Can this $200 Jaguar XJ8 Be Saved? Hooptie Rescue Mission
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Did not expect you to really leave the parking lot after noticing the stance, absolute MAD LAD
yeah that's a little bit nuts if you ask me.
Well, we see him rollin', we lovin' it.
Yeah that wasn't a wise decision
At first I'm thinking "Wow, he's going pretty fast in that parking lot", then I realised he's driving on the road. NUTS !
For real! The whole wheel or axle could ya e fallen out!!
PERFECT example of what happens when you hang round the wrong friends. The Jag spent a few months next to the Cambergang bagged Honda . And next thing you know, it’s got 20 degrees of negative camber, and Vaping
The stuff coming out the tailpipe is probably just steam, it's been very cold in the US recently
Once I got to 8:50 my sanity dropped to ... at the sight of that Amnesia monster
Lol
Kurt Lamprecht racist?! I drive a slammed STI. I was making a joke. And at no point mentioned race🤙
That was a racist remark you dip shit.
I’ve “saved” 3 Jaguar cars now. They’ve since become a passion and I love them. I have an 08 XJ, an 04 x-type 5spd (with well over 200k miles), and a 2000 XJ8. They’ve all needed work, and now all run like new. A common misconception is that Jaguars aren’t reliable. Wrong. They want to be driven. The more you drive them the longer they’ll last. If you let them sit around they won’t survive.
Can't believe you drove that on the street after seeing that rear wheel lol
And if it had fallen off what would the Police have done to you?
You're too soft!! Lol
@@robertwoodliff2536 What if had fallen off and flipped up into the path of an on-coming vehicle at head height!!
100th up vote for this excellent comment!
I thought the same thought
Holy crap you're driving it on the road?
Grant Addis he’s crazy, that is seriously dangerous
absolutely crazy! Am sure the wizard will tell him !
Dangerous at 30mph certainly. I'd put the hazards on and crawl.
I spit my coffee out laughing when I seen the next clip on the road with it🤣
@@electi0neering reminds me of those video compilations of bad condition cars, with broken brake disks and stuff.
I can't believe you took it on the road with the rear wheel doing that. lol
Jase Poag he was asking for it!
Same here... Even for Hoovie that was irresponsible
Yep very bad move
air bag feature!
He needs to have a tow truck buddy
Thanks for rescuing the Jaguar. As a Jaguar owner, it breaks my heart to see them abused/discarded. They are such an iconic car brand.
How bad are repair costs on them? I want to get an older (2001-2009) XJ8 or XJR.
I love the styling and authentic material interiors used. Theyre so nice!
@@frazzledwizard3595 from 1998 to 2003 in the US is the x308 from 2004 to 2009ish is the x350. Get the x308 they're more reliable and better made. Hoovy is right about all the issues but those apply to cars pre 2002 so get a 2002 or 2003
@@iangratton5999. So, why? Was there a management change? When did Ford buy Jag?
They are nice cars and they look great, but when I see the repair prices my wallet is like: “Bitch no.”
It's an old Jag (with a V8) ... of course it needs to be saved. Putting it down would be like shooting your faithful Labrador Retriever, just because he broke his foot or something.
1SaG dogs don’t have feet lol
Y.T.P. Dealer they actually do have arms and legs as they bone structure says in the front the same as humans: front are carpals and metacarpals = hands...rear are tarsals and metatarsals = feet :) the same as human :) you would think that all of their limbs are tarsals and metatarsals which would make it all four as legs but the front ones are carpals:)
john Farnham
+Elle Sea - That's exactly what you don't do. You will kill the value of the car. A GM engine has no place in a Jaguar.
Yeah, for sure!
Next Video: I spent 10 grand on a 200 dollar Jaguar.
and sold it for 6...
"10 grand on a $200 Jag that I leased"
@@JamesAllmond These go for $1800 all day long on Craigslist. Sell only to ignorant "broke ballers" who finance at 31% at this point ....
You forgot to add at the end "And it's not even mine"
$6 not 6 grand either.
As long as the check engine light is on. It's a proper jag
Like Volkswagens if the check engine light ain't on there is something not right.
The light is just telling you the engine is on, jag love to do things differently.
My Xkr was near impossible to keep the engine light off. Once it started rusting I sold it.
