When I selected the options on my XE, the one that I wanted was black pack but knew I could fit it later as it would have put the car's list price to over £40k and meant paying a hell of a lot more tax to pay per year. The option was £530, I managed to get all the parts for £220, the grille was brand new and a bargain.
I used an excellent write up PDF from another forum to help with removing the front bumper, some things that it doesn't mention though is to unclip the headlight washers, which is a small clip and slide out the pipe on the driver's side. Then on the passenger side to unplug the front parking sensors and the pedestrian impact bumper sensor which are clipped on the inner bracket bumper support, this will then make the removal of the bumper much easier. Then it's a matter of undoing quite a lot of small torx screws all around the grille and lower side grilles and swap over the matt chrome for gloss black.
The side grilles just unclip out all round it and are held on the edge nearest the door with 3M tape, just swap over.
http://accessories-instructions.jaguar.com/docs/pdf/856.pdf?2019109441019
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Link to PDF for bumper removal: https://www.xeforums.co.uk/download/file.php?id=4442
Front bumper removed.
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All complete!
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I think it looks so much more sporty now and works well with the already fitted S rear valance and gloss black window trim.
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I used an excellent write up PDF from another forum to help with removing the front bumper, some things that it doesn't mention though is to unclip the headlight washers, which is a small clip and slide out the pipe on the driver's side. Then on the passenger side to unplug the front parking sensors and the pedestrian impact bumper sensor which are clipped on the inner bracket bumper support, this will then make the removal of the bumper much easier. Then it's a matter of undoing quite a lot of small torx screws all around the grille and lower side grilles and swap over the matt chrome for gloss black.
The side grilles just unclip out all round it and are held on the edge nearest the door with 3M tape, just swap over.
http://accessories-instructions.jaguar.com/docs/pdf/856.pdf?2019109441019
Link to PDF for bumper removal: https://www.xeforums.co.uk/download/file.php?id=4442
Front bumper removed.
All complete!
I think it looks so much more sporty now and works well with the already fitted S rear valance and gloss black window trim.
