Just a note to alert you to a situation, that could cause you or someone else, serious harm or death!
A Technical Service Bulletin (TSB) # P-121 was issued back in 2002 for all 1999-2001 xk models.
The problem can cause your car, while driving normally, at 50, 60, 70 or 100MPH to all of a sudden go into "Restricted Performance" mode and your car looses all power and drops down to approx 15 MPH!!!
Naturally, if you have an 18 wheeler behind you, this is not a good situation.
IT IS NOT A RECALL ITEM!!!!!
Jaguars position as well as the dealers is,
'We don't do anything to repair this shortcoming unless the customer experiences the problem!!!!!!
(Ref: 20226 software mismatch pn 3.0 perform ECM reflash per TSB's Rewire TPS harness at throttle housing due to mismatch pins)
My car was at the dealership PALM BEACH MOTORCARS FOR SERVICE AND REPAIR WORK 4 TIMES, WHILE STILL UNDER WARRANTY AFTER THIS TSB WAS ISSUED!!!
It amazes me that Jaguar can put it's customers in a position like this, with a known defect.
My car experienced this problem at 20,226 miles and the dealer charged $587.03 for the repair.

 

No it's not the end of the world, nor was it the end of my life when the car quit running, but it very well could have been in a different situation. Also, if it's no big deal, why did it cost $587.00 to fix Mr. Jag_Genius?

 

Here's a breakdown from my friendly dealer PALM BEACH MOTORCARS
Labor $330
Parts, 4 pins at $17.85 total $71.40
Diagnostic fee(?????) $130.00
Waste removal(?????) $19.80
Sales tax $35.83
Total $587.03

Screwing over your customerwho owns the $100,000.00 XKR Silverstone:

PRICELESS

For everything else there's Master Card!!

 

Just because someone can afford a $100,000 car doesn't mean they should be treated in the fashion Jaguar has treated me. If anything, you would think they would want to keep that $100,000 buyer happy as he more than likely will be buying expensive cars in the future.
It's not the $$$$ amount for the service, it's the dealer and Jaguars attitude, that they really don't care enough about their customers to fix a KNOWN problem that could cause serious injury or death to the driver, as well as other drivers on the road.
I have owned 5 large LEXUS sedans since 2000 and WHENEVER there was a problem, LEXUS stepped up to the plate and made it right. This included a couple instances when the cars were 10,000 to 20,000 miles out of warranty!!
As a matter of fact, they put a complete new am/fm/cd Mark Levinson system in one of my cars, out of warranty, at no charge when the CD quit.
BTW, this defect, more than likely wouldn't cause bodily harm or kill you!

 

One error in my last post: 5 new Lexus since 1990.
Sorry about that.

 

Jack Rabbit,
It's kind of ironic, I had a 1998 Carnval red/Camel XK8 that I traded on the Silverstone. The only two problems I had with the 98 were moisture in the headlights and a bad oil leak which they had to do some major engine work to repair. Fortunately it was still under warranty.

 

It's been said, that the only reason the English don't make electronics is they haven't figure out how to make them leak oil. It's also well known that the reason they like warm beer is they have Lucas refigerators!