Wife wants to sell her car and we have a difference in opinion so Ill let the collective knowledge base here help.

2013 XK Coupe. Clean Carfax, 43,000 miles second owner. Jaguar CPO until April 2019. White with Ivory interior. Fresh service from Jaguar last month.

No mechanical or visual defects. Southern California car from new. Looking for a real world number, not trade in value. Im at $33k. She is at $38k.

Thanks in advance.

 

This is a difficult question besides not getting on the wrong side of your wife. As we all know these cars have a difficult history of selling and take a huge beating on price. So my estimate is assuming you are selling it privately is a max price of $38K but doubt you will get it. $33K is more reasonable but I would believe $30K would be the number. Summer is coming and you have a coupe. Also I suspect it will take several months to sell. Now if you trade it in you'll see under $30K. My 2 cents.

 

Our cars can take forever to sell unless you find someone who stumbles across it and has to have it. Although there are not a zillion on the market, there are also very few people looking for these cars. Unless you have something that is unique or outstanding such as extremely low mileage, color combo, or something else.....the price will pretty much be the determining factor in gathering interest. Good luck and let us know how you make out.

 

 

AT 28 or 29 it should be gone as well. Maybe even lower unless you want to keep the car for your grandchildren. Unfortunately these are the facts for our lovely cars. I've made plans on being buried in my car! lol

 

I didn't even finish reading your second sentence and I gave it a $32k tag. It would appear that it matches other estimates.
I tried selling my old XK8 locally but gave up at about a week. I put it in Autotrader and had two calls in three days, the second was from Scottsdale AZ and it was a full price offer. I picked the buyer up at the airport, he rode for a few minutes then gave me the check. I waved Bye to my XK8 about ten minutes later.

 

Thanks everyone. Sometimes you gotta let them learn on their own. We'll adjust the price accordingly.

Cheers.

 

Nothing to add beyond what others have offered. I'd list at 32, 32.5, and the first person who offered 30 (or 29) it'd be gone.
I'd also underline these are a BITCH to sell private party. Me, I'm either going to own mine until it's value is down in the low teens, or take my beating on a trade in. I think this is an important thing that owners of this car don't seem to connect with: there's a Dead Zone on private-partying a used car: people either want the almost-new car or the older high mileage one, and you're neither - but either way, they want a Big Bargain. Think: who's sniffing around on autotrader to private-party purchase a five-year-old Jag? Almost no one, that's who. There are a few (FEW) folks who know these are under-valued cars. But that's a small sample size. Your car is in the under-30K category. Which sucks, but it's true.

Personally? Putting ads everywhere and waiting for the random call would make me nuts. Take the trade-in beating.

 

The issue selling your XK is that most people don't know Jaguar XK exists and won't be considering one. Second consideration is that people consider Jaguars unreliable, so they will suspect you are selling one because something is Seriously Wrong.

So you have to address both of these issues to successfully sell your car.

 

I think you should run your ad at $38K so that your wife can see how much response is received.

Looks like you've come to that conclusion as well. I assume it is not the end of the world for you if the car takes a while to sell.