Vehicle profile
1998 Jaguar XJ XJ8
Sedan · Compact Cars
Specifications
What's under the hood.
- Cylinders
- 8-cyl
- Displacement
- 4L
- Fuel
- Premium gasoline
- Transmission
- Automatic 5-spd
- Drive
- RWD
- Body class
- Compact Cars
- Doors
- 4
Federal recall campaigns
1 federal recall campaign.
How this compares
- vs 1998 Compact Cars
- 0.31× the 3.23 campaigns averaged across that group (fewer than typical)
- Most-affected system
- VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL — 1 of 1 (100%)
Derived from the federal campaign record across 1998 vehicles in the same body class. Counts are of campaigns, not of faults found.
98V022000
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROLVEHICLE DESCRIPTION: PASSENGER VEHICLES. THE CABLE ADJUSTER BRACKET NUT ON THE OUTER SLEEVE OF THE THROTTLE CABLE CAN BECOME DISPLACED FROMTHE CABLE ABUTMENT BRACKET ON THE ENGINE.
Consequence: SHOULD THIS OCCUR, LIMITED OPENING OF THE THROTTLE WILL OCCUR, EVEN WITH THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL FULLY DEPRESSED TO THE FLOOR.
Remedy: DEALERS WILL INSPECT THESE VEHICLES AND MODIFY THE THROTTLE CABLE SYSTEM.
12/02/1998
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"id": "zfgib8ehbue32x7",
"year": 1998,
"make": "Jaguar",
"model": "XJ",
"trim": "XJ8",
"submodel": "Sedan",
"horsepower": null,
"cylinders": 8,
"displacement_l": 4,
"transmission": "Automatic 5-spd",
"drive_type": "RWD",
"fuel_type": "Premium gasoline",
"body_class": "Compact Cars",
"image_url": "https://vehicle.s3.us-east-005.backblazeb2.com/vehicles/1998/Jaguar/XJ/1998_Jaguar_XJ_47d3ee29_00001_.png",
"image_type": "illustration",
"recall_count": 1
}Compare
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