If your Jaguar is properly maintained the light will remain extinguished.
😁😂
Only one man would see a wheel askew like that and just hop in and hit the highway!
rightt
and when @ 12:41 he sees it could have killed him, he just laughs. I'm not 100% sure whether that's balls or shame.
I would never have attempted to drive it further than onto a Transporter.
Apparently not! Some brave soul drove it like that from Oklahoma to Kansas City!
dlwatib Some say there’s a God and that He protects little children and fools.
9:17 At least Jaguar manage to implement the rear wheel steering tech about 20 years earlier than Audi does now 😂
I’m starting to feel like hoovie’s wife told him he can’t buy any cars this year.
Hoovie's Pimp Hand is strong!
That's exactly what happened.
I heart Hoovie's wife. He has an addiction and the solution is to fix and flip each car for a profit until all are gone and enough money is left after the loans are paid off in order to buy one car at a time, making money and setting money aside to finance the future. LOL. Just kidding!! Tavarish will fix it for him.
my guess is that it was part of the negociation when he decided to build a giant garage extension
Feel thesame
next episode: my "wife" bought the cheapest Jaguar XJ8 in the country
lol
lool
Hahahahahaha but I mean, I won't be mad if he exploits every loophole possible
😛
Yeah! Then I’ll be “Can I save this Maserati Bora that I FOUND in a dumpster?”
Keep it! This was honestly one of your best videos! It was a break from your usual "I just bought the cheapest (worst/most expensive)" car. I think everyone would be interested in seeing some work on the old jag.
When grandpa says he driving it till the wheels fall off
Also please burn the red Honda
I feel like you just keep buying cars and making up excuses on how you got them lol
I would not be the least bit surprised about this haha
That’s why I’m here.
The ONLY people who get offered machines like this, for prices this LOW, are those affiliated with the Dealership Auction network. These cars are NOT on ebay/Craigslist/BaT/etc. You have to be a dealership/wholesaler with a license. This is how Hoovie gets these GREAT cars for dirt-cheap.
He has no other content potential for his brain power. Getting tired of this same old stuff
His work around now is "I had a "friend" that bought it and m having it looked at"
2:50 The truck in the background hits 88 mph! 😁
hahaha what the hell
Nice reference
Joakim Quensel - Dang, I had the same post but you beat me to it! I should have scrolled down further....
That was me driving the truck😂
XD
@1:38
"And it has 2522222" *Pause*
My brain: Horsepower? Torque?
"Thousand miles on it"
Amazing how a $40,000 luxury car value can drop to $200 in 15 years. The Jaguar XJ8 is still a beautiful and well design luxury car.
The original msrp price was $59,300 for a base model. With options they would be closer to $70k
Someday these will be valuable again. I just know it.
(almost) Every car depreciates to about that level with 250k miles
Forget about 40.000 dollars - 60.000 to over a 100.000 dollars was the price range. These are super saloons. I’ve got a Jag XJ Super V8 myself and I love it ...
@Rusty Climber I also saw a Range Rover V8 Sport HSE from 2008 at 3000$. Jesus Christ! What the hell!? Men, those cars are reliable, super confortable and powerful even for today standards!
I think the car is worth saving, because it's a late model with all the problems mostly sorted, and because there is not many left on the roads, this car has got some potential.
I don't think its worth saving, Its a ticking time bomb. There are better lower mileage examples out there.
you are somewhat optimistic. :)
For someone looking for a cheap used driver, $1000 if they get a year out of it it won't owe them a thing. Anything over that is gravy.
@@johnjacob688 and how much are those lower mile examples? $280? I think not.
@@muskokamike127 Of course you're not going to pay $280 for a good example. You get what you pay for and this one is junk.
8:49 that slammed Accord in the right corner is blasphemous to the existence of motor vehicles
I noticed that too. How little consciousness can someone have when they mutilate their cars like that?
It's a 98 coupe and is probably worth 300 bucks. 😂😂
the mentally unfit can be car enthusiasts too lol
absolutely
I live in town with him, his names Parker lol
When I was a kid in the ‘70s and ‘80s, I would see the old XJ series drive by here in eastern Massachusetts, and I would stop what I was doing every time just to watch it pass. They simply screamed dignity to me, even if I didn’t know how to define it back then. I’ve been an admirer of them for my whole life, so I’m always going to tend toward saving one. If you can get one running well and reliably for less than $1500.00, I see absolutely no reason not to.
