Thanks Greg 🤗

Thanks Jeff. We drove into an underground parking lot Saturday and the lights turned on. Man it does look good inside this car now. It feels more luxurious than it did - if that is even possible :D

Thanks Debbs. I'm really chuffed with the results 😊

Thanks Richard 😊

Hi hilton. Thank you for your reply. I few months Ago I asked about changing the bulb on my speed omiitor jaguar xfs. Rhd. Is it possible? John uk. Thanks

Just the needle I mean. At night is totally black.

Thanks buddy. That's a good 💡 idea. I might just do that 😉

Thanks mate 😉😊

Well done

Thanks. Yeah, the rear doors will be the last part of this project and then I'll do some cool night shots for the end of that video 😉

Thanks Hassan. You really should do this mod. It looks awesome.

@@carfanfan I will mate can't wait then can't wait for your back doors video 😂

@@carfanfan hi hilton just done drive side door but am getting high pitch noise from the el drive I did put some electrical tape over it still but can hear it in car are you getting this in yours mate

@@rajaakhan3876 yes, but very faint. Once you start the car you shouldn't heat anything. I have 3 in my car and gear them when I open the door, but when i start the engine I don't hear anything anymore

@@carfanfan yes your correct you only hear it when engine switched off cheers again mate 👍

Thanks Anthony. Yeah, I tried wrapping yesterday and wasted a whole to of 3M vinyl. It was a total flop. All the videos I watched showed various techniques and I tried them all, but the inner corner by the window kept catching me out. I couldn't get the wrinkles out there. I might give it another go but if it doesn't work I'll just buy a set of used black covers in eBay 😜

@@carfanfan The mirror covers need to be wrapped in two pieces, virtually impossible in one. You don't need to wait for black covers, any colour will do then spray them. It would be important to build up the layers slowly, then place them somewhere warm to cook for a week before fitting. Simoniz tough paint (available on eBay) is chip resistant, comes in black satin or gloss, and would be perfect for mirror covers, I’ve used this paint on my motorbike and it does what it says on the tin. Del boy from Del Boy's garage on YT introduced me to this paint, now there is no looking back. Hope this helps 😊😊

@@anthonybushell102 thanks mate 😉

Thanks for sharing Anthony. Unfortunately, a black interior will absorb a bit of light, but it shouldn't be to the point where you can barely see it. The EL lighting with the band is the best type to use as it is a bit brighter thanks to the AC converter and can be slotted into any area in a car's interior without fuss. Mine is sitting just behind the top of the wood trim so it has pushed the wood trim forward slightly to create its own space and the light reflects upwards. The import part is to ensure the band goes in first, then use a trim tool to push the EL light just behind the wood trim's lip. If the light goes behind that lip, you won't see much at all really.

Unfortunately XF never had the courtesy light under the door car. However, like I've done here running a wire from the interior ambient lighting in the door, you could retro-fit one of those logo pop-in lights at the bottom of the door card and hook the wires up to the ambient lighting in the door card. Those lights usually come on every time you open the door after unlocking the car.

It probably has a leak in the pipe. Only way to know is to pull the bumper off and check ;)

This link will take you to a set you can't live without when working on the interior of your car www.ebay.com/itm/132925476712?hash=item1ef2f9cf68:g:LvEAAOSw2fpcQUk6

Well done - in order to resolve that, pull the EL wire out from behind the wood trim and try again. It sounds like to tucked it too deeply in. Tuck it in so that the EL wire itself is just barely visible so that it creates a hue of light from behind the wood trim and shines up against the top portion of the door card.

Hey there. You can hook up a wire to the wire that feeds light to the center buttons just under the screen, but having done that myself, I found that the ambient lights were dimmer. The reason being that when you switch the headlights on the screen dims as not to blind you at night. The dome light is really the best place to run your live wire from. Having made a "main" loom from that wire together with the ground wire in the door jam, I'm able to now hook ambient lights anywhere in the car. I'm releasing a new video this Friday on extending the ambient light into the rear air vents for rear passengers to enjoy ;)

It is but you have to buy the light at the dealer. It comes complete in the plastic housing that clips onto the door trim.

