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Providing its been maintained well and all the fluids are clean the six cyl car is almost mechanically bombproof.
Your main concern will be corrosion - look all over the floor pan, jacking points, sill closing panels, bottoms of the wings and doors, rear arches, round the front and rear screen rubbers and the join between the inner wing and bulkhead. Check the bumpers are not loose as the brackets can corrode away too.
All XJs are hard on brakes and suspension so check for clonks, knocks and rattles. A good indication of suspension condition is to feel the tyres - if they have uneven wear, especially the inside edge of the fronts then the car has excess negative camber, that will probably be shagged wishbone bushes. Slight tyre feathering is acceptable, uneven or excessive feathering is usually an indication of a geometry fault. Braking should be straight and judder free.
Apart from the obvious like condition and general wear and tear you'd have to assess on any old car other things to look for are a dropping headlining, faulty clock display and make sure all the electrics work. Diffs can get whiny once the oil has warmed up
A good example of the 1994-1997 XJ with a long MOT and half decent tyres is probably the cheapest way into XJ ownership.
Your main concern will be corrosion - look all over the floor pan, jacking points, sill closing panels, bottoms of the wings and doors, rear arches, round the front and rear screen rubbers and the join between the inner wing and bulkhead. Check the bumpers are not loose as the brackets can corrode away too.
All XJs are hard on brakes and suspension so check for clonks, knocks and rattles. A good indication of suspension condition is to feel the tyres - if they have uneven wear, especially the inside edge of the fronts then the car has excess negative camber, that will probably be shagged wishbone bushes. Slight tyre feathering is acceptable, uneven or excessive feathering is usually an indication of a geometry fault. Braking should be straight and judder free.
Apart from the obvious like condition and general wear and tear you'd have to assess on any old car other things to look for are a dropping headlining, faulty clock display and make sure all the electrics work. Diffs can get whiny once the oil has warmed up
A good example of the 1994-1997 XJ with a long MOT and half decent tyres is probably the cheapest way into XJ ownership.
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