RE: Jaguar XF V6 Luxury | Shed of the Week

[MightyBadger]

jdw100 said:

I did 6 years in 3 different S-Types (3.0v6) all bought second hand.

Four years in an XK8 4.2 convertible.

Bought a cheap XJ8 (£900) with a mate for a two week European jaunt (wow, was 12 years ago. Time flies!), Left the car in Ibiza.

My ex had an x-type 3.0 estate for three years.

Non-service parts/ tyres:

- fuel pump on one of the S-Types.

- a fix for the convertible roof: flushing out the old fluid which had gone all sticky

- failed window switch on an S-Type. Jag wanted £120, my local guy fixed a dry solder for £5.

- did a preventative gearbox fluid change on the XK8.

That’s it in a total of 13 years of motoring, including commuting, holidays, business travel etc.

That's great but I don't see any XFs listed there?

[Evercross]

blueacid said:

I must admit I'm a little startled that parts availability is so poor. I can understand for electrics etc (are the chips in question still made etc), but for a big lump of metal, why wouldn't you ensure that your customers can always buy them from you? Profit is profit.

Part of the problem is that the X250 XF was a Ford design and Ford retained and licensed a lot of the IP for the parts to Tata when they sold the Jaguar brand to them because the parts were also used in contemporary Ford models.

The licenses have expired so Tata have to go cap-in-hand to Ford if they want to make any more of the parts once they have used up the stockpile they have. There's plenty wear-and-tear partsTata will continue selling or source an alternative for - an example being the auxiliary belt tensioners for the V6 and V8 engines which used to come from the same place Ford got them from in Canada (branded FoMoCO) but have been redesigned (no longer Ford branded and now carrying the Jaguar and Land Rover logos) and are made in Slovakia - but other parts there's probably little incentive for them to do so.

As I said though, if you can source the Ford equivalent you can get them from the US, usually at a big saving.

Edited by Evercross on Tuesday 30th April 15:16

[PurpleTurtle]

bqf said:

EML lights seem to be quite scary to most, but in my experience, they are either something simple, like an o2 sensor, or something utterly untraceable, so you end up sticking a bit of black tape over them

My last 2 Lexuses (Lexii??) kept chucking the EML light on, then off, then on.....I got bored of reading the codes in the end and put some tape over it.

[b]An EML light isn't always Bork DefCon1[b]

But it is an MOT failure these days, which (unless you can reset it outside the test centre with a code reader and pray it doesn't immediately come on during the test) means you are pretty snookered from an MOT perspective if the EML won't go out.

[ffhard]

As already said even when sold as a p/ex (which implies no warranty) someone will have looked at the eml being on and decided it's not worth fixing. Otherwise they would have fixed it and asked more money. So definitely a bargepole job for me!