2000 Jaguar S-Type from North America - Comments

Purchased a 2000 S Type about 6 months ago which had 41,000 on it. Now we are having overheating issues at 46,000. Radiator flushed, thermostat changed, and I guess we have to check the cooling fan and water pump. The car is at the point when everything seems to be going wrong and we have experienced the incline shifting trouble already. Thanks for these comments as we are getting rid of this car A S A P. Any other input on this overheating problem would be well appreciated. This was a dream for us and now we are scared we are gonna lose greatly.

kayray2231@hotmail.com

Purchased a 2000 3.0 s-type in 2003 with 33000 miles. After reading all the comments I feel as though I got a "good one".

My tranny went out at 96000 miles on the odometer. A friend rebuilt it for 1500.00. Did have to have a window motor replaced, along with some AC work. I'll never buy another one.

We have a 2000 V6 3.0L, inherited from my mother's estate just 14 months ago 9April 2007) with 33K miles on it. She had battery problems for the entire time, but she hardly ever drove it beyond around town. We have had several issues since then: driver window regulator broke trying to open a window frozen shut, one coil out, new brakes all around, and now the "Failsafe Engine Mode" intermittently just started last night. I have not money to maintain this spending pace, so this site had shown me I had better start thinking about other options. There is a shifting issue right at 40 - 45 mph (I'll check the RPMs tonight on the way home). No other issues, but I can tell I need to be alert and vigilant.

How do I find out if the recall/warranty issues have been addressed in the past? Is it too much to expect Jaguar has kept records by VIN of how the prior issues have been treated?

I had a trouble free S type until the warranty expired. Since then the electrical system has been repaired, twice, suspension replaced, transmission linkage repaired and now the transmission. The worst car I have ever owned and a confirmation of all the horrific stories I have heard about Jaguar. The only thing worse than the car was the customer service of Jaguar. A disgrace to any business. If I am ever in a car discussion, I go out of my way to comment on the faults of the car and the lack of support from the company. I hope I have convinced more than one person never to buy a Jaguar. Try a BMW or Mercedes, we never had a problem with these cars or a Cadillac which we drove 10 years without a single repair.

We have the fail safe engine lite intermittently on also, but when checked on the computer, they could find nothing wrong. This is strange (maybe not for a Jaguar) because there's supposed to be a memory that's records these events. There's no recalls that would address most of the issues on this blog... I've looked. like most of the people here we found out too late about the Jaguar. We've put major work into this car, and now the light is coming on... what the hell could be wrong now?

Having permanently damaged my back pushing an Austin-Healy 3000 in my youth, I was skeptical of British cars, but since Jaguar was owned by Ford and the reviews were favorable, I got suckered.

I bought a 2000 S-Type 4.0 loaded demo with 4000 miles on it in late 2000. In 2007 I began to realize that this car was costing me some money to keep on the road. I added up all my bills (all from a Jaguar dealer) and they came to a little over $14,000 - that's $2,000 a year. At that point, I turned on my Jag and began to view it as a liability.

Shortly after the wipers failed, and the service manager sheepishly asked me if I wanted them fixed after quoting me around $600 to replace a shorted-out wiper motor. I had to laugh, I was already afraid to open the driver's window at toll booths for fear it wouldn't close, and now Jaguar was suggesting that perhaps I might not want to drive the car in the rain. I fixed the wipers, but now avoid rain because I don't want to buy a new wiper motor.

I avoided fixing other failures, but was forced to put a new odometer in when I couldn't renew the registration - $1000 at British Motors in Norwalk CT. I call him Jaguar Man. The official price at Jaguar was over $2000.

I stopped driving the car after that and put it up for sale. After a month I drove the car to work just to keep the battery and engine up, and coming home the transmission began to fail. Jaguar Man asked me how many miles on the car. I said about 65,000. He said, gee those don't usually start to fail before 80,000. He said $4,500 to replace it.

I could replace it, but here's the point, if I do, I will have a car I'm afraid to drive in the rain, afraid to drive on a toll-road, afraid to drive at all because of the transmission. I'm just going to trade it in and take whatever they give me - probably about $2000.

I have also noticed something interesting lately about Jaguar. Unlike other car ads on TV that stress durability testing (Nissan), Jaguar just has some cool guy driving the new Jag with some envious babe looking on. That's it. That's what Jag is all about. It's all just a cool prop. There is nothing automotive about it. Jag is just a bunch of union flunkies from the UK pushing dope. Nobody who is serious about automotive engineering and assembly would build crap like this. Every time I see a guy driving a Jag I feel like calling out: "Hey buddy, I've got a bridge down in Brooklyn I'd like to talk to you about - it's beautiful."

Husband bought me a gift. My first Jag 2000 S-Type, 66k.

Within weeks - First the gear shifter, got it fixed and then still have problems on inclines. Resolution is to keep the foot brake pressed while putting the car in park, with foot brake still pressed pull up the emergency brake, then release foot brake. When starting the car, press the foot brake and hold, put car in reverse or drive, then release the emergency brake, but make sure to keep your foot brake pressure on until all of the above is done.

The right front window quit on me. Then the coil packs had to be changed - twice. Took the car to Auto Zone, bought them and put new ones in at a cost of $70 per pk I think.

At 75k now the check engine light comes on, mostly when the car is cold.

Finally at 81k it is going into failsafe. Now I'm going to trade it in before I lose my transmission and my mind. CL.

WOW! I've had this car since new. I bought my Jaguar for my wife in October 1999 and it only has 48,000 miles on it to date.

