Do you need to change the oil in a Jaguar X type?
1 month later… All Manuals: WSD-M2C200-C (about £30 per litre!) This is taken from the Haynes X-Type Workshop manual for X-Type 2001-2011 Petrol & Diesel As a side note, I have read that you shouldn’t need to ever change the oil, only needed to top up if youve had work done or had a leak.
How long does it take to change the oil in a Jaguar 2.5?
Further to my previous item, I am now in a position to change the oil in my 2.5 Auto gearbox. Jaguar are now recommending 10 years or 150,000 miles to change the oil in the ‘sealed for life’ gearbox. My local authorised Jaguar service centre has indicated that the job takes just one hour, as indicated by Jaguar.
Can a Jaguar X-type gearbox be replaced?
… if the gearbox does fail and can be proved that this is due no oil changes taking place, will Jaguar have to replace the gearbox F.O.C. even though the ‘box could be well be out of warranty Click to expand… I expect they’d say it’s reached the end of its (sealed for) life. 😕
Can you change transmission fluid on a Jaguar?
REPLY: No Jaguar dealer will recommend changing the transmission fluid due to the overall policy that these units are sealed for life, a life we all know can be considerably shortened by dirty fluid, even though servicing the box will invalidate any remaining warranty.
1 month later… All Manuals: WSD-M2C200-C (about £30 per litre!) This is taken from the Haynes X-Type Workshop manual for X-Type 2001-2011 Petrol & Diesel As a side note, I have read that you shouldn’t need to ever change the oil, only needed to top up if youve had work done or had a leak.
Further to my previous item, I am now in a position to change the oil in my 2.5 Auto gearbox. Jaguar are now recommending 10 years or 150,000 miles to change the oil in the ‘sealed for life’ gearbox. My local authorised Jaguar service centre has indicated that the job takes just one hour, as indicated by Jaguar.
… if the gearbox does fail and can be proved that this is due no oil changes taking place, will Jaguar have to replace the gearbox F.O.C. even though the ‘box could be well be out of warranty Click to expand… I expect they’d say it’