Whats the best colour for a F-type coupe

[Nomal]

fezza575 said:

salsa red

+1 for Salsa

[TuxMan]

Another vote for salsa Red

[DUMBO100]

Someone always takes it too far.

Beautiful car, yes, salsa red, yes, black central stripe with leaping cat, no

[TuxMan]

Lol sorry Le Man tradition .

[Pesty]

Looks good to me.

[GarethR]

So, just bought a V6S Coupe, in Salsa. However it does not have the black pack, and I think the chrome does not look quite right. I'm thinking of getting the chrome bits professionally finished in gloss black.

Also, from my V8 Vantage research, quite a few owners would permanently open the exhaust valve by pulling a fuse, or even installing a switch. My forthcoming F does not have the driver switchable exhaust option, but has the standard active exhaust. I wonder if a mod is possible on a similar line? There is little technical knowledge in the field for this sort of thing.

I drive a Disco4 as my everyday car, and the amount of knowledge out there on software modding, upgrading, and customisation is astonishing. The F shares a lot of stuff with the D4 / RRs so I live in hope!

[Little Lofty]

I'm not a lover of the chrome either hence why I went for the black pack, I also changed some of the black pack for Carbon which may be an option for you, the only bits that would need painting /wrapping black would be the window surrounds. There's couple of pics of mine at the start of this thread I think.

[Nomal]

GarethR said:

So, just bought a V6S Coupe, in Salsa. However it does not have the black pack, and I think the chrome does not look quite right. I'm thinking of getting the chrome bits professionally finished in gloss black.

Also, from my V8 Vantage research, quite a few owners would permanently open the exhaust valve by pulling a fuse, or even installing a switch. My forthcoming F does not have the driver switchable exhaust option, but has the standard active exhaust. I wonder if a mod is possible on a similar line? There is little technical knowledge in the field for this sort of thing.

I drive a Disco4 as my everyday car, and the amount of knowledge out there on software modding, upgrading, and customisation is astonishing. The F shares a lot of stuff with the D4 / RRs so I live in hope!

Yes , I too have Salsa and the black pack. I do not think the chrome sits well with car as Lofty says the mirrors and other parts easy swap but the window surrounds may be a lot more difficult to do and finding the right person to entrust your new car to is another story altogether!!!

Nomal

[Nomal]

GarethR said:

So, just bought a V6S Coupe, in Salsa. However it does not have the black pack, and I think the chrome does not look quite right. I'm thinking of getting the chrome bits professionally finished in gloss black.

Also, from my V8 Vantage research, quite a few owners would permanently open the exhaust valve by pulling a fuse, or even installing a switch. My forthcoming F does not have the driver switchable exhaust option, but has the standard active exhaust. I wonder if a mod is possible on a similar line? There is little technical knowledge in the field for this sort of thing.

I drive a Disco4 as my everyday car, and the amount of knowledge out there on software modding, upgrading, and customisation is astonishing. The F shares a lot of stuff with the D4 / RRs so I live in hope!

Yes , I too have Salsa and the black pack. I do not think the chrome sits well with car as Lofty says the mirrors and other parts easy swap but the window surrounds may be a lot more difficult to do and finding the right person to entrust your new car to is another story altogether!!!

Nomal

[GarethR]

I'm not averse to taking things apart, I mean the surrounds can only be clip on trims. So I might need to buy new black trims if they break coming off, and probably some new clips. I bet the chap at the factory takes about 10 seconds to fit them!

The exhaust valve is more intriguing. I need to know if there is a physical difference in the valve that is driver switched, compared to a valve that is auto switched. If not, then an electrical/software mod might be possible?

[JonnyVTEC]

Was always fuse 19 on the XKR to keep active exhaust always open.

[GarethR]

Cheers, thats a start. Will check it out when I pick it up.

[Little Lofty]

Sorry can't help with the exhaust as mine has the switch.The first thing I done when I had my Vantage was remove the fuse Hopefully it's something easy.

[Pesty]

Liking this in Italian racing red ( that's what they call it but not an option)


http://www.chariotsspecialistcars.com/used-search/...

Edited by Pesty on Saturday 4th April 03:01

[tyrrell]

Yes that does look the Dogs Danglies

[GarethR]

Done a bit of digging, and it looks like fuse 15 in the engine bay fuse box controls the active exhaust valve, as does 43 in the passenger fuse box

Question is, does it default open or closed when its pulled

Edited by GarethR on Saturday 4th April 11:11

Edited by GarethR on Saturday 4th April 11:14

[J12KJR]

GarethR said:

Done a bit of digging, and it looks like fuse 15 in the engine bay fuse box controls the active exhaust valve, as does 43 in the passenger fuse box

Question is, does it default open or closed when its pulled

Edited by GarethR on Saturday 4th April 11:11

Edited by GarethR on Saturday 4th April 11:14

You could just be really adventurous and pull the fuse and find out

[Pesty]

tyrrell said:

Yes that does look the Dogs Danglies

Yeah and seems a bargain too.


Just caused me to waste a tenner on lottery tickets

[GarethR]

J12KJR said:

GarethR said:

Done a bit of digging, and it looks like fuse 15 in the engine bay fuse box controls the active exhaust valve, as does 43 in the passenger fuse box

Question is, does it default open or closed when its pulled

You could just be really adventurous and pull the fuse and find out

I will, when I get the car! Hopefully next Friday.

[J12KJR]

Enjoy finding out