I Bought A CHEAP ULTRA LUXURY Car From 2004 *Jaguar XJ8 Vanden Plas*

[@XDymeStarX]

The u shifter ?? That's the J gate ! Looks great JR, thanks for the video !

[@rogermaybank9345]

For 1100 dollars you could just park it and sit in the back seat watching DVDs! Amazing, what a result, what a car.

[@SandyNickk]

“2004 rich” is my absolute favorite era of Euro luxury. I had a 2006 750Li for several years and loved it. It was a hell of an endeavor to bring it back from all the neglect and deferred service, but man, what a car. Keep this stuff coming!

[@pcar00]

Hit the lock button twice to fold the mirrors in. It should have auto leveling headlights as well, should cycle when you turn the key on. I've had my 2004 XJR for 11 years now and its been an awesome car.

[@noahb3370]

In my Jeremy Clarkson voice "That's a proper JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG."

[@Wiiswis]

Hey JR, you should do a complete Fleet update during this transition period , to see what’s staying and what’s going. Thanks!!

[@lando0861]

Hey JR! Landon here, so I’m familiar with this car because a classmate of mines dad had this car and listed for sale because it was having issues so glad your saving it!

[@thomasflynn5366]

Three days ago: We aren't buying cheap cars anymore Today: Let me show you this $1100 Jag

[@FrostyBalls21]

....all about the views

[@MdvK13979]

'junk' cars, he said. diferent kind of cheap ;)

[@dancas82]

I have no idea what the direction of this channel is now.

[@Tyler-vv2vp]

He's no longer buying cars he has no interest in just to flip

[@thomasflynn5366]

@@Tyler-vv2vp it was a joke

[@AutoAuctionRebuilds]

I had a 2004 XJ8 in 2010. It lowered itself 10mm once you hit like 60mph. Great car man.

[@AutoAuctionRebuilds]

My xj8 had a transmission fault too - took it to Jag if Wichita and they added 1pt of fluid and upgraded the software. Never had another issue.

[@lc3566]

Double tap the lock button on the remote. This deadlocks the car and makes the mirrors fold in when that feature is activated. I have an XJR, same year as this. Great cars.

[@colinlamb7572]

Cannot believe it, gone through all the comments, and only found 1 whinge BAG.I love Jags, had my first in 72, l am now 82, and still driving an XJ6. In all l'v had 7. Makes a refreshing change to read so many Americans liking the Jags. Keep Safe 🙌 Love to America

[@mds2465]

For the power folding mirrors you may need to disassemble them and lubricate the gears inside. Overtime the grease inside tends to dry up and that often attributes to them not operating properly.

[@IN-rf1pv]

Greatest iteration of the AJ V8 which basically spanned this entire generation of XJ, which doesn’t eat timing chains. Just wish they had done more with the wheels… the Super V8 5 spokes (basically the Vanden Plas plus S/C) are gorgeous

[@jaromor8808]

Sepang Also Callisto are gorgeous

[@theBoomerDoomer]

My grandfather had an 87 Vanden Plas. He drove it every day to metropolitan VA from southern MD for years. I learned how to drive in that car. It was the epitome of cool to me as a kid. I actually cried a little when he sold it… even though it was horribly broken at the time. I would have loved to have that car and learned how to fix it. One day, I will have a car like this… and every time I drive it, I’ll think of my “Pop.”

[@larrymarcrum2483]

Absolutely love the idea of ditching the old junk cars and getting old-school luxury vehicles! I also appreciate having a video to watch every day!!! Keep up the great work

[@jeremysomeone]

I have a 2006 VDP in the same spec with the rear entertainment too. Mine being an 07 it’s the LWB. Love it, true elegance. You have to double click the fob for auto fold.

[@eddiehuff7366]

LOVE THAT THING! Big Jag fan man here. Bumper + PDR for hail damage + transmission + bumper.... and then cruise away!!!

[@walterhubicki5207]

The j shifter keeps you from shifting into reverse when you're manual is shifting the car on the highway. I did this with my 1984 XJ Vanden Plas on Motorway in England. Actually turned the motor over backward and the oil pressure gauge went to negative. Unfortunately the oil pressure gauge never worked again after that. Fortunately I didn't hurt the engine and drove it for years after. that is the purpose of the j shifter.

[@nickrulez809765]

JR, I love your content. But the way you pronounce Avatar is physically painful to listen to.

[@jliscorpio]

And Plas (and budnz)

[@shiTthebed86]

I'm from the UK. And the way Americans say Tesla plaid really winds me up. They say plad. It's clearly not plad.

