Laurence Jones

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  • in reply to: Welcome to new Cabriolet member – Martin Ball #4677
    Laurence Jones
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      Nothing wrong with the Rover SD1 – I had a one for several years – replaced the 2.6 with the 3.5 🙂

      in reply to: Brake Dust #4666
      Laurence Jones
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        The silver ones as we cheapest – just to see what they’re like. If they’re any good I might spray black if they don’t look right (but should be OK as silver)

        Laurence

        in reply to: Brake Dust #4645
        Laurence Jones
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          Thanks John.

          Thanks Mark, I’ve splashed the cash on a set to try – just got to wait a month for the slow boat from China to bring them to me 🙂

          I’ll let you know how I get on.

          Laurence

          in reply to: Welcome new Convertible member – Peter Mohr #4610
          Laurence Jones
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            Hi Peter,

            I guess you either like the XJS or not, and when you do some of us get the urge to have more than one (nothing wrong with that). There are several folks on this site, like myself, that have both a Convertibles or a Cabriolet and a Coupe (or various combination).

            Laurence

            in reply to: Welcome to new Cabriolet member – Martin Ball #4608
            Laurence Jones
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              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

              Photo # 242

              Laurence
              P.S. I’ve a Discovery 4 too

              in reply to: XJ-SC Hard Top #4562
              Laurence Jones
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                Ouch that’s a lot of money, circa £1,400

                in reply to: Fuel Economy #4420
                Laurence Jones
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                  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

                  in reply to: List of Members. #4402
                  Laurence Jones
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                    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

                    in reply to: Meet up – 17th June – Cafe Cargo, Colne #4388
                    Laurence Jones
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                      This meet up event has been rescheduled to Saturday 17th June.

                      Please let me know if you are able to attend, so that I can reserve space for us all in the cafe.

                      Laurence

                      in reply to: List of Members. #4184
                      Laurence Jones
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                        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

                        in reply to: Twin head lights – Now Sold #4180
                        Laurence Jones
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                          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

                          in reply to: Rear quarter windows #4170
                          Laurence Jones
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                            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

                            in reply to: Rear quarter windows #4167
                            Laurence Jones
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                              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

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                                Photo 578

                                in reply to: New member – Mark Thorley #4137
                                Laurence Jones
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                                  Hi Mark,

                                  These are the next few XJS Soft Tops meet ups

                                  Saturday 13th May, Gorse Hill Restaurant, Conwy, North Wales – Lunch Click here for Conwy

                                  Sunday 4th June, Nr Eastbourne – Jaguar Day Click Here for Eastbourne

                                  Sunday 18th June, Café Cargo, Colne, Near Pendle, Lancashire – Brunch Click Here for Pendle

                                  Please let me know if you’re able to join us at any of these

                                  Laurence
                                  membership@xjs-soft-tops.com

                                  Laurence Jones
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                                    Would any member who is interested in attending this meet up please get in touch with me.

                                    Thanks,

                                    Laurence
                                    membership@xjs-soft-tops.com

                                    in reply to: Twin head lights – Now Sold #4123
                                    Laurence Jones
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                                      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

                                      in reply to: New member – Mark Thorley #4078
                                      Laurence Jones
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                                        I hope you do enjoy your Cabriolet Mark, and look forward to seeing you with it sometime at one of the many meet ups I’m setting up around the country – keep an eye on the Events section 🙂

                                        Laurence

                                        in reply to: Castle Donnington – Saturday 29th April 2017 #4077
                                        Laurence Jones
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                                          Well we had an enjoyable and dry day at the Donnington Historic Festival

                                          Photo 556

                                          Found 3 Cabriolet’s

                                          Photo 557

                                          And 3 XJS Converibles

                                          Photo 558

                                          Spoke to a few of them, and invited them to join out XJS Soft Top website

                                          Photo 559

                                          We watch several races during the day too

                                          Photo 560

                                          in reply to: Welcome to Richard Marsh as a new member #3958
                                          Laurence Jones
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                                            Hi John,

                                            Good point about not being able to see 3 lots of Cabriolet details (I updated the Profile screens to collect the information but not the other screens to display them…)

                                            I have now updated the Member details screen to display all 3 Cabriolet’s details (and tidied it up to also include the new Profile field which details a member’s town, county and country.

                                            Laurence

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