My transmission is starting to act up and seems similar to what I'm reading on here, as well as my power steering, passenger side window broke, had to change all ignition coils and radiator tank cracked. When I first got the car it would show overheating. They changes so many things on it but nothing worked until finally I called them and they sent a tow truck to pick it up and finally fixed it.

From all the comments I've seen on this transmission and this car, it is obvious that something is wrong with it and was wondering if anything had ever been done with this problem. Ready to join a class action suit.

logoshoe@bellsouth.net

Add me to the list... transmission fault. While driving with the cruise set at 75 on the interstate it was like it just shifted into neutral, engine went full throttle (to the rev limiter) had to move the shifter to 3 to get home. Dealer says they do not work on transmissions, they only replace them! 7000 dollars, I told him he's crazy. I'm glad scrap prices are up! scgolden@c3bb.com

I have a 2000 S-type V6 and have to say I've had so many problems with this car. I wish I knew about this blog before I purchased this car. I'm so scared and stressed to drive this car everyday. My car has about 128850 miles on it. I have had the following problems:

A/ Car gets stuck on incline

B/ Window regulators failing, twice within a year

C/ My heater doesn't work and the service dept. doesn't even check it and writes good on their multi-inspection sheet. Not paying for this because I have other problems going on with this car, but this is what they do, they don't check and advise you of these problems.

D/ My window washers don't spray - again service dept. doesn't check this and writes good on their multi-inspection sheet.

E/ And worst of all, my transmission stopped with fuel pump data error - paid $1400 to fix it and told me the car runs fine, then a week later my transmission stops again and got another fault code - traction control fault with some sort of ignition problem where it would take 6-9 times til my car starts.

I took it to the dealer and they told me it was just the ignition, and that everything was fixed, and there was no more problem with the ignition and the drive with the traction control, and they told me that they were 99.9% sure it was the ignition causing the problem with the traction control fault.

Paid $369, then the next day my transmission stops again in mid-traffic with the traction control fault light coming on and the ignition problem is back again!!! I was able to start my car after 15 ignition tries stuck in mid-traffic scared for my life, luckily I was close to home and was able to make it after stopping 3 times getting home, it has been sitting there for 2 weeks.

I don't want to pay any more money to fix this car, and don't want a new transmission knowing that the same problems will occur again with the poor quality of Jaguar/Ford. Too many faults with this car week after week and has caused much stress on me. I rent a car now or carpool with people to work because I'm scared to drive my Jaguar.

I'm in for a class action lawsuit - please contact me when this happens at allanrey1@yahoo.com

I will never buy a Jaguar again.

I would like to start by saying please please please let me know what I need to do to become part of the lawsuit. I love the look of my car and other than that it is a piece of crap. It is unbelievable the amount of similar problems everyone is having with the Jag 2000-01 S-type in particular. This is a problem that Jaguar must be familiar with. My 2000 Jaguar had a problem with getting out of park especially at an incline however this can be fixed by putting on the emergency brake. However, it take extra long to get out of park into drive. The terrible part is when the engine fail safe mode kicks in and the vehicle will not go over 10 mph. Very dangerous and this has happen several times. My car also sputters and jerks in between shifting gears. I am so frustrated, I have a good looking piece of garbage. Please let me know what I can do thanks Chang changamire_rooker@yahoo.com.

I drive a 2000 Jaguar S-Type. At 18,000 miles it experienced the reported window regulator problem. At less than 60,000 miles it appeared to have a slipping transmission occasionally. The mechanic said the transmission checked out fine. Yesterday when driving 55 miles an hour the gear box light came on. I had to coast to a stop, turn off the engine and then restart. Now I am afraid to drive the vehicle. I know this one will cost around $7000.00. Last year I put $4000.00 into the car. Trade in value for a perfect car in April 2008-$7000. Trade in value now? I am contacting an attorney after reading all of your remarks. PGDBCO@aol.com.

I have a 2000 S-Type 3.0L V6. I have changed every window regulator, and every coil pack multiple times..

Just passed 110k miles on the car and the transmission out of nowhere, with no signs or slipping or anything.. just slips outta 3rd gear and revs up. Like everyone else here, it does this everyday now. I found a way to fix it; double pump the gas and let it idle for a second, then give it little bit of gas. 4th gear will grab and you're on your way. If not.. slam the gas down and it'll rev, bang into gear and take off like Speed Racer.

I have lost power in acceleration, but not all the time. Sometimes the tranny works fine. Like there is nothing wrong. Doesn't make sense.

I think it's all computer related, and their computers are faulting after so many starts and miles recorded on it... maybe they need to checkout their software and do a recall on the computers. Not the transmission itself. Since nowadays everything on the car from navi to seat belts are computerized.

My computer code states that the transmission solenoid is bad. I've searched everywhere online for this part and cannot find it for the life of me. I'm afraid to use my car cause now I have a new born baby, and don't want the car jerking or racing with her in the car. Good thing they cost 55k new. Should have went and bought 2 Hondas. At least they don't break down.

I own a 2000 S-Type 3.0 liter. When driving up a hill, the car needs to shift down sooner so as to not apply an overload on the weak overdrive part transmission. Our engine light is always on, and was sold from the dealer with light on. We were given only one key with the car and the book says there's 3. Any idea on the cost of replacement keys? Does anybody have the codes of the transmissions that have been recalled?

Thank you all for your comments. they have been very helpful. I was about to go and purchase a 2000 Jaguar S-Type V6 3 litre this week. After reading these horror stories I think that I will just stay with my old ford, as it has been a very reliable car. The Jag is a beautiful looking car, and the price tag of 20K looked very appealing. It is a shame that so many people have had so many problems with this incredible looking automobile.

I think its back to carsales.com for the time being.