Can I bring up a question in a country Under God.
What if Jesus hates you? what would your car troubles be like?

 

https://www.carfax.com/VehicleHistor...K-EnJRQW0kVqpw Battery replaced @ 992 miles

 

Please rephrase / restate your question in proper English. TIA

 

Not to be Devil's advocate here but let's be fair:

Low mile car. Who knows if the owner maintained it correctly. It could have gone flat multiple times which kills the battery

Battery was 3 years old. Again, low mile car. Could have sat for 6 months at a time, gone flat, got jumped, etc.... Especially in an XKR-S. Many of them are garage queens.

 

Corrected the typo in the original post.

To rephrase it; is there such a thing as luck of the draw when it comes to batteries?
Or do they all work for a guaranteed length of time.

You haven't yet answered my question from the last post, what could Jaguar have done differently? since you claim an engineering misgiving.

 

https://www.barnorama.com/wp-content..._picdump-2.jpg Battery @ 12,200 miles, Water Pump @ 24,000

 

It is not for me to engineer a car built by Jaguar. The fact that a battery tender is required, and the owner needs to lock, and/or double lock the car to prevent battery drain are engineering issues. As are control modules that have a constant drain on the system for a length of time after the car is shut off.

My luck with batteries seems to go in two directions. When my battery is put in a Jaguar XKR is seems my luck is all bad. Yet when I put a battery in any other make of car, I seem to get a good one. Go figure!

 

Looks like just maybe the dealer wanted to do some work that wasn't necessarily necessary. Dust on the top??? REPLACE IT!

 

https://www.autotrader.com/redirect/...Q8dGSPJ0C00WQm Battery replaced 14,000 miles

 

https://www.carfax.com/VehicleHistor...fVg959cQhz7hmk Battery replaced 5,400 miles

 

https://www.carfax.com/VehicleHistor...5W7CrQqynYXQTU Battery replaced 19,500 miles

 

https://www.carfax.com/VehicleHistor...gJLLVwee6Mg_zI Battery replaced at 16,250 miles and again at 37,200 miles

 

19.5k, but also 6-1/2 years. That seems pretty great to me. Batteries are pretty much used up by five years.

Five years old, but obviously rarely driven, so totally expected.

2-1/2 years, again fairly low mileage, and says "serviced or replaced", could even mean 'Charged'.

Ok, now I'm tired of this. I have better things to do.

 

If you go to a showroom of any exotic car, Lamborghini, Maserati, Ferrari, Porsche.... You will find 3 ubiquitous things.
1. Cars are on battery tenders. 2. Ctek makes battery tenders just for those brands specifically. 3. All those cars use the same battery/ size as the XK or smaller.

You understand what all these cars have in common in this day and age.

I have never had any problems with my battery on the XKR, its lasted as long as the others, in fact more. But I know a simple thing, there is a significant discrepancy between the amount that goes into the battery vs the amount extracted, for 2 reasons, it has many creature comforts, a heavy crank due to direct injection, and folks dont drive them enough.

The battery, even the battery drain is moot when people give the alternator the normal chance to replenish the battery.

 

The ones in red are my list. I got the car at just under 17,000 miles and had the water pump and S/C coupling done straight away as the WP was leaking and the S/C bearing was rattling on engine shutdown.

The car has done about 22,000 miles now and even though I use a sunshade whenever it is parked outside the dash is going in to be recovered next week. It already had a bubble when I bought it but another area has blown now and got quite bad, quite quickly.

It doesn't have TPMS so no issues there but I have had plastic coolant pipes break and changed the hose under the S/C as a precaution while it was out and it wasn't in a great state.

 

Again, thank you everyone for your input, as you can tell, a bit nervous here.

Main thing they found was moisture / coolant around Front coolant manifold.

Front and rear manifolds look original.

Everything else looks good. Another thing he mentioned that because of the low mileage, there might be other things that we might not be aware of.


Any thoughts? Experience in how much something like this would cost? He mentioned that once we replace the manifold, should replace the water pump as well.

Thank you.

 

Are you referring to the PPI? Can you post? It will be more helpful for you if we can read the results. Do you have a car history so you know what work was done? Something other than carfax, though even that would help.

 

Hello,
Yep, the PPI. I'm trying to download the report, but I guess they took a picture of it, and for some reason it's giving me a hard time.
but it that's all it said, besides tires have 80%. No codes. Breaks are good.

from the car fax:
in 2011, at around 9200 miles, Water pump replaced, power steering hoses replaced.

in 2013, 28K miles instrument cluster reprogrammed, body, computer module reprogrammed, wiring repaired.

2014, Battery replaced.

2015, 41k Miles, ECU replaced again,

Besides that all regular maintenance looks like it was done.

Still trying to figure out how this form works.

 

It's a ten year old car. Every ten year old car will have something notable on an inspection. My daughter's old Chevy Cobalt would have been condemned to scrap had anyone inspected it at the ten year mark, the thing was a wreck. Not all from neglect, as many 'life' components were failing. She bought it used without my input, just showed up one day with it. She was 20 at the time, so nothing I could do about it.

 

Hello,
Here is what the ppi said as well as some info from the car fax.
Moisture / coolant around frt coolant manifold. Frt and rear manifolds look original.

I'm trying to download the report, but I guess they took a picture of it, and for some reason it's giving me a hard time.
but that's all it said, besides tires have 80%. No codes. Breaks are good. No accidents.

from the car fax:
in 2011, at around 9200 miles, Water pump replaced, power steering hoses replaced.

in 2013, 28K miles instrument cluster reprogrammed, body, computer module reprogrammed, wiring repaired.

2014, Battery replaced.

2015, 41k Miles, ECU replaced again,

Besides that all regular maintenance looks like it was done.