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Post by alf on Jun 20, 2018 13:03:18 GMT
And bought this, collecting it tomorrow: www.beadles.co.uk/jaguar/used-cars/xf/v8-r/ov14dzwI have had some epic drives in my car recently, including one which will most likely result in points through the post, and had decided to stay with an XFR. What, I said to myself on a particularly excellent drive on Monday, am I waiting for then? A dealer-approved, 2013 or later, sub 25k car in bright blue or metallic red (but no red leather!) I thought, for sub £30k. That day, Beadles reduced this 2014 13k mile car from 34k to 30k (which they claim is barely more than they paid for it). And the rest is history - they gave me above book for mine as well! I'm not 100% sold on the wheels, which are the optional XFR-S ones, but I do love these wheels in grey or silver, so depending on what the car looks like next winter with the winter wheels on, I may have them refurbished as such. But I have come to accept black wheels, especially on a black car! Dealer approved means 2 years warranty, at least 6mm on all tyres, 7 day driveaway insurance, and more - a good package worth £2500 in warranty alone... |
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Post by Tim on Jun 20, 2018 13:06:34 GMT
Awesome and congratulations 
Agree on the wheels.
Also, in 2014 Jag were providing some undernourished exhausts........
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Post by Big Blue on Jun 20, 2018 13:10:57 GMT
Nice.
+1 on the wheels.
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Post by johnc on Jun 20, 2018 13:25:48 GMT
Very nice. If you like what you have but just need it a bit newer then this is a perfect example.
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Post by alf on Jun 20, 2018 13:27:24 GMT
It has Pirelli tyres as well, which is good as the Sport Maxx on XFR's are the older design, not the RT2's I have on the rear of mine currently, and grippy they are not...
Ironically I got my car regassed yesterday, the air con is now awesome, for the one remaining trip to do in it!!! It is 1k miles away from a major service though, good timing...
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Post by PG on Jun 20, 2018 14:06:55 GMT
Nice one! Red with the black pack and black leather - an excellent colour spec.
Like you, I'm not sure about those black wheels - but as you say they can be easily refurbed to silver. As they are the XFR-S ones are they wider at the back and need wider tyres?
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Post by Martin on Jun 20, 2018 14:56:48 GMT
I’m not sure about the wheels either, but the colour and black pack are spot on. I suspect you’ll grow to like the wheels or at the least get used to them and appreciate the change when you put the winters on.
Well done for making a decision!
Did you try anything else?
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Post by alf on Jun 20, 2018 14:57:15 GMT
I think the wheels are the same size as XFR ones, I'll look into it but the tyre sizes are slightly wider - which is fine as the XFR rears in particular are quite an unusual size and not cheap... On some cars the XFR-S wheels look amazing, I will keep them but just might change the colour. They were on there from new so no insurance issues.
Edited to add: no, I tried nothing else - nothing else in scope really had the "want" factor bar the Giuila QF and new shape C63/E63, which will be for the future!
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Post by PetrolEd on Jun 20, 2018 15:13:29 GMT
Love the car, love the wheels but NOT in that colour as they become lost. First thing to do is a refurb otherwise looks like you've got yourself a damn fine car there. Well done.
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Post by Roadrunner on Jun 20, 2018 15:36:57 GMT
An excellent choice. I agree with others on here about the wheels, too.
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Post by michael on Jun 20, 2018 16:00:43 GMT
Very nice. Agree with the consensus on the wheels. Weren't they diamond cut on the other models? Could be an option to so that but I find black too much of a contrast with cut wheels, grey is much better. I'd probably want to tint the indicators on the rear lights to try to match that black strip, too.
Very nice car though, I think the facelift improves the looks a great deal.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2018 16:31:53 GMT
Looks cracking, not sure about the wheels but they do not harm the overall look. Enjoy.
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Post by cbeaks1 on Jun 20, 2018 17:18:42 GMT
I think the wheels are totally fine. Maybe once you kerb them all refurb in silver/gun, but it suite the black pack bits.
The only bit I don’t like on these is the panel between the lights at the rear. Body colour would look better than black I think.
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Post by PG on Jun 20, 2018 17:27:52 GMT
The only bit I don’t like on these is the panel between the lights at the rear. Body colour would look better than black I think.I don't know why Jag stopped doing that. On previous sport model or R model Jags, before the dechromed black pack came into being on the XF and current XJ, front grille surrounds and rear boot trim were all in body colour. I wish they would reintroduce it.   |
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Post by Boxer6 on Jun 20, 2018 18:39:55 GMT
That is a lovely thing indeed - and I actually like the wheels too, though diamond cut would look good too.