I literally just bought a 2001 Jaguar XJ8 (base model) with 29,500 miles on it. Absolutely nothing mechanically wrong with it, garage kept most of its life, slight paint fading on the passenger side, and a broken radio antenna (which I've already fixed.) Interior leather is like 90% perfect. It's a great car!
how does it paint fade being garaged most its life
Jaguar was smart. They realized that one day drifting would become popular, so they designed the car to disable it's TCS, ABS, ESP, and give the rear wheels some good camber. Smart move from Jaguar!
-Jeremy Clarkson (words a bit off tho)
HONDA RULES but forgot to give limited slip diff
Peeter Tuim that’s when you break out the welder.
This car came to you for a reason...it knew you were the last chance for salvation.
As a Englishman it's great to hear hoovie say Jaguar correctly. 😊
or8t As an ... hahaha
I’m American and I say it the same way. “Jagwarr” just doesn’t sound quite as elegant.
I absolutely love these cars, if she can’t be saved, get another for the hooptie fleet - such a classy car
Yeah there is no way Bob is a real person.
Seán Patrick Eckmann 😂😂
LOL
"Bob" hah
Reminds me of "my friend Harvey"
Seán Patrick Eckmann his friend from town who gets in the most dreadful scraps
Back to the roots of why this channel is great. Cheap money pit masochism 👌
Totally agree. I miss the old Hoovie's garage
@Kurt Lamprecht Sure... It's "Bob's car" 😂
@Kurt Lamprecht don't know pal I've not read that much into it tbh 😂
@Kurt Lamprecht my thoughts exactly
“Seems to be running pretty well”
10 seconds later...
*MAXIMUM CAMBER ACHIEVED*
😂😂😂
😂
best comment
Interesting how there was no complaint of vibration from the rear left wheel when at speed. There must be some great balance occurring,now that's a fine engineering job. "Bearings!, We Don't Need No Stinking Bearings!"
SAVE IT!
Also, I cannot believe you drove it off the lot with that WHEEL!!
He probably put it in on a trailer.
cut the roof off it and add a rear mount turbo kit on it
Cars can run on a flat, so three good wheels may get you there.
I know this because long ago I shredded a rear tire on my Honda before realizing it was airless. It still drove quite well.
Yes Matt! I was thinking the same thing! I would've left that three legged car in the parking lot with the keys in it.
Are you using bob as a front to buy more cars? Sounds like a money laundering scheme.
Perfectly stated...Bravo
hoopty laundering^
"Bob"
I get it. If "Bob" gives Hoovie the car as a gift, technically he didn't "buy" the car. Pretty clever. ☺
@@kevinkeeney6693 Then hoovie can give his friend a gift of "x" amount of money, and technically he never "bought" a car haha
Nice Jaguar, still looks classy. Thank you for channel! Greetings from Russia
I have a 2000 Jaguar (S-Type). I had the front upper control arms replaced (after the ball and joint wore right off while I was driving).
And yes, I kind of hate myself, but in all honesty - the A/C runs cold and the comfort in the front is excellent (can’t say the same for the back).
I don’t have much cabin noise and it drives like a tank. I even used it for deliveries at one point for kicks and my manager liked riding in it. I don’t recommend putting too many miles on it, though. I broke it out (pre-COVID-19) for the weekends for brunch or for dates. I love it.
Definitely not for the faint of heart ($3400 first year, $2300 the second).
I cant believe you took that thing on the road.
elcaminosunlimited nah it’s fine
✊👾✊ (genius alien ⬆️rising)
Have Bob GIVE you the car. For that matter, maybe some viewers have other such cars they would be willing to "donate" to you so you won't violate your No Car Buying pledge. You can enjoy them, perhaps the owner would invest some repair dollars, then sell them and put some bucks in the channel.
Whenever I get angry at the maintenance issues that occasionally come up with my Chevy Sonic I watch Hoovie and feel better👍🏽 thanks Hoovie, you provide a valuable service to us all🙏🏽👏🏽
I love that Star Trek Voyager poster in the background
I thought this was an old ChrisFix video for a second.
