Cruise control on late '90s XJR

Feb 06, 2007 3 Replies

I currently have a 3.2 sovereign XJ6, but want to change to a XJR. I've got around £4000 to spend so I'm looking for one from around



1996. However, when looking at pictures of ones on Auto Trader, it seems they do not have the cruise control buttons on the right hand side of the steering column like my XJ6 Sovereign does.

Does the XJR from this period have cruise control? It's a feature I use quite a bit. Thanks



If it is an XJ6 then cruise control has the buttons on the right -

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0706269616142 If it is an XJ8 (late 97 onwards), then the cruise control consists of a button next to the gear shifter (typically you'd have two buttons here, sport and cruise - but not all cars have both) and buttons on the steering wheel for set/resume/etc.

Matt

Cheers Matt,

That might explain it. In particular I was looking at these cars:

This one (which is a V8) appears to have two buttons just below the gearshift:

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And this one (1996, I guess XJ6) which has the "missing" cruise control switch to the right of the steering column:
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I had assumed that all XJRs had cruise control, but maybe not.

I have a 1996 XJR which doesn't have cruise control. I personally don't miss it, but am used to not having one. When you come to buy your XJR make sure that you check the rear wheel arches, mine have bubbled badly, also check the m.p.g. I seem only to be getting about

13 m.p.g. town driving, though on the motorway I get about 22 m.p.g. It's a great car but silly things can be annoying, like the headlight jet washes which are very prominent and keep getting knocked off. There are a few other things that you may want to know about. Don't hesitate to email me, I'm happy to help.

Richard Lichten

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