One surprise regarding used flagship cars is the difficulty in finding random interior bits.
The XJ has been my daily, so in the pre-Covid days I put quite a lot of miles on it. Turns out the sun visors don’t like constant use (they’re needed to hold up the OEM sun shade) and the driver’s side literally flopped down and refused to go back up.
New units from JLR were $700........each. Fortunately, the shop was able to source some from another car, but supply and demand dictates that it still wouldn’t be cheap.
While we were at it, I finally had all the curb rash repaired. You can only tell if you know where to look. It’s nice to finally have the car whole, more than two years after buying it with ITA97’s help. Fingers crossed it stays this way for a while.
When I called up the shop to check on the car, the owner actually gave me a scare by mistaking me for another customer. “Yeah, you’ve got coolant leaking at the manifold and at the radiator...”
They say one does not escape the exotic car mechanic for under $1k, so with this car being not quite exotic, I got out for under $1k.
