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The time has came to get our stype ready for the winter, an essential part of maintaining your paintwork and ensuring you try you best to stop salt from corroding your bodywork. I am a professional detailer by trade so it is something I carry out year after year, we know s-types and X-type have a thing for rusty arches but we have a clean example and I'm trying to keep it that way, il be using collinite 845 insulator wax to coat the paintwork in to give it a good winter proof coating to help protect the bodywork. stages il be carrying out, snow foam and citrus pre wash, deep wheel cleanse, full two bucket wash, de-tar, clay the vehicle, cleanse the paintwork with a d.a polisher and cleansing polish, give the vehicle two coats of wax, clean the glass and apply a sealant to giv a hydrophobic coating, wax the wheels and dress the tyres. Finally top off with a good quick detailing spray. then we will have a nice protected jag :) anyone else do a winter protection on there jaguar?

My x type 2.5AWD had 17" wheels and a nice comfortable ride they gave.

Jaguar never offered the 19" size on the X-Type, we did offer dealer fitted 'Arden' 19" alloys however ? Returning to a smaller size will be straightforward. Just buy a set of used genuine alloys and ensure that, if they come with tyres, the tyre size is correct for your car. The 2.5 was offered with 16", 17" or 18" wheels from the factory. As the rim gets smaller, the tyre profile is increased to maintain the same diameter and prevent speedo errors. A 'taller' tyre profile will give better ride quality and less road noise than a low profile tyre but you lose a little steering feedback and handling. I probably still have some literature with the standard tyre sizes if you cannot find the information on this forum.

I have had the same, Paul. This time it was a man who saw a Jaguar parked in Blue Badge badge bay and while I was queueing at the ATM observed that people who have Blue Badges should not have a car like that. Keeping my face straight, I observed that he or she was probably a pensioners too, and they should not be allowed to drive cars like that. We had a jolly little conversation and I was egging him on a bit, as he made a few suggestions as to what the Government should do about it. He was rather surprised when I waved to him as I passed him while driving out of the car park!