[@matt_hayward]

​@@jliscorpio beat me to it

[@frankdeboer1347]

How do you pronounce plaid if not plad?​@@shiTthebed86

[@pk4459]

But extra bonus points for correctly pronouncing pièce de résistance.

[@marial8235]

Good find, JR.❤. Those XJs are so comfortable. I have an XK8 in our fleet, but want an XJ for the extra seats and a little more comfort.

[@ernanidimassa4968]

Thw auto fold only works if you hit the lock button twice quickly... it's a feature too save the motors from over use... I have a 2006 VDP... LOVE this car! you made a great buy.

[@leovantuyl188]

On the xj8 and XJR double press the fob lock to fold the mirrors. I have the 04 xjr equipped inside exactly like yours only have 80090 miles

[@danshadoin7661]

We've seen you get excited by a newly bought car before, but dude, you were gushing. It was fun to go along with you and get just as excited.

[@321dragracingmedia6]

My jaw still on the ground floor ever since you showed the aux connectors for PS2 or Nintendo 64.... I'm still flabbergasted

[@porsche928s4]

Just sold my XJR it had the same thing

[@IansGarage]

I had a 2004 XJ6 in the UK. Soooo relaxing, quick enough, decent economy. Great car

[@Topspeedmotorcars]

The usually problem is not a bad transmission, it's needs service and most likely low on fluid. New pan, filter sleeve, and fluid will solve the problem.

[@tomfurie2996]

If it doesn’t have Bluetooth (phone only) fitted you can add it under the console. I added it to my 2004 VDP and it worked perfectly. Check the manual to see about pairing first. Nice Jaaag.

[@MrBeugh]

I had the same exact car except mine was a gorgeous Portofino blue with a tan interior. The coolant overflow tanks fail all the time and they’re prone to vacuum leaks, so et your smoke tester ready! A truly magnificent car. The higher gear shift circuits go bad and a little research will tell you that the transmission is a ZF model used in numerous vehicles. Mercedes will charge you $15K, Jaguar will charge you $8500. I forget which regular car has the same unit but you can find out easily.

[@Titanic19127]

I had a 1998 Jaguar XJ8L, British racing green, loved it.

[@cyprex]

Older Jags are so cool!

[@freddyhollingsworth5945]

What a beautiful and elegant car...now imagine if it was the deep emerald green!! I can't wait to see it back on the road and hear that engine roar!!

[@blackcountryme]

Na, dark green, British racing green.

[@homiesenatep]

@@blackcountrymeI hate the British racing green

[@sonofhalver]

This is 2nd in line to the Super V8. Super V8 has all the options of the Vanden Plan + the supercharger from the XJR. Looks it has everything expect the phone and adaptive cruise control. They're excellent cars. $1100 is great for only needing a new trans.

[@mirceaturau8516]

And don't forget about another cool feature in your Jaguar.. the pedals (the break and acceleration pedals) are adjustable, you can adjust them from the same button which adjust the steering wheel. Good luck with your project.

[@deadon4847]

Hopefully the Brake pedal didn't Break.

[@1911MikeinOregon]

The rear center console is really cool. You can never have too many buttons and lights. The green display color on the head unit and rear console controls definitely reminds me of the old Alpine, back when Alpine was really good. I started using Alpine in probably the late 70's, early 80's. They made some incredible equipment back in the day. I've still got a early head units in the original boxes that I sent to Alpine and had them serviced so they would be ready to go if I decide to use them...

[@RicoCantrell]

It's insane how much more loaded this is than the 2003 Mercury LSE I just bought. This is crazy!!

[@manowaari]

Drove this kind of car with 3.0l diesel. Awesome car and performance with superb fuel economy.

[@britishcarfan9601]

Hey John Ross my grandfather back in 2007 purchased a 2006 Jaguar XJ8 Sovereign gold with a beige leather interior. It was his daily driver up until 2014 because the air suspension broke so you might wanna take a look at that on this one to see if it’s good or not. That’s a common failure on these X350s

[@palletwizard]

That is probably J004 which was a recall for a range of 2004 and 2005 MY cars (G00584 - G49700) to update the Engine Control Module and in some cases the Transmission Control Module as well:

[@NZotyoka81]

The 6cd changer is Alpine in every Jaguar. I like how people used to look down jaguar cars as outdated meanwhile they hold thoes technologies what you did not find in other luxury brands cars like touch screen navigation from 2002, electric park break.

[@genericsomething]

It looks a lot like the Clarion unit in my 2006 Ford.

