Hello,
I am the new proud owner of a 2015 Jaguar F-Type R! She only has 52K miles on it, and it runs and drives perfectly!

I found out from the Mercedes dealer I bought it from that in 2021, the engine (long block) was replaced by Jaguar, somewhere around 30K for the whole job. I have questions...

When the engines are replaced, do they have the updated components, like the timing chain tensioners? I know I need to replace all of the cheap plastic coolant piping on the engine, and I can handle that. What really concerns me is the timing components as I have read that they are not the 5.0's strong suit.

Thank you!

 

Most of the timing chain issues were in the early V8 5.0 SC engines from 2010-2012 or so. After that they changed the timing chain setup and that has been a lot tougher

But - I don't know whether the replacement block would have had new or reused the old.

 

If the long block was changed some time between 2015 and 2021, my guess is around 2018/19, then for sure it would have used the newer/updated timing gear (INA) as by then the older Tsubaki timing chains were no longer available and were never fitted to a 2015 F-Type R anyway. And the latest version of the tensioners and timing chain guides (no longer problematic) would have been used as well.
Easy to check which make of timing chains your car now has - just pull the oil fill cap off and shine a torch/flashlight down the oil fill hole onto the timing chain and count the links. If nine small links then the old Tsubaki chain, if three big links then the INA chain.