DreamJag

Mine is a 61 plate 3.0 litre diesel XF on 78,000 miles (bought it at 28,000 miles 4 years ago for £14,000.00). Fabulous car to drive and in my ownership main jaguar dealership servicing annually. At last service told that there was a slight oil leak suspected from the nearside turbo but wanted £480.00 to investigate. I left it as the car runs beautifully. A few days ago I had a strong 'burning' smell in the cabin when stopped in traffic and a good deal of light smoke emerging from the nearside edge of the bonnet. Oil level has dropped so the burning is the very expensive (£80.00 per fill) oil. It seems to me that the big problem with Jaguar cars is repair cost and I do wonder at build quality. In my view main dealers will almost always want to replace components (I would respectfully call fitters) rather than repair defective parts of otherwise good components (mechanics). My car is worth around £4800.00 according to valuation sites. I am told that the cost of a replacement 'minor' turbo unit (I gather there are two on the XF 3.0 diesel) would be £2700.00 if done by a main dealer. Not sure if that includes VAT. Its seems that I now have a 'scrapper'!