"Hey guys ChrisFix here, today we're gonna be stancing my dads Jag and adding a gold vinyl wrap with an autozone ventilation/downforce kit"
I did too lol
ChrisFix has a 2003 Jaguar X-Type and the car in this video is a 2003 Jaguar XJ8 but it’s the same color
Omg so did I!
buy the damn car Tyler...why do you think we subscribed
Good one
Keep the jokes coming I nearly lost my previous sip of water prior to gulping it down
Every British and Irish gangster in the 90s and beyond had this car.
It was even popular with some East-European gangsters like the Bulgarian, Serbian and Russian mob.
To some degree it still is.
It's a Gangster hooptie yo xD.
Save that beautiful old beast
Wizards reaction was priceless LOL
“What the hell?!”
"Jag you are?"
"Jag I am"
I thought it was Jag wire? Or Jag war?
If you're British - and southern English British, it's 'Jag-you-ah'. The American accent always pronounces it 'Jag-warr'. @@David-wy9vz
@@jaicoxki uk is 'jaaaaaaaaag' 😉
@@freespiritawakened515 yeah, that's the other way to say it :))
It is actually pronounced haguar. It is the name of a jungle feline of the Amazon in the language of Guarani. How ironic that a Brit named Lyons would name his company after a large cat from South America in a dying dialect.
I had that car in dark blue with beige light leather interior. My favorite car of all time. Mine was a '96 that I bought used in 2000 with only 20k miles on it. I took it to 90k and then I traded it in for a brand new Jaguar X type with four wheel drive. I loved the x type, too, but the xj I had was the last really wonderful sedan built by Jag. I'd love to get one now that's vintage.
hey look, the wheel's about to fall off.. let's go for a drive on public roads!
Hub is loose. Something is badly broken, lets go for a drive
lol
New video model; people donate cars to hoovie to check out, drive around, give thoughts on, bring to the wizard, but hoovie doesn't spend a dime, only recommends fixes to the owner.
Is like 90% of what hoovie normally does but it's FAR CHEAPER for him
This is a great idea. I'll even volunteer my hooptie 1st gen CTS. I dunno if even the wizard could figure out the shit wrong with that car lol
That's what my dad always did when he bought a used car... gave it to me to drive for a few months. He knew I'd fix all the problems and at most only charge him for the parts.
When saving Hoopties is your purpose in
Life! well done!
My dad has a 2015 XF 3.0 SPORT and she’s a real BEAUT! I call it the SnowCat because it’s white and well, it’s a Jaguar, and he got it on New Years EVE when it was snowing. Coincidentally when we picked it up from the dealer, it was sitting in the Dealer ship garage FACE TO FACE WITH AN XJ8! LOL
I can either paint the kitchen or watch Hoovie...... Screw the kitchen.
HOT
Now that's what I call CZcams caviar.
@@thaferg6969 oh yehhhh!
Hope it comes out well
You can paint your kitchen in 17 minutes ? Must be a tiny kitchen.
Pretty obvious its Tyler's car, there is no friend... terrible liar Hoovie lol
I think you may be on to something lol
He already slipped and told The Wizard he bought it, then tried to correct himself like a child caught in a lie.
Completely not wrong 🤔
That's an awesome hooptie! I own a '91 Cadillac Fleetwood Coupe I paid about $225 US for (it wasn't running when I bought it and turned out to only need a starter). I've driven that thing around the country with no problems and even managed to find a sweet spot on the gas that gave me an average of 20 MPG on the Interste; quite amazing if you ask me as I don't even think it got that kind of fuel economy new (the cruise didn't work but turned out to only be because of a shrunken vacuum line). A bit more reliable with its 4.9 and rebuilt transmission though.
As the owner of a '68 XKE I'm bias when I say, "Save it". Everyone needs a project & with a little tender loving care you've got a great car.
"Hold on.......That's not good"
The entire British car industry in one sentence.
Made my day!😂
Like all cars these days they where great while still ubder warranty lol
you said it haha
British car industry? - that's not fair. If it was a Toyota built in England (and many are), you'd blame Japan because that's where the buck stops. Well, being a 2003 model, this Jag is a badged Ford, so the buck stops in the USA. The UK has sold off its volume car industry to foreigners, probably to avoid this kind of unfair criticism. So lay off the Brits - they just assemble cars for others - its not their fault!
