New owner - active spoiler, leaks, new tires - please help

Lazer7123

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Hello, I recently purchased a used 2019 Jaguar f type R. I love the car and have a few questions.

1. I haven’t been able to find a post about this but I have a US car so my active spoiler only goes up after 70mph. I’m curious if there is a way to remove a plug or a fuse and just have the spoiler permanently up when driving or parked. I do not care for it being down and then popping up. I think it looks best rolling around with the spoiler up. Maybe there is some connecting arm I can unbolt to prevent it from closing ? Or some software tuning that allows me to manually control it with the button ? Please let me know.

2. I seem to have some sort of leak or something dripping from the car after hard driving. It is a clear non oily liquid that is dripping down and off the transmission pan. It is not leaving a stain so it’s most definitely water based but doesn’t look like coolant or any type of trans fluid or oil. I was thinking AC condenser but it only happened after hard driving and the location did not seem right. I do not have access to a lift either. Need to buy a new jack.

3. My front tires are dry rotted from sitting in storage so I’m looking at new ps4s. I want to run 265/35/20 in the front and 305/30/20 in the rear. These will be slightly wider and slightly taller than stock for both front and rear. However I am worried about the awd system and do not want to mess up my diff or any of the systems involved because of the miss match of tires. The ratios should be close to the stock tire ratio but obviously the speedometer will be a little off (I’m not worried about that) but just wanna make sure the car will be fine with larger tires all around before committing to them. Let me know you personal experiences.

If you can help with any of these questions it would be much appreciated.
 
If you have the spoiler button, you can manually raise and lower it and can have it up all the time you’re driving?
 
davidls said:
If you have the spoiler button, you can manually raise and lower it and can have it up all the time you’re driving?

Not on US models, apparentl;y. I believe they can only use the button when it's parked, for cleaning purposes.
 
scm said:
davidls said:
If you have the spoiler button, you can manually raise and lower it and can have it up all the time you’re driving?

Not on US models, apparentl;y. I believe they can only use the button when it's parked, for cleaning purposes.

Oh! Sorry. Just for once the UK/European market is one up on the US 🤷‍♂️
 
scm said:
davidls said:
If you have the spoiler button, you can manually raise and lower it and can have it up all the time you’re driving?

Not on US models, apparentl;y. I believe they can only use the button when it's parked, for cleaning purposes.

Correct, I am able to raise it when ignition is on. But it automatically lowers when put into drive or moving.
 
2. I have always seen a dribble of water in that area under both of my F types, generally warm weather and hot car. I'd assumed it was a drain from the Aircon.

3. The wider tyres are standard on the SVR and latest R575 and will not cause any problems. There's a number of people who have changed over to these.
 
You might be better considering changing to the fixed rear spoiler - IMO it looks much better (all the time!) than the deployable when it's raised. Lots of threads about it on the US forum.
 
scm said:
You might be better considering changing to the fixed rear spoiler - IMO it looks much better (all the time!) than the deployable when it's raised. Lots of threads about it on the US forum.

Yes but I still owe a bit of money on the car so I’m paying it off (I’m 21 years old btw) and don’t really have the funds to drop 2-3k for a fixed spoiler setup. Was just looking for a quick, cheap fix.
 
scm said:
You might be better considering changing to the fixed rear spoiler - IMO it looks much better (all the time!) than the deployable when it's raised. Lots of threads about it on the US forum.

Yeh but you don't see the deployable spoiler raised because you are behind the wheel ;)
 
stefan9107 said:
scm said:
You might be better considering changing to the fixed rear spoiler - IMO it looks much better (all the time!) than the deployable when it's raised. Lots of threads about it on the US forum.

Yeh but you don't see the deployable spoiler raised because you are behind the wheel ;)

You haven't though of looking in the rear view mirror? :lol:
 
scm said:
stefan9107 said:
scm said:
You might be better considering changing to the fixed rear spoiler - IMO it looks much better (all the time!) than the deployable when it's raised. Lots of threads about it on the US forum.

Yeh but you don't see the deployable spoiler raised because you are behind the wheel ;)

You haven't though of looking in the rear view mirror? :lol:

I don’t use my rear view mirror 🤣these things are faster than 99% of cars on the road…
 
scm said:
stefan9107 said:
scm said:
You might be better considering changing to the fixed rear spoiler - IMO it looks much better (all the time!) than the deployable when it's raised. Lots of threads about it on the US forum.

Yeh but you don't see the deployable spoiler raised because you are behind the wheel ;)

You haven't though of looking in the rear view mirror? :lol:

If you are having to look in your rear view mirror you are doing it wrong ;)
 
stefan9107 said:
If you are having to look in your rear view mirror you are doing it wrong ;)

You have to look out for the 1% with the flashing blue lights. But maybe you're not as good a driver as you think you are? :lol:
 
scm said:
stefan9107 said:
If you are having to look in your rear view mirror you are doing it wrong ;)

You have to look out for the 1% with the flashing blue lights. But maybe you're not as good a driver as you think you are? :lol:

1. Max Verstappen
2. Lewis Hamilton
3. Me

Pretty sure that's the order of things...
 
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