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Hello all,
I don't at the moment own a Jaguar. I live in Scotland and the reason for joining the forum is to gain some knowledge on the brand as a whole.
If/when I purchase a Jaguar it will probably be a late X250 or X260.
I have been trying to get up to speed with driver/owners of the aforementioned models on other sites and on the whole (aside from catastrophic failures) the brand appears to be
just as good/bad as other premium brands.
I have owned mainly BMW and Mercedes and they are not without issues either. My main failure on those brands was a gearbox failure on BMW 520D (2013) which I believe is the same box on the X250 (Don't know about the x260). On that occasion the box was covered under BMW warranty and was duly replaced (couldn't get any answers at the time as to why it failed but hey ho, it was made good regardless).
What I seem to find through various sites is the X250 crankshaft failing on the V6 and the timing chain failing on early X260 Ingenium engines.
In Jaguars favour there still appear to be a lot of early X250 V6 models still for sale which paints a rather good picture in my eyes. Could this problem be how they are treated and looked after ?
On the other hand the X260 timing chain snapping issue lies firmly at the door of JLR as I believe they realised this and decided to redesign/upgrade the chain and relevant components to a "far better" standard around 2019
I look forward to further reading of the many posts on the site and when I make/if I make the purchase I will update all.
Many Thanks.
I don't at the moment own a Jaguar. I live in Scotland and the reason for joining the forum is to gain some knowledge on the brand as a whole.
If/when I purchase a Jaguar it will probably be a late X250 or X260.
I have been trying to get up to speed with driver/owners of the aforementioned models on other sites and on the whole (aside from catastrophic failures) the brand appears to be
just as good/bad as other premium brands.
I have owned mainly BMW and Mercedes and they are not without issues either. My main failure on those brands was a gearbox failure on BMW 520D (2013) which I believe is the same box on the X250 (Don't know about the x260). On that occasion the box was covered under BMW warranty and was duly replaced (couldn't get any answers at the time as to why it failed but hey ho, it was made good regardless).
What I seem to find through various sites is the X250 crankshaft failing on the V6 and the timing chain failing on early X260 Ingenium engines.
In Jaguars favour there still appear to be a lot of early X250 V6 models still for sale which paints a rather good picture in my eyes. Could this problem be how they are treated and looked after ?
On the other hand the X260 timing chain snapping issue lies firmly at the door of JLR as I believe they realised this and decided to redesign/upgrade the chain and relevant components to a "far better" standard around 2019
I look forward to further reading of the many posts on the site and when I make/if I make the purchase I will update all.
Many Thanks.
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Enjoy the forum.
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If you need help with getting around and using the forum follow this link for some help Forum Help
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