Well yea, most from main dealers will cost you a little more than this, as you say the colour and the lack of nav are what killed the price on this one really. But yes, you can buy them with nav in any colour you like for a couple of grand more. A tad more if you want a V8 and or a Sport.
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Sod the nav get a tomtom, iv never given 2 hoots about built in nav.
As for the colour, well its not the best, but its not a sickly colour either.
If you like it and they dont kill you too much with your part ex thats a lot of Jag for 7k and gets you out of that 5 series which you are sick of.
As for the colour, well its not the best, but its not a sickly colour either.
If you like it and they dont kill you too much with your part ex thats a lot of Jag for 7k and gets you out of that 5 series which you are sick of.
Yep, my thoughts exactly, I can live with the colour ..it's not my first choice ...but it doesn't look nasty ...just a bit 'old man' I guess. The nav I had in the other one was crap anyway, only reason I like it is because the touch screen makes the dash look better I think ...but it's not worth quibbling over at the price.
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That makes no sense. It costs £200 to buy an amazing satnav. It won't be integrated, but so what? Window mounted satnavs are safer IMHO - at least your focus is always forward when you need to look at the screen, instead of down at the dash.
Well I went and had a look at it, had a test drive. And long story short, I bought it.
It was very nice apart from more wear than the pictured showed on the leather part of the steering wheel and a little ding in the left wing. They are going to fix the wing-ding (ahem) for me, which may be more complicated than they realise given it's aluminium ...but I made this part of the deal. Otherwise everything works as it should, the engine and gearbox seem fine ...I was very careful to check for rattles, knocks and other untoward sounds and a rough idle with or without the aircon on ...it has a full main dealer service history and drives very nicely.
It's so smooth and quiet compared to the 540i ...like driving a sofa
...well really it just feels like the other one I had only with a little less oomph from the smaller V6 engine. James May put it very well though when he said you just have to press the peddle a bit harder than with the V8 It has a very pleasing engine note, has a nice rasp to it when you give it some beans ...mostly though it's just very quiet and wafty.
The car has a few optional extras they didn't list in the advert because they didn't know
...it does have the Alpine premium sound system, which is nice, and an electric rear sun-blind, both of which I had in my last one. It has front parking sensors which the advert did mention and I didn't have before.
The only other differences are the fact my old one had nav, this one doesn't ...and this is a 3.0 V6 the old one was a 3.5V8 ...this one is what Jaguar call 'Winter Gold' ...SE spec ..with lots of chrome, old one was a Sport in metallic black without lots of chrome ...also the sport has a firmer suspension set-up and CATS active suspension, ...the SE's do not have CATS as far as I know. This one also has walnut wood rather than the darker stuff I had before and the seat upholstery is the same colour, a lovely cream. This one also has the genuine tan/beige coloured Jaguar over-mats ...the old one I had didn't.
I got it for £6,941 in the end ...not bad for a 53 plate XJ6 SE
I did take some pictures with my phone, although they aren't brilliant I'll post them up later when I've had something to eat. I've been on the go most of the day!
I should get the car sometime next week, depends how fast they can get it through the body-shop.
The properly integrated systems are a little more than just nav though, the touch screen computer system can control all sorts of things from weather the climate control buttons beep when pressed to to the voice control system visual interface etc ...also the dash looks better with it than without, more modern and with less buttons.
It was very nice apart from more wear than the pictured showed on the leather part of the steering wheel and a little ding in the left wing. They are going to fix the wing-ding (ahem) for me, which may be more complicated than they realise given it's aluminium ...but I made this part of the deal. Otherwise everything works as it should, the engine and gearbox seem fine ...I was very careful to check for rattles, knocks and other untoward sounds and a rough idle with or without the aircon on ...it has a full main dealer service history and drives very nicely.
It's so smooth and quiet compared to the 540i ...like driving a sofa
...well really it just feels like the other one I had only with a little less oomph from the smaller V6 engine. James May put it very well though when he said you just have to press the peddle a bit harder than with the V8 It has a very pleasing engine note, has a nice rasp to it when you give it some beans ...mostly though it's just very quiet and wafty.The car has a few optional extras they didn't list in the advert because they didn't know
...it does have the Alpine premium sound system, which is nice, and an electric rear sun-blind, both of which I had in my last one. It has front parking sensors which the advert did mention and I didn't have before. The only other differences are the fact my old one had nav, this one doesn't ...and this is a 3.0 V6 the old one was a 3.5V8 ...this one is what Jaguar call 'Winter Gold' ...SE spec ..with lots of chrome, old one was a Sport in metallic black without lots of chrome ...also the sport has a firmer suspension set-up and CATS active suspension, ...the SE's do not have CATS as far as I know. This one also has walnut wood rather than the darker stuff I had before and the seat upholstery is the same colour, a lovely cream. This one also has the genuine tan/beige coloured Jaguar over-mats ...the old one I had didn't.
