Recent content by MajorTom

The fender (fake) vent trim pieces on both sides of my car sit a bit loose. One one side I can move the trim piece about a millimeter upwards and on the other side about one millimieter outwards. They don't move more than that so I guess they still are properly clipped in (according to the...

I have the UAD kit and placed its microphone down here with some double sided velcro tape. Routed the cable under the cover of the manual park brake release in the cubby. I very rarely make voice calls in the car and mainly use the microphone for siri voice commands through CarPlay and have only...

And just to be a bit more specific Harry's test road is the B4437. A bit bumpy but a lovely piece of road with great scenery. I spent a fair bit of time blasting around in that area one Friday evening and one Saturday afternoon and it was surprisingly empty. There's a nice little layby here...

Good man, every F-Type deserves a proper garage. :) Interesting to see this bit btw. I've never seen this SVR panel up close, thought it looked a bit odd with the silver bolts and it looks like it's just another panel screwed on top of the standard panel.

Great write-up and a great mod altogether. Sound proofing the doors really makes a difference, even if one doesn't replace the speakers. Don't know how much of a difference it actually makes but what I learned when I was doing mine is that the best thing is to use different materials for the...

Nice ones and great looking car! These machines are such a joy to photograph. Even after years of ownership I can't stop taking new pics of it. Some familiar angles and details there. :)

How the front sensors behave seems to be model year specific. Can't remember now if there's also a setting which affects it but mine come on automatically when I get close enough to something. In fact they come on a bit too often and it happens that they come on when I'm in traffic and approach...

So coming back to the facelift/MY18+ DRL issue... since that other thread with lots of good info on the issue has been removed I'm adding this thread. Thanks to the info from Tim we all know what the problem is and what the solution hopefully will be. Until the repair solution is available...

I've occasionally had a slight interior creak somewhere around the front of the passenger door. After some prodding in that area it turned out that the leather on the outer edge of the glove compartment door seemed to creak against the plastic underneath a bit if pushed. Added some felt tape in...

So many interesting background facts and insights into why the F-Type was so brilliant out of the box. So now we know it was designed to be well taken care of which may explain why it has a fussy coolant system and doesn't like being left out in the rain. :P Quite surprising that the F-Type...

I think the back rest fan of my cooled seats has become a bit noisier over the years, while the seat and back cooling also seems to have become a bit weaker. My workshop manual only covers pre-facelift cars so there doesn't seem to be any info about the cooled seats there. In my previous Jags...

I knew this brilliant writeup would come in handy one day. :) I just discovered last week that I also have a bit of a leak after the car had to suffer through a few outdoor nights in torrential rain in the Alps. When I wash it there's just a very small amount of water entering and when driving...

Just did a week in the Austrian alps including some epic early morning blasting up and down Grossglockner, and treated the car to a stay at Motorworld in Munich on the way home today.

From one of the F-Type brochures... So it depends on what you mean by permanent. It's permanently monitoring the traction and shuffling power between the axles, and by default delivers all (or nearly all) power to the rear. IIRC it locks 30% to the front if you turn on snow/rain mode but...

BRG. Enough said. :) IRR is up there too though and I think silver is another brilliant and surprisingly rare colour for the F-Type.