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W00DY said:
A lovely car - in the same colour as mine, minus the dark blue seat piping.
The big advantage these very late XJ40s (1994MY with the X300 style side repeater, X300 rear suspension, twin airbags and lift off doors) have over earlier cars is they are MUCH more rust resistant. They don't seem to suffer rust problems much at all - to the extent that they are now very over represented in the surviving cars. Very late XJ40s like this seem to be considerably more rust resistant to the X300 too. I wonder what they did differently in the manufacturing process.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
kapiteinlangzaam said:
idiotgap said:
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Does look pretty nice!
Now to sell the S124 and start looking in earnest for an XJS whilst I'm in the good books!
Does it have electric adjustment just for the driver's seat? And why on earth are the footwell vent pipes sat in the boot?!
idiotgap said:
I didn't buy it, but still undecided.
LOADS OF bad stuff inside.
... The drivers seat has rip in it, as did the trim next to the seat base, the rear seat has a stain across it (maybe biro), there was staining in the boot area where the carpet was bleached by something. The whole car was absolutely filthy inside once you got past the surface, old coffee residue, grime and nastiness everywhere. The seatbelts were discoloured with grime too. The rearmost head restraints were missing. The passenger side door mirror indicator cover was broken and mostly missing though all the leds were working. The passenger side electric seat control switch was broken (the head restraint control broken off). There was broken/missing chrome trim on the glove-box lid. The rear screen was facing a bit too skyward and didn't seem to still be adjustable. The ashtrays/cupholders weren't clean. The rear-most seats are even less useful in a 211 than they are in a 124, occupants must need to be tiny. The drivers sun visor didn't move correctly and once I'd folded it down, it wouldn't go back up flush against the ceiling.
Some bad stuff outside too...
There was a ding in the boot lid which was starting to corrode a little, the trim covering where the rear wiper arm attaches too was corroded. There were deep scratches in all bumper corner trims. The alloys could do with a refurb. Most panels had some scratching. Nexen tyres all round - not sure how bad that is. When you start the car up it makes a funny groaning noise for a while, some pump or something running under the bonnet. The door mirrors groan when they fold in and out. Quite milky discoloured headlights.
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I appreciate that at this end of the market most are going to buy to run until borked,
I disagree. There's no excuse for that level of abuse. If there's that much disrespect to the visible stuff, you can guarantee the bits you can't see will be properly b0rked too.LOADS OF bad stuff inside.
... The drivers seat has rip in it, as did the trim next to the seat base, the rear seat has a stain across it (maybe biro), there was staining in the boot area where the carpet was bleached by something. The whole car was absolutely filthy inside once you got past the surface, old coffee residue, grime and nastiness everywhere. The seatbelts were discoloured with grime too. The rearmost head restraints were missing. The passenger side door mirror indicator cover was broken and mostly missing though all the leds were working. The passenger side electric seat control switch was broken (the head restraint control broken off). There was broken/missing chrome trim on the glove-box lid. The rear screen was facing a bit too skyward and didn't seem to still be adjustable. The ashtrays/cupholders weren't clean. The rear-most seats are even less useful in a 211 than they are in a 124, occupants must need to be tiny. The drivers sun visor didn't move correctly and once I'd folded it down, it wouldn't go back up flush against the ceiling.
Some bad stuff outside too...
There was a ding in the boot lid which was starting to corrode a little, the trim covering where the rear wiper arm attaches too was corroded. There were deep scratches in all bumper corner trims. The alloys could do with a refurb. Most panels had some scratching. Nexen tyres all round - not sure how bad that is. When you start the car up it makes a funny groaning noise for a while, some pump or something running under the bonnet. The door mirrors groan when they fold in and out. Quite milky discoloured headlights.
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I appreciate that at this end of the market most are going to buy to run until borked,
Run away. Don't look back
Jobbo said:
Does it have electric adjustment just for the driver's seat? And why on earth are the footwell vent pipes sat in the boot?!
Yes, the driver's seat is the only one with motors. As for the heater pipes, it's an incredibly rare special feature to appease dogs. It pipes fresh, mildly heated air which smells of bones into the boot. Dogs love it apparently.More seriously, I wondered the same. Salesman had no idea, and they are completely unused. If still not attached whcn I get it, I'll do it myself.
bob-lad said:
idiotgap said:
I didn't buy it, but still undecided.
LOADS OF bad stuff inside.
... The drivers seat has rip in it, as did the trim next to the seat base, the rear seat has a stain across it (maybe biro), there was staining in the boot area where the carpet was bleached by something. The whole car was absolutely filthy inside once you got past the surface, old coffee residue, grime and nastiness everywhere. The seatbelts were discoloured with grime too. The rearmost head restraints were missing. The passenger side door mirror indicator cover was broken and mostly missing though all the leds were working. The passenger side electric seat control switch was broken (the head restraint control broken off). There was broken/missing chrome trim on the glove-box lid. The rear screen was facing a bit too skyward and didn't seem to still be adjustable. The ashtrays/cupholders weren't clean. The rear-most seats are even less useful in a 211 than they are in a 124, occupants must need to be tiny. The drivers sun visor didn't move correctly and once I'd folded it down, it wouldn't go back up flush against the ceiling.
Some bad stuff outside too...
There was a ding in the boot lid which was starting to corrode a little, the trim covering where the rear wiper arm attaches too was corroded. There were deep scratches in all bumper corner trims. The alloys could do with a refurb. Most panels had some scratching. Nexen tyres all round - not sure how bad that is. When you start the car up it makes a funny groaning noise for a while, some pump or something running under the bonnet. The door mirrors groan when they fold in and out. Quite milky discoloured headlights.
