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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
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
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
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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