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Hi Trevor
Any update to share on your Cruise Control install ?
Laurence
Hi David,
You don’t mention of the Rev counter starts working again once everything is warm and settled.
Mine had a similar but different problem – in that mine would over rev until it was warm and then everything seemed to click into place and all would be well again. I believe the issue with mine was the airflow meter on the carb just simply not getting things right.
Laurence
We ventured down from Telford and spent an enjoyable couple of hours at the show.
We met up with Bryan Thomas, and later in the day sneaked our 1993 XJS Convertible down near the show area and parked up alongside his pristine XJS Cabriolet
Fortunately you can’t quite see how dusty our Convertible was next to Bryan’s shiny car – but we had done 310 miles since leaving home on Friday evening (Total trip mileage of 520 across the weekend).
Laurence
We managed to spend 6 hours walking around the show – we wondered why we were getting tired near the end (hadn’t realised how the time has flown).
We probably spent nearly 1/2 hour at the XJS club stand comparing Graham and Scott’s Cabriolets
If the weather looks good tomorrow we will likely venture over to see this (as we’re down in the Midlands anyway)
Laurence
Successful first UK meeting of members of our XJS Soft Tops website, with 4 members and their cars attending the White Hart, Overton, Hampshire. Thanks for taking the time to venture out today.
- Jaguar XJ-SC Cabriolet – Kim Hayward
- Jaguar XJ-SC Cabriolet – Trevor Kent
- Jaguar XJS Facelift Cabriolet – Chris Leeson
- Jaguar XJS Convertible – Laurence and Christina Jones
We all spent a convivial couple of hours chatting over coffee and biscuits about our cars and various places we’ve been with them, along with various opportunities to meet up again in the future. Turns out that Christina and myself meet Chris at the Weald and Downland Museum a couple of years ago, and Chris had seen our car at the Dunsford Wings and Wheels event last year but didn’t see us.
I was able to pass on to Trevor, Kim and Chris their site Window Sticker which I’ll make available generally to members shortlyTime now to plan the next meet up 🙂
Laurence
Well it came off easily, just drilled out the rivet at the top and the bottom (inside by the door rubber).
No rust to be seen underneath, nor paint pealing off which was good. The windscreen rubber itself is getting a bit perished though.
Seems the person who last fitted the trim couldn’t get it on properly and has bent it, and then they’d put loads of mastic behind it to hold it all on (which it hadn’t done very well).
I stripped out the mastic, and put some washing up liquid in the slot in the windscreen rubber to make it a bit more plyable. I then managed (after more than a few attempts) to feed the trim into the slot and hold it in place while I re-riveted the trim back in place – it kept popping out at the top while I was attending to the bottom, and vice-versa.
Anyway, it’s on and better than it was for now. Need to replace windscreen rubber and possibly find better example of trim to fit back in place.
Hi Gerben,
I realise that it isn’t obvious how to do that, so I have added some instructions to the Help section (found by clicking HELP top right of the Discussion page)
Cheers,
Laurence
Hi Gerben,
Could you expand a little about what you are seeking – maybe a photo of the item you wish to replace would help.
Laurence
The facelift 4.0 litre models do have Cruise Control as an option< so you might be able to retro fit one to your 3.6 Automatic Trevor. I have a donor 1995 4.0litre XJS auto, with Cruise Control, which at some point in the future I'm hoping to dismantle and reassemble in either my 1994 Couple or possibly the 1993 Convertible - all something for the future at the moment I'm afraid. Laurence