For Sale POURED WHALE: 1995 Jaguar Sovereign 4.0 £350

[Partridge]

My Jaaaaag is up for sale. I've just agreed to buy an X308 with fewer miles on the clock, that's a bit nicer, so this has to go. I could probably get a bit more it, but just need it out of my hair now and want a few to put towards to new one.

 

It currently has new Avon tyres. They cost £420. Make me an offer upwards from £350 if you want them included! They will be gone by the time you come to view it and swapped with the legal Kackkang Happy Piece of Red Army Roadgrip Win Win We Champion tyres that are on the new one.

 

Here's the short description:

It's a bit minging cosmetically, but it starts and drives and has an MoT until April 22. I'm based just off Junction 9, M27. It costs £350 and it's a Jag, what do you expect? It looks luuurvly from 10 paces or at night. So it's ideal if you only want it to fool impressionable young ladies you meet at nightclubs that you are a man of  wealth, style and taste. Buy it.

 

The long description:

 

Bodywork/paint

It's all one colour, which is a bonus if that's what you're into. It's a mixture of very good, and naff. The chassis is excellent with no evidence of welding. The sills are all good. Both front wings are all good. However the wheel arches are made of filler. Could be tidied up with some 3M and a rattle can, but life is short. There is a very, very mild bubble on the bottom offside corner of the window frame that's about the size of a five pence coin. The paint hasn't even broken but it is there. There is a dent in the bootlid, but it shuts fine and doesn't leak. There's some smallish peely bits on the roof, and some small splodges where somebody has presumably touched some of the peely bits up. The nearside front wing has a weird lacquer issue where it has run (bad DIY job?). Only noticeable when it is clean! And of course the odd parking ding and scrape. It's a ten pace car.

 

Mechanicals

It runs smoothly, the gearbox is gr9 and sport mode works. There's shit tonnes of history. I had it serviced when I first bought it and have kept the oil topped up and generally kept it happy. She does like to drink oil, probably about 0.5l every two weeks. No smokiness though, and it doesn't have an oil leak big enough to be chucking that much oil. A new steering rack is required as it leaks, and as a result the car pulls to the left under braking - the brakes themselves are alright. It needs a new front offside wheel bearing, as the it has excessive play and will not pass an MoT like it. The diff moans a bit on lift-off. The starter motor sometimes makes a scraping sound when started from cold. It has stuck once. I hit it with a hammer. It started again. It has got me to Northampton and back (200 mile round trip) lots of times with no trouble. The air con does not work. A previous owner has removed the air-con belt and the compressor is toast due to years of inactivity.

 

Interior

Pretty good. The wood is excellent, bar a crack to the "ski slope". Wear due to mileage on the steering wheel and gearknob. The drivers seat is a little cracked and grubby, all the other seats are very, very good. Headlining is pinned up. The kerbside wing mirror is stuck in the "reversing into a tight parking space" position because the little knob to adjust the mirrors snapped off in my hand! I think I still have it in the car if you want to attempt gluing it back.

 

I think that's it. I will post pictures later, but I think most of you know what it looks like.

[Tamworthbay]

Number 24 if it comes to it

[Partridge]

I don't have time to orchestrate a raffle as I work 6 days a week doing mostly 15 hour shifts! But duly noted

[richardmorris]

I think it's scandalous that that price wouldn't even get you a rotten 2cv with no mot. what's the world coming to when a jag costs less than £1 a day for the year!

[Partridge]

Like I said, it's worth more but I need it gone! Don't need two Jags!

[Felly Magic]

If that happens, we will have to call you John Prescott

[gadgetgricey]

Hope you dont mind, but dug out pics from a previous thread. Looks awesome.

(Clicky for bigger pics)

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

[Partridge]

Don't mind in the slightest! To quote Roger Moore in For Your Eyes Only, "what a helpful fellow.".

[Fat_Pirate]

PM'd... 

[stephen01]

​Fancy a swap? I have a clio  

[sierraman]

You haven't been forced into this by the protest group that was formed when you bought it?

[billyboy406v6]

Lovely car, if only I had the money, lived nearer and had the parking space ! GLWS...........

[beko1987]

No cock drawn on the bonnet, I R Dissapoint

 

GLWS! looks a bargain

[Partridge]

You haven't been forced into this by the protest group that was formed when you bought it?

Nope, far from it. The protest group has become a Jag Support Group, and the LWB that's replacing it goes some way to satisfying my girlfriend's wish that I buy a Daimler. 

None so queer as folk.

[Partridge]

SOLD