Cheek of some dealers

[bimmer528]

Just travelled from Liverpool to Oldham (during peak traffic!) to view a 53 Jaguar XJ, 83,000 on the clock in red. Overall really good condition. Listed at £5,995.

Main issues were all 4 alloys suffeed from fairly bad bubbling, so needed a refurb. Also a good size chip on the windscreen had been filled, but about 5cm away from this, there was a small crack which had not.

So taking this in to consideration, i felt i had every right to try and knock a bit off.

HOWEVER

Not only did he refuse to budge on the list price, he also said a £50 admin charge would apply, so really, it was £6,045.

Now really £50 is nothing, but the fact this was not advertised on their advert, coupled with the 2 issues, 1 of which could be serious in time to come) i walked away, and he didn't even seem bothered!.

My search continues.

[bimmer528]

Blessing in disguise i feel mate.

I do however feel that withing 100 miles of me, an XJ 2003> will prove difficult to come by. Hope one pops up before the weekend!

[bimmer528]

I wouldn't have bought it at £5995 anyway, the wheels were about £200 to have sand blasted, painted etc. And it really needed a new windscreen tbh, which would be what, £1000?

[bimmer528]

I read that the S type, even facelift ones, are no good.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...

This has 56,000 miles, 3.0 V6 sport. Smidge under £6000.

Worth looking at? FSH ..