hi, all!
new-ish to the forum. been lurking and scouring for a few weeks now.
I recently purchased a 2020 v6 340, with 40k miles.
considering all of what I've read and seen, I'm reasonably certain I'm having the supercharger coupler issue.
so in my mind, it makes good sense to replace it with the solid eaton one and while that's happening, swap out the coolant pipes for the aluminum ones at the same time.
I'm not skilled enough to do it on my own, so my question is- if I purchase the parts ahead of time, will my local jaguar dealership take care of the install, or am I gonna have to find an indie shop to take care of it?
thanks for any insight!

 

I get all my work done at a good indy shop that specializes in JLR. Service is far cheaper and the results are better. The ind shop has never once overfilled my oil...

 

In New England USA they will, you can get the OEM METAL pipes at the dealer now, cost more, but the cheap ones are fine

 

Coupler issue was MOSTLY taken care during 2018 or 2019, the solid one will make a noise from the engine bay louder on start up. These cars have issues, don't create an issue that isn't there yet. Mine did not happen till 70+k miles, for piece of mind, if you want to change it then change it, but replace the whole snout. to me you are just wasting money,

 

thanks, all!
I really appreciate the input here.
it's entirely possible that I'm a bit paranoid of something going wrong. that said, I'll shoot a video tomorrow and see what the consensus is, on whether everything sounds right under the hood.
the first time I heard the clunking on shutdown, it stuck out like a sore thumb to me. to my ears, it's sounds like many other videos I've heard/seen that have the issue.
I'd certainly be happiest if nothing was wrong, however!
as an aside- my local JLR won't play ball with anything that they don't order.
a trusted friend knows of an indie garage that has been taking care all of his jag and merc needs for more than 20 years (and for cheaper, of course), should I need assistance. so that's good, at any rate.

 

@Lunchmin the local jlr dealer here in the Seattle area charge me $4,500 to replace the pipes with newer seamless plastic pipes and also replace the coupler, fyi. Fortunately the cost was completely covered by post purchase warranty from Carvana. I doubt any jlr dealers going to install any parts that you would bring to them as they would require OEM parts for warranty purposes as well as they make a good amount of money on markup for those parts.

 

Also once I received the car back from all the work I still had a post shut off "clunk" which I finally figured out was the electronic control unit shutting the throttle valve completely.

 

@Lunchmin here are 2 videos, the first is the engine without the coupler replacement, you will hear the motor sounds like a can of metal being shaken, rattles and the clunk at shut down around 7 seconds, then right after, the throttle valve closing with a second thunk
The second video is the motor off with the coupler replaced and just the throttle valve clunk, I hope this helps

1: https://photos.app.goo.gl/U9kKuotucfe47AKv9

2: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9s4RHwgHBdAmQoCe7

 

well now...
I'm not sure what to think, then!
mine doesn't sound like your first video. it sounds more like the second. maybe I'll be a bit lucky for a while!
I haven't had the opportunity to shoot a video yet today. going to try to make some time tonight or tomorrow.
very curious to see what you think.
thanks a bunch!!!