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I’m up for venturing over to IOM for a visit in my Cabriolet if you are Mark Mark Thorley ( @m164 ) – just have to time it right that you haven’t handed the car over to your brother Jon Scales ( @jonscales ) 🙁
Laurence
I have updated the Events Calendar so that members may register their intention to attend an event directly on the Event Page – thereby letting other members know who to look out for 🙂
The event page for Jaguars at the Castle can be found by Clicking Here
Hopefully Graham Greenwood ( @grahamgreenwood ) will add some more details to this discussion soon.
Laurence
Hi Martin Ball ( @ball )
The bottom of the hood itself is fixed to the car by 8 – 10 flat head bolts spread around its perimeter. All around this perimeter is Velcro, which has the visible part of the hood itself stuck to it when you’re not using the cover – hides the bolts 🙂
When you want to make things nice and neat by using the cover, you simply go around the bottom perimeter of the hood pealing back the Velcro and folding the visible part of the hood (that had be stuck to it) back on itself – by back on itself I mean in such a way that you’d see the male part of the Velcro strip and the female part of the strip one above the other all the way around – or another way to describe it would be that the bottom 2″ of the visible part of the hood is turned back on itself so it shows the Velcro strip.
Then you pop on the poppers on the cabin side, and pull the soft Tonneau cover down over the outside edge and push down on the Velcro – and you end up with a nice neat car.
I’ll take a picture tomorrow.
Laurence
Hi Martin Ball ( @ball )
Here are a couple of photos of the my Tonneau Cover fitted that doesn’t have any poppers – it just has Velcro on the boot side and nothing to clip the cabin side down
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Ah, good point Woodsmoke ( @woodsmoke ), I wonder now if Gerben Haringsma ( @gerbenharingsma ) meant the front or rear ones.
The front quarter light rubber on my Cabriolet needs replacing, so you say they’re the same part number both side.
Laurence
Hi All,
I have placed the order to have these window rubbers remanufactured, and hope to have thme available in the iste shop by the end of August 2017.
Please click on the product in the SITE SHOP where you can go on the notification list.
Cheers,
Laurence
P.S. If there is sufficient interest I will look to get the Targa rubbers reengineered too – so let me know if this is of interest.
Hi Martin,
I will do that tonight for you
Laurence
Hi Mark Thorley that’s a good point about fabric shrinking. Martin Ball trimmers are probably aware of that fact but it might be worth him mentioning it to them.
Cheers,
Laurence
Hi Mark Thorley glad to see you’re having fun.
I do like this photo of yours
I spent Saturday working on my XJS Couple (now finished replacing all the interior) and on my XJ-SC Cabriolet (swapping over hoods from the donor car). Then today all of us went to Cheshire Steam Show and had a good look at Traction engines and various Classic Cars – but as there was 6 of us we went in the Land Rover (and appreciated the Air Con).
Might be worth noting. I have two different Tonneau covers.
One has the Velcro strip around the boot edge, but nothing on the inside of the car edge (no Velcro and no poppers). When fitted this tends to allow wind to get up under the Tonneau cover on the inside of the car edge, so I intend to fit female poppers on that edge myself (if I can find suitable that mate with the male studs).
The other has no Velcro strip, but has poppers on the boot edge and the inside of the car edge.
If you follow Alex’s note above, you’d end up with best of both worlds – Velcro around the boot edge and poppers on the inside of the car.
Laurence
Yes please Russ @russccptd-net , we could add that as a short article for others to read in the future (as these discussion posts get lower and lower on a list of 100s over time).
Laurence
Hi Gerben,
If you can hang on a few weeks it might be worth taking a look at what I’m hoping to introduce as stock in the Site Shop I’ve just launched.
Laurence
Hi Malcolm,
Here is the photo you uploaded
I’m breaking a 1984 cabriolet – let me know if there are any bits you need and if they’re still on the car then maybe I can be of some help Breaking CabrioletLaurence