They can be removed, but it's not something I'd attempt. They have hidden screws that hold them in place just behind the door trim and if you don't get them all off, you could bend and break the chrome strips easily. The piece under the side mirrors is separate from the door chrome and requires the mirrors to be removed entirely.

Hey Andy. Thanks for watching. I'm excited to get the project complete to get the overall effect. Jaguar going full electric could be a gamble as Tesla has already established themselves as the premium electric brand, but I guess they all want a slice of that cake now. People who prefer more conventional cars might look elsewhere instead. Electric cars doesn't make sense in all countries especially South Africa where generating electricity is a challenge. We have solar on our house because of the constant power cuts. The government owns the company that generates electricity and won't let independents enter the market so it's a certainty that we will have power cuts for the rest of time.

@@carfanfan Hi H. We are to lose buying brand new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 in the UK if all goes to the green agenda. However, in my lifetime I doubt I will have to buy electric. There still will be plenty of used cars for us 'petrol heads' for many years to come. Electric cars are quite a bit more expensive, and the charging infrastructure is not good enough, so that would need to change for wider appeal. Solar power sounds interesting and provides some certainty for your power supply. Some houses have solar panels here but generally its more for heating water than the whole house, although that can be done too. I know Jaguar have said they are going electric but if the competition doesn't go full electric, they will have a problem. BMW and Mercedes seem to be going plug-in electric plus petrol or diesel engines. Such hybrids might be a better bet but not as good looking as your XFR.

@@AndrewKNI LoL - yes Andy, the XFR and others like it will soon be extinct relics only ever seen in magazines (probably on-line magazines as paper will most likely be done away with too :D). That's why I'm relishing this car as much as I can. Each time I start it to go somewhere, I just sit and listen to the V8 burble for a minute or so to take it all in. The smell of petrol, the engine vibrating under the bonnet and the car feeling like it has a life of its own. Electric cars have no soul to them. I wish I could keep this XFR for as long as I live, but the older it gets, the more expensive it will become to maintain it since the parts all come from the UK and at some point, they'll stop supporting these cars with parts. Salvage yards will hike parts prices and it will become uneconomical financially to hang on to it. I reckon this XFR of mine will end up being crushed 10 years from now. Sad, but I will have to move on at some point to something else. Stay safe my friend.

@@carfanfan Just drive on as long as you can and enjoy the ambience. That V8 has plenty of life in it. We have a small but growing number of electric cars here, such as the Nissan Leaf, but I doubt full conversion to electric for everyone is feasible or affordable. Even our power supplies would suffer great strain! It is well recognised that the best environmental thing to do is drive on in your old car, and when changing buy secondhand....recycling lol :-) To me, driving an electric car is akin to having just another appliance, like a fridge. Important perhaps but not very exciting lol :-) Have a good day :-)

It's called cool blue or ice blue - both are the same blue as Jaguar

Found them :))

Simply use the ambient light wires in each door and tap into those wires.

Yes it does. Because if you tap into any existing ambient lights or switch wires the lighting you add will react in the same way to the dimmer.

Ok. So there's a problem with my dimmer. That's an easy fix as it's probably the switch. Thank you so much. Please keep up the great work.

That trim panel is pretty tight, but you need a trim tool to just wedge it in there. You need to use a bit of force which is what I did. Once the first bit of EL wire gets behind there, the rest is pretty easy to slip in. Give it another go ;)

Thanks. Links are in the description

Thanks

Thanks Wasif. I wouldn't recommend messing with the speaker ground. If you do t have an ambient lighting plug already in the door I'd recommend using the wires on the electric window switch plug on the door. It will have wire feeding power to the window button for light as well as a ground. My next video will show how to do that as my rear doors don't have any ambient lights at all 😉

@@carfanfan your awesome, thanks mate 👍💪

Thanks Stewart. I included links in the description of the video my friend 😉

I bought the EL wire lights from eBay. Some advertise the lights only, so you have to buy the little AC converters separately. That's what I had to do in this case as I didn't realize they came without the AC converters.

