they took it as a trade in?
I am jealous your misery is over..

 

I bought it for 16k (CAD) a year ago.. since then the US exchange rate has gone down by 30 percent, and the car itself has also dived by 30 percent. and I have just piled money into the car. The cost of ownership has been astronomical !!!
I would not have bought a 4 year old jag if I was rolling in cash. So if I sell my car I would end up with a loan of at least 4-5 thousand dollars. I could maybe borrow another 10k... Now what can I now buy for that????? I also have ot pay the tax etc... on whatever dealI do. So i am screwed for now. I would have a 8K car with a 14 k loan...

At least my heated seats and Air Conditioning have worked. so the car is comfortable to be in.

 

Anyway.. there is nothing special about my car. It is not a lemon - It is an average X-type. Yours will all do the same things eventually. many of my problems are due to corrosion and my car has has average winter use. The parts that have rusted were not due to bad luck, they just had no corrosion protection on that part. None of your cars have that protection either.
If you are driving your cars only in summer or in places with no winter.. then that is just a waste of an AWD rear torque biased car..... it is just made to be driven in the snow (with snow tires of course)


Although I complain heavily here, you will all thank me later for digging into each issue.

 

ya well you have a girly automatic man.... so lets not go there..

find me a stick shift sport package with dsc and heated seats.. that was my mission. I looked for over a year for my car.. there were just none for sale. I got my car with 85k miles... and it happened ot have every conceivable option 'cept for that un-manly automatic.

I am sure that miles did not cause the 7 front wheel bearings to die, and miles did not cause most of the problems. The miles on my car did not turn the dealers in jackasses and the miles did not make every level of customer including the president of Jag Canada into cold hearted meanies..

the motor is perfect... burns no oil runs like a top.

 

chill guys.. this is a message board.. dont try to measure personalities here... if you feel insulted, it is not because I am a lonely old man.. it might be you are insecure. I study hard to understand the way things work. I dont accept BS and things that dont follow Isaac Newton's 3 laws of motion. I react when a full grown adult does not even try to remember some of the most basic high school stuff.
I am extraordinarily kind and generous to my friends and family and colleagues. I always try to help when I can.

I am the same here.. I do try to help.. but if you say something dumb.. I am gonna call you on it.

If you have watched that TV show - ...Smarter than a 5th grader... you know what I mean.


I dont think the x-type sport is a luxury car.. it is a sport sedan.
Automatic transmissions suck, unless you are in a minivan. I am not alone in that opinion.
I dont know why it is OK for a wife to not drive standard? why cant she learn? If you spend some time in europe or africa, or asia, or south america... or anywhere else really, everyone drives a stick shift. of the billions of drivers around the world, why are the 100 million US women driversthe only ones that think they cant drive stick?

Another point, asyou surely know, engineering and marketing are oftem miles apart.
the engineers built a great sport sedan, the sales and marketing people sold it as a "wife's" car.. the "baby jag"
and the service people serviced it like the customers are rich and stupid.

Like many expensive sports cars, they eventually fall into the hands of enthusiasts, as the price drops. Already here into the hands of teenagers as their first car.

We are living through this transition, and figuring out the deficiencies of the car.
I am sure it wont be easy.