Bulge in dash board - 2010 XF Premium
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Robert Pearcey (07-19-2016)
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Are you talking to me ? Nope, I don't work for Jaguar and not sure how you might have worked that out...and my point was entirely that although an issue might indeed be "out of warranty" that's not an excuse for "we've never heard of it so it's not a real issue". But then maybe if I was running a car company I would consider that good PR and the small tweak on the bottom line was in the best interest of the customer.
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I saw a suggestion that a local vehicle upholstery shop could fix it for $100- $200 . The one I went to would not even touch the job. I did get some useful ideas on a fix it, but certainly the Jaguar repair at $4000 with them paying $2000 is not appealing . I bought this particular car for just over $20,000 the $4000 is 20% of the purchase price. Jaguar profits are at an all time high charging $2000 in labour for the job is outrageous . My other two Jaguars are under warrant , the XF has had some expensive repairs including a new supercharger. I conclude the brand is not for me and will sell my cars and move back to Mercedes.
#64
Maybe I'm just grumpy this morning, but are you telling me that used Mercedes don't have any expensive repair problems as they age and everything always works as new for as long as you want it to?
I'm not so much being a Jaguar apologist with that question, but a realist when it comes to used European cars. They all have issues, just different issues...
I'm not so much being a Jaguar apologist with that question, but a realist when it comes to used European cars. They all have issues, just different issues...
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And no, I still don't work for Jaguar ;-)
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thePest007 (02-09-2017)
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I saw a suggestion that a local vehicle upholstery shop could fix it for $100- $200 . The one I went to would not even touch the job. I did get some useful ideas on a fix it, but certainly the Jaguar repair at $4000 with them paying $2000 is not appealing . I bought this particular car for just over $20,000 the $4000 is 20% of the purchase price. Jaguar profits are at an all time high charging $2000 in labour for the job is outrageous . My other two Jaguars are under warrant , the XF has had some expensive repairs including a new supercharger. I conclude the brand is not for me and will sell my cars and move back to Mercedes.
After getting turned down by the first shop I pulled the leather off on my own and I was going to buy glue to re-apply it but I wasn't sure what glue to use. I called another shop and they said they'd do it. I dropped it off and picked it up the next day. It was about $150. For me all they had to do was apply glue and carefully line up the leather.
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Last edited by lotusespritse; 07-19-2016 at 10:54 PM.
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I have a 2010 XFR with 45,000 miles that is sitting in a garage most of the time and I live in NY, not exactly Florida. The dealer quoted me $4,036 for the part. A shocker, however I will have to find a solution to fix it if I ever want to sell this car. Jaguar should charge you a reasonable cost for replacement as it is obviously a quality issue. I had the same issue on a Porsche 928 S in the early eighties. It is the 21st century, no car should have this issue.
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I have a 2010 XFR with 45,000 miles that is sitting in a garage most of the time and I live in NY, not exactly Florida. The dealer quoted me $4,036 for the part. A shocker, however I will have to find a solution to fix it if I ever want to sell this car. Jaguar should charge you a reasonable cost for replacement as it is obviously a quality issue. I had the same issue on a Porsche 928 S in the early eighties. It is the 21st century, no car should have this issue.
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Yea for someone that's done it a couple of times, they can probably do the whole thing in 2 hours. So that's about $1000/hr.
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