Hi,

I have the option to buy Xkr 4.2 supercharged.
The car has the following problems:
Seat control inoperative
Radio display malfunctioning
Parking brake inoperative
Air conditioning inoperative
Car is importing from USA
Can it be some module or the problem is bigger?

 

Caveat Emptor! Maybe a flood car.

 

I don't know the money they ask you for, but I also can't value what you may have to pay to repair all those things that fail.
Anyway, if the car has been flooded, more failures will surely come out, since over time the connectors, relays and other electrical and electronic equipment will present rust.
If it was not flooded, it is a matter of making a list of all the faults it presents and assessing the repair.

 

That's a lot wrong. Too many unknowns. At the cost of diagnostic and repair, unless you are buying this car for a huge discount AND you have a trustworthy Jaguar specialist to work on it, I would stay away from it.

 

All or some of the issues possibly be due to an iffy battery . Expensive if not

 

Yes, the first thing to eliminate as a suspect is the battery. A battery not fully charged on these cars will give symptoms precisely like these (and others!). Battery issues caused by infrequent use of the car and/or brief runs, and possibly a faulty battery, are the prime source of complaints. Charge the battery fully and the symptoms disappear.

 

Your Public Profile shows that you're in Slovakia. For you to be interested in buying this 4.2L XKR from the USA, the price must be so low as to make you believe it might be worth buying, notwithstanding the costs of shipping, customs duties, and repairs. That XKR is over 10 years old and the true condition is unknown. Time takes its toll, and rubber parts are deteriorated as well as other parts. Even if you do all the repairs yourself, if you make some reasonable assumptions and put a dollar value on your time, odds are that you'll have more money in it than it's worth, particularly if the car has a conditional title - such as salvage or branded - which can indicate that an insurance company declared it to be a total loss.

Just thinking about it gives me nightmares! It's cheap for a reason. Your money, your decision. But you can't pay me enough to buy it.

 

Stuart what is expensive and impossible for us, is inexpensive and not even difficult for them.
They have far superior skills, because they have decades of training in how to deal with challenges.

Here they total a car if its hit on one fender. There they straighten a ball. Many of our totaled cars end up there.
My friends 2 year old top of the line Merc saloon was deemed total loss because rats ate the wiring harness under the seat.
See if wiring harness is the least of the concerns for this guy.

 

I didn't know that it was possible to straighten *****, and imagine that it's quite painful.

 

Noro Kosnovsky - Last Activity: 04-09-2020 06:23 AM (5 minutes after posting the question)

Regardless of the repair issues, no one is going to be importing vehicles from USA to Europe in the near future.

Graham

 

I don't think the shipping of goods by sea is affected too much at the moment e.g. the Ports of Los Angeles claim to have all terminals open and cargo volumes are running at around 80% of normal traffic.

Although the borders here in New Zealand are locked down and there is now a mandatory 14 day enforced isolation for any people entering the country we are still receiving and sending goods around the world.

There are at least 2 car transporters in ports here at the moment and 4 more due in the next month.

 

Americans, particularly New Yorkers, may not want to import any vehicles from Europe. Scientists now believe that the virus arrived here from Europe, not China.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/s...imes&smtyp=cur

 

Like that is any kind of useful information now, not that it is entirely believable. Not everyone in the world travels China->Europe->USA. Hindsight is easy. What matters now is how we defeat this and prevent a recurrence. Everything, but everything else, is irrelevant.

 

If you are for real, it is clearly obvious, avoid this vehicle at all costs unless you are a Jaguar-trained mechanic.

 

You UK guys are lucky you have some leadership. Us Americans have a Trump wandering around with his head up his own butt (still/always) trying to blame everyone else for his own failures.

But enough of this Virus stuff, what's the status of this OP guy's decision and/or search of a different vehicle??? Yes, I recommend finding a different one.

 

I'm just the messenger. I posted that link because I thought the article was worth reading.

To brush this article off as hindsight is being shortsighted. Understanding how a virus spreads and mutates is important and relevant to developing methods of treatment and prevention.

My intent was not to blame Europe; it was to show that the commonly-held assumption that we got it directly from China was inaccurate. Trust the science, not your gut reaction.

 

Not to be a wet blanket but how a virus is unleashed should be the focus.
We must reevaluate our dependence on imported beer.

 

The OP hasn't returned and the thread has rapidly degenerated into one of all too many Covid-19/American politics rants.

IT'S GOING NOWHERE - I'M GOING ELSEWHERE - CLOSED

Graham