Consumer Complaint Detail

JAGUAR / XJ8L / 1998

Recalls
0 Injured
Investigations
0 Death
Complaints
No Fire
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