Bought a Jaguar XE 2.0D 68 reg, it was worth £20,750.00, had my car part exchanged with £3192.86 equity. Put in a £10,000 cash deposit and took out £7,557.14 HP finance. And, I really wish I could go back in time and not waste my money.

I loved Jags ever since my dad had an XF, the interior and everything.. And when I got my XE I loved it and loved the way it drove, I had seen horror stories about diesel and why you shouldn't get them but I was constantly reassured I'll be fine. I now have the car and regret buying it, due to the fact I'll be doing less than 10,000 miles a year, and reading online how bad this is for diesel. I do about 26 miles once per week and the rest will be local town driving.

Does anyone else use a diesel XE for local driving?

 

Here's a tip for DPF regeneration from Jaguar

Here's the actual DPF regeneration on a diesel car being performed.

 

Here in NZ, many customers were buying the diesel variants in most of the Jaguar & Land Rover models, mostly due to the fuel efficiency. I'm not sure if this was the pitch by the sales person or whether the customer requested. In NZ, if you buy a diesel, fuel is quite a bit cheaper, but along with the vehicle registration, you have to pay road user charges. Compare it to a petrol, you'd be paying about the same amount of money anyways.

In you're case, I would've opted for a petrol version. You're not completely in the dumps though. You'll just need to try and drive it once or twice a week on the motorway for about 20-30 minutes without slowing down so it can do a regen. If the amber warning comes on, this is what you'll need to do. If the red warning comes on, it can still be regenerated without being replaced or removed.

Vehicles with DPF really shouldn't be bought if its only going to be used for local driving, petrol would be best. Plus you don't want to miss your service intervals either with diesel.

 

I've got a diesel XE, and use it for short runs, but try to do a reasonably long run every week/10 days to make sure the DPF filter is regenned. Having said that, we do tend to use my wife's VW New Beetle as our in-town workhorse, so the Jaguar doesn't do a lot of short journeys, but it does do some. The DPF on the XE is usually a lot less troublesome than those in Land Rovers due to its positioning close to the engine. I would suggest you have an outing in it once a week and you should be OK. My car was bought in Jan 2019 on 10k miles and now, over 2 years later, is on 31k miles, so not too far off your per annum mileage.