Interior swap part 2
I've almost completed the interior swap on the Sovereign, I've been fitting the black one from an XJR. The final item that needed swapped was the drivers seat. These front chairs are fixing with four torx bolts, they came out with no problems when removing the front passenger seat but I had problems with the drivers seat. The head of one of the bolts was corroded and partly chewed by by a previous attempt at removal, my efforts rounded it off and failed to budge it. I ended up drilling it out which took some. I succeeded in melting several cheap drills before making a trip out to purchase a couple of hardcore titanium coated cobalt ones.
I've managed to ebay off the XKR wheels now I've decided not use them on the car. As the car came with them fitted any money collected for them was a bonus, so I was quite chuffed with £463. Taking that from the £500 paid for the car it makes the net cost of the car £37 which is nice!
I've almost completed the interior swap on the Sovereign, I've been fitting the black one from an XJR. The final item that needed swapped was the drivers seat. These front chairs are fixing with four torx bolts, they came out with no problems when removing the front passenger seat but I had problems with the drivers seat. The head of one of the bolts was corroded and partly chewed by by a previous attempt at removal, my efforts rounded it off and failed to budge it. I ended up drilling it out which took some. I succeeded in melting several cheap drills before making a trip out to purchase a couple of hardcore titanium coated cobalt ones.
I've managed to ebay off the XKR wheels now I've decided not use them on the car. As the car came with them fitted any money collected for them was a bonus, so I was quite chuffed with £463. Taking that from the £500 paid for the car it makes the net cost of the car £37 which is nice!
4 comments:
£37 is a nice deal. I'll beat most diecast cars of xj6 cost more than that:-). The swap to black looks awesome, but to get it spot on black carpets is a must.
I've owned my Daimler for two weeks now and every hour spent in the garage equals some nasty surprises. Who cares? I' dead chuffed about the car anyway:-D./Harry, Sweden
Thanks Harry. Yes a darker carpet done the line would be nice, the original colour for the black interior was grey. Glad to hear your pleased with the Daimler, have fun :)
That's a good result from Ebay, but you got a fair price and about what I was expecting. Those wheels are sought after and expensive - as I'm sure you realised when you bought the car. ;)
Still, even though you have spent a fair bit on the old beast, contributions like this are a welcome change from the usual Jaguar money pit.
And £37! Harry is right, those NEO model XJ40 are more expensive - they're £50!! What a result!! LOL!
The black XJR interior looks fantastic together with the gunmetal? paint is close to perfect. For me, the XJR has the best interior combination - I prefer the Jaguar seat design, but love the better quality full Autolux leather. Nice!
David
I think it was a fair price too, it took three listings to achieve though.
Grey on the outside with black indoors is my favourite colour combo for sure. The paint is Tungsten by the way, a bit lighter than Gunmetal and seemingly rare as I don't recall seeing many wearing it.
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