queries on jaguar

S.A.S

S.A.S

S.A.S

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my granddad just bought a jaguar x type SE edition, on a 54 plate

and its done 33,000 miles, its only 7,000 pound, and is in excellent condition

because of its condition to price ratio, i have a strange feeling someone's fiddled with the mileage clock,

could this be true or is this just what jags are going for these days?

it a trade seller not private
 
seems to be pretty much the going price for such a car. It's maybe a little on the cheap side, but not so much as to suspect anything wrong with it.
 
maybe your right, my family's only ever bought BMW's and they are expensive to still have that sort of mileage and year.

just semeed a little to cheap if you understand where im comign from lol
 
I'm still kicking myself for not buying a mint 49k mile X-type Sport Premium (54 plate 3.0) for £5.5k in January!

The used car market has soared recently and your price looks about right, unless it's the grotty 2.1 V6 and then it's too expensive.
 
S.A.S said:
my granddad just bought a jaguar x type SE edition, on a 54 plate

and its done 33,000 miles, its only 7,000 pound, and is in excellent condition

because of its condition to price ratio, i have a strange feeling someone's fiddled with the mileage clock,
could this be true or is this just what jags are going for these days?

it a trade seller not private
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if its in great condition, why are you bothered?
 
I'd say that was about the right price, going private you'd have got it quite a bit cheaper.

For example, My dad brought a Jaguar S-Type 4.2 V8 R on a 55 plate with 20k on it for about £15k. Thats the top of the range supercharged version, original cost was something like £50k new. This was almost a year ago now from the main jag dealer in nottingham.

There great cars but there value really doesn't hold well in the first few years.
 
x-type = mondeo in a posh frock (as I call it)
poeple think jaguar= expensive to buy and run and thus in these economic times trader has probally had to lower the price, it might have been sitting around for a while in the yard.
 
I thought that digital mileage guages couldnt be messed with? Tell him to watch out for a leaky boot, my dads one ruined his laptop from water getting in, although that was a 2001 model.
 
Jaguars are cheap, that seems like a fair price :) If you are worried then backtrack the service history via calls to the dealers.
 
Thanks guys, i will notify him of some of the above comments and i now take back my claims of the mileage, as the car has had a full service history with one garage since it was bought and it's where we take our car, so i know the people quite well, plus all looks good in the service book.



Matt82 said:
if its in great condition, why are you bothered?
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The cost just seemed a bit low for the price and i just wanted some reassurance, but seems as if thats the going rate.
 
if the cars in great condition, you got it for a price lower than you hoped and you like the car, then youre a on a winner. the prices are very low though
 
Frankly it seems like a lot of money for a 5 year old Mondeo to me, you can get identical but bigger engined 02 plate ones for half the price so not sure why you bothered.
 
well personally i would have bought a BMW 3 or 5 series but its my granddad and he's old school i just thought it was strange :)
 
Nothing wrong with a Jaguar based on a mondeo, its basically a mondeo but with a much nicer interior and much nicer styling. The mondeo is a good car and these build on that.
 
Well it cost only a tiny bit more than my ST220, which is a 54 plate 3 litre V6. Performance is very similar I imagine, the Jag engine is based on the Ford one anyway as far as I know, they just made a few changes here and there. I imagine the Jag has a better/more luxurious interior though. Sounds like fair value to me, but I don't know really, maybe they are supposed to be even cheaper now :D

I would agree with Jez on the exterior looks being in favour of the Jag, but only until you put the body kit on the Mondeo, I think the ST's and the Zetec S a slightly better looking cars myself, bit more aggressive and purposeful looking. I have never driven one of these with a petrol engine, I did drive an estate with a diesel once, years ago, I don't remember too much about it, steady but pleasant I think.
 
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right my gdad put a deposit down for this jag not bought, at the time the car had full service book that my gdad saw with his own eyes, at a glimpse never fully checked it out, as he was just going over the stuff it comes with.

suddenly the service book has gone missing and cannot be found same with the spare key, seems rather odd, and he doesn't know what to do, because he had already payed a deposit.

the salesman keeps saying we'll find it but for 2 days now he hasn't, he is also forcing my granddad to pick up the car on Saturday because its the end of the month and thats when there sales commissions comes in on their salary or something.

if the service book is not found by Saturday does my granddad have the right to claim back his deposit?
 
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