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I decided in the summer of 2022 to put the car on the turn-over jig and attempt to repair the underside problem areas before winter. It took me ages to get the car attached to the jig and balanced. I eventually turned the car through 360 degrees one weekend in September when a friend from Australia was visiting.

Firstly, its pretty weird seeing a car on its side suspended in the air in your garage.

Great access though to see everything underneath…  

and here  

And the underside of the boot floor  

I identified a few areas to work on. Some of these look worse than they are due to previous poor repairs, such as here.  

I think this is fairly superficial  

and this.  

and this.  

Here are the toe boards with the inner front floor removed  

before  

after  

now to do some fixing, so more later



PHU41R

1976 'factory manual' Jaguar XJ-S