XK8 Replacement arches
XK8 Replacement arches
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Tedswagon

Original Poster:

92 posts

218 months

Saturday 26th June 2010
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Hi all, confession first, I'm not a Jag owner, but my neighbour is. He's an older gentleman who, by his own confession, does not know much about the internet - never mind forumns.

He has that all so common problem you get with older cars - rust showing itself in his rear arches and the ends of the cills. The car is an R reg XK8 in green. He has organised for it to go in to a body shop in July and he is currently having no luck finding an arch repair kit or panels.

He has been quoted £600+ for a rear quarter from Jag but in my opinion he only needs the arches and the ends of the cills. The inner arches look fine.

My question; Where can he buy arches from?

Many thanks for your responses.

PS we're in Edinburgh, if that matters!

XKRacer

496 posts

233 months

Monday 28th June 2010
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There are no arch repair kits, you either rebuild with new metal by hand or call a breaker who 'might' be able to chop some out of a damaged car.

Good luck!