The XJS is a high performance luxury automobile.    Its style was so popular that it had 21 years of production.

The car is is great condition.  There are some blemishes on the paint on the roof and on the side, but not very noticeable. 

Style: The flying buttresses not only give the XJS a unique style, they also provide improved aerodynamics and stability at high speeds.   

The below image provides a nice view of the rear of the XJS.   Tail-light lenses are in great shape.  Rubber bumper looks good too.  I like the V-12 badge because there are hardly any new cars on the road today that have 12 cylinders. 

Interior:  The interior is in very good condition.  The driver's seat shows some wear.  The rear seats look brand new because they've never been sat in.  

Interior:  The below image shows the interior from the passenger side.  The wood is in good shape with just a few cracks.

Console:  The below image shows the center console.  The 4 large buttons work, but the trip computer doesn't work anymore.  It has two ashtrays, but I'm sure they've never been used.  I don't believe the speed control (cruise control) is working.  It has a nice radio/CD player which has a face plate that covers it when the key is off; however, the face plate doesn't always retract when the key is on.  I usually have to tap on it.  It's probably because I don't drive the car very often.

Console:  Below is another photo of the console taken with a fish eye lens. So it's a bit distorted but you see more of the interior.

Steering Wheel & Instrument Panel: The below image shows the close-up of the steering wheel and instrument panel.  Notice the 160 mph speedometer, which makes sense on a Jaguar.  Also notice the red line for the engine at 6500 rpm.  That's great for a 5.3 Liter engine.  The odometer shows a low mileage of 066491, which is close to what it is now.  All gauges work even though the center four are sometimes off by about 25%. 

Interior (Headliner): The below image is showing the headliner.  A new headliner was put in about 4 years ago.  They did a good job except they did crack the molding above the passenger side window. If you look close you can see the crack.  This image also shows off the leather seats pretty well.

Trunk: Below is a view of the trunk.  It's in good shape.  The spare time looks flat, but that's just the way the cover makes it look.   I do notice some of the carpet at the top is sagging.  I will take care of that. The black compartment to the right of the spare tire holds the battery.  The advantage of a rear battery is that it is protected from the engine heat. So it lasts longer.  On the left side, but not showing, is the scissors jack that came with the car. It is stored in a heavy duty cloth case that matches the carpet. I also have a nice Jaguar fabric car cover that I will give with the car.  It's a tan color.

Generator: Below you see the engine compartment.  I had a custom hood liner made a few years ago because the old one was looking kind of ratty.  The radiator system has been recently overhauled ($1500). There are less than 500 miles since a $2000 tune up (plugs, wires, distributor cap, all injectors checked and more.  I also had all fuel hoses that go to the fuel rails replaced with high quality rubber and clamps.  So there are no gas leaks anywhere. Last month I had a starter relay replaced along with the accumulator for the brake system ($750).

Suspension and Brakes: About 8 years ago I had my mechanic do a complete overhaul of the suspension and brakes.  The front and rear sub frames were removed after removing the exhaust system. Everything was examined closely.  Any part that contained rubber was replaced including engine and transmission mounts.   Suspension kits and brake kits were installed.  This overhaul took about one month due.   The cost was about $7000. The cooling system was also checked out and upgraded at that time for an additional $1000.      

A few weeks ago, the Anti-Lock warning light came on. A year ago I replaced the brake accumulator which reserves pressure and reduces the need for the Anti-Lock brake pump to come on as much.  I checked the pump and it runs, but something else is keeping it from building up brake pressure. So now I don't have power brakes.  I can drive it, but I have to push quite hard on the brake pedal to get the needed braking.  I don't know what the repair would cost.  The pump is the most expensive part but at least that runs.

I really would like to keep the car but the wife says I can't put any more money into it.  I could have sold it last year for $6000 easily but with this new brake issue, I am willing to give it away for $2000.   The wheels alone are worth over $1000 (4 new tires at $150 each and 4 great looking wheels at around $200 each).

Contact me (Ken Costello) at (480)202-2993 or email me at costello1234@gmail.com.  The car is garaged at my home near Brown and Stapley in Mesa, Arizona.

1.  Motorized seat belts don't work. Just the lap belts are good.  I found some Administrative and Technical bulletins for the motorized seat belt. Here is one paragraph:
"Jaguar warrants that for the life of the vehicle, repairs required to correct defects in the mechanical and electrical components of the motorized automatic diagonal seatbelt system will be performed without charge."
       I know that since that bulletin came out in 1994 there has been a couple of ownership changes for Jaguar. So I'm not sure if they would honor that policy.  The technical bulletin was more technical than I would be able to do the troubleshooting myself.

