The originals engine mounts are part number MNC7500AB but I don’t find any original's, only URO ones.

Is there somewhere a better engine mounts for the XK8 2006 ???

Thank you all
Michel

 

Your guess is as good as mine. When I went to do mine all I could find was the URO ones. I was skeptical. Since I didn't have an engine support bar at the time, I took it to a local Jag independent mechanic and had him do the work for me at a reasonable price. I don't know what part he used, but it has survived for the past 18k miles and 6 years without breaking. If it's a URO part, then I'm damn surprised with its longevity. Unfortunately, I don't know if it is a URO part, or if he was able to source something better through his suppliers.

 

Heritage is showing them priced, but not available online:
https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic...-mounting.html

...so it may be worth dropping an email.

 

Thank you I will contact them ASAP

 

AFAIK they are NLA. I checked quite a bit, as mine will need them soon, and all I could find were URO ones.

 

ive got the uro mounts in. about 4 years now and about 15t km. work fine so far.
no leaking and i cant see any damage as i look under that little heat screen at the top.

i guess we are a little sensitive against uro because of the bad strut mounts.
keep in mind that no oem replacement can solve a „bad“ engineering.

 

URO sells lousy hoses along with their lousy strut mounts. Sure hope their engine mounts are better but I hope I never need to find out....

 

Hi guys, we sell a lot of front Hydraulic Engine Mount MNC7500AB annually, and have only ever had one returned claimed "defective". Amazon currently shows a rating of 4.9 / 5 stars, if that helps:

If anyone has any product feedback or suggestions for us, we'd love to hear from you: https://apaindustries.com/contact

 

Very nice to have an official URO member giving us internal feedback of your product.
thank you

 

May I recommend that URO seriously considered having a Aluminium Thermostat housing built for the 4.2 engine. All we could find on the market is Aluminium for the 4.0 engine and Plastic for the 4.2.
Please lock at this subject in this Jagforum and you will see how is this a serious matter for all members.

Michel

 

Yes, since there were no others available, I purchased a URO mount for my car. Hope it is not the next failure reported. At least it is the passenger side and not the difficult one to change. Apparently their Poly formula was not tested as severely and for long life and Baxtors & Waynes. Their Brake light switch still functions correctly and my U&L Rad. Hoses are still good after 8 years. Low production,specialty cars are difficult to source part and service for occasionally..

 

Thanks for the suggestion Michel, we'll have our product development team evaluate doing that 4.2L t-stat housing in metal!

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Hi @URO Support I'm going to be brutally honest here. I myself as well as many other members have had poor experiences with URO branded parts that fail prematurely. I'm talking about hoses, strut mounts, bushes, anti-roll bar links, to name a few that barely last a year or 5,000 miles. Your brand has gotten a reputation for building poor quality parts that should be avoided at all costs. Evidently from this thread, your company IS capable of building parts of acceptable quality, per the reports on the motor mounts in this thread. But therein lies the problem, there's no way of knowing if the part you're selling is of poor quality or not. Because your parts are bottom of the barrel more often than not, we would rather NOT take the chance to find out. However, the biggest problem is that sometimes, a URO part is the only one left on the market, as is evident with the NLA motor mounts.

My suggestion, and by suggestion, I mean more like a demand, is that you relay this to your bosses and up the chain of command in the company. We the customers, don't trust the parts your brand sells. You need to both drastically improve the quality of your parts AND after the quality of your parts meets or exceeds the OE design. If a part is known to be fatally flawed from the OE, then engineer a better solution. After you have put in that work, then you can focus on improving the market perception of your brand and do actions of good faith. This problem, by the way, is not limited to just Jaguar parts. It is instead is a common reputation among the parts you sell for every car in your portfolio. Mini, BMW, Volvo, Land-Rover, etc. Those in the know avoid your parts like the plague. You have to fire the bean counters, and hire more engineers and quality control personnel.

 

If URO makes a superior part they need to take all the older parts that aren't up tos cratch off the market and repalce them with the new model. Or at least have seperate model names so the customer knows which one to buy instead. No point in making a much better part if you carry on selling the old part as stores will just sell the older stock first even if the part is crap. No idea how it woudl work though with a recall or whatever but that is the stuff that needs to be done.

 

I've never used URO parts and don't know about there warrantee, or if they even give one. If a manufacturer doesn't have enough faith in their parts to guarantee them, I'm not taking the chance unless it's my only choice.

Jack

 

But this is exactly why I did ask if there was any Engine mounts that were manufactured, otherwise then URO and so far there seems that there’s none.
Michel

 

Thank you for your feedback Giandanielxk8, it's been shared with the management team!

Hi Jack, most of our competitors either have no warranty, or a 1-year warranty. URO covers its products with a 2-year, unlimited mileage warranty, and we pride ourselves on making it easy for folks to do a warranty exchange whenever necessary. Our facility is located in Southern California, so a replacement part can be delivered anywhere within the lower 48 states quickly. We can be contacted weekdays 8-5 PST at 805-955-9699 (Tech Support is ext 41), or via email from https://apaindustries.com/contact.

 

I am sorry to see too much emotion in the latest messages. When I ask the question about the best Engine mounts was the find différent suppliers and choose the best. Unfortunately there are not many suppliers for our old car and specially English like ours. I am glad that URO is still a supplier because otherwise a lot of our cars will be at the scrap yard. The only thing you have to take for account is the reputation of URO parts. If you can turn those negatives comments and improve quality and reputation we will more then happy to keep our baby’s running with URO parts.

Michel

 

the part warranty wont help as some parts that fail can cause huge damage or the parts are a pakn in the *** to exchange….

 

My XK8 has only 60,000 miles on it. If I don’t find any others suppliers what are my option, go for used mounts coming from a wrecked with 125,000 miles on it.

I will go with URO ones and have them inspected every year. No one gave me another option.

Michel