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OK, let's try again. I came to this forum to get some advice. TO be clear, this is not an advert to sell a car - I want some opinion on value of a car. I don't own it - it belongs to an elderly neighbour who has asked my help selling it. I have no idea what price it should be at and where to set his expectations.
Lovely condition 1998 89K 3.2 XJ Exec.
The most recent advice was to start at about £3K and look at the various Jag owner's clubs. This seems very sensible and I will advise accordingly. Is there anything special people look for in an XJ of that age? Does it need to be tarted up in any specific way, does it need all previous bills, or just be nicely put together. Any age/model related horror stories that we should look for now and fix before we sell it to the illuminati?
Lovely condition 1998 89K 3.2 XJ Exec.
The most recent advice was to start at about £3K and look at the various Jag owner's clubs. This seems very sensible and I will advise accordingly. Is there anything special people look for in an XJ of that age? Does it need to be tarted up in any specific way, does it need all previous bills, or just be nicely put together. Any age/model related horror stories that we should look for now and fix before we sell it to the illuminati?
That's a rather wide ranging question isn't it? Service history? Body condition, Spec, how many toys? I think you need to be more descriptive in the advert as there's loads of sheds out there for little money. I would think that based on your initial description that you would be looking to accept a whole lot of money less than which you mentioned.
Have you looked at the various websites to get an idea of where prices for these models run? Buyers delight, sellers nightmare.
Good luck with it and hope you find a buyer.
Have you looked at the various websites to get an idea of where prices for these models run? Buyers delight, sellers nightmare.
Good luck with it and hope you find a buyer.
RtdRacer said:
OK, let's try again. I came to this forum to get some advice. TO be clear, this is not an advert to sell a car - I want some opinion on value of a car. I don't own it - it belongs to an elderly neighbour who has asked my help selling it. I have no idea what price it should be at and where to set his expectations.
Lovely condition 1998 89K 3.2 XJ Exec.
The most recent advice was to start at about £3K and look at the various Jag owner's clubs. This seems very sensible and I will advise accordingly. Is there anything special people look for in an XJ of that age? Does it need to be tarted up in any specific way, does it need all previous bills, or just be nicely put together. Any age/model related horror stories that we should look for now and fix before we sell it to the illuminati?
If it's a V8 - it could just possibliby be a very late registered straight 6 in Executive spec - then yes there is. Executives of both versions don't have the XJ6 or XJ8 identification anywhere on the body so the quickest way to tell at a glance is the chrome strip on the bumpers and indicators. The 6 cyl cars have a continious strip right round and rectangular indicators whilst the V8s have two shorter strips on either side and oval indicators Lovely condition 1998 89K 3.2 XJ Exec.
The most recent advice was to start at about £3K and look at the various Jag owner's clubs. This seems very sensible and I will advise accordingly. Is there anything special people look for in an XJ of that age? Does it need to be tarted up in any specific way, does it need all previous bills, or just be nicely put together. Any age/model related horror stories that we should look for now and fix before we sell it to the illuminati?
Anybody with in depth XJ8 knowledge will know the V8 cars (produced from 1997 to 2002) up to around 2000 had a number of issues like fragile timing chain tensioners and waterpumps. They also has a Nicasil lining directly on the bores in the aluminium block which combined with high Sulphur content fuel from some sources in the UK and repeated cold starts caused the Nicasil lining to errode away. All these have potential to scrap the engine. In addition to this there was a well publicised recall to replace the throttle body which failed causing engines to cut out. Early cars suffer depressed values because of these concerns and all other things being equal most enthusiasts would tend to look for a later one.
Jaguar revised the V8 engine from 2000 onwards and with the exception of timing chain tensioners rectified all the issues.
Several of the early cars had later engines fitted under warranty. This would be a good selling point on an early car.
There have also been several cars with premature gearbox failure. You'll often see these on ebay. Failure is caused by Jaguars very short sighted policy of declaring the gearbox as sealed for life with no call in service schedules to ever change the oil - failure can be anytime from 70k upwards and the perception is any high mileage gearbox is on borrowed time if it's still filled with the original oil and filter. The general advice now is to change the oil. If this has been done then that's a bonus point.
Some cars have suffered severe corrosion on the front box section where the subframe is bolted to the body. Evidence of this is see behind the front shockabsorber. It's a MOT failure and can be tricky to repair.
Thats about it really. I'd suggest you advertise the car well, try the JEC Jaguar World, carsandclassic and here on PH. Lots of good quality photos in a nice setting will always help sell any car
Make sure it's spotlessly clean and polished and sort all the invoices and history into a folder. It might be worth a new MOT too. Personally I wouldn't spend any money on getting it to sell unless I had to. Old Jaguars are very much a buyers market and unless you're prepared to give it away for peanuts you may have to wait and be prepared to have some flexibility on price.
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