Nikasil again....

[dougt]

Hi,

I'm thinking of buying a 99 XJR, but the nikasil bore wear issue is worrying me. I know it's been discussed quite a bit here but what I can't figure out is just how likely it is that one of these engines will fail ? Does anyone know the failure rate or have any pointers on it ?

The car I'm looking at is a '99 (so it will have the nikasil coating) with 72k on the clock for £12.5k. I'm trying to figure out if it's worth taking the risk (assuming it passes a compression test or course)

I can't afford a 2000 car as they don't seem to drop much below £20k at sensible mileages.

Thanks in advance.

[dougt]

Thanks for that. The car is apparently ex Alan Shearer, I can't help thinking he might well have not been particularly nice to it in terms of warm up.

[dougt]

Thanks jas, actually the extras are a bit off putting, more to go wrong / be stolen etc. The bloke at the garage doesn't seem to want to call me back so maybe I'll leave this one and keep looking.

Cheers.