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Made the trip to the JBC meet at Silverstone today in my F-Type SVR, fun meet with lots of cars turning up.

I decided, on a whim, to buy a 'stick-on' number plate for the SVR. Just roughly positioned it on the car with tape in the picture, obviously I'd get it square before sticking it down and remove the main plate on the bumper.

Question is...
Do we think it would look better with the stick on (like an E-Type in period) or
Stick with the normal plate as the stick on looks pants?

Answers on a postcard as they say...

Drove from Kent to Bishop Auckland to visit Damian @ www.headlite.uk to get the DRL issue resolved. He had prepared a existing headlight with a new ocular/cover, hockey stick and new lens. The actual swap over took around 40 mins.
Very pleased with the service and the result. DRL is around 85% of the brightness of the offside headlight DRL. The cover on the replacement ocular is white rather than the black of the original which causes it to be slightly less bright but the white cover doesn't melt into the ocular like the black one does. The is exactly what Valeo has done with the improved PUXA coded light units you can get from Jaguar.

Interestingly Damian's whole business revolves around head light repairs and primarily DRL failures. He had two other customers after me on that specific day, a Range Rover Velar with a DRL burn out and a BMW with the same thing. This isn't just a F-Type issue.

Great service and I'd recommend Damian if you need a new DRL and you are in the UK.

I've decided to do something about the dimmed nearside DRL on the SVR, which is probable only 40% of the output of the offside, and get the headlight repaired. Replacement for the light unit in the UK is £3400 from Jaguar, I'm driving 300 miles each way to Bishop Auckland to visit Damian @ www.headlite.uk next Thursday. The cost of repair is £1250, he takes an existing light unit, changes the led ocular/hockey stick, cover and the headlight lens. He then fits the repair unit to the car. He has units in stock so it is only 40 mins to change when you visit.

I'll post before and after pictures when I have it done.

Road trip memories

This is my 2018 Velocity Blue F-Type SVR, it replaced a 2019 V8R AWD and before that a 2016 V6S AWD

Nice behind :)

just in case you've not seen it :)

2016 Firenza Red V6S, replaced by the 2019 V8R and now by the 2018 SVR.

Now replaced by the 2018 SVR

My current daily driver. This is my third F-Type, thought I'd share some photos :)

This is my 2018 SVR (55K Miles) and is my daily driver. I've had a 2019 V8R AWD and a 2016 V6S AWD previous to this and have driven around 70k miles across the three cars. Never had any major issues and only had servicing, brakes and tyre costs todate.