I have had my X-Type for 30 days now and aside from a couple of small issues, it's been pure joy to drive. One morning I got in my car and noticed the passenger side(RH) dash vent was sticking up. Upon closer inspection, I noticed that the vent had broken into 2 parts.

I've looked extensively on jaguarparts.com(which is located in my city), in an attempt to find the part to replace. I have been unable to find the part number, however. I'll be stopping by the local Jaguar dealership later this week to grab a couple of things, but wanted to see if anyone knew this part/part # before I get there? I want to be able to find the best price on this part.

Here's a pic of the vent. You can see the part of the vent that is sticking up from the dash. Hope this helps:

 

Apparently, there was an updated vent that was introduced probably for my model year(2005) because I found a service bulletin addressing the defroster vent issue for 2002-2004 X-Types.
Here is the link for the bulletin:

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/at...ster-vents-pdf

The final page lists the part numbers for the updated vents for anyone who is having an issue with their vents. Hope this is helpful to others.

 

Luckout,

I've moved your thread from General Tech Help section to the X-Type section so other members with the same model won't miss it.

Good luck with the fix. I hope X-Type vents are easier to remove and refit than XK8 vents.

Graham

 

Thanks GGG, it was easy to pull the broken vent out to inspect it. The tricky part may be the vent plug that has to be pushed out from the underside of the dash. I'll wait until I have the new part in my hands before I proceed.