I've had my XFR for 3 years now and I haven't seen a single drop of air conditioner condensate drip from the car. It's Houston where the humidity makes it feel like you are under water and the AC runs all the time.


Where is the air conditioner condensate routed? Anyone know?

 

Maybe it ends up in the tray under the car. That holds a lot of fluid (cue kinda relevant story). My service guys in the first XF forgot to tighten the sump? bolt after a service, I drove it for about a week not realising that the oil had gradually drained into the tray/stone guard under the car. When it got full, it started to leak out on my sloping driveway and essentially there was a trail of oil from home on and off into work leading up to my car in the basement (the smoking gun, as it were). It took about 4 litres to fill it up. So if your condensate is going into that tray, it'll stay there unless you drive up a steep slope, in which case it might drain out before it evaporates.

 

Paul,

Only speculation as I haven't worked on an XF!

Other Jaguar models have two AC drains routed down either side of the transmission just behind the bellhousing. Black plastic tubes approximately quarter of an inch diameter.

Jaguar engineers tend to reuse design principles so XF could be similar.

Graham

 

As noted above the belly pan/tray can hold a lot of fluid. There is a fabric/diaper glued to it that catches fluid. I think I'd rather have it leak on the floor so I could catch leaks immediately.