--
I appreciate that at this end of the market most are going to buy to run until borked,
I disagree. There's no excuse for that level of abuse. If there's that much disrespect to the visible stuff, you can guarantee the bits you can't see will be properly b0rked too.LOADS OF bad stuff inside.
... The drivers seat has rip in it, as did the trim next to the seat base, the rear seat has a stain across it (maybe biro), there was staining in the boot area where the carpet was bleached by something. The whole car was absolutely filthy inside once you got past the surface, old coffee residue, grime and nastiness everywhere. The seatbelts were discoloured with grime too. The rearmost head restraints were missing. The passenger side door mirror indicator cover was broken and mostly missing though all the leds were working. The passenger side electric seat control switch was broken (the head restraint control broken off). There was broken/missing chrome trim on the glove-box lid. The rear screen was facing a bit too skyward and didn't seem to still be adjustable. The ashtrays/cupholders weren't clean. The rear-most seats are even less useful in a 211 than they are in a 124, occupants must need to be tiny. The drivers sun visor didn't move correctly and once I'd folded it down, it wouldn't go back up flush against the ceiling.
Some bad stuff outside too...
There was a ding in the boot lid which was starting to corrode a little, the trim covering where the rear wiper arm attaches too was corroded. There were deep scratches in all bumper corner trims. The alloys could do with a refurb. Most panels had some scratching. Nexen tyres all round - not sure how bad that is. When you start the car up it makes a funny groaning noise for a while, some pump or something running under the bonnet. The door mirrors groan when they fold in and out. Quite milky discoloured headlights.
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I appreciate that at this end of the market most are going to buy to run until borked,
Run away. Don't look back
I called the vendor to make an offer, but he had another viewer with him who subsequently bought the car.
Probably for the best!
This afternoon I missed out on this one: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
It went before the owner realised she'd put her advert live.
The search will continue... I've been having a jolly career break for a few months but have to go back next week so had hoped to get something sorted. We'll see...
idiotgap said:
This afternoon I missed out on this one: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2015...
It went before the owner realised she'd put her advert live.
The search will continue... I've been having a jolly career break for a few months but have to go back next week so had hoped to get something sorted. We'll see...
Pity you missed out. The grey one was nice too - that colour works really well I think. Good luck with the hunting. It went before the owner realised she'd put her advert live.
The search will continue... I've been having a jolly career break for a few months but have to go back next week so had hoped to get something sorted. We'll see...
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Pity you missed out. The grey one was nice too - that colour works really well I think. Good luck with the hunting.
Not sure about the blue S211 - Call me conventional, but I have an inherent distrust of anyone who photographs a car on the public highway in bare feet! (Photo 11 - can't copy the photograph for some reason). On the grey car, I quite believe the cost of the odds and sods - I can't understand how people can be quite so careless / clumsy / uncaring with any car, let alone one that sounds like it was well maintained. Congrats CdeG on the Volvo - looks great.
kapiteinlangzaam said:
The Yaw sensors for the active stability system are under one of the front seats - it could be that they have been recently replaced and the vents not put back... the yaw sensor going awry is a v. common fault.
Otherwise, some over enthusiastic valeting beneath the seats?
Some excellent beardage there. I suspect you might be right.Otherwise, some over enthusiastic valeting beneath the seats?
dbdb said:
W00DY said:
A lovely car - in the same colour as mine, minus the dark blue seat piping.The big advantage these very late XJ40s (1994MY with the X300 style side repeater, X300 rear suspension, twin airbags and lift off doors) have over earlier cars is they are MUCH more rust resistant. They don't seem to suffer rust problems much at all - to the extent that they are now very over represented in the surviving cars. Very late XJ40s like this seem to be considerably more rust resistant to the X300 too. I wonder what they did differently in the manufacturing process.
TheAllSeeingPie said:
r129sl said:
Quite a nice looking thing, that. I expect it would give you 40mpg, maybe better?
The wireless looks nice. I think it's a Blaupunkt. Can anyone identify it more precisely?
What's the knob under the gearstick for? Surely it can't have windy windows but electric mirrors?The wireless looks nice. I think it's a Blaupunkt. Can anyone identify it more precisely?
Krikkit said:
TheAllSeeingPie said:
r129sl said:
Quite a nice looking thing, that. I expect it would give you 40mpg, maybe better?
The wireless looks nice. I think it's a Blaupunkt. Can anyone identify it more precisely?
What's the knob under the gearstick for? Surely it can't have windy windows but electric mirrors?The wireless looks nice. I think it's a Blaupunkt. Can anyone identify it more precisely?
Here you identify the point in time when it all went wrong for MB (or right, I suppose, given they now sell about three times as many cars as in 1992).
The nearside mirror was always electrically adjustable whereas the driver's side was manually adjustable from inside the car. Why? Because on the passenger side, electric adjustment is an ergonomic necessity: the mirror is too far away to be manually adjusted by the driver from his viewing position in the driver's seat. But on the driver's side, manual adjustment is ergonomically superior: the adjustment knob is at the thing being adjusted, it is intuitive in its operation, it is lighter, simpler and cheaper and, above all, easier to adjust.
But the market thinks electric equals better. And so in about 1992, the marketeers triumphed over the engineers and both mirrors went electric.
r129sl said:
Yes, lecky mirrors, both sides.
Here you identify the point in time when it all went wrong for MB (or right, I suppose, given they now sell about three times as many cars as in 1992
I found setting the mirrors in the 107 satisfying in this respect. Here you identify the point in time when it all went wrong for MB (or right, I suppose, given they now sell about three times as many cars as in 1992
You should have seen the look on my wife's face as I explained to her how to adjust the mirrors first time she drove it, and that one was electric and one wasn't. Unrivalled blankness.
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