I got it for £6,941 in the end ...not bad for a 53 plate XJ6 SE
I did take some pictures with my phone, although they aren't brilliant I'll post them up later when I've had something to eat. I've been on the go most of the day!
I should get the car sometime next week, depends how fast they can get it through the body-shop.
The properly integrated systems are a little more than just nav though, the touch screen computer system can control all sorts of things from weather the climate control buttons beep when pressed to to the voice control system visual interface etc ...also the dash looks better with it than without, more modern and with less buttons.
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Oh yea I had a couple of spots of corrosion on my other one actually, although the bad one on the boot lid was fixed before I had it, there are a few on this one too (you'ed be lucky to find one this old that hasn't got some ...or had some and had them fixed) ...none are obvious though. The only thing that stood out was the dent above the nearside front wheel ...that had caused the paint to crack and peel ...but they are fixing that so no worries there, it looked like someone had knocked a sharpish corner of something into it ...trolley maybe ..although it looked a bit low for that.
I did p/x the E39 and I got £2,920 for it, I hoped I'd ring at least £3k out of them but the book figure was £2,700 for one with lower miles than mine so getting much more was never going to happen. They do have some odd ways of showing figures though, they said they could not go 'over book' on my car so they knocked some money off the Jag ...and scrubed the 'admin' fee etc ...which amounts to the same thing. Probably just for the purposes of accounting I guess.
Basically in the end it's costing me a little over £4k to change ...and cost to change is all that really bothers me. That's not bad for what I'm getting. I couldn't do it much cheaper with an X350 anyway. This one was cheap enough to be at the price where the highest priced X308s were the same or even a bit more.
I don't know weather I got a great deal or not yet, time will tell on that I suppose. I feel happy about it though ...I don't have any serious doubts this time like I have had with cars in the past.
I did p/x the E39 and I got £2,920 for it, I hoped I'd ring at least £3k out of them but the book figure was £2,700 for one with lower miles than mine so getting much more was never going to happen. They do have some odd ways of showing figures though, they said they could not go 'over book' on my car so they knocked some money off the Jag ...and scrubed the 'admin' fee etc ...which amounts to the same thing. Probably just for the purposes of accounting I guess.
Basically in the end it's costing me a little over £4k to change ...and cost to change is all that really bothers me. That's not bad for what I'm getting. I couldn't do it much cheaper with an X350 anyway. This one was cheap enough to be at the price where the highest priced X308s were the same or even a bit more.
I don't know weather I got a great deal or not yet, time will tell on that I suppose. I feel happy about it though ...I don't have any serious doubts this time like I have had with cars in the past.
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Are you insane?!
What is it with your car purhcases, every time you buy a car you manage to take a MASSIVE shafting on it, even if you've only had it 6 months!
How does anyone manage to lose £3k in 6 months!?!? Absolutely mind boggling stuff, especially after spending so much on it.
So you buy a brand new Citroen C5, take a massive bath on its value, then you buy a £26,000 330Ci on finance which sheds an enormous amount of money in 2 years, you then buy a Mondeo ST220 which you keep for 30 seconds and still lose thousands of quid in depreciation, then you manage to get a nice Jag.
So you had a nice Jag, but.... traded it in for a pittiful amount of money, bought a shabby E39, traded it in 6 months later for 50% of its value, and now you've ended up back in a Jag, but an older model?
You must serously have wasted tens of thousands of quid over the last few years, I simply cannot comprehend how your mind works car wise. You seem to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every single time
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It didn't lose £3k in 7 months in the real world (but it lost me that yes) ...but I was never going to get much more in a part ex, I saw the Glasses guide myself. They offered £2.5k initially. The only way I was going to get much more was to sell privately, and all the 'issues' would no doubt be picked apart by a prospective buyer ...and I wouldn't blame them for it either, the rust and cracked lacquer were more or less all the salesman noticed (I think).
Actually I just worked out how much this has cost me over the years, certainly not tens of thousands. But enough to buy the car I just bought over again. I didn't buy the C5 or the Leon myself, although money was still wasted even if it wasn't mine, the C5 was used not new, the Leon was new though. I also didn't pay for a good portion of the 330CI myself either ...most of it though I did. I am only really calculating my own loses, and I start from when I got rid of the 330CI.
But what was I to do Fox? ...the BMW is not in good shape really, it needs a lot of work doing ...it needs in excess of £1500 spending on it really. I could do all that ...or I could just get rid of a car I have come to resent ...which I am doing. I could keep a car for a long time I suppose, but I struggle with that. Although I can't afford to go changing again for a while now, and I am well aware of the fact that I could if I hadn't wasted so much money on cars.
I knew you would shout at me, but this change had to come sooner rather than later, before the 540i breaks properly.
