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2001 Jaguar Xjs Owner Complaints

Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full

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Complaints on fileComplaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.
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Latest Nov 11, 2001
Crash or fire reportedComplaints whose submitter recorded that a crash or a fire occurred. These are the reporter's own answers on the NHTSA form, not verified findings.
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Filed in the last 12 monthsReports filed with NHTSA in the trailing 365 days. Recent volume reflects attention and vehicle age as much as anything else.
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Reports on file since Nov 11, 2001

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 2001 Jaguar Xjs. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.

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Filed Nov 11, 2001

INTERIOR REAR VIEW MIRROR IS MOUNTED TOO LOW. IT BLOCKS VIEW TO RIGHT OF CENTER, AND IT IS NOT ADJUSTABLE FOR LOCATION UP/DOWN OR LEFT/RIGHT. IT IS MOUNTED BY A SINGLE SPHERICAL JOINT WHICH ALLOWS ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT BUT NO LOCATION ADJUSTMENT. I AM ONLY 5'-10" TALL; WITH SEAT MOTORED TO ITS LOWER LIMIT MIRROR BLOCKS VIEW THROUGH WINDSHIELD. CURIOUSLY, JAGUAR MOUNTS MIRRORS IN S TYPE CARS WHICH DO NOT HAVE RAIN SENSING WIPERS BY A BRACKET CONTAINING TWO SPHERICAL JOINTS--SEPARATED BY AN "INTERMEDIATE LINK." FOR CARS WITH RAIN SENSING WIPERS JAGUAR ELIMINATES THE INTERMEDIATE LINK (AND ONE OF THE BALL JOINTS) FORCING THE DRIVER TO ACCEPT THE MIRROR LOCATION AS BUILT. NO LOCATION ADJUSTMENT IS POSSIBLE--ONLY ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT. QUESTION IS "WHY IS THE INTERMEDIATE LINK NECESSARY WITH SOME S TYPE CARS AND ELIMINATED WITH OTHER S TYPE CARS? THREE TIMES I HAVE MOVED FROM STOP SIGNS INTO THE PATH OF OTHER DRIVERS BECAUSE THEY WERE HIDDEN BY MY MIRROR. FORTUNATELY FOR ME ALL OF THEM WERE ALERT ENOUGH TO AVOID A COLLISION. MY CONCERN FOR SAFETY IS SO INTENSE THAT NOW I DRIVE IN A CONTORTED POSITION--HEAD TILTED TO PEEK UNDER THE MIRROR. AFTER A PERIOD THAT POSTURE BECOMES PAINFUL, BUT DRIVING WITHOUT VISUAL CONTACT WITH THE RIGHT FRONT CORNER OF MY SURROUNDINGS IS WORSE. JAGUAR DEALER HAS BEEN ASKED TO RESOLVE PROBLEM, AS HAS JAGUAR REP IN NEW JERSEY. REPLY IS THAT THE CAR PERFORMS AS IT WAS DESIGNED, THEREFORE NOTHING CAN BE DONE TO ELIMINATE THE PROBLEM. MY COMPLAINT IS NOT THE ONLY ONE. OTHERS HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE NON-ADJUSTABLE, LOW MIRROR MOUNTING PROBLEM ON JAGTALK.COM. I CONSIDER THIS TO BE A SAFETY ISSUE, AND REQUEST NHTSA'S INVOLVEMENT. THANK YOU, [XXX]. *AK INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *JS *TR

NHTSA ID
754398
Incident
Nov 11, 2001

Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.

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