Anyone driven the XKR-S GT?
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Anyone driven the XKR-S GT?
Saw this for sale and since only 25 were made, was just curious as to how they drive. Has anyone been behind the wheel of this animal? Considering they were originally $174K- a bargain.
https://www.parkplace.com/VehicleSea...aguar&model=XK
Tom in Dallas/Plano
https://www.parkplace.com/VehicleSea...aguar&model=XK
Tom in Dallas/Plano
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jazzwineman (07-26-2018)
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But the car would be great for carpooling kids to school. (NOT)
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Hopefully you have avoided their Service Dept. That, as a business entity has the worst quality control of any company i have ever dealt with and I have extensive background in corporate America. They are very sloppy in their work, have extreme arrogance, are complete liars, overcharge for non-quality work (if I am going to pay a high price then I expect a high-level of professionalism, and quality in their work) and assume everyone is a complete idiot about anything related to cars.
I would give my car away before I would allow them to work on it ever again.
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Hopefully you have avoided their Service Dept. That, as a business entity has the worst quality control of any company i have ever dealt with and I have extensive background in corporate America. They are very sloppy in their work, have extreme arrogance, are complete liars, overcharge for non-quality work (if I am going to pay a high price then I expect a high-level of professionalism, and quality in their work) and assume everyone is a complete idiot about anything related to cars.
I would give my car away before I would allow them to work on it ever again.
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Me too. when they were in Plano, TX. They moved to Grapevine last year.
Wow, I had a great experience there. Sales staff were great. Service was good to me as well. Other than their parts are 2x the price the Jag dealer in Reno (and others),...
Hopefully you have avoided their Service Dept. That, as a business entity has the worst quality control of any company i have ever dealt with and I have extensive background in corporate America. They are very sloppy in their work, have extreme arrogance, are complete liars, overcharge for non-quality work (if I am going to pay a high price then I expect a high-level of professionalism, and quality in their work) and assume everyone is a complete idiot about anything related to cars.
I would give my car away before I would allow them to work on it ever again.
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I would give my car away before I would allow them to work on it ever again.
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I then had the passenger rear door actuator go out and before I went to have it fixed I called Jag USA. The regional rep was in touch and called the service manager and spoke to him about my dissatisfaction and how to avoid in the future. So when I took the car in to get the repair the regional rep was their, along with the dealership manager, the service manager, the idiot service advisor (salesman more than advisor) and the actual mechanic that was going t do the work all to talk about the door handle and especially the water shield. So problem solved??? Got the car back and took it home to wash the car as when they do their quick run-through wash- they leave spots all over a highly waxed car. After i wash, I look in the door well/frame and the carpet below and it is wet. So I have to take over the cover and sure enough they had not bother to press tightly the butyl rubber that holds the shield except at the top and water could pour through on the bottom. It took me about 10 minutes to do something correctly..
I could add instance of them leaving my undercarriage off and then trying to replace it later with a used X-Type one that does not really fit the S-Type. Or on the previous repairs they tore up the plastic pieces holding the door molding around the rear window and just left it hanging loose or tore up my Leaper and then tried to fixing it with glue and eventually it hung loose and I had to replace. They fixed the plastic lock on my gas door and never bothered to test it and it would not unlock to get gas without tearing it up.
Or the idiot sales advisor trying to tell me I should pay them $1600 for a brake job due to the "complex" procedure of resetting the parking brake!!!???
The service manager once offered a detail job to be nice and I said fine- despite the fact my car looks as close to new as it can be and then they left cleaning fluids on the upholstery and all the wood in the car, which caused me to do more work to bring it back to where i had it before.
Tom in Dallas/Plano
I think you get my drift, but very happy you did not run into this and had a good experience.
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But thanks for the response and thought.
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It seems to be what the owners of this model tend to do. There are six of them currently listed for sale on the USA autotrader website, with a combined total usage of only ~3,600 miles! That equates to ~150 miles driven per year for each vehicle. What a waste of a vehicle. As technology and design elements continue to improve these cars will be soon forgotten as relics of a past era.
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Guess that’s what you do when you have more money than you can actually spend.
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I was just showing my wife and scrolling through the pictures on the park place site and one is a pic of the message center that says smart key battery low... Really? You are advertising a $140k used car and you put that pic up? I wonder if you can negotiate in a new smary key battery in the deal...