Anyone on here know much about second hand car buying? (1 Viewer)

DT-R · Feb 19, 2025

As the title says. Apart from admiring a nice motor, I know little to nothing about cars or the workings of them. Buying a used car is a minefield at best. I've seen a nice 08 plate Jag X-Type 2.2D auto. 74k miles. Looks tidy enough. FSH. But on the MOT check on 2022 and 2023 have had advisories for "underside chasis and components heavily undersealed". What is that? Has somebody done something to hide something maybe? It isn't an advisory on 2024's MOT. I don't understand it? Can anyone help? Thanks.

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Nick · Feb 19, 2025

Guess it's hard to say, somebody could have done a repair and then sealed it or somebody could have just hammered it with underseal to hide something.

The 2024 tester might not have been as anal with things or it could have been removed in that time, hard to say again without looking under it.

Is it a private buy? You could get an AA check or something where they will go and check the car for you and you can tell them your concerns and they will see if it's falling apart under the underseal or not.

It's 2008 so probably would have a bit of rust, although @Grendel will probably know if it's a common issue!

skybluejelly · Feb 19, 2025

DT-R said:
As the title says. Apart from admiring a nice motor, I know little to nothing about cars or the workings of them. Buying a used car is a minefield at best. I've seen a nice 08 plate Jag X-Type 2.2D auto. 74k miles. Looks tidy enough. FSH. But on the MOT check on 2022 and 2023 have had advisories for "underside chasis and components heavily undersealed". What is that? Has somebody done something to hide something maybe? It isn't an advisory on 2024's MOT. I don't understand it? Can anyone help? Thanks.

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They suffer from rotten seals which you can’t see as they have covers on , they also can suffer from sticking turbo actuators , they look a lot of car for the money , but I wouldn’t own one again far to many niggly problems even when I had one about 20 years ago ,

skybluetony176 · Feb 19, 2025

Best advice anyone can take on buying a used car (or a new one for that matter) is if the engine is fitted with a wet belt give it a miss. There’s no such thing as a good wet belt engine but ford based and PSA based engines are especially bad even with a decent service history. They were a bad idea and badly implemented and badly serviced just get worse again. The fact that the industry is moving away from them and back to wet timing chains tells you everything.

Houchens Head · Feb 20, 2025

Just kick the tyres to look like you know what you're doing. That's all I ever used to do!

rob9872 · Feb 21, 2025

Depends what you want it for, how many miles you'll be putting on it and how long you'll be keeping it for. Is it your only vehicle and for pleasure or do you need it for commuting? If anything other than for pleasure, then I'd steer clear of that one. Ideally something you know the history of or from family or a works car that was well maintained regularly.

I'd also only consider German or Japanese for reliability too (well family of as my last 3 have all been Skodas which are really Czech, but part of the VW group).

DT-R · Feb 21, 2025

Houchens Head said:
Just kick the tyres to look like you know what you're doing. That's all I ever used to do!

That's about all I could do too

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Grendel · Feb 21, 2025

DT-R said:
As the title says. Apart from admiring a nice motor, I know little to nothing about cars or the workings of them. Buying a used car is a minefield at best. I've seen a nice 08 plate Jag X-Type 2.2D auto. 74k miles. Looks tidy enough. FSH. But on the MOT check on 2022 and 2023 have had advisories for "underside chasis and components heavily undersealed". What is that? Has somebody done something to hide something maybe? It isn't an advisory on 2024's MOT. I don't understand it? Can anyone help? Thanks.

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There shouldn't be any rust on a 2008 model.

I assume you will be paying between £3-£4K for it?

I'd avoid due to the age to be honest. For that sort of money you could buy a much newer "non premium" car. I never liked the X-TYPE it was a poor effort from Ford to try and access the premium market through a badge engineered vehicle

SomersetSB · Feb 21, 2025

Built at Halewood, when ford bought Jag, Mondeo chassis and ford parts with jag badges on from my scouse friends at the time who came to train with us at Castle Brom.

DT-R · Feb 21, 2025

Grendel said:
There shouldn't be any rust on a 2008 model.

I assume you will be paying between £3-£4K for it?

I'd avoid due to the age to be honest. For that sort of money you could buy a much newer "non premium" car. I never liked the X-TYPE it was a poor effort from Ford to try and access the premium market through a badge engineered vehicle

No, it's up for £995

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MalcSB · Feb 27, 2025

Grendel said:
There shouldn't be any rust on a 2008 model.

I assume you will be paying between £3-£4K for it?

I'd avoid due to the age to be honest. For that sort of money you could buy a much newer "non premium" car. I never liked the X-TYPE it was a poor effort from Ford to try and access the premium market through a badge engineered vehicle

A sheep in wolf’s clothing, so to speak.

i had one as a company car for a while. Not bad to drive as the Mondeo was a good drive.Looks were a bit marmite, and the thing is everyone new it was a Mondeo with Jaguar badges so it never really had the kudos of a premium car. Ford got the whole JLR ownership badly wrong - unless Grendel tells me differently - other than presumably ripping off the 4 wheel drive technology.

Personally I would look for a Mondeo with similar spec. I had two of those and they were good to drive.

Kneeza · Feb 28, 2025

Is it a Toyota?
Yes? Buy it.

I worked in the Service Dept at Jag for thirty years.
Don't buy an X-Type

Grendel · Feb 28, 2025

DT-R said:
No, it's up for £995

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Avoid

nicksar · Mar 1, 2025

DT-R said:
No, it's up for £995

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Worth checking on Vehicle Score, only a small cost for a comprehensive report on any car you're thinking of buying tbh.

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