[@pjbird6]

Cool video, J gate… brought back lots of memories, I worked at jag/ rover dealership during this period… these were really nice rides back in the day

[@scotttucker8127]

19:02 When the car is unlocked you have to press the lock button twice and it will make the mirrors fold automatically as long as you have that setting selected in the system

[@SRMWorkshop]

Hopefully the 4.2 already has the updated timing set, that was right about the changeover time. The first few years of that transmission tended to suffer early failure between solenoid failure or the bushings that would wear crazy fast. I'm just glad they got it figured out before my 2011 was built because I really don't want to fix it if mine goes bad.

[@mikemueller8807]

Mother in law has had 2 XJ's and I marveled at how such a giant car could have such a tight interior. I'm 6'3" and had to hold my head to the side while driving.

[@pjg7999]

That’s the reason I sold my S type R. Beautiful interior but no leg room. I’m 6’2. Back seat wasn’t usable. 😂

[@jesuscardona3587]

Wow the nostalgia! I remember turning 21 and working hard to be able to buy my 01 S-type 3.0

[@EdAb]

Pleeeeease show us every step of the restoration!!! This is going to be awesome! Thanks!

[@100PercentJake]

That back seat entertainment is unreal

[@batsonelectronics]

play Unreal Tournament 2004 and it is unreal unreal 2004 2004. :)

[@69Dartman]

Fixing or parting, either way probably a win, watching now 👍😊

[@WatchJRGo]

Oh I'm fixing this one 🍻

[@69Dartman]

​Yeah I posted early and now it's clear what the plan is. Good thing about parting cars is you might just have the parts for one that's worth fixing to sell yourself or keep because it is awesome and dirt cheap. I used to specialize in older Mopar A bodies so I always have spare misc parts for them. I just have the Dart now, but my driver is a 06 Charger RT with 96k now, much faster than the Dart was.

[@StickyPirate]

Those blank buttons next to heated seats are for cooled seats. Red light turns to blue light. For the perforated seats though.

[@deltoroarmando9047]

Hi the steering wheel button adjustment you can chose pedals and adjust the distances on the floor pedals quite unique even today

[@finn.hermansen]

Great video John, cant wait to see you work on it. Thats is a real lovely car. 👍👍👍

[@darylkik777]

In high-school (South East) my best friend for years was Clay Barton. (Yes, his dad is the Frank Barton School of Business at WSU.) One day Clay showed up at my house having borrowed his dad's V12 Jaguar and we took a joyride. It was not fast but so smooth and quiet (327 V12 I think.) From then on I have loved and owned three used ones and want another today. P.S- Its not a U-shifter, its a J-gate for Jaguar.

[@GrandMoffJoseph]

More Jag content! Heck yeah!

[@Gill_Bates]

"Vanden Plaz" lol. ... The French speakers/Belgiums will be reaching for their pitchforks. :)

[@tedsmart5539]

Belgians... but we get it

[@Gill_Bates]

Sorry meant French speakers, now corrected, thanks@@tedsmart5539

[@frankdeboer1347]

​@tedsmart5539 it's definitely not French

[@pk4459]

Belgiums and Francers

[@JohnDoe-zr6bk]

Shouldn't it be pronounced "wun-dan-pluz" or so?

[@walterhubicki5207]

I know you don't like working on the Jags in the past but this is nice! Thank you.

[@mbk649]

Its not a "U" Shifter - its a "J-Gate" so sorry a pedantic Brit in in the UK JR

[@nostric4237]

Cant wait for the next video on this car! This is why I love WatchJRGo

[@johnirwin6120]

Thank you for the tour. I "oohed" at brief glimpse of a XJR. Now I know what the insides are like.

[@aitp]

Shame about the hail damage. Needs some PDR.

[@The_Sword_Rules]

Likely a Salvage title because of the hail too?

[@Wheelhouseprojects]

Standard equipment Kansas. Dealer basically sells at a markup without dents.

[@michaelmahoney8887]

Ooh A Vanden Plas!!! 😍 My favorite generation of Jaguar sedan. It even has auto wipers.

[@GH-rc8ht]

The turn signal lamps should flash with the remote loxk/unlock function. The ZF 5-speed auto had its share of issues. The 6-speed was a vast improvement and extremely reliable.

[@AVNinjaLLC]

Good shout out to Crestron. It is number 1 in the Home AV world for control systems. You know I love that.

[@billpar]

stunning automobile glad you are fixing her

[@toolzshed]

Whoa touchscreen 😲🤘🏽🔥In 2004? Niceeeee!

[@mirceaturau8516]

Try to press twice on the locking button and the mirrors should fold and the alarm system to be activated.

[@codybose515]

These are such awesome and beautiful cars. I know ford still had some partnership with jag. So i see a few ford parts still such as the coolant tank and power steering reservoir. I believe some of the engine parts were the same as well. Good score JR !

[@garyfry2648]

Love seeing your excitement with this cool older car.