What a load of balls! Name one American car that can go around a corner?
With a little help from the wizard, anything can be saved
Not really he’s given up on many projects
Not that m5 😂😂
Lqees Not that Bimmer tho
And when the Wizard gives up on it, there's always Tavarish :D
wizard cant save himself
I owned a 98 Vanden Plas. I immediately had a mechanic replace the cam chain and tensioning ramps, change all the fluids, and it was indeed a nice a car as one could imagine. Ford money invested on the brand made a huge difference. Later i drove an XJR and it was quite a driver too.
I have a 1972 XJ6 with a racing small block 400 it's a beautiful car I love it and very easy to work on and really quick it's a work in progress enjoyable to drive
Aladar horsforth yeh easy cos it has hardly any electrics. Those early pre computerised cars are so easy in comparison.
Aladar horsforth hey I have 1996 xj6 are you can help me whit some suggestion please
I think you should save it and help eliminate this throw away mentality the world seems to suffer from.
Graham Sivill at least it would be scrapped and it has a lot of miles
Stop throwing away good cars away, man i lived in Vietnam and just paid 4 thousand dollars for a 30 year old cressida with 250 000 miles. Communism!
This care is made to be disposed
Graham Sivill it’s a piece of shit and nobody is gonna throw it away it just would be broken down for parts and it’s definitely not worth the money to restore
Blvckkeef I am OK with that if the thing is recycled but I suspect a lot goes into landfill. My point is that nowadays most people seem to reach for the trash it option rather than debating whether it's worth saving. The World is a finite resource and if we keep on like we are there will be nothing left. We could operate sustainably and not exhaust the resources and never need worry about the disaster that will befall us in the future if we don't change our ways.
I absolutely love Jags. I really do, and the X300 series XJ6 or supercharged straight 6 XJR are my favourites.
So you can trust me when I say, as a Jaguar lover and enthusiast, that this jag needs to be broken down into spares. It isn't worth saving this Jag.
Agreed. And I would just like to add that it's really sad seeing them neglected to the point that they look this bad, and then all the youtube kiddies say 'oh well it's a Jag so it's really unreliable'. Well, yeah, if you don't do any kind of maintenance to a high performance car for 15 years, it might be start looking/feeling a bit tired. I'm sure it could still be saved, but it's been left to get so bad, and look so bad, that it's just not worth it.
I agree with Logan, I absolutely love my X350 VDP but I know that if I don't keep up on the maintenance the poor thing would fall to pieces.
yes exactly. So that means how much does he need to put in to save it?
Former owner here (XJ6 3.2L 'Sport') - it was superb, for the 5 months before it utterly lunched its engine, electrics, brakes, ECU, gearbox, and, erm, chassis - but huge pickup and fabulous doughnuts - 240 bhp, twice what I have now!
@@jamesmiller113 Damn, I'm sorry you suffered the horrendous V6 unreliability.
They could have been great cars, but those V6s and V8s were the early iterations of the now excellent current 5.0 V8 Jaguar powerplant.
Between 1994 and 1997 the Jaguar straight six (AJ16) engine was at it's best. Those are the bulletproof engines and transmissions that are still on the road today, whereas the V engines were less reliable up until at least 2006 when the XF arrived.
You may be thinking of Jaguars of the 70's and 80's with the Lucas electronics issues. Ford totally overhauled Jags electronics in the 90's so they were at least as reliable as BMWs or MBs of the time. You were spot on with the plastic tensioners and nikasil. But if you upgrade to metal tensioners and since nikasil eating sulfur gas was eliminated in the US in the early 2000s these can power on well past 200K. I'm guessing at 252K transmission drum has been sorted too, as I understand it this wasn't as much of an issue in the Mercedes 5G found in the XJR.
You can still get cheap XJ8s that are smoother than 95% of the cars on the road today and surprisingly fast XJRs. I've owned several and the only electronics issue I've had is the ABS/no traction which is just a bad solder in the ABS control module, a few hours to fix. These cars are a steal.
andrew haywood Have owned a 1998 XJ for 19 years. Changed tensioners for metal ones myself. Very few problems over the years. I hope mine does 250 k miles! Why spend a fortune on a new car when this is a really nice car to drive.
