did the chrome trim in 'black chrome" and he had some touches of carbon fiber wrap done around the windows and on the front horizontal piece that goes left and right of the jag badge. More pics to come later this week. I like it. He's nuts about it.

 

Spectacular!

 

looks awesome

 

Can't wait to see the finished project!

 

Looks fantastic!

 

Here's a front end pic. If you look on a big screen you can see carbon fiber on the straight pieces left and right of the badge. Its all standard XK rake and grill aside from the colors. The black at the bottom was an afterthought to break up the front a little. Seemed like too much blue.

The headlights are screaming "Do something with me" now. The washers almost look black but they are still the standard chrome.

 

I love that colour i was about to buy an XK-RS in that colour but my wife said NO instead we got a black one now and she is yelling about the big rear wing

 

Nice! How long did that project take?
You should be pretty easy to spot on the roads now!

 

Is she about 5' 11" with brown hair? Mine has had a fair bit of resistance to this project but we agree there are things that are uniquely each of ours and this ultimately was one of them!

 

Looks great, and what a wonderful project. My boys can't wait for automated driverless cars, that's how interested they are in my world. Terrific job, congrats.

 

Again, I didn't do the wrap. Just all the removal of body parts in prep for it. While I was doing it I put in the Leaper puddle lights, replaced my tweeters, got my trunk light working, rerouted my battery maintainer wires, installed a missing handhold in the top inside of my trunk lid insert etc...


I had a place called "Mark your Space" in Bartlett do the wrap. They did the main part in 2 days and then I went back and had some trim changes done and door jambs. Will get a few more pics by tomorrow.

..and you are right...it is a little hard to miss!

 

I will admit, I don't know much about the wrap material. I would think you don't need to put any protective coatings on like with paint (i.e. Wax of some type)?

I say this just as a fun note. There was a guy on the BMW board, he had a 650 over in Cambodia. He took it over there from the US since he worked for the State Dept. The cost to get a car wrapped there is $300. He changed colors a couple of times just for fun. The quality was on par with any wrap he had in the states, the shop he used wrapped many high-end cars, higher than his 6...

If only we had that cost option here in the states, I would do the same, change the color every year.

 

Nice! Looking forward to the final product.

 

I agree. I paid right around $2K....so maybe change the color every 6 years!! I really did not want to paint. Aside from triple the cost here in the Chicago area I want to leave this thing original for a future purist. I knew nothing about wrap and did a little homework. Figured if it was just horrible, it would be a lesson learned but at least no harm to the car (from what I have gathered). But its all good. I used Avery Denison Supreme (SW900). They tried to mimic paint with clear coat with their gloss colors. It is pretty effective. Avery and 3M both have recommendations and products for "sealants" that appear to essentially be car wax. They also have cleaners- seem to just be very mild car wash "soaps". I got the Avery stuff just to be safe.

Coincidentally while I was at the shop they were stripping down a 7 year old wrap on a Jeep that was clearly used off road. It was coming right off with the paint nice and shiny underneath...with a few exceptions around edges. They just used some citrus gel and those came off pretty easy. Supposedly this newer stuff comes off even better.

 

Here are a few more...

 

Stunning work. Great project. The color's fantastic and the interior of the door panels. Jacson, did you do anything in the engine bay?

 

Cool and great look and I like the color. Looks like a great job. I do have a part that I thinks needs something different and that's with the picture in an earlier post of the front end. To me there looks like something is missing. Maybe it's to plain or there is no contrast but the nose looks naked to me. I assume it's me but that's the only part of the job that I think needs something.

 

We are on the same page. Maybe a black leaper mounted to the hood. : )

I actually bought some foglight surrounds and painted them black but they looked like glasses on the car! Maybe if I blacked out the whole depth of the foglight opening WITH the surrounds... I don't know. Am chewing on that and something with the headlights...I wish I had the XKR bumper but am not going to that length right now!

 

Oh wow !! absolutely amazing !!
Your car has been totally transformed

The only other changes I would make would be
a) The rear chrome JAGUAR trim on the boot/trunk I would wrap that in the blue
b) Blacking out the chrome door trims either carbon / black

As for the head lights there is a whole thread on blacking out the reflectors

 

No wrap in the engine bay. If you open the bonnet/hood or the trunk lid you will see silver (other than the horizontal lip of the fenders and rear quarters that the trunk lid and hood sit on).