Coachlines for Solent Bue V12?

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We're almost done with the mechanical part of the restore of my '89 V12 Coupé.
A respray's will be the logical next step, and is quite necessary with the amount of laquer peel the car is suffering from:



Next step after the respray is re-applying the coachlines, and that's where I can do with some help...

Question 1: what is the colour name of the coachline they applied?
Had a quick look at JCP and it must be either Gunmetal or Oyster...
Gunmetal seems the most likely candidate, but I want to be really sure before I order!

Question 2: not all individual coachlines (in Gunmetal nor Oyster) are available anymore. Which is not a big surprise, I ran into the same issue with my XJ40 a while ago. Is there an aftermarket alternative or does anyone still have some NOS stashed away somewhere?

Many thanks!!

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Time to try again...

The XJ-S will be sent off to the bodyshop for a full respray later this month.
Ideally I want them to take care of the coach lines as well, when they're at it...

Who can help me with the colour coding & coachline availability questions I posted a while ago?

[davidr]

Hi Pim - several suggestions
First have you tried the Jaguar Classic Parts site? You may get lucky!
Second - eBay is always worth a trawl
Third - you could get a set made up by a vehicle sign writing firm - I'd suggest taking plenty of pictures before the car goes into the paint shop
Hope that helps
David

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Hope that helps

thanks, David!

Some deeper digging on US Jaguar forums revealed that my US market V12 should have Oyster coachlines.

I just checked again and JCP had all of the stickers, except for the LH front.
I tried alternative colours. A similar story: most stickers available, but one or two NLA.
In other words: incomplete sets and therefore useless for my full respray scenario.

I finally found one positive exception: the only full set available is in Goldleaf.
Will have to sleep on it, though: I'm not convinced those will look right on the Solent Blue surface...

Your suggested Plan C may be the only way out: a bespoke set of stickers.
Or perhaps just a recreation of the missing LH front sticker and gamble on a decent-ish colour match between OEM and bespoke?
I'll take plenty of pictures AND measurements before I hand it over to the paint shop, that's for sure!