[@dirtyversa3165]

Best sound in the world is the indicator noise. Like a grandfather clock ticking away.

[@FredAston]

‘04 was the first year of the new all aluminum chassis, but was also the only year the Vanden Plas was on the standard wheelbase car. All other years were long wheelbase cars with tons of rear seat legroom. It also lost the folding tray tables for this year only. To me those made the car. Some little known facts about your car though are the light wood inlay strips in the burl panels is Rosewood and exclusive to the VDP. Regular XJS didn’t have that. The Jaguar lettering in the dash is real gold inlay also. If the walnut panels are the originals, they are booked making the right and left door panels mirrored to each other. The dashboard panels are booked to each other as well. My only disappointment with this generation of XJ is that the fuel fill location was moved to side from the deck top where it should be, and the bonnet opens from the wrong direction. Great car my friend at an unbelievable price.

[@OltonHall]

It's been a long time since you were this excited about a car.

[@WatchJRGo]

Put TVs in the back and tray tables and it's a real car 🔥🔥🔥

[@caddyguy5369]

The combination of power folding mirrors and the rear sunshade is perfect for people behind you with bright lights. Sunshade up, mirrors in, essentially immune.

[@justinregister795]

The burnt CD was a nice touch! This car is the definition of ‘04 rich.

[@ryaneccles1237]

Cool car JR! People will always be interested in jag content and rotaries.

[@michaelcoonce6694]

you finally bought something i like

[@robertsturtevant6185]

Probably one of THE QUICKEST flip cars you’ve bought…….Loving the content….

[@kerrylewis2581]

Very nice purchase. This car was loved and well maintained

[@Default78334]

You should see if you can source some of the optional folding tray tables for the rear seats and retrofit them.

[@Brett7777]

4.2 Engine was a great engine. Next 5.0 was good as well. My dad was a Jaguar man. He had 2 coupes. Last one he had was a XKR in green with fawn interior.

[@tkskagen]

This audio system needs the "SANDSTORM" test to ensure total bliss!

[@chrisi9265]

Definitely an Alpine CD Changer... You can tell by that green eject button and label font.

[@BaronQ]

This one's definitely been babied, suspect the tech has barely been used. What a bargain ! good luck Jon 🤘

[@ellocovg]

I’m glad this is still a hooptie Jag not a 2022 Jag!!!

[@yosefmiller6403]

My grandfather has the same one but 2006 and in British racing green Heated seat for driver side activates heated steering wheel

[@hanialghassab1136]

great cars i have 2009 XJ6 and 2009 XJ Daimler v8 with supercharge to fold the merroirs double click the closing button and it should fold them

[@rossfield8850]

UK Government had a ton of these back in the day - armoured and normal ones 🇬🇧

[@PistolPete14]

Windows auto up can be reset by holding the up button for an extra few seconds once window is up, has to be done on each window. Door lock button won’t work if any doors are open.

[@ChattinArmsCorp]

Slick deal brother! Nice find.

[@jbirzer]

Vanden Plas is also a great band. Personally, I've always liked the look of Jags. Classy.

[@paulgart]

You missed the controls for moving the pedals forward and back! It’s on the same stalk as the controls for the steering wheel 😉👍

[@rickspencer7272]

Silas from the KZbin channel adventures from scratch just got one of those jags in his junkyard with a nice looking front bumper!

[@keasbeydave]

Please get the tv adapter. Just want to see it all working. You can do it JR.

[@GriffDoesVideos]

You probably know this but all jags of the era use the same rear blind. I fitted one to my XF but Frankensteining a rear shelf from an XJ. I have a spare you could have but it wouldn't be worth the shipping from the UK!

[@bikeman1x11]

thanks for getting a good car to work on and not those wrecks

[@michaelhawkins5530]

Wow, what a great deal on that car. Looking forward to see you getting it running.

[@will89687]

You can tell a Kansas Jag by the hailstone damage...

[@jamestyndall529]

Put a blown LS with a scoop through the hood

[@sprezzatura8755]

Draguar! 😂

[@AL_SD]

Imagine if the original owner would’ve invested the 80k in nvidia stock in 04 instead

[@sprezzatura8755]

And bought a 20-year-old Jag back then for pennies on the dollar.

[@sicknessuntamed]

the YSB for the jag J004 is non compliance issues relating to on board diagnostic (obd) system function covering thermostat diagnostic, calibration verification, in use monitor performance ratio, and an emission issue relating to open loop smoothing

[@avioncamper]

JR, congrats on the new ride and super price. Needs a little love and care. Nice color too.

[@TheNorm959]

JR love the Jaguar

[@bigbot1975]

My buddy's dad had like that I think. His dad loved that care but when things broke it was hard for him to find parts.