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i have the XK Convertible, and with a space saver. It's always bothered me that if I have a flat, I would struggle to get the damaged tyre into the car to take it to repair. Both front and back wheels are wider that the space under the boot floor where the space saver spare lives. So if I have to swap out a puncture, I wouldn't have anywhere for the damaged wheel to go. This is a really problem as I am about to start a 2 week road trip, and the car is fully loaded. That being the case, I have decided to rely on the compressor and rubber solution for a temporary fix, and call on the RAC if it is anything bigger

Just thought Id share a few pics I took awhile ago. Let me know your thought is you like them Cheers

I fitted Polybush front anti-roll bar bushes to my S-type recently and have no complaints. Apparently the standard Jaguar ones are notoriously short lived, mine were completely shot at 100k and I reckon they had been for a while. I've fitted polyurethane bushes to various cars and have never had any squeaks and although I have heard that they can I've never witnessed it myself. In my opinion poly suits some bushes but not others. For example the front wishbones on VW A2 and A3 platform cars (Mk2/Mk3 Golf, Corrado etc.) swing around a horizontal fore-and-aft pin at the front with a bush that looks like a cotton reel but at the back have a vertical one and a bush that is shaped more like a donut. I believe the front one is fine in poly as there's only rotational motion around the pin, the bush is purely an isolator. However the forces on the vertical back pin are trying to twist it side to side and so the bush is being severely deformed with every suspension movement. I have seen poly bushes fitted on these arms and the rear ones last no time at all, I don't think the load they're being put under suit poly at all. The material around the pin deforms permanently and quite quickly ends up allowing more unwanted movement than a standard void bush like the one in the picture. (Personally I use a poly on the front and a standard VW solid rubber (Golf R32 spec) one on the back whenever I rebuild these arms and they last.) This is why I would happily put polyurethane all over the front of my S-type (my early type suspension anyway) where there is one motion (rotational) but am going with the original "pillowball" type on the lower rear arms because with normal use they have to flex around the pin.

It looks like Tijuana to me.. Nice pictures, I like the reflection on the flank in the last one. I'd like to share one. It's not artistic but it does involve the Jag, just. Well it amused me anyway.

Yes very easy. don't have to take the window out or anything like that. Just noticed the date on your post and hope it has all been sorted by now.

S & C Motors, Southampton Unit 3/Hound Farm, Hound Road, Netley Abbey SO31 5FS Southampton, Hampshire I'm a recent Jaguar re-purchaser (2010 XK 5.0 Portfolio since you ask) and when I had a V8 S-Type a couple of years ago Shaun from S&C (the C is his wife) looked after it brilliantly. The site is on a scruffy estate which looks very unpromising but Shaun and his guys know their stuff so don't be put off by the environment. Phone: 023 80458418 Fax: +44 (0) 1434 636900