Jaguar problems by model
Owners have filed 1,422 complaints with NHTSA about the 5 Jaguar models with enough data to profile here, covering 10 model years from 1998 through 2019. The S-Type draws the most at 550, 38.7% of the make's total.
Complaint volume tracks how many cars a make sold as much as how they held up, and NHTSA complaints are unverified owner reports rather than confirmed defects. Nothing on this page compares Jaguar against another manufacturer. Use it to find the model, then the model year, then read what owners of that year actually filed.
Every Jaguar model
| Model | Model years | Complaints | Most-reported year | Top system that year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S-Type | 4 2000–2005 | 550 | 2000 178 | Power train (23.0%) |
| X-Type | 2 2002–2003 | 294 | 2002 189 | Power train (28.0%) |
| XF | 2 2009–2010 | 258 | 2010 134 | Fuel/propulsion system (36.6%) |
| I-Pace | 1 2019–2019 | 220 | 2019 220 | Electrical system (55.5%) |
| XJ8 | 1 1998–1998 | 100 | 1998 100 | Engine and engine cooling (35.0%) |
Model years shown are those with at least 100 complaints on file, the gate every page on this site has to clear.
Reading the numbers
Across every Jaguar model year on the site, electrical system is the system named most often — 214 complaints, 20.0% of those filed under a named system. Individual model years diverge from that sharply, which is the reason to read the year rather than the badge.
The three most-reported Jaguar models — S-Type, X-Type and XF — account for 77.5% of the make's complaint volume. That is a concentrated picture: most of what gets reported about Jaguar here comes from three nameplates. Bear in mind that a nameplate selling in the millions will out-file a niche one whatever its record.
Of the 1,422 complaints, 112 describe a crash, 16 describe a fire and 2 report a death.
Most-reported Jaguar model years
The single heaviest model year of each Jaguar nameplate, 1998–2019. Heaviest is not worst — read it alongside the model page.