2.  Spoiler under front bumper is cracked.   I saw a new one on Jagbits.com for around $300.  Used ones are on ebay for about $150.

3.  Passenger side door and back panel have slightly different colors. See below photo.   A person rarely will notice it unless they are told to look for it.  The angle has to be just right to see it also.

Here is another photo of the same side.  The color difference is not noticed.

4. There's a 1.25 inch crease at the front of the hood.  How it got there is strange.  A neighbor had a 4' x 8' piece of plywood on his driveway during some construction.  A strong wind picked it up and blew it into the side of my garage. It gouged a hole in the stucco and pushed over some shelves I had up against the wall inside the garage. The shelves fell on the Jaguar's hood and it caused the crease.  I had a $500 deductible and the estimate to repaint the hood was $500.  That's when I considered painting the whole car rather than just the hood so that the crease would be fixed plus some blemishes in paint on the roof.  See the below photo to see the crease.  It's just right and below of the Jaguar insignia on the hood.  This photo also shows the cracked spoiler under the front bumper.  The crack is just to the right of center.

5.  Trip computer doesn't work.

6.  The radio plate doesn't usually retract when the car starts.   That means one can't get to the radio controls until it opens on its own or until coached by tapping on it sometimes several times.

7.  Recently the fan for the inside air only blows down on the feet and not out the vents.  I was hoping that it would start working again since that never happened before.  Jaguars sometimes "heal" themselves and things that didn't work start working again.

8.  The passenger door lock tends to activate itself from time to time.   It doesn't actually lock or unlock the door, but I can hear that the solenoid moves and makes a clicking noise.  I also suspect that this intermittent activation of the solenoid runs down the battery if the car sits for a few days without being started.  So I usually unhook the negative post if the car sits for a few days.   I'm thinking about taking out the fuse for the door locks.  I've always just locked or unlocked the doors manually anyway.  (It doesn't have remote locks).  The electric locks allow one to lock both doors at the same time.  However, it's a short reach to the passenger door if I want to lock or unlock it manually.  So I've rarely used the feature of locking both doors using the electric locks.

9.  The engine does leak some oil.   This was true of my XJ6, which leaked all kinds of fluids.  At least with the XJS, it's only engine oil.  It holds 10.5 quarts so there's plenty of oil in the engine even if it leaks some.  After reading the capacity in the owner's manual, I realized that I could have been using 20-50 weight oil for our Arizona temperatures.  That would reduce oil leaking significantly.   I keep an oil drip pan on the garage floor under the engine.   If the car sits for about 8 months, about half a cup of oil is in the oil drip pan.  If I switched to 20-50 weight, that should be cut in half.

10.  The instrument gauges are a bit disconcerting.    The temperature gauge normally sits right at the "N" position where it should be.    Sometimes it just moves up closer to the "H" hot region.   I, of course, keep a watchful eye on the temperature.    They also say there is an dashboard warning light that comes on if the engine is truly hot.    That's never happened, but it still bothers me when I see the temperature gauge go up.   So what I've done to prove it to myself is to use an infrared thermometer to check the temperature of the radiator and engine when the gauge says "N" (normal).  That's around 180-190 because the thermostat is set to 190°F.  When I've seen the gauge climb up between N and H, I've checked it again and the temperature is the same 180-190.   So I always carry the infrared thermometer to check it out when I'm in doubt.    Again the cooling system was just gone through 3 months ago and it's great shape.

11.  The fuel gauge is part of the same cluster.  It too reads lower than it should.  If I fill up the tank, it only reads about 3/4 full on the gauge. 

12.  The voltage gauge seems to be the only one of these four that reads correctly all of the time.

13.  There is a Freon leak.   This car needs the older R-12 freon which is very expensive.  However, there is a substitute called Freeze 12, which is about the same price as the new R-134a.   I buy it on eBay.  If I add Freon, it usually blows cool for a couple of months before adding more freon.   However, I normally just drive it in the Arizona winter when the weather is nicer.  So I don't need the air conditioning for that.

Again, 99.8% of the car works and looks great.  It's the 0.2% that has issues that we notice.  Despite these issues, the car runs and looks great.  It's just the recent loss of power brakes that puts a damper on it.