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For those of us on the forums, it will be great to share any potential problems or "weird sounds" that may occur on your Fpace once you get yours so we can all keep abreast. There will be the inevitable lemon someone will get too. Doesn't mean they're all going to be bad, sometimes things just don't line up right and that particular car will be a real turd (like a 99' Dodge Durango we had...
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Anyway, sometimes these problems take a long time to show up. I became somewhat of semi-expert on XJ's 1995-2000 as I had to be since I owned 2. There were many problems that showed up across the board that encompassed every part of the car. Through Jag-Lovers Forum, I was able to help many people with their problems and also put the idea of looking out for potential problems to those that hadn't reached the usual "problem mileage" for a particular problem to show up. And in some cases, some cars never developed certain problems that 90% of the rest of them did (I was one of those guys). But let's share anything that comes up warranty or not regarding our FPace.
Since the FPace shares the same engine as the F-Type, maybe there hasn't been enough miles yet for those problems to surface. Maybe we'll get lucky and it's the best engine ever. The V8's of the XJ series were a good engine design except for 2 major design flaws. First, the Nikasil disaster which I won't get into here as Jag, (as well as Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, etc) all learned their lesson about THAT whole thing, and eventually stopped using it. The other was the use of cam-chain tensioners that were of not robust enough build quality. The body of the spring would split at around 40 to 70 thousand miles, and become sloppy. When that happened, it could not contain the cam chain under duress and under hard load would allow the chain to slip, thereby leading to bad things like rods going through the side of the block - ugh! Once the tensioners were fixed and you got a mid 2000 engine or later - a uh...very good engine. The straight 6 of the earlier models was generally good but had cracking header issues in later years.
I believe that there's many other parts shared with the F-Type so hopefully all the bugs (if any) that show up on F-Types that have a lot more miles on them will translate into fixing potential problems as "recalls fixed free of charge". I have read of a few superchargers having to be replaced so there's something to keep an eye on.... all it takes is one part in the assembly to go screwball.
So, let us pray for a quality car with a lot of bugs worked out that hopefully would have shown up already on the F-Types and all the testing in Viking land and the largest catbox in the world - the Middle east (with all that heat). It's nice reading that supposedly all this testing has been done with those extremes so I'm looking forward to our cars being solid in our normal environments.
)Anyway, sometimes these problems take a long time to show up. I became somewhat of semi-expert on XJ's 1995-2000 as I had to be since I owned 2. There were many problems that showed up across the board that encompassed every part of the car. Through Jag-Lovers Forum, I was able to help many people with their problems and also put the idea of looking out for potential problems to those that hadn't reached the usual "problem mileage" for a particular problem to show up. And in some cases, some cars never developed certain problems that 90% of the rest of them did (I was one of those guys
). But let's share anything that comes up warranty or not regarding our FPace.Since the FPace shares the same engine as the F-Type, maybe there hasn't been enough miles yet for those problems to surface. Maybe we'll get lucky and it's the best engine ever. The V8's of the XJ series were a good engine design except for 2 major design flaws. First, the Nikasil disaster which I won't get into here as Jag, (as well as Porsche, BMW, Ferrari, etc) all learned their lesson about THAT whole thing, and eventually stopped using it. The other was the use of cam-chain tensioners that were of not robust enough build quality. The body of the spring would split at around 40 to 70 thousand miles, and become sloppy. When that happened, it could not contain the cam chain under duress and under hard load would allow the chain to slip, thereby leading to bad things like rods going through the side of the block - ugh! Once the tensioners were fixed and you got a mid 2000 engine or later - a uh...very good engine. The straight 6 of the earlier models was generally good but had cracking header issues in later years.
I believe that there's many other parts shared with the F-Type so hopefully all the bugs (if any) that show up on F-Types that have a lot more miles on them will translate into fixing potential problems as "recalls fixed free of charge". I have read of a few superchargers having to be replaced so there's something to keep an eye on.... all it takes is one part in the assembly to go screwball.
So, let us pray for a quality car with a lot of bugs worked out that hopefully would have shown up already on the F-Types and all the testing in Viking land and the largest catbox in the world - the Middle east (with all that heat). It's nice reading that supposedly all this testing has been done with those extremes so I'm looking forward to our cars being solid in our normal environments.
