Been lurking for a while, but now it's official. I just made my first Jeep purchase, a black, 100% stock, 1999 XJ Sport 4x4, with 110,000 miles. It has power everything, but no cruise control. So cruise is the first thing on my upgrade list. Undercarriage is damn near rust free, but I can see the muffler will need replacing soon. The to-do list begins...





Seconds after purchasing.





Checking out the undercarriage before I bought it.

 

Welcome to the forum. That's a clean XJ

 

Welcome, and good call on inspecting everything before buying. Saves you from surprises later on.

 

Nice Clean XJ

Mind if I ask what you paid?

 

$4500

 

Nice, not too bad. From my findings over the last 5 years XJs have actually gone up in price. I picked up a nice clean 3" lifted black 98 back in 2011 for 2k...same jeep now would sell for 5k easily.

May just be my area, but folks are asking and getting 6k+ for fairly clean XJs with cheap lifts.

 

I looked at about 15 different 1999 XJ's over the past 3 months and they were all around $5K with 100k+ miles. Most were in terrible shape. I was about to bid on one of those pristine looking ones from eBay for like $7k, but I lucked out when I found this one.

 

Welcome along, looks good.

 

Went to the JY today and pulled what I need to get cruise control.



Cruise control to be installed soon.

 

yeah I need to do that to my jeep too. I gotta change out the steering wheels as well if I wanted to put in the cruise control.

 

Cruise installed. Pretty easy.



Cruise control install finished.

 

Sounds like a good deal. Dealer or private party price?

 

Private party. Found on Craigslist.