| Components - Details | |
|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 006052706 | Incident Date: Jan, 04 2006 |
| Consumer's City: FORT LAUDERDALE | Consumer's State: FL |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Jaguar Cars, Ltd. |
| Model Name: XJ8L | Model Year: 1998 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Power train:automatic transmission |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: SAJHX6241WC | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Jan, 11 2006 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Apr, 13 2005 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 8 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: This is a second entrance for this complaint. the first entrance was a mistake due to wrong date of purchase. the vehicle was purchased in april 2005. i am the third owner of the vehicle. i have a carfax with the vehicles history. i did have a passenger at the time of the failure and almost had a wreck. the failure occurred at an intersection. my passengers complained of a strained neck possibly whiplash? anyway the description is listed below: i own a 1998 xj8l. recently, my transmission went out in the vehicle. i only have 72,500 miles on this vehicle. i contacted jaguar and explained the situation to them. they stated that this is high mileage. i explained to them that no it is not high mileage engines are built to last 100,000 miles. i stated that jaguar is not wanting to issue a recall on these transmissions. there is a recall r478. it covers the o ring inside the transmission. the teeth break and cause the transmission to fail. this is what happened to my vehicle. after doing some research in various forums, i found that there is a lot of people affected by this recall. the three other issues with these models is the nakesil engine, and the serpentine belt tensioner. i am filing a class action suit against jaguar for a product defect/malfunction. *jb |