"Looks like it got in a fight with Wolverine"... Mayback foreshadowing? 😅
that w220 and the jag,how timeless...still looking good and not dated compared to their competitors after all these years!
teamsleepnine 220s are awesome looking cars! I have one and youre so right on these cars being so timeless in design.
I might add the BMW E38 to that list. :-)
The back wheel gives way exactly as you are driving by a cambered ricer? That’s a coincidence!
Stephen Mason thank you ..
The jag was just trying to fit in
adapt or die?
They’re trying to communicate.
Love your stuff Tyler! Your videos always make me laugh... sometimes with you and sometimes at you. BUT regardless, I appreciate what you do. Keep it up!
Hoovie, I'm sorry I laughed my ass off when I saw that wheel, your expression was hilarious!! Hahahaha!!
The formula for Hoovie's Garage videos:
1. Buy an expensive car on the cheap (mechanical problems are encouraged but not compulsory)
2. Do a walkaround and short test drive to talk about the car
3. Bring it over to the Car Wizard's workshop for him to analyse and explain said mechanical problems.
4. Spend tons of money on the car to fix it.
5. Keep it around or sell it on for a profit/loss (Loss is preferable to add humour and irony)
6. Repeat
The formula is so simple but works so well.
If it ain't broke... FIX IT !
Look at his subs now. I sub to him when his merc suv got stolen and it felt like last year. Good work bro.
Dylan Botha that’s the first video I watched and subscribed to, addicted to this channel ever since
Dylan Botha same.. what incredible growth
Love it, always wanted an early 00's XJR!
My favorite car was the 1996 Jaguar Vanden Plas. I bought it for $400 with a mildly crunched front end and a rebuilt motor on a pallet. I put over 23k hard miles on it before replacing the engine with the spare and proceeded to put over 160k on that one without any major issues. You have to maintain these cars or they won’t last. If it says to do something in the book at a certain mileage mark, get it done early! A well maintained Jaguar, especially a 1996-1999 big body Jag is the most reliable car you will ever own!
When Tyler is shaking the rear wheel, debris is falling out of the knackered bearing. Definitely worth the $280 for that shot.
Save the Jaguar its becoming an extinct species!
Darwinism at work!
Not really, the brand is still relevant, ex SUVs, however models like this(land yachts) are rare for sure
The original XJ6 from the 1960's, not XJ8 😱
Hoovie you brave, brave man. I would not even have took that thing out of the parking lot let alone drive it home.
Those old Jags are like Bentleys. Beautiful
Bentleys have more kudos, being built by Volkswagen. Old Jags under Ford looked good but build quality wasn't always up to scratch. Tata have made significant improvements.
@@saddoncarrs6963 Ford introduced Jaguar to the concept of quality control, before that they were horrible. Tata has continued that trend hopefully...
Andrew Martin, actually, Jaguar addressed their issues before Ford bought them. In fact, that was the *reason* Ford bought them.
Sir John Egan was mostly responsible for the turnaround.
Hell yes...I love that body style...like something an old gangster would drive..I had a 97 XJ6 that was the most unreliable car I ever owned...constant electrical problems and dead battery...other then that the car was mint with no rust and run perfect when it did start...
My plan was to put a ls 6.0 in it and paint it flat black... it had big wide steel wheels just like nascar wheels...I ended up selling to a guy who collected them who was amazed at its condition...kick myself for not going through with my plan as it would have been a sweet ride.
Harry guy - My '97 XJ6 was the most reliable car I've ever owned. Good thing yours went to a better home before you lumped it.
Video starts at 1:15
yup
Durp
Not cool dude not cool
🚽
Skipperino Hooverino
The head says scrap it but the heart says please save it. They are a beautiful car, a dream car that as kids we hoped to own. Nostalgia and feel good come from such a car. It would be a lovely Sunday driver and think what joy you would experience, when it ran
Now you wouldn’t be breaking you new year resolution if your friend gifts you the car. Food for thought.
Dude its March, give up the new years resolution already lol
My name is Hoovies #1 fan, and I approve this message.