My ST220 was a big waste, no doubt and it was a nice car just the wrong car for me ...but the Jaguar is the one I really regret though ...I should never have gotten rid of it for the 540 it was fantastic ...but I just had this itch I had to scratch. It never worked out like I thought it would and all in all has been a great waste of time and money. I don't like it, I'm not happy about it ...but there isn't much I can do about it after the fact. I made the decisions that I did ...and as it turns out, it was bad. I guess people could see that anyway from what was proposing ...but I just 'had' to have a 540i ...and once I get a bee in my bonnet about something like that I have to do something about it
Actually I just worked out how much this has cost me over the years, certainly not tens of thousands. But enough to buy the car I just bought over again. I didn't buy the C5 or the Leon myself, although money was still wasted even if it wasn't mine, the C5 was used not new, the Leon was new though. I also didn't pay for a good portion of the 330CI myself either ...most of it though I did. I am only really calculating my own loses, and I start from when I got rid of the 330CI.
But what was I to do Fox? ...the BMW is not in good shape really, it needs a lot of work doing ...it needs in excess of £1500 spending on it really. I could do all that ...or I could just get rid of a car I have come to resent ...which I am doing. I could keep a car for a long time I suppose, but I struggle with that. Although I can't afford to go changing again for a while now, and I am well aware of the fact that I could if I hadn't wasted so much money on cars.
I knew you would shout at me, but this change had to come sooner rather than later, before the 540i breaks properly.
My ST220 was a big waste, no doubt and it was a nice car just the wrong car for me ...but the Jaguar is the one I really regret though ...I should never have gotten rid of it for the 540 it was fantastic ...but I just had this itch I had to scratch. It never worked out like I thought it would and all in all has been a great waste of time and money. I don't like it, I'm not happy about it ...but there isn't much I can do about it after the fact. I made the decisions that I did ...and as it turns out, it was bad. I guess people could see that anyway from what was proposing ...but I just 'had' to have a 540i ...and once I get a bee in my bonnet about something like that I have to do something about it
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Seems like you'll be better off in a Jag, but maybe the Jag you had before?
You constantly go on about V8-ness and to get a V6 surprises me?
Are you not simply going to be bored of this in 6 months and want something different again?
A V8 Jag, a Porsche, a 7 series or something else...?
You constantly go on about V8-ness and to get a V6 surprises me?
Are you not simply going to be bored of this in 6 months and want something different again?
A V8 Jag, a Porsche, a 7 series or something else...?
Those are as good as the V8 Jags, they drive lovely, he'd be mad to chop that just to get a V8 one.
Here are some photos;
You can see in the last picture the wear I mentioned on the leather parts of the steering wheel. It's not as bad as the BMW's though, still I might look into getting that sorted some time. Otherwise, the interior is really unworn and fresh.
I wont chop this in in 6 months, because of my stupid decisons, I can't afford to anymore. If I hadn't have made all those bad decions, I could be driving an X350 XJR I know. But I did, so there we go. The car is not as nice as my other Jag of course, but then it cost over £4k less ..at a time when the one I had would actually cost more than when I bought it due to the rise in the values of used cars.
You can see in the last picture the wear I mentioned on the leather parts of the steering wheel. It's not as bad as the BMW's though, still I might look into getting that sorted some time. Otherwise, the interior is really unworn and fresh.
I wont chop this in in 6 months, because of my stupid decisons, I can't afford to anymore. If I hadn't have made all those bad decions, I could be driving an X350 XJR I know. But I did, so there we go. The car is not as nice as my other Jag of course, but then it cost over £4k less ..at a time when the one I had would actually cost more than when I bought it due to the rise in the values of used cars.
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[TW]Fox;17147826 said:
Agreed, although some people I know spend thousands on silly things each year and moan when they have no money and so on, Moeks seems at least to be happy doing it and not too bothered.
I do kinda understand in the sense that if I had the money I'd like to literally drive a car for 6 months and then sell up and move on until you find the perfect car. Part of you wants a 7 series, the other part wants an Exige and so on; but in reality very few can do this without suffering.
As you can probably tell I know sod all about Jags, I couldn't even tell you if his new one is the same model/shape as his old one
I just wonder how different his life would have been for the past year had he got that Porsche.
Well I do care Peerzy, I don't like wasting money. But I always manage to justify it to myself some how. I don't waste much outside of cars though, cars are my vice ...otherwise I'm a saver and I don't tend to spend much unless I know I really want something. Kind of like Fox seems to be with cars. I guess the trouble with doing what I do with cars is the amounts of money are quite large, at leats they are for those of us buying in the sub £20k bracket. I also hardly drink and I don't smoke, the people I know that do can spend as much on all that as I waste on a car part ex in a year easily.
Also I haven't got it yet anyway, I 'could' kick my £200 deposit and run if I felt I had a really good reason too. Which I don't right now. There were know obvious warning signs of bad things to come, like miss-matched budget tyres on this car either, has 4 nearly new Pirreli's on it. Also I have a warranty.
Also I haven't got it yet anyway, I 'could' kick my £200 deposit and run if I felt I had a really good reason too. Which I don't right now. There were know obvious warning signs of bad things to come, like miss-matched budget tyres on this car either, has 4 nearly new Pirreli's on it. Also I have a warranty.
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