I Don't Think They Are Selling?

[reddiesel]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202203253...

Someone mentioned some weeks back about the prices being asked for the X350 XJR and whether they are being achieved by the Sellers , I suspect if you are a Dealer then you simply bide your time . Take this car above for example , surely there must be a Buyer somewhere for such a definitive example as this ? 60 years of age and just retiring , what better way to avoid the dreaded Garden Centre with the wife than start a love affair with Jaguars finest ?

[jamieduff1981]

Probably because most 60 year olds are of the opinion that a 16 year old car with 60,000 miles is buying a whole lot of emerging problems.

That's the kind of car that even I, a 41 year old, thinks you should be able to buy for £6-7,000, not £19,000.

[NortonES2]

When I retired I bought an xfr.

[reddiesel]

jamieduff1981 said:

Probably because most 60 year olds are of the opinion that a 16 year old car with 60,000 miles is buying a whole lot of emerging problems.

That's the kind of car that even I, a 41 year old, thinks you should be able to buy for £6-7,000, not £19,000.

I have to say I disagree with you . Firstly there is little conventional reasoning behind the purchase of a classic car , it could be purchased because someones father perhaps owned a similar model or maybe you have worked all your life and have always lusted after such a vehicle . Take the current boom in RS Fords for example , some early ones are over 50 years old and its hard to believe a potential buyer worries about emerging problems, most simply do their research the best they can and get on with it .
Value I suppose we could argue all day long .

[jamieduff1981]

I completely understand classic car purchases, but a 16 year old car isn't a classic by most folks measures. It's also an 06 plate so you get to pay disproportionately high tax on it too.

I really do like the X350s, and it's definitely the kind of car I'd buy myself, but I wouldn't be paying £19k for that and apparently nobody else is either.

As I've had to pay more for everything with less assistance than the Baby Boomer generation as a whole did, most of my cars have been older. I've trod this path many times. To have that car driving tip-top rather than wobbling from one MOT to the next, it will be in need money spent on it starting soonish. Dampers for example may not fail an MOT until 200k miles, but the car will instantly feel much better if they're replaced as a set at 80k. Wheel bearings will start going. Suspension bushes and ball joints do go on these. I've done them all before on my S-Type. Nothing ruinous, unless you're an paying dealer prices of course - but I think many will struggle to pay high-teens for a 16 year old mass produced saloon car.

[piquet]

sadly sold my x350 xjr for 5k in 2014

i'm nor sure i'm great at playing the market, but it had done 108k but loved it went onto the 351 and on my second towards the last of the run i've done over 250k in xj's and loved every mile the only time the 351 let me down was when i poisoned it with the wrong fuel, kind of hard to complain about that

in the x350 i remember comoing home to 6 inches of snow it was buried underneath climbed in switched it on and fault after fault came up and then all went off as it warmed up got free of the snow and started melting

if any thinks about it, do it, gearbox, earth points, aluminium corrosion, bushes and air suspension but looked after are a joy

[chriscoates]

I think the XJRs are now at the point where there is a significant price gap between lower mileage examples and high-milers, but whether those prices are ever achieved is another matter. There are also a few others advertised for wildly optimistic figures.

Take this as an example: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202204074...

I recently bought an X358 XJR for £10.5k which has done 125k from a dealer with a three-month warranty. Even taking into account the rarity of the X358 XJR, asking £19k for a near-identical model as a private seller is dreaming

[reddiesel]

I did see the one you mention Chris and at one point assumed it was a misprint but now think probably not . They are surprisingly rare in X358 form , have you been pleased with yours ?

[chriscoates]

reddiesel said:

I did see the one you mention Chris and at one point assumed it was a misprint but now think probably not . They are surprisingly rare in X358 form , have you been pleased with yours ?

I am now - had a fair few niggles to sort out but the majority of them were covered under the warranty. Things like a faulty rear window regulator, non-functioning parking sensors and a leak from the rear diff. The car drives like a dream though and doesn't appear to be suffering from the usual X350 foibles like worn suspension bushes etc.

Edited by chriscoates on Tuesday 7th June 07:37

[reddiesel]

It looks well on the Callisto"s Chris , a favourite wheel of mine and look surprisingly good too on the X350 . The Parking Sensors as you know are pretty infamous when it comes to failing , jet washers are amongst the biggest contributory factors . I am happy to bet you can no doubt drive for days without seeing another . Outside of Car gatherings I cant remember the last time I saw one on the road , the X350 XJR itself pretty rare is more commonplace . Craig will hopefully be along to give us the Production Figures , if not I will have a look and report back when I get home .

[CellarDoor]

https://jec.org.uk/classifieds/index.php?page=cars...

https://www.jagwestlondon.co.uk/vehicle-details.ph...

This one appears to have been listed on 8th June and has then been sold despite all the pitfalls of being an import, this business must be making serious cash with such quick sales and a price of £19,950.

[reddiesel]

CellarDoor said:

https://jec.org.uk/classifieds/index.php?page=cars...

https://www.jagwestlondon.co.uk/vehicle-details.ph...

This one appears to have been listed on 8th June and has then been sold despite all the pitfalls of being an import, this business must be making serious cash with such quick sales and a price of £19,950.

This car was in stock way before the 8th of June so maybe not as quick a turnaround as it appears .There is also of course no guarantee that this was the ultimate sale price though I imagine it wouldn't have been far off . Undoubtedly in my humble opinion the best Jaguar Import Stock in the whole of the Country ( are there many pitfalls) ? I havent read of any complaints though it took me months to find someone who had actually bought one . I met him at a set of traffic lights in Milton Keynes , mentioned it on here and he turned up the next day delighted with his purchase . The power of Social Media .

[Piersman2]

chriscoates said:

reddiesel said:

I did see the one you mention Chris and at one point assumed it was a misprint but now think probably not . They are surprisingly rare in X358 form , have you been pleased with yours ?

I am now - had a fair few niggles to sort out but the majority of them were covered under the warranty. Things like a faulty rear window regulator, non-functioning parking sensors and a leak from the rear diff. The car drives like a dream though and doesn't appear to be suffering from the usual X350 foibles like worn suspension bushes etc.

Edited by chriscoates on Tuesday 7th June 07:37

The spitting image of my third and last XJR, I had an X308, then an X350 and then finally an X358 which I sold about 8 years ago (IIRC) for £11.5k.

Great car but throughout my 2-3 years with it it had a constant EML light about catalytic convertor efficiencies. I even fitted sports cats to try and clear it but to no avail. Shortly before selling it on I had that dynaclean (?) treatment carrried out on the car and for the last 2 weeks of my ownership the light stayed off, so maybe it did the job.

Just checked the MOT history, it's still going strong apparently, at 96k+ miles or so now.

[cardigankid]

These are great cars, and given that the later Callum styled replacement is such an un-Jaguarlike visual catastrophe, slowly heading to classic status. Most of the mechanical faults are pretty well known. perhaps because they are such good cars, many of those on the market seem to have reached extremely high miles - 80k is a low-miler for these, and the upholstery seems to look tired very fast. If you have a good one, hold it and look after it.