MOT Check for JAGUAR XK8s

The JAGUAR XK8 makes up 177,770 of the overall 5,280,283 JAGUAR MOT test results. Select your XK8 model year below to find the specific problems.

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Some examples of the most common issues are:
Power steering pipe or hose leaking  Occurs:41 times
Offside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings  Occurs:264 times
Offside Front suspension has excessive play in a pin or bush of an upper wishbone inner bearing  Occurs:18 times
Offside Front Lower Front suspension ball joint dust cover excessively deteriorated so that it no longer prevents the ingress of dirt  Occurs:20 times
Parking brake lever pawl spring does not push the pawl positively into the ratchet teeth  Occurs:13 times
Nearside Rear Coil spring not correctly located  Occurs:16 times
Nearside Rear Sub-frame attachment bracket/mounting corroded and its strength is seriously reduced  Occurs:24 times
Offside Rear Suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength ai Occurs:29 times
rear parking brakes imbalanced Occurs:28 times
Offside Front Vehicle structure has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings floor  Occurs:14 times
Rear brake binding Occurs:572 times
Nearside Headlamp aim aimed so that it dazzles other road users  Occurs:16 times
Offside Rear Stop lamp adversely affected by the operation of another lamp  Occurs:29 times
Offside Front Headlamp not working on dipped beam  Occurs:153 times
Offside Headlamp cleaning device inoperative  Occurs:15 times
Nearside Front Road wheel bead rim badly distorted  Occurs:26 times
Nearside Front Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded  Occurs:519 times
Nearside Rear Inner Suspension component mounting prescribed area excessively corroded significantly reducing structural strength sill (5.3.6 (a) (i)) Occurs:33 times
Offside Front Headlamp not working on main beam (4.1.1 (a) (ii)) Occurs:14 times
Power steering component leaking  Occurs:56 times
Centre Rear Stop lamp not working  Occurs:21 times
Rear Sub-frame corroded and seriously weakened  Occurs:156 times
Nearside Front Upper Front suspension has excessive movement at a wishbone pin or bush  Occurs:60 times
Front Exhaust has a major leak of exhaust gases  Occurs:46 times
Nearside Front Shock absorbers has an excessively worn bush (5.3.2 (c)) Occurs:51 times
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