One such complications with the 1999-2002 Jaguar S-Type cars could be breakage within the pricey shifter set up for that automatic transmission. And in addition, this shifter set up continues to be on back-order from Jaguar for pretty much annually or longer without ETA for brand new stock during the time of this listing.

The aluminum shift block replaces the weak plastic piece that fails on all Jaguar shifter devices. No requirement for a second hand shifter set up or new shifter set up from dealer! Help you save 100s of dollars.

Disconnect shifter set up from vehicle, remove shift cable and install new aluminum shifter block. Re-install to obtain a duration of hassle free shifting.

Forget about using the parking brake to transfer of or from gear! No pricey tows towards the repair center or dealer!

Shifter block malfunction is easily the most typical repair I see at Lansing Professional Fleet Auto Repair that fails within the Jaguar S-Types. I'll have the ability to help you save 1000's of dollars, headaches and miss proper diagnosis of this issue.

I personally believe Jaguar S Types are utter garbage and that i have a pity party for everyone that has made the purchase and need to help any future people from ever purchasing one. If you be one of the fortunate ones who've not had these repairs fail together with your S-Type or Lincoln subsequently LS you will be very lucky.

Just in case you did not know these cars are siblings, meaning they're identical, they share several similar components and elegance flaws. The 3 most frequent problems are listed below.

Shift linkage breaks and vehicle won't get into or emerge from park, front lower ball joints or front struts rattle and clunk, and rear of car clunks and rattles awfully from bad lower strut bushings.

Shifter failure is easily the most typical and pricey repair relevant towards the Jaguar S-Type. Sadly doing the work once won't guarantee it won't happen for again. many proprietors become familiar with a couple of days or several weeks later the shifter breaks again. Average price of this repair is $500-1000.00 Presently Jaguar doesn't have supplier for that unsuccessful shifter set up and to my understanding I bought the final brand new one in December of 2009! I have acquired second-hands ones on EBay for around 100.00 since that time I have seen them under $200 every occasionally.

How come this component break lower you might ask? Well in the manufacture's genius design and production abilities they made the decision that the small plastic block the length of half your hands is resilient enough to handle pressure of the complete weight of the vehicle, the shifter itself, the transmission, the shift cable and regular put on on these parts.

Even today no recall remains released they do not think this can be a safety concern or people are hurt (just your pockets) out of this part failing.

I came across an aftermarket company who'll certainly be selling another design ($179-$269) that could for good handle shifter block breakdown.