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Post by Martin on Jun 20, 2018 18:52:33 GMT
I find black too much of a contrast with cut wheels, grey is much better. I agree  The 7 has a chrome strip on the bootlid, even if you’ve specified the gloss black trim. You can buy a black M Performance strip, but I think it looks better as it is when the car is silver. My neighbours dark grey 740d has chrome trim, it’s way too much and spoils the car imo, I’d specific the black pack on any Audi/Mercedes/BMW. At least it’s old enough not to be afflicted with the word Jaguar under the leaper..... |
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Post by LandieMark on Jun 20, 2018 19:05:20 GMT
Wow, lovely! I don’t mind the wheels at all.
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 20, 2018 19:38:46 GMT
4 years old and under 14,000 miles.... looks very good. Red and black go well together so the wheels look alright to me (normally I don't like black wheels)
EDIT: It's currently showing as having no MOT, so I hope they get it done tomorrow morning PDQ !!!
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Post by Andy C on Jun 20, 2018 20:07:37 GMT
That looks great . Love the colour although it would be just about perfect if the wheels weren’t black
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Post by Stuntman on Jun 20, 2018 21:06:58 GMT
Well done. I think the wheels look fine. Live with them for a while and then make a decision!
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Post by Blarno on Jun 21, 2018 9:48:22 GMT
You total bastard! Mega jealous here..
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Post by chipbutty on Jun 21, 2018 10:01:58 GMT
Smashing
I am going to pretend I haven't seen the wheels
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 21, 2018 12:30:47 GMT
Still showing as having no MOT or tax.......
although the MoT history page shows it as being Mot'd on 21 June 2018 with an advisory that the OSF tyre is showing signs of wear on its inner edge. Time for an alignment check maybe ?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2018 13:17:33 GMT
Lovely colour, and the lights are so much better on the facelift, to my eyes at least. Enjoy!
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Post by alf on Jun 21, 2018 17:07:10 GMT
Some good spotting on here!
What is the opposite of regret? Because that's what I'm feeling right now. I'm so glad I placed a holding deposit subject to a test drive immediately this thing dipped below £30k, because they have had a few people gutted it's gone, and trying to gazump me!
I took it out this morning, caught a spectacular armful of opposite lock at the first NSL roundabout (I think the tyres need some bedding in, perhaps it has not been used much recently!) then they got it MOT'd. Yes, the tyres are a little more worn than I'd like, 3-4mm all round, I'll get them all done and probably the wheels refurbed to gunmetal grey or silver next winter. They'll make it to then. All XFR's wear the front inner edges hard, but the setup is so good I would not want to change it.
It feels surprisingly different to my car, very much more "together" as you'd expect, the brakes steering and suspension on the old one were getting baggy. The exhaust is louder and makes a less woofly american V8 noise and a more metallic, harder edged, Porsche-like one from inside the car. The 8 speed ZF is just incredible, so smooth, and overall the car is a little less edgy - less keen to kick down and so on - in normal mode. Though, as I said, still allows a lot of slip! and the Meridian stereo and updated UI/dials are far nicer, but harder to use.
Jaguar service was once again excellent, faultless, they even took the dash cam and tracker out of the old car no questions asked...
All good then :-)
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Post by ChrisM on Jun 21, 2018 18:48:56 GMT
Good to know you are delighted with it... nothing worse than changing cars then wishing that you hadn't.
Enjoy !
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Post by PG on Jun 22, 2018 7:05:22 GMT
Enjoy it!
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Post by racingteatray on Jun 22, 2018 18:59:12 GMT
Smashing I am going to pretend I haven't seen the wheels Agreed. Wheels need not to be black but apart from that it's lovely. Congratulations. |
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Post by alf on Jun 25, 2018 10:26:55 GMT
I'm getting a bit used to the black wheels, though today I kerbed the first one a tiny bit - typical I would do that with black ones when I went years of the silver ones with no damage! Annoying as the rims were absolutely perfect before even to the touch, I'm assuming they were refurbished but it had been done very well. Nowadays I usually do the school run in the morning and Lu's school is on a narrow residential road with nasty sharp stone kerbs, I quite often reverse gently into one when parallel parking 0 previously I almost never parked this way and never kerbed wheels. How do people manage with all these diamond-cut wheels which are so hard to repair?
I still think some kind of slightly gunmetal grey would suit, though the Jaguar standard wheel colour is a very metallic slightly more grey than usual silver, I may just go for that. It hides small damage well in being quite a similar colour to clean wheel alloy. Apparently these XFR-S wheels are cold forged, and larger, lighter, and stronger than the standard ones so they will be staying on the car for sure. Not sure the current rears will make it to winter, when I was hoping to so a big swap around and refurb...
The car continues to feel surprisingly different to the other one - even the engine and exhaust note are very different, it has surprised me how much more modernised a facelifted version can be. Things like the start-stop work really well and the 8 speed ZF is absolutely lush...
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jun 25, 2018 11:39:43 GMT
I have missed the photo but it sounds like a fantastic choice!
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