XJS advice

[YoungRestorer]

Hi there,

If my old man wanted to buy an XJS, what would you Phers say to him? He cares greatly about the residuals and whether or not it is going to be a good investment, so I recommended a 6 litre one, but am now wondering if I am correct? If not, what would be best (apart from the Listers, which are sure to appreciate)?

Thanks in advance

[williamp]

loads of books on them, locads of advice on them, and this months classic cars for sale magazine (with a Merc on the cover) has a buying guide/improvemnets. They reckon the 4 litre ia the model to have

[YoungRestorer]

Hate to be unhelpful, but a quick search for classic cars for sale magazine has got me to carandclassic.com. Is that the name of the magazine?

[a8hex]

There is a web site classiccarsforsale

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/

I guess you'll also find XJSs on here.

[varsas]

carandclassic is a good site to find them.

Interested in residuals but wants an XJS? hmm. Not my first choice. You can go one of two ways. I, personally, would try and find a nice XJ-S V12 coupe for under £3k, expect it to go down a bit but know that it's impossible to lose loads on it. If, gun to the head, I had to buy one which would make money I'd be looking for a nice 6 cylinder XJS cabrio. Much more risky though.

You haven't asked for advice on actually buying the cars so hopefully you know what you need to already but the most important thing is to know that the earlier XJ-S is an utterly different car to the later XJS. Body, engine (well, mostly), gearbox, dashboard, air-con, back axle...all changed. A DB7 is as much like an XJS then an XJ-S is like an XJS so the first thing you need to decide is which of the two you want...then ask for advice on that one.

Actually, a DB7 might be a better call for residuals, if that counts as an XJS?

I found this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Your-Jaguar-XJS-mainta...

very interesting (I'd already bought my XJ-S but it would have been helpfull).

Edited by varsas on Thursday 8th December 08:22

[The Leaper]

This month's Jaguar World magazine that I received in the mail yesterday has an article about a buyer's guide to all the V12 Jaguars. Also, as usual, there's plenty of ads for the XJ-S. Maybe worth you having a look.

R.

[deadslow]

I think xjs prices have bottomed out now, and good ones are starting to go up. If its a long term proposition i.e. a keeper, then V12 is the way to go, I reckon, and the 6.0 is a stonker, and well built (by xjs standards).

[YoungRestorer]

So general consensus is either a 3.6 cabrio or a 6.0, right?

[deadslow]

The 3.6 couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.

[varsas]

YoungRestorer said:

So general consensus is either a 3.6 cabrio or a 6.0, right?

Wait...what? No..I said XJS, which would make it a 4 litre...no such thing as a 3.6 litre XJS (that would be an XJ-S). I'd want to drive one first though, in case they are all floppsy.

hmm..just been for a look, cabrio prices are way higher then I thought. You might want to just go ahead and ignore me.

This:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jaguar-XJS-4-0-auto-FSH-...

Caught my eye though.

[a8hex]

varsas said:

I'd want to drive one first though, in case they are all floppsy

You might want to make the drive long enough to warm the tyres up properly. If its been sitting for a little while the tyres can flat spot a touch and then the steering feels like the front wheels are out of balance and the car really doesn't feel its best.