@@paulgrey6644 I miss all the cool cars he used to buy all the time 😢
At only $280 to the owner, I'd see no reason to not fix it up.
going to have to take lots of time , Advertising , and parting out and shipping parts . Time is Money . Fix It
Jaguars are junk
A 250k mile jag doesnt scream reliability to me, not should it to anyone, if he bought it to flip it and make a profit (sounds like the case) then I would fix the bearing and sell "as is" for 1.5k and hope that someone is willing to buy it. The owner is not keeping this car. Remember that.
to fix all those dents would be a week's work if you did it yourself, but Hoovie doesn't do any work himself other than the odd 'holding a spanner' shot for his videos.
Once it’s all fixed up it’ll still be a Jaguar and it’ll wear out and break really fast and the parts can be super expensive. A money pit.
Speaking as a Brit - who owns a Jag-u-er - it always amuses me hearing Yanks say Jag-war.
Still, I do love Hoovie - it would be great to see him on the Grand Tour with Clarkson, Hammond and May, one day.
Wizard: "What the hell...?"
They speak of a legendary man who can fix anything, even a Ferrari that was on fire. His name is tavarish. Go, and seek him. He shall grant you what you seek.
MaxSpeed all hail tavarish
Ivan Gonzalez
Fanboys. Don’t you know he has others fix his cars and takes all the credit
That Ferrari isn't fixed yet, I think he can do it but of course it may take another year or two. Or 3 or 4 with his other projects he has.
@@jayquan3307 for sure
Tavarish is a hack he does really shoddy work.
Can’t believe you actually drove that home after the stancing....Why not restore it since it wont cost you a ton compared to the other cars you have or it might...who knows
hey aaron
Thank you so much for being the first North American that i have ever heard pronounce J A G U A R properly, you are the best. No W
8:50 thats one stancyboi😂
British cars.... if there isn't oil under it, there isn't oil in it!
Johnny Deville same with American
British cars don't leak they mark their territory.
Yes , sounds like a Harley Davidson .
Yes my late model xj leeks oil very true
Great comment, now i know why my Jag is not running !!!
Make a 24hr Lemons car of it, with Hoovie, Tavarish, Wizard and Doug driving it!
Yesssss this needs to happen!!!!!
Dilly Dilly
Tries to start it with AC/heater on, and wipers going, then comments on it running out of power.
And without checking fluids (on camera, at least.)
Or just attaching the battery booster, 'cos its stood so long.
24 Hours of Lemons would be a lot of fun and some epic footage. People pay to race on our team for the weekend, so it pays for itself but It's a lot of work preparing and maintaining the car although I enjoy it.
I’ve never seen one of these with anything close to that mileage, I wonder how much money was put into it to make it 250k
Somebody needs to call Guinness
By the looks of it, not much at all. I can tell because the exterior condition is really tatty. And generally with these cars, if you're going to look after the mechanical, you're going to look after the body as well. I imagine all this thing has had to keep it on the road is oil changes and spark plugs, maybe another wheel bearing.
i see these with above 200k on marketplace all the time
Can’t believe Hoovie drove it in that condition. The wheel could’ve fallen off and caused a major accident.
Quit being dramatic
I agree, it was stupid to drive it considering he had no clue what was wrong with it, didn't even lay on the ground and look at it LOL
Kwistenbiebel200 👌Yeah, you just won’t enjoy it that long.
@Kwistenbiebel200 You are risking others lives. Thats the issue. The family you kill had no choice in the matter.
It's not just his life he's risking.
Worth saving . As for the oil underneath that’s a early Rust protection system
Speaking as a British car enthusiast, I say fix the obvious problems, then just enjoy it. Aside from a few bumps and bruises, that’s a lovely car that’s had a long working life, but still has many more good miles left in it.
Have it!!!!! Clarkson and Leno would approve. You could do a restoration on it...
Clarkson owned one, well the XJR anyway.
Saloon? Are you channeling you inner Jeremy Clarkson? You know you want that Jag!!
I have a 2000 XJ8L (base model) with 239k miles on the original drivetrain. Engine has DEFINITELY lost compression as it doesn't like to go over 3,500 rpm as you floor it, even when using the jgate shifter. Transmission is still great, electronics are flawless, body is straight. Cracked windshield, broken sunroof, no heat, leaks coolant from the reservoir, but I daily it and I love every minute of it (except for 12mpg on premium)
Dump it! Right away! Unless you have some really strong sentimental reasons to not to do so.
Your friend will earn way more than the 200 bucks just for selling your pieces of it.
And like you said yourself, it might actually help to keep other Jags in good shape :)