I abandoned doing the rear doors because I would have had to run wires through the grommet from the body into the door, so I didn't bother.

Hey BC. All X250 XFs have ambient lighting in the front doors, as well as X260, but the X260 has a further ambient package that one must order when you spec the car. The rear doors will be a challenge since I'm starting with nothing. I tried wrapping the mirrors yesterday but it was a fail 🤣

@@carfanfan Thanks for that Hilton, much appreciated. Wrapping does seem to be like so many skills where you have to practice and eventually something just clicks and you become an instant past master.

@@dontuno 🤣😆😂

Thanks. That's exactly how I'll be wiring them, but the plug will be on the door and not the door card.

Silly me.. thanks

Ps was it crystal blue you went for?

@@stewarthumphreys8960 yes it was 😊

@@stewarthumphreys8960 any time, you're welcome.

Thanks, mate. Yes, you have to run wires through the rubber grommets between the body and the door and link your power to the dome light wiring. That way, it will also dim when you dim the interior lights.

@@carfanfan Ahhh ok great, thanks for that, much appreciated. Cant wait to tackle this project. The dome light power, that is the white & blue wire you mentioned, correct? So I bridge power from there & run the wire through the vehicle the get power to the back doors?

@Malejie that's correct. Once you have the wire in the door you can then hook a black wire for your ground up to a ground wire in your door wires. You will need a tester to find the ground wire. I would use the ground for the window switch wires.

@@carfanfan With regards to the wiring loom you put together to make for an easier installation, which size wire did you use? As I cannot find the same size (22awg as stamped on the EL wire connectors) wire that is initially used with the EL wire. All the shops I went to, has bigger sizes & not the small size that comes with the EL wire. So which size wiring would you recommend I use for my extension loom?

If you can find a 16 gauge then that will work perfectly. The higher you go, the thinner the wire. The thinner the wire, the more prone it will be to fire, but the thicker you go, the less power it will be able to carry for 12v. So 16 gauge is the best inbetweener.

Hey there. That's very odd. Isnthe beeping coming from the converter or the car?

@@carfanfan not sure I need to take panel off to see where it is coming from, could be converter but need to check

@@carfanfan I did further testing today, so yes the very light beep sound comes from black converter thing. I'f put it next to ear and adjusted the intensity of light from car control. Lower = v less beep, higher = louder beep, this beep is just so annoying as u can hear it if u parked at home with no radio

@@adios2952 it's normal for the converter to make a humming sound, not beeping. It's converting DC to AC so you will definitely hear a slight hum coming from the box. But I've never had any that beep. Very odd that. If it's humming and your engine is off, pretend it's the car being awake for you. Most modern cars have noises coming from the engine bat the moment you open the door to let you know it's priming the brakes, oil pum and fuel pump.

Yup, you're right. I ordered 1m strips as I didn't need any longer than that. One strip per door is enough. I installed two in the center console and one under the trim above the glove box. So I used 5 in total. The footwell lights were LED strips not EL wires.

@@carfanfan thanks for your prompt reply. So i need 5 of these if am doing 4 doors and one centre panel, and believe that also mean that I need to do 5 electric connection for all 5? Can you provide latest links to the lights you bought please

@@adios2952 I didn't do my rear doors, but if you are, you will need 7 😉

@@carfanfan thanks, i'll order and will watch ur video step by setp to do it :).. I did ask another question re paddle on another video of urs though. check whenever u get a chance.. THanks

Most of my viewers are between 25-35 and the average age is around 30 or so. The XE is a beautiful car. Congrats on your purchase ;)