Originally Posted by srogue
Finally, what kind of maintenance items are big ones on the XF? I know like on a honda prelude, the timing belt/pump were big, and if you didn't get it done befoer the belt broke, it would bend the valves and you would be looking at a huge repair bill. Anything like this on the XF? Is it an interference engine?
The engine runs off a timing chain. The only big maintenance items are fluid changes and tires.
By they way, if you're, generally speaking, unable to spend $800 to $1000 on tires every 30k miles, then don't buy the Crossfire. This car takes enormous 18" and 19" low profile tires. Read: NOT CHEAP.
Originally Posted by srogue
Also, I was looking on a site that listed cost of repairs for the XF, and it all looked normal except shocks/struts, it listed those as costing 5000.00 to replace, is that right??? Thats almost half the cost of the car!
That site was probably Consumerguide (now howstuffworks). The XF doesn't use struts. Shocks could cost whatever you're willing to pay for them. My recommendation is to buy Koni sports for ~$680 on all four corners when you need new shocks. Probably even cheaper for cheap, off-brand shocks, but why you'd want to use them on a sports car, I have no idea.
$5000, that looks like a typo to me. $500, maybe.