Head gasket failure on V8
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Just looked at the US forum and nothing came up on a 'headgasket' search for the F-Type - the only hit was on a V6 engine and even then it wasn't actually confirmed to be the headgasket that went, just suspected. Two other threads popped up but neither turned out to be HG - one was actually a water pump leak causing the loss of coolant, and the other was apparently a service problem where the cap was left loose - but I didn't really check whether they were V6 or V8 engines.
Without knowing what caused the failure it's hard to know whether it's something to worry about or chalk up as bad luck, but my money is on bad luck, given the dearth of reports of HG failures both on here and in the main US forum.
EDIT: There has been a V6 failure reported on here that appears to have been caused by coolant loss. Other suspected HG failures often turn out to be injectors failing.
Without knowing what caused the failure it's hard to know whether it's something to worry about or chalk up as bad luck, but my money is on bad luck, given the dearth of reports of HG failures both on here and in the main US forum.
EDIT: There has been a V6 failure reported on here that appears to have been caused by coolant loss. Other suspected HG failures often turn out to be injectors failing.
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Anonymous
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Is this not the same crash damaged, modded with smaller pulley, already had a failed/shredded belt car?
https://www.ftypeforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=74983&hilit=Svr#p74983
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https://www.ftypeforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=74983&hilit=Svr#p74983
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Interesting to note that it hasn't seen an official Jag service since January 2021, especially since it was apparently sold to a Jag dealer that diagnosed it as head-gasket failure (looked it up after seeing the VIN appear briefly in one of his sponsored Car Vertical bits). It's taxed and insured at the moment, with the MOT due to expire near the end of April.
And yes, it appears to be a very uncommon thing on the F-Type, just judging by what SimpleR and scm have said before on this forum when suspected failures have surfaced.
EDIT: On another note, it looks like some SVO paints might get listed as 'Black' on the vehicle database. I noticed SimpleR mention a paint colour mismatch against a car search recently, and this SVR also appears as 'Black' where it has an SVO paint (Velocity Blue IIRC)
And yes, it appears to be a very uncommon thing on the F-Type, just judging by what SimpleR and scm have said before on this forum when suspected failures have surfaced.
EDIT: On another note, it looks like some SVO paints might get listed as 'Black' on the vehicle database. I noticed SimpleR mention a paint colour mismatch against a car search recently, and this SVR also appears as 'Black' where it has an SVO paint (Velocity Blue IIRC)
mickjaguar
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Cluck said:
Cars in SVO colours are often not recorded on the Jaguar database correctly. Mine is input as Osmium Blue, which is a silver blue metallic prior to 2012 used on the XF and never available on the F type. Probably dealer was using a pick list on the system, but at least they chose a blue colour.
If you do a DVLA check on the car, it is listed on their database as 'Black' . It just struck me as odd that this was another mismatched colour car following the one SimpleR noted the other day and it got me wondering whether it's because it's an SVO paint. It could simply be user error of course.
Cluck said:
Yes - I have the same issue with my SVO paint car - I was told by the Jaguar dealer I purchased the car from that the cars are painted on the usual production line in black (or white) before being taken to SVO paint booth for final colour so V5 can show incorrect colour.
cj10jeeper
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scm said:
I think this is correct.
Cars go to dealers and they register them online. They do it last minute so cars have the latest reg nd no initial tax is payable. I remember purchasing a new car a few years ago and the dealer logged in to the dvla and a registration number was proposed by the system. The first couple that came up didn’t have good last 3 letter combos, so he restarted and got a different number. The constant was year and first 2 letters based on location.
Point is the dealer assigned the reg and completed the vehicle particulars, not the factory.
What I can imagine is dealer admin team keying in from the factory supplied details from vin to colour, m9del, etc. and SVO ‘repaints’ not being reflected, or guessing which JLR colour it is.
cj10jeeper said:
Yes - that makes sense - Jaguar supplies details that say the car is black so that’s what deal administrator types into computer (if only they had looked out of the window to seen what the true colour was!)
A quick google shows it is not that uncommon for colour errors to be recorded on V5 documents and you have to be careful correcting matters because you don’t want “colour change” recorded on the system (as might imply car has been re-sprayed etc)