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1999 Jaguar XJV8 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 Aug 16, 2000
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 Aug 16, 2000

What this page shows

Our database holds 1 NHTSA owner-reported complaint for the 1999 Jaguar XJV8. 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.

Complaints, most recent first

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Driver assistance
Filed Aug 16, 2000
Crash reported

VEHICLE WAS BEING DRIVEN INTO A SMALL DRIVE IN RESTAURANT AND CAR WAS ALMOST STOPPED WHEN THE ACCELERATOR PULLED ITSELF TO THE FLOOR AS IF THE CRUISE CONTROL HAD TAKEN OVER AND THE CAR INSTANTLY RAN ACROSS A DRIVEWAY AND INTO THE SIDE OF A BUILDING WHICH WAS APPROXIMATELY A DISTANCE OF ABOUT 15 FEET. THE VEHICLE ENGINE HAD BEEN RUNNING A LITTLE FAST AT IDLE AND HAD BEEN TO PALMETTO JAGUAR AT 1634 SAVANNAH HWY.CHARLESTON,SC 29407 APPROX. 2 WEEKS BEFORE THIS INCIDENT AND THEY HAD INDICATED THAT THERE HAD BEEN SOME PROBLEMS AND THAT THE MFG. HAD SENT OUT A NOTICE TO DO A REPROGRAM OF THE CARBURATION SYSTEM AND THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED AT THAT TIME. THIS DID NOT CORRECT THE PROBLEM.

NHTSA ID
728186
Incident
Aug 14, 2000

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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