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[harrykul]

It was indeed. Got it for £150 due to an offer, so great value. Very pleased: it really makes the most of the bodywork investment last year.

[deadslow]

SpeckledJim said:

BeirutTaxi said:

deadslow said:

bob-lad said:

Can't believe these are dropping within a good haggle of budget

Jaguar XK8 4.0



http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2016...

Nice car and particularly nice in Mistral.

Just be aware that if the gearbox goes (which it has a fair chance of doing in these cars) then it's a £2k repair bill.

On the other hand, some people pay that amount in interest on PCP finance for their dreary Eurobox.

Edited by BeirutTaxi on Friday 12th February 06:41

The dowdier XK8s have been well inside thread budget for a long time. £5k should buy something very eye-catching indeed.

(£300 for a second hand gearbox and the same again to fit, I'd have thought?)

Yes, there are loads of brilliant jag breakers and parts are generally super-cheap. God bless ebay

[TheLordJohn]

deadslow said:

Yes, there are loads of brilliant jag breakers and parts are generally super-cheap. God bless ebay

Thank God for some common sense replies on this thread.
Where has this reputation for XK gearboxes stting themselves come from?
Hearsay!

[derin100]

harrykul said:

Got the s124 back from the detail: came up well.

Very, very nice!

[bob-lad]

Awooga !

Purple XJS sold.

Someone's a lucky bugger.

[phil_cardiff]

wack said:

dbdb said:

I was hugely excited - I had the money saved for it and decided to buy it. Then the problems began! My late dad utterly forbid me to have the car and also forbid anyone to help me by going down to down and get it (I couldn't drive - I had not passed my 'test) - and we had a huge argument during which he explained I would never be able to buy it. He had a great strength of personality, so that was the end of it. I suspect he thought that if I had something I liked it would sap my motivation. Sadly he had that backwards.

One thing he was right about is I will never own one - they became expensive and I can't afford one now! I do wonder what happened to that car though.

Sounds like your dad wasn't a car enthusiast , neither was mine , he managed to make 2 Volvo (slow)estates and a Subaru Forester ( much better but his first words when he overtook something were this is too fast) last from 1976 to when he gave up driving in 2013.

He'd have done exactly the same as your dad, killed a dream if it involved a car

A few years ago he gave me £5000 so I went out and spent it on a XK8 , he went nuts but I was 47 then so he couldn't stop me , the pleasure that car gave me was immense

Next week I'm picking up a Maserati bought with the lump sum from my pension thanks to the government changing the rules for 55 year olds.

I'm fairly certain he'll go to his grave not knowing I've bought it because he lives 200 miles away and I couldn't stand the look of disappointment on his face

Luckily that's a gene I didn't inherit

My dad had always been on decent money and so had a lot of interesting metal before I was born, all bought brand new. Cortina GTs, 2000E's (he wrote this one off oversteering around a cobbled square in Belgium), 2.5 Triumphs etc etc. For some reason fatherhood changed him and I grew up with a Talbot Solara, a 1.6 Cavalier and a Toyota Carina!

I hope I don't go the same way as my father but fear I might due to the cost of childcare!

[SpeckledJim]

phil_cardiff said:

My dad had always been on decent money and so had a lot of interesting metal before I was born, all bought brand new. Cortina GTs, 2000E's (he wrote this one off oversteering around a cobbled square in Belgium), 2.5 Triumphs etc etc. For some reason fatherhood changed him and I grew up with a Talbot Solara, a 1.6 Cavalier and a Toyota Carina!

I hope I don't go the same way as my father but fear I might due to the cost of childcare!

My dad the same (apart from the decent money bit) but I was preceded by all manner of interesting British sportscars, Swedish lumps, French sofas.

All I can remember is Granadas, Orions and Rover 800s.

[W00DY]

derin100 said:

harrykul said:

Got the s124 back from the detail: came up well.

Very, very nice!

