Highlights
- Low mileage and well preserved car
- £5,000 of recent investment to ready for sale
- Desirable Regency Red Mica over Doeskin colour scheme
- Full Jaguar main dealer service history to 82,537 miles
- Long MOT to July 2024
- Handsome daily driver or weekend indulgence
The Appeal
The XJ40 was Jaguar’s first all-new car for nearly 20 years. It was a long time in the making but it was worth the wait: it cleverly blended nods to traditional Jaguar aesthetics whilst introducing advanced new technology. Consummately smooth and unruffled like a Jaguar saloon should be, its fundamental engineering remained in production well into the new Millennium.
The Sovereign was the upmarket version, borrowing its name and approach to luxury from Daimler. In 1990 the superb AJ6 unit was enlarged to 4litres to add more refinement and power.
This smart low mileage 4litre Sovereign is attractively finished in Regency Red Mica over Doeskin. Thanks to £5,000 investment by the seller since 2022 it is solid in all the places you want any XJ40 to be, including the arches and sills, and comes with a good history file and the reassurance of a long MOT.
Displaying all the reasons why these Jaguars are increasingly in demand, it looks a particularly good and well loved example.
The History and Paperwork
- First registered on 14th February 1991
- Current owner since 10th March 2022
- Full set of handbooks and service book in good condition
- God history file covering old MOTs and invoices
- Nine main dealer service book stamps to 82,537 miles on 24th March 1999
- 3 keys including the all-important Jaguar ‘green’ key
- MOT to 8th July 2024 with minor advisories for power steering and rear shock absorbers
- Has covered less than 60 miles since last MOT
- Sparing but regular use since 2019 showing less than 2,500 miles covered
- Invoice from around 2020 for £2,470 at 85,476 miles
- This shows work to suspension, brakes, fuel pump, new battery, fuel hoses and service items
- New Pirelli tyres fitted at the same time, covering just 2,400 miles since
- £5,006.43 spent in May 2022 covering work across the car detailed below
Recent investment by the seller totalling £5,006.43
- Strip exhaust system to flanges, reset and seal to remove any leaks
- Lower body repairs to offside and nearside to remove corrosion
- Prepare and paint repaired areas
- Rub down entire chassis and remove surface corrosion
- Wax oil complete chassis
- Rub down arch areas and WaxOyl
- New fuel filter, fuel lines, fuel pump and pipework
- Shot blast and powder coat all four wheels
- Refurbish or replace shock absorbers and bushes
- Rectify power steering leaks
- Strip and repair sagging headlining
- Full service and check other fluids
The Interior
- Attractive high specification Doeskin leather (code AEE) and burr walnut Sovereign interior
- Remarkably preserved interior betraying few signs of age or wear
- Minimal wear to high traffic areas such as wheel and driver’s seat bolster
- Very light creasing visible to front seat bases
- Premium Sovereign-specification burr walnut veneers with inlays
- Veneers in very good condition with no visible delamination or cracking
- Sunroof model with electric tilt/slide facility
- Factory fitted Jaguar sound system
- Optional cruise control
- Stainless steel Jaguar branded tread plates showing very slight dabs of corrosion
- Dashboard and console well presented, just two marks in passenger footwell to note
- Heated and electric front seats and electric mirrors
- Recently fitted new headlining in factory correct shade
- Dashboard odometer is correctly backlit, a common fault on these cars
- Jaguar overmats front and back, some stains visible to driver’s mat
- Boot area presentable with only light stain visible on base carpet
- Boot lid internal trim shows some marks but likely easily replaced
- Factory tool kit and hard box case
The Exterior
- Very presentable bodywork in factory standard specification
- Significant recent investment to remove any and all bodywork corrosion
- Localised respray to a high standard with good colour matching
- A few minor marks visible but no noticeable marks or corrosion around the car
- Popular Regency Red Mica metallic (code CFA) paintwork
- The bodywork appears solid in areas such as the arches and sills
- Doors show no visible corrosion on panels or edges
- Small chips visible on driver’s door edge but not unsightly
- Door, bonnet and boot panel fit clean and consistent
- Underside reflects this condition appearing solid
- No structural advisories on current or recent MOTs
- Poor bumper blade fit on offside rear corner
- Pirelli tyres with factory 15in alloy wheels recently fully refurbished
- Pirelli tyres fitted 2,400 miles ago
- Fitted with headlamp washers, front fog lamps and Jaguar-branded mud flaps
The Mechanics
- Durable 4litre AJ6 straight six Jaguar fuel injected engine
- 4spd ZF 4HP24 automatic gearbox with Jaguar ‘J’ gate
- Full Jaguar main dealer service history to 1999
- Has covered less than 6,000 miles since
- Last serviced in May 2022 with few miles covered since
- Brakes and suspension overhauled May 2022
- Fuel system overhauled May 2022
Summary
The XJ40s engineering and architecture proved so good that they underpinned Jaguar saloons into the noughties. Serene and sumptuous, good examples are in demand with enthusiasts.
This well maintained example is certainly one of those. With more than £5,000 of work completed in Spring 2022 and few miles since, this is a nicely specified example with a reassuringly long MOT.
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