Today I took my Jaguar XF 2.2 diesel 2012 in for two new rear wheel bearings to be replaced only to have my Garage phone me with bad news. He said that he could not get the Hubs off the drive shafts so he could not get to the bearing to replace them?. He then said I needed to have two new half shafts and two new hubs, basically two new replacement everything. This came to £2000.00 parts only....Aaaaarrrrhhh. I then took it upon myself to look for parts and got a call from a breaker saying he had two half shafts from a 2014 2.2 diesel XF but needed the part number which I cannot find. Does anyone know if the 2014 half shafts will fit my 2012 model?. It would save me a lot of money.

Please help. J

 

Is your garage a Jag dealer? If not I'd call the dealer and see if this is a regular issue and if any trick to get the hubs off. Sounds like an expensive solution to something being stuck...

 

The dealer can give you the part number based on your vin.

 

Perhaps the garage does not have the correct tool and is
asking you to work around that fact by letting them disassemble
at an easier junction and having you foot the bill for it.

The breaker can obviously remove the hub from the halfshaft
if they are selling you the halfshaft separately.

A Jaguar dealer would have the job specific puller.

Another possibliity is a hydraulic puller.

There is also the possibility of removing the halfshaft and hub as
an assembly, then pressing out the halfshaft stub using a hydraulic
press.

Any one of those options should be cheaper than 2000 GBP
in parts.

 

There may be a bit of Loctite on the splines, and if so, a press is needed, or the relevant puller. Jaguar started putting Loctite on the hub splines way back when as some owners had complained of "clicking" from the rear. This cured it until the inevitable need to replace wheel bearings came along !

 

So I have just had a phone call from my garage (all that was broken was one wheel stud on the drivers side rear) and they tell me pretty much the same thing. They "have cracked the driveshaft by trying to remove it to fit the new hub, bearings, abs sensor etc" and now I am needing to find for myself a second-hand complete unit [Hub Carrier, Bearing, Drive Shaft] so we can actually have the car get back on the road. Bad to worse, to down-right strange now.

Did you get your issue sorted and do you or anyone else have any advice for how I should proceed from here? Is this common? Is this an issue on the garage's behalf? I really am lost with where to begin in finding solutions right now.

Any and all help is good help at this point in time. Thank in advance

 

Any pictures?
It's hard to image what a "Cracked Driveshaft" even means? Now is this one of the half shafts on each side of the rear diff? Or is it the main drive shaft in the middle of the car that connects the engine and the rear diff?
.
.
.

 

Thank you for your reply. The photo attached here is from a link off of e-bay of what they have told me that I need to try and source as the spare part. Personally I have not seen the issue or what they have done, they rang me up end of play yesterday afternoon to drop the bombshell on me and then closed shop for the weekend leaving me here trying to fight in the dark.

He told me the likes of - "went the change the hub but it wouldn't separate ... It was seized up". Now I assume that means where the back of the hub meets the driveshaft was seized and they couldn't separate but I really don't know all that much about the workings of a rear wheel assembly. (Baring in mind I drove the car in there with no obvious issues other than one blasted broken stud which to me is a minimal issue at best) "Trying to get it all apart, the driveshaft cracked", When I questioned, how? I was told "because of significant corrosion in that area". At that point I was stunned and speechless as this is one thing after another and more money after more money going to the wall. They then suggested e-bay for the part to replace the broken issues as official parts will cost an arm and a leg. They sent me the link for this image attached and left the ball in my court at least for the weekend.

Regards,

 

Well they are ALL seized up?? That's beyond common and any shop that can't work thru that is a bunch of amateurs? Not familiar with your town but it looks like the UK? I know you guys fight the salt/rust stuff too. All cars in salt area's regardless of brand will have the same problems? It's not the first time that shop has seen rusted parts?

Sure hope you can post a picture of your damaged part? At least we know you need an axle shaft and I guess a rear hub too?
But CV axles and hub bearings do wear so I would not install anything used unless it's just a piece of iron? A used hub would be OK but plan to press bearings off and on.

I do like to remove the hub to press studs on and off using a press but it can be done on the car too?

Hope you can find the parts you need. We don't know what car you have or the miles either so be careful with my advice?
.
.
.