Fantastic.

You see so many dog-eared ones that you almost forget how crisp a top example is.

[rejn]

harrykul said:

It was indeed. Got it for £150 due to an offer, so great value. Very pleased: it really makes the most of the bodywork investment last year.

Wow. It looks completely awesome Harry.

[Stegel]

rejn said:

harrykul said:

It was indeed. Got it for £150 due to an offer, so great value. Very pleased: it really makes the most of the bodywork investment last year.

Wow. It looks completely awesome Harry.

Harry, it looks great, and is further testimony to the quality of "The Man's" work - nice "straight" reflections are a real achievement after so much work.

[JF87]

This "shauffeur-owned" S500 is back, no bids at £2,500. As the vendor has been messed around twice I'm guessing he'd take a very cheeky offer...



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MERCEDES-S500-7-spe...

[BigBen]

JF87 said:

This "shauffeur-owned" S500 is back, no bids at £2,500. As the vendor has been messed around twice I'm guessing he'd take a very cheeky offer...



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MERCEDES-S500-7-spe...

I really like the look of that one, good to see them in a different colour and surely a bargain even at the £3k BIN price

[k-ink]

Those XKs do look tempting. Far more sensible than the German offerings, I'd have thought. From a spares and independent garage running costs perspective anyway.

[cat220]

JF87 said:

This "shauffeur-owned" S500 is back, no bids at £2,500. As the vendor has been messed around twice I'm guessing he'd take a very cheeky offer...



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MERCEDES-S500-7-spe...

Oh dear, I'm not thanking you for posting that! Only last Friday I was torn on whether to bid or not. This barge game really is like an illness!

[V12 AMG]

cat220 said:

JF87 said:

This "shauffeur-owned" S500 is back, no bids at £2,500. As the vendor has been messed around twice I'm guessing he'd take a very cheeky offer...



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MERCEDES-S500-7-spe...

Oh dear, I'm not thanking you for posting that! Only last Friday I was torn on whether to bid or not. This barge game really is like an illness!

Just get it bought already.

[SpeckledJim]

cat220 said:

JF87 said:

This "shauffeur-owned" S500 is back, no bids at £2,500. As the vendor has been messed around twice I'm guessing he'd take a very cheeky offer...



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MERCEDES-S500-7-spe...

Oh dear, I'm not thanking you for posting that! Only last Friday I was torn on whether to bid or not. This barge game really is like an illness!

"Selling for an ill friend".

'course you are, swee'eart.

[BeirutTaxi]

TheLordJohn said:

deadslow said:

Yes, there are loads of brilliant jag breakers and parts are generally super-cheap. God bless ebay

Thank God for some common sense replies on this thread.
Where has this reputation for XK gearboxes stting themselves come from?
Hearsay!

The XK and XJ share the same engines, transmission and suspension. I researched the XJ (X308) throughly when I was looking at one. Aside from contacting a local specialist and enquiring, there have been plenty for sale with rebuilt gearboxes/or broken ones. Jag owner forums are also a good source of information on the issue.

I believe also (but can't confirm 100%) that post September 2000 the gearbox design was slightly revised, with some parts being thicker.

[W00DY]

Harry's car has me looking back at this and wishing I'd kept it.

[0a]

That S500 looks very nice in that colour.

I wonder what this rather nice S8 will go for in the end? http://classicscentral.co.uk/lot-37-2001-audi-s8-4...

[cat220]

V12 AMG said:

cat220 said:

JF87 said:

This "shauffeur-owned" S500 is back, no bids at £2,500. As the vendor has been messed around twice I'm guessing he'd take a very cheeky offer...



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-MERCEDES-S500-7-spe...

Oh dear, I'm not thanking you for posting that! Only last Friday I was torn on whether to bid or not. This barge game really is like an illness!

Just get it bought already.

Believe me I'm tempted. Insurance wise I think I'd need to move onto a 'traders policy' though.