Jaguar XF 3.0d V6 S Portfolio 4dr Auto

[Sc0tchland]

I'm interested in a Jag XF:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Anything I should look out for on this model? I believe they get good reviews from this forum..

Thank you

[ninjag]

Sc0tchland said:

I'm interested in a Jag XF:
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

Anything I should look out for on this model? I believe they get good reviews from this forum..

Thank you

The main ones I've heard of with the older pre-facelift saloon are:

1 Door actuators, check that central locking works with all doors. Pretty easy fix.

2 Rear boot wiring loom, check that reversing camera works. An updated longer loom came out and its an inexpensive and easy repair.

3 Check boot for water ingress. There is a sealed vent behind the rear quarter panel which is sometimes not fully pushed in place. All that is usually required is for panel to be removed and seal pushed in place properly.

4 The front windscreen washer pump can sometimes fail and allow water to track through the bulkhead and rust a connector next to the fuse panel. Check the top multi block connector pins for rust. There's a revised washer pump available and very easy to replace directly behind wheel arch liner.

The Sport brake, which is also a facelift, only seems to be susceptible to the door actuators.

The first two I'd say are more common with points three and four being mentioned a few times more than other generic problems. Of course if you delve into any make and model and search their forums you'll always hear the worst from a small percentage of actual owners.

My brothers Accord is newer, lower mileage and is a Honda so you'd expect great reliably. His fuel primer pump and adaptive cruise control have both failed already and now it's gone into limp home now with a suspected knackered dpf which wouldn't even allow an active regen.

I told him he should have bought a Jag haha!

Edited by ninjag on Saturday 20th April 00:16

[WyrleyD]

Same model as my one, but the one I have is April 2010 so "10" registered. I've had it since new and the only failures have been the TPMS central module, a cracked turbo pipe and "water in fuel" sensor an it's sitting on 57k miles at the moment. That one is certainly a lot dirtier under the bonnet than mine and could do with a valet but, for the price, it seems to be a nice enough car.

[Sc0tchland]

WyrleyD said:

Same model as my one, but the one I have is April 2010 so "10" registered. I've had it since new and the only failures have been the TPMS central module, a cracked turbo pipe and "water in fuel" sensor an it's sitting on 57k miles at the moment. That one is certainly a lot dirtier under the bonnet than mine and could do with a valet but, for the price, it seems to be a nice enough car.

What sort of average MPG do you get?

[WyrleyD]

Around 39 mpg on long autoroute runs (90/110/130 km/h) and around 35 mpg locally but that's in very light traffic so I think that would drop to around 32/33 in heavier traffic. Can't believe my one is 9 years old this week.