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Hi John,
I’ve not come across any red hoods being on offer for the XJS convertible, so I’ve taken a look at the Paul Skilleter book you mention
That photo shows to me what looks like the Tan roof, not red. The an almost exact example belongs to a Hess & Eisenhardt version of the XJS Convertible – it appears in their advertising literature (all be it from a different angle with a glider behind it).
I think I have seen other examples with the Tan hood, but not Red.Laurence
Regarding the Dashboard lights, I’ve just posted and article in our site’s Articles section, about how I improved them on my car.
The article section can be found in the right-hand menu on this site’s Home page
Laurence
That’s good news Martin – electrical shorts are a nightmare to find at the best of times, let alone up within the dash.
Laurence
Your cabriolet looks very nice. I like the yellow/gold coach lines – mine’s the same Signal Red as yours but I’ve Silver coach lines
Laurence
P.S. I’ve a Discovery 4 tooOuch that’s a lot of money, circa £1,400
Hi Jon,
On a nice steady run, in my experience, you’d ikely get 25mpg (if it were a V12 5.3l then you’d be getting around 17mpg).
One thing to be cognisant of interpretation of reading the fuel gauge in your can and how much fuel is in the tank when it reads 1/4 full. Until you’re sure of what you see then don’t trust that 1/4 on the gauge is actually a 1/4 of the tank of fuel – fill up early and carry spare fuel (though you really don’t want to run out as it will suck up crud from the bottom of the tank that you really don’t want distributing throughout the fuel system).
Better safe than sorry on your long trip to Isle of Mann to fill up regularly and then when on home turf to let the fuel levels lower and estabilish for yourself when exactly on the gauge the light comes on and how much there is in the tank at that point).
Hope that helps – have a safe and uneventful, though enjoyable journey
Laurence
Hi John,
If you recall the 1st joined date was only introduced about a month after the site went live, so not all the members details had that field populated. I’ve just spent a happy couple of hours going through the member’s data and have back-populated that field. Therefore whenever the sort is undertaken for any of the fields on the page no members disappear now from the displayed view.
The list count now shows 126 (I’ve removed my test account from the list), that’s 125 Cabriolet Members and 1 administrator (Robin) which can’t be removed.
Cheers,
Laurence
Hi John,
The functionality you’re seeking is already in place. If I could just remind you, if you click on the column header 1st it will sort the whole member list with the newest members at the top by their date of joining.
Laurence
Bob and Gerben,
Glad it’s all worked out well.
Mark,
Is the unsatisfactory bulb the dipped beam or full beam – Gerben might not want the dipped beam bulbs he has just got from Bob, as his Cabriolet is LHD.
Laurence
The rear quarter on one of our convertibles got stuck in the up position for a while, and we actually found that the combination of having it still up and the wind deflector made it very comfortable to cruise at speed.
Such that we have considered seeing if we could install an additional bit of wiring to override the ‘programmed’ position (both up and down positions) – needs some thoughts though 🙂
Laurence
Hi Bob
When you put the roof down one of the first thing that happens is the rear quarter windows drop down and say down.
When you raise the roof back up, as it nears the last stage then the rear quarters pop back up again.
If you interior the lower or raising sequence then everything gets confused – you can end up with the roof up and the quarter Windows still down. If this happens you should fully lower the roof and then raise it again.
As far as I know, you can’t raise the rear quarter Windows with the roof down
Laurence
Hi Gerben,
Yes you could fit them to your Cabriolet, however you’d need to swap the dipped beam light units for LHD units – which isn’t too expensive and you’d be able to sell the RHD ones back to someone in the UK. Happy as always to help co-ordinate where I can.
Laurence