My parents have an XJ8 2002 144,000 miles. They rarely drive it and it’s been sitting under a car cover in my driveway. I’m trying to find the best place to post for sale and also how much to list it for? We also see so many scammers on fb marketplace that are nervous about that.

 

There's a For Sale section on this site I think.

 

Hi Jenni:

I was given a 2002 XJ8 with the same mileage but is in need of lots of rehab due to owner neglect. I be interested in knowing more about this car if its powertrain runs fine, so please post the sale ad if you decide to sell.

 

Honestly I would use FB marketplace and Craigslist myself. Yes you will get some scammers reaching out to you, but you'll quickly learn how to recognize them and how to avoid them. Don't deal with any online transactions...if someone wants the car, they can come look at it in person, negotiate in person and then pay either cash or bring a bank check.

The marketplace on this site and other Jag websites are also good places.

This is the world we live in right now, we all have to deal with it. Best of luck to you.

 

Don't know where you are at, but if you are in or near a major metropolitan area, check for a local Jaguar owners club. Often they meet monthly. Drive it to their monthly meetup, introduce yourself and let them know you have an XJ8 for sale in the parking lot. One thing about us Jaguar owners is addiction (or maybe its gluttony I don't know). Jaguars are like potato chips, you can't stop at just one. Probably one of the club members there will not be able to resist.

 

It’s an addiction, not gluttony. Gluttony presupposes too much or too many and there is no such thing (within some financial limits I suppose) as too many Jaguars.

 

Unfortunately, that is very TRUE

 

I need get one of those funny T-shirts that say something like "Just one more car, I promise!". There are financial downsides, big ones. Especially in Texas you have buy liability insurance on each car. Its as if every day, I drove the first car to work, ubered home, drove the second car to work, ubered home again, etc., etc., till they were all at work and then did the same process in reverse to drive all of them home at the end of the day. I can only drive one at a time so why won't they just charge me liability once? And even collision should go down significantly on each additional car, but it doesn't. Its insurance industry racketeering is what it is! And then there's storage. I built enough garage bays to keep five inside, plus two under a carport and that all cost the equivalent of four or five new Jaguars (and I still rent self-storage bays nearby). Most people just have a two-car garage and would have to rent storage for anything over that (or leave a car outside at untold hundreds of dollars a month weather-related depreciation). Many of us, men especially, are incapable of making logical financial decisions when it comes to cars.

I once was introduced to a guy who, no matter what kind of rare muscle car I'd mention, he owned one and could talk very expertly on the details of it. What he didn't volunteer tho is that they are all total loss insurance wrecks that he towed to his rural property and parked in a field throughout the 1970s when they were no more than a couple hundred dollars each. I was told by his cousin that he just liked to be able to brag about owning rare cars that he couldn't really afford. Its a shame as there is nothing worthwhile left of them now after the rust and rodents. I at least promised myself that I wouldn't have anything that I couldn't keep running but I think there are a lot of people out there like my rural acquaintance who keep cars that they'll never actually repair and drive. Its a sickness, really. Its not healthy. Cars are like potato chips, you can't just eat one or two chips and stop. Before you realize it, you've finished the whole bag and you're doctor is writing you a script for blood pressure medicine.

This year is supposed to be a "new years resolution" to get healthy again. As of yesterday, I am down to 170lbs and only one Jaguar, the XJ8, thanks to one of our other long-standing members here on this forum who has adopted the XF. I still need to part with some more so that I can get out from under the monthly self-storage bill. I also still have a "wish list" in small font as long as my arm and really need to sell a car before buying the next one down my list. That's really the best strategy to own a car for a few years, then sell it and move on to the next. I keep taking the same cars to the monthly car shows and everybody just walks by and shrugs now because they've seen them all before. People only stop and look at the ones that are new to the show. I should do that, however, I have "separation anxiety" or "post-partem depression" or something. To any newbies reading, if you haven't started hoarding cars yet, just don't start. Once you do, its too difficult to stop.

 

I suppose I should look at selling some of my cars, although it is not really
something I want to do, even though I know it is the wisest move.