I am now the owner of a 2008 Jaguar XKR Platinum Portfolio edition

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07-29-2013, 08:11 AM

DGL

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Originally Posted by JustNiz

Yeah its surprising how long the nose is beyond the part you can see. Way more than my old-shape XKR.

My car has a forward radar operated by one of the buttons in the fog light button/dimmer control switchpack. Its off by default. I'm guessing it re purposes the adaptive cruise radar so maybe only cars with adaptive cruise have it?

They don't describe well its intended use in the manual but I guess its for alerting you in case you're distracted when the car in front suddenly brakes or whatever, or maybe its for use in fog.

Has anyone found it works reliably as a (front) parking detector? I think Jag do fit front parking detectors (like the back ones) but only in some markets and as an extra option. I don't have them but having something as a safeguard would be nice before I inevitably ding the nose on something one day.

The newer XK's have front bumper sensors activated manually by pressing the "P" bottom where the garage door homelink bottoms are by the rear view mirror. I used it all the time in my XKR175 and will use in again in my new 2013 XKR. Before I discovered the bottom I hit a curb when parking. A front camera would be good. I'm going to look into if I can also mod the rear camera to recognize a front camera when parking.

Congrats on the new ride drubnitz. These cars grow on you. I sold my XKR175 a few weeks ago and missed it so much I had to buy a replacement.

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07-29-2013, 08:53 AM

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Mich,

No problem. I paid $48,000 for the car when I got it. It had about less than 30k miles on it at the time and was covered under the warranty. I traded it in for about $40k the following year on the Corvette. I hope this helps.

A $8,000+ hit in 12 months is quite the hit. Probably shows that the 2008 XKR Portfolio convert is really only worth the $41,000 to $42,000 price from a "private party" which is just about what I suggested a few days ago.

Hope you get, but for a "fair price". Keep us posted.

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