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Just a polite reminder. Please keep posts and answers polite. Thank you. Julie.

Hi i have sygic, its free to download and it’s gps so no signal required, then you buy the dashcam and live camera navigation its brilliant

Welcome to the Club, Peg. Nice car and a nice view. Bill Lyons, who was the very first owner of Jaguar Cars said "Grace, Pace and Space". Enjoy. Peter.

Peg, its sounds wonderful. I live in the lovely mountains of North Wales, some quite interesting roads here, steep and twisting. Its been chilly here but no quite that cold -10.5 at 6pm wow. Best wishes, Julie,

As JoeDotCom says...It's a nightmare. You can read through this thread as it offers some, but not very pretty, options. I'm not sure why the poster who used the angle grinder to access the pins didn't use a hole saw and install bonnet closure pins used on race cars. It certainly would've made for a cleaner finish

hi just had a look at xf engine bay pics and it looks like a right night mare to get the bonnet open they look similar to a S-type, but cant be accessed from underneath, would try the basics first, get someone to lean on the bonnet, front leading edge corners while someone pulls the bonnet pull other wise looks like the only easy way in is throught the grill, as a last resort, would have to scrifice the grill t get in, on the S-types theres, security metal covers over the locks so they cant be open through the grill, first thing i removed on my S-type, makes getting in easier if cable snaps you might be able to hook the bonnet latches through the grill, with some long rigid wire with a small hook on the end if your in the AA you could try them, It would not cost anything and they might of come accross it before there really in a awkward place on the xf, pic below hope you get it sorted cheers Joe

Hi Rebecca, I have read that squirting wd40 on the catches holding the bonnet helps and having some one else press down on bonnet as you try to open it. I found this may be it will help https://haynes.com/en-gb/tips-tutorials/how-open-stuck-bonnet Hope you fix it. Kind regards, Julie.

On Rover 75 by taking out the o/s wheel liner the cables to each bonnet catch could be accessed. Do not know if you can do that on an XF but you could find another one and look under the bonnet to see how the cables run.