Help with buying a Jaaaaaaaaag XFR

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No, not for me, but my Focus ST buddy, who just sold his Wotsit is dead set on getting an XF-R and has shown me this example:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classif...&make=jaguar&search-target=usedcars&logcode=p

The trader hasn't been in business long from what I can gather, and I know nothing about the XF-R other than how glorious they sound.

I've said I'd ask here, as there's a wealth of knowledge about :)

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That example is the kind of budget he's looking at as well.

Thanks!
 
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Hope he enjoys electrical niggles, crap dealerships and questionable build quality in some areas.

First things first, has he test driven one?
 
Is he really set on an XFR? I love them and that looks to be a nice example, but the facelift has made the prefacelift look incredibly dated, and £18k seems a lot to sink into one IMO.

Personally, if I had an £18k budget I think I'd look elsewhere, and that's coming from a Jag fanboy. :p
 
geekman said:
Is he really set on an XFR? I love them and that looks to be a nice example, but the facelift has made the prefacelift look incredibly dated, and £18k seems a lot to sink into one IMO.
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£18k for a 2010 car of that type seems very cheap if anything.
 
1 year / 18 months newer and he could have the facelift which imo looks way better, unfortunately the price will reflect this, as said the newer looks have dated pre-face lift which is probably why this is on the cheaper side of things.

Has he considered the 420BHP XKR?
 
pepsilol said:
Hope he enjoys electrical niggles, crap dealerships and questionable build quality in some areas.
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Unfortunately this is what a lot of people experience with Jag ownership these days, especially the crap dealers. I've had various issues with 5 out of my 6 closest dealers, Jaguar CRC don't normally care either, they work for the dealers.

If you can get past the issues, the XFR is a great car to live with and I'd recommend one over any similar cars at this budget. I'd be wary of getting one without a good warranty though, which normally means buying approved used. You can only extend existing Jaguar warranties, not buy one for a car already out of warranty.

EDIT: Go and really thoroughly inspect any cars, there are quite a few abused examples out there, even being sold as approved used. It took me quite a while to find one in a condition I'm happy with.
 
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pepsilol said:
Hope he enjoys electrical niggles, crap dealerships and questionable build quality in some areas.

First things first, has he test driven one?
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Not really no. He said he wanted something "different" this time round and a fast and lary saloon seemed to be the ticket. I think he's pretty sold on the Jag v8 for sure though.

[TW]Fox;28703975 said:
£18k for a 2010 car of that type seems very cheap if anything.
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This is what we found puzzling. The price seems too cheap for what it is, and the ad pics don't show the reg number so we can't easily do an MOT search to see if it's had a shopping list of advisories.

On the flipside it could just be one of those good deals you come across here and there? Although it has done 85k...

geekman said:
Is he really set on an XFR? I love them and that looks to be a nice example, but the facelift has made the prefacelift look incredibly dated, and £18k seems a lot to sink into one IMO.

Personally, if I had an £18k budget I think I'd look elsewhere, and that's coming from a Jag fanboy. :p
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He pretty much is yeah. But realistically what other car has a similar style interior with that kind of performance and noise to match?

Born_2_Kill_83 said:
1 year / 18 months newer and he could have the facelift which imo looks way better, unfortunately the price will reflect this, as said the newer looks have dated pre-face lift which is probably why this is on the cheaper side of things.

Has he considered the 420BHP XKR?
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XKR is out the question as he needs 4 doors and saloon levels of space. I will mention the facelift bits though, as I have no idea if he's willing to up the budget beyond that by much. Can only run the idea I suppose :p

Mickey said:
Unfortunately this is what a lot of people experience with Jag ownership these days, especially the crap dealers. I've had various issues with 5 out of my 6 closest dealers, Jaguar CRC don't normally care either, they work for the dealers.

If you can get past the issues, the XFR is a great car to live with and I'd recommend one over any similar cars at this budget. I'd be wary of getting one without a good warranty though, which normally means buying approved used. You can only extend existing Jaguar warranties, not buy one for a car already out of warranty.

EDIT: Go and really thoroughly inspect any cars, there are quite a few abused examples out there, even being sold as approved used. It took me quite a while to find one in a condition I'm happy with.
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I think this is the key thing, Jag CS being quite lacking is a running theme from the searching and reading so far.


Will update on what happens I guess thanks!
 
Oh their customer service is so thoroughly useless. Even when they called me to ask me of my opinion it merely looked like an ISO audit exercise without any care in the world. It took them 3 hours to do a minor service where I had booked it in for a major.

I arrived on time and my car sat outside for the first hour.

After the 3 hours I was presented with the bill for the minor service, oh that's lovely, I booked it in for a major. Sorry about that sir, give us 20 minutes and we will change the extra filters. Christ almighty.
 
Building Candy said:
I thought that, until I saw it had done 85k miles.
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Which might mean the previous owner had money to burn on fuel and hopefully whatever the car required, or they were just stupid. I personally think that example looks quite dated now and even on the new ones they don't seem to make a good looking job of red leather seats.
 
my 5.0 XKR now has 91k on it, just kept costs in check by keep renewing the Jag warranty and paying monthly for sevice plan
 
pepsilol said:
Hope he enjoys electrical niggles, crap dealerships and questionable build quality in some areas.

First things first, has he test driven one?
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Whilst I'll agree with the first point and maybe the third (although my second XF has been brilliant so far in terms of build quality compared to the last), the second point couldn't be further from the truth in my experience. Oxford Jaguar treated me absolutely brilliantly when I had my last XF despite a host of problems with electrics and creaking.

Went out their way to fix things, did stuff they didn't have too, gave me a F-Type for the day...I could go on.

Jaguar Oxford have a brilliant reputation, both as Guy Salmon and Ridgeway who own it now
 
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Facelift would be a much better car. Looks more modern, has the updated infotainment system/screen that makes the pre-facelift look incredibly dated.
 
The infotainment system is fine if you haven't seen the facelift one

I thought mine was great until I had my first hire car, then it really bothered me after that :p Ignorance is bliss
 
[TW]Fox;28703975 said:
£18k for a 2010 car of that type seems very cheap if anything.
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It is when you put it like that. But when you consider it's a prefacelift version of a model which has since been replaced, which will be over 100k in a couple of years average use, and has a nice looking but incredibly slow infotainment system, it seems expensive to me.

It's the kind of car that will make perfect sense when they're sub £10k, but not at that money IMO.

Although for what it's worth, I've found Jaguar dealers to be excellent.
 
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