Insurance
Just going through the annual angst of insurance renewal. Whilst LV only increased my renewal by £8 to £267 I shopped around including both the JEC and JDC offerings.
On recommendation from another member I tried Peter Best and they came up with the best quote by some margin. Fully comp, 6k miles, guaranteed value plus all the other usual bits for £206pa through Highway Classic/Allianz.
Just to say worth giving them a chance to quote, good quick service. The AV is £10k on a 2002 XK8 conv. Had to fill a form and send some pictures.

X150 CarPlay MY2009 on.

Living with Mr12volt CarPlay in a Jaguar X150, long term review.
First a few words on understanding what you are getting and how to make the best of the new ways of managing your in-car experience.
Understand that if you like to listen to the radio or your own music that everything in the car becomes redundant and gets replaced by the apps on your phone. I suggest you install Radioplayer, BBC Sounds and Global Player to cover most common radio stations or your favourite native DAB/Radio apps. If you like to listen to your own music library, make sure it is loaded onto your phone. Spotify, Apple Music or any other streaming service will also all play very well through the CarPlay system although you may want to tweak the sound with the programmable graphic equaliser. Note when in use the last three used apps always appear to the left of the CarPlay screen, and it will open your chosen maps last used sat nav automatically when you get into the car. To minimise the number of apps that will display go into your phone System Settings - General - CarPlay and clean up the display by removing any apps that you don’t want or need to be shown on the screen(s). Keep only the ones you want.
On my initial install the car forward parking sensor screen graphic was not showing but by going into the CarPlay settings and selecting REVERSE CONDITION and setting that to PARKING KEY that resolved the issue. (See photo)
By using your iPhone, it is possible to make hands free calls by using Siri call ‘so and so’ and it will automatically connect though you do have to manually disconnect the call.
Similarly, when WhatsApp messages are received a pop up appears and an option for the CarPlay to read the message out to you and ask if you want to reply and you can do so by dictating your answer, it will ask if you want to send the message and will do so if. I know it’s a bit of a distraction but far less than manually reading and then typing an answer.
I also particularly like the way if you adjust the car heating controls a short display appears on the bottom of the screen showing you the car temperature and comfort settings.

So, yes, all the attributes are there that anyone who has used Apple CarPlay will have come to expect. The touch screen allows all the operations to be performed and with use is most intuitive. To access other ‘pages’ of Apps I found it easier to touch the dots at the centre bottom of the screen with my thumb nail. The Mr12volt settings can be found by swiping the whole screen left. Here you can adjust the display, sound, and car settings as well as getting into the system settings. When I had an initial issue with the front parking sensor not displaying, I was put in touch with the support team via three-way WhatsApp call and this was easily resolved.
This installation has, in my view, brought the car back into the 21st Century by replacing the more than archaic sat nav with a system that is far more functional and versatile. It can easily be personalised and after some two thousand miles driving from Surrey to Cornwall then on to Spain and Portugal and home in the last five weeks it has just made the whole driving experience so much better. In all, highly recommended and also available for wireless Android auto for non-iPhone users.

Note: Currently this MR12volt unit is only compatible with 2009-2015 Jaguar XK/R/S and 2009-2011 XF models but it is planned that in future additional models can be catered for. For more information contact Liam on +44 7788 267635 or on https://www.instagram.com/carplay.direct

Fitting a Car Play unit to an X100 (with the dials)

Its not all Jaguar here. After 40 years in boxes, this was a result.

Classic Car Portraits.. illustrator Graeme Jenner
specialist in profile-style technical drawing
of historic vehicles
location: Hailsham, East Sussex
e-mail: grmjenner@gmail.com
telephone: 01323 845111

Classic Car Portraits.. illustrator Graeme Jenner
specialist in profile-style technical drawing
of historic vehicles
location: Hailsham, East Sussex
e-mail: grmjenner@gmail.com
telephone: 01323 845111