Laurence Jones

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  • in reply to: Welcome new Cabriolet Member – Alan Tew #9582
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Alan

    There is at least one other member who has one of these Cabriolets – Scott Foxall

    I believe there wea a batch destined for US that never go there, and Jaguar themsevles did the LHD to RHD conversion.

    Hopefully Scott will join in this conversation and tell you more.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome new Convertible member – Ludger Schmitz #9554
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Ludger

    I was wondering if you’ve had a chance to take a look around our Club website yet ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome new Cabriolet Member – Pascal Beaumont #9551
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Pascal

    I was wondering if you have had a chance to take a look around our Club website yet ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome new Enthusiast member –Joshua Kennedy #9544
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Joshua

    I was wondering if you have had a chance to take a look around our Club website yet ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome new Cabriolet Member – Gerry Stoll #9539
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Gerry

    I was wondering if you have had a chance to take a look around our Club Website yet ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: Alloy wheel tidying up and mild refurbishment #9499
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hello David

    I’ve made a start on refurbishing the paintwork on my wheels but haven’t make great progress yet. I’ve had a couple of sessions with NitroMors and that’s taken the majority of the paint off, but there is still loads left in the difficult places. I was thinking of using a little wire brush attachment on an electric drill but that’s as far as I’ve got.

    If you’re having problems loading photos up, please just email them to me and I’ll add them to your Photo Album for you (and post them into a Topic/Reply if you would like them). membership@xjs-soft-tops.com I am in discussions with the developer of the Photo Album software I use on the site, to create a single “Add Photo” button that facilitates the upload into the Photo Album and the placement into the Discussion Topic/Reply. Progress is unfortunately slow.

    Laurence

    in reply to: ERRATIC FUEL GAUGE #9436
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Stig

    I have previously been told, that the gauge I the Convertibles and Cabriolets is still calibrated as if it were in the Coupe’s fuel tank – the Convertible and Cabriolet tanks are smaller though. The net effect is that when our smaller tanks are physically full (almost overflowing) the gauge shows about 3/4 full.

    I always carry 1 gallon can of fuel in the 3.6 and 4 litre cars and two 1 gallon cans when using the V12

    Laurence

    in reply to: Did any XJ-SC Cabriolets have ABS fitted #9432
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    I’ve written out to all Club members who have late model Cabriolets, and of those that replied none have ABS fitted.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Where to replace Cabriolet rear hood #9290
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hello Douglas

    I know of a company in Scotland who do this as a replacement service – that you install yourself on the car – BAS International

    http://www.car-hood.co.uk

    Hopefully a member closer to you can recommend somewhere.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Wanted – Cabriolet hood frame and other parts #9208
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Claudiu

    I have these bars, if they are the same as on your hood

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    Laurence

    in reply to: Parts storage #9204
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi,

    I am just adding the finishing touches to this month’s newsletter – I will add a request to that for you Claudiu and hope a Club Member can help.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Running 3.6 litre Engine for sale – 1984 #9201
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Claudiu

    If only I still had the gearbox too, you could have had this 3.6 engine for sale (mine) for your car – we’d have kept it safe at the garage and helped you organise the shipping.

    Oh well, may someone else will buy it soon 🙂

    Laurence

    in reply to: Wecome new Cabriolet member – Claudiu Antal #9189
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Claudiu

    Your English is pretty good – no problem understanding you at all

    Thank you for posting some photos of your Cabriolet

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    When I checked the records, it shows that your Cabriolet was originally Steel Metallic – Did you choose to paint it Red for your wife ?
     
    Laurence

    in reply to: Correct Vin numbers #9175
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi John

    You may recall we discussed this via email a couple of weeks ago, and I explained that indeed Denis had sold his Cabriolet 124809 and it was now in Malta, but if you checked out Denis’s profile entry it showed as Still owned = No.

    In the email you sent me you mention that it was sold to Ron Azzopardi (who is not a member) but above you state Roland Cassar (who is a member).

    Does that mean Denis sold it to Ron who has sold it to Roland ?

    Laurence

    in reply to: looking for BCC 5587 #9152
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Pascal Ce n’est pas un probleme monsieur.

    I have corrected the title from BAC5587 to BCC5587 🙂

    So, you are looking for the catch for the Hard Top hood. I’m afraid that’s not something I’ve seen available – the Hard Top hoods themselves are quite difficult to obtain.

    Sorry, hopefully someone else might be able to help.

    Laurence

    in reply to: looking for BCC 5587 #9149
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Pascal

    I can’t find the part BBC 5587 in the documentation – could you please describe the part and where it is located.

    Laurence

    in reply to: Running 3.6 litre Engine for sale – 1984 #9141
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Here’s a couple of photos of the engine, ready for sale.

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    Cheers,

    Laurence

    in reply to: Profile information in Discussion Topics and Replies #9073
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Robin

    Thanks for your input.

    It’s difficult to add information alongside the topic/reply discussion because there is little room to do so and hard to decide what to add and what not to.

    However, what I can do is have a look at enhancing the Profile Page that you route to when you click on the member’s link.

    I’ve some ideas, but will give it some thought 🙂

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome messages.. #9072
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    It does seem we’ve been having a lot of new members join recently – which is good news 🙂

    Laurence

    in reply to: Welcome messages.. #9071
    Laurence Jones
    Keymaster

    Hi Robin and John

    I have just this minute launched the revamp of the Forums for all members. There is a new navigation route via the Discussions option on the main menu bar. This has the following features :

    1/ Just click on the Discussions button and you are taken to the list of all discussions (topics/replies) that have been posted on our Club website

    2/ Hover over the Discussions button and you see a drop down list
    ==> Top 10 Most Recent Discussions
    ==> All discussion topics (same as just clicking on the Discussions button
    ==> Then the specific Discussion forums – enabling you to focus on just Technical discussions

    I’ve standardised these views for all logged in Club Members.

    Laurence

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