Jaguar XJ8 — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 466 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Engine112 (24.0%)
• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)64 (13.7%)Official recall records for this system: 1, covering model years 1999.
• Speed control & accelerator54 (11.6%)
• Suspension52 (11.2%)
• Electrical system42 (9.0%)
• Brakes32 (6.9%)

Other / uncategorized: 6 classifications (1.3%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (352 records, model years 1998–2006) are most frequently classified under: engine, powertrain (transmission & drivetrain) and speed control & accelerator.

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 242reports included a mileage
• 66,401average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 1998 97 records for 1998 97
2. 1999 26 records for 1999 26
3. 2001 27 records for 2001 27
4. 2002 16 records for 2002 16
5. 2003 17 records for 2003 17
6. 2004 68 records for 2004 68
7. 2005 19 records for 2005 19
8. 2006 17 records for 2006 17
9. 2008 13 records for 2008 13

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 28mention a crash
• 8mention a fire
• 24mention an injury

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 7
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 130
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 2
• Owner complaints NHTSA 352

Explore the underlying evidence records