I didn't take the time to read all of the responses to this thread, so pardon me if I'm repetitive. I have 2 bitches with Jaguar....
1) I still see this car as Jag's representation of a sportscar. I have no statistics, but my guess is the majority of purchasers are people that enjoy sportscars, like I do. It a shame, almost car criminal, to not have ANY gauges showing on the dash board...oil pressure, oil temperature, coolant temperature, etc. They may have "idiot lights", but I have never seen any go off beyond the start up of the car. Even the "lowly" Corvette has those gauges...I've had 3 of them and they're great sports cars.
2) My second b*tch...no dip stick to check engine oil level. Some auto engineer in Great Britain came up with this idea and not only is the idea stupid, but Jaguar maximizes the stupidity to have you wait 10 minutes before going into the car, turn on the ignition (don't start it!) and then check the electronic oil level gauge. That is one giant PIA ...at least with M/B who also has the electronic gauge, you can see the oil level while driving down the highway, you don't have to shut down the engine, wait 10 minutes and the go thru the motions. I love my '21 F type R, get lots of compliments, still, but Jaguar has to think thru these idiot designs.

 

Only in the coupes. Convertibles are standard manual close.

 

haha, perhaps yes but I only noticed it for the button on the wheel lol

 

I learned today that a tiny little ding in the rear quarter panel runs north of 8 grand to repair.

 

If it's that tiny and no break in the paint, paintless dent repair would be about 1/20th of that price.

 

No need to wait the ten minutes. There is a method that involves opening the bonnet, turning on the ignition without starting the engine, selecting the check oil level menu and then double clicking one of the steering wheel buttons (I don't remember which one right off hand, but there are threads on here with the exact procedure.) I agree a dip stick would be much easier.

 

Help me understand why you wouldn't want to wait the 10 min or so in order for all the oil to get back in the pan? I think I read that overfilling these cars is worse than having a bit less? Yes, a dipstick would be nice, one never knows if the electronics involved in the digital readout are accurate. Cost cutting often takes strange directions.

 

While this procedure works, if you do that right when you stop the car you are going to get an artificially low reading because the oil hasn't drained back into the sump yet. It doesn't matter if you use the 'real-time' read method you have described above or the standard 'average' read method, both require waiting the ten minutes (after the car has been run) to read the actual oil level in the sump.

The easiest way is to just check it with the ignition on before you start the engine, on the first cold start of the day to get an accurate level reading--no waiting required. The instruction manual describes how to check the oil on a warm or hot car so unless you need to check it between starts, this is the easiest way.

 

Here's why I do it when I do it: I am interested in whether the oil is over filled after being serviced by my Jaguar dealer as soon as the car is brought to me so I can have the situation rectified immediately.

 

About checking the oil... I never really saw the lack of a dip stick as an issue. How often do you guys check the oil level? I've had three modern Jags over the past 10 years, none of them with a dipstick and none of them ever needed topping up between the annual services. I may check the level for the sake of good order before a long road trip but otherwise I stopped regularly checking years ago because I trust the car not to use any oil and to tell me if something is out of order.

It may make sense to check if you have an AWD car and want to check the level directly after a service because dealers tend to overfill those cars. Apart from that, checking the oil level seems largely unnecessary in this day and age and with these cars.

 

You can just assume they will overfill the AWDs every time. LOL

 

I inquired about it turns out it is exactly in the edge of the seem above the rear wheel. Could not repair the edge.

 

That I would still have it 91/2 years later!

 

1) I'm surprised that anyone who is a sports car enthusiast would buy a car without noticing what gauges it did/didn't have.
2) As noted above, you can check the oil level without running the car and waiting 10 minutes. Yes, it's less than a perfect reading, since the best results are to have the oil warm and give it time to drain back into the sump -- the same thing you SHOULD do with a dipstick.

 

Can't argue about no gauges as I agree but what's even more amazing is the 5.0L V-8 has no way to measure oil pressure!! Some service guys put an adapter and tubing in the top of the oil filter cover and run that to a manual gauge.
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I discovered that the R model can out perform most cars and out handle any public road in any condition in the normal mode which is the true definition of a Super Car. Dynamic mode on public streets puts it at the exotic car level: Ferrari/Lamborghini and past Corvette and Porsche. ✅

 

And is a much more rare beast!

 

I saw a used SVR coupe being prepped in the service department and it looked like it was newly released vehicle. That’s the result of a timeless design PLUS horrible marketing due to budget constraints. They should have never cancelled the 2008 XJ and the F-type. The xj6 look and the f-type is what the 911 is to Porsche and the Mustang is to Ford and as Lincoln learned the hard way what the Town Car was to Lincoln.✅

 

So some of you know the story. I got my first f type in August of 2015. The engine crapped out and they bought me a 2019 that I speck built and they even sent pictures from the factory.

I basically have had two of these things and I thought I knew everything I needed to know.

I'm a DJ and sometimes I listen to long mixes and you're sort of captive to a song you don't like because you can't fast forward or rewind. And just today on a lark, I thought, what if I stick my finger on the little tiny dot and drag it back and forth. I knew it couldn't and did not do that or I obviously would have known that.

You can seek in a song on the infotainment post 2018 by putting your finger on the little white dot and moving it left and right. I had no idea.

Funny to discover something new about 10 years of ownership. I know the 2019 infotainment is way different than 2016, but still pretty cool discovery.

 

Works like that in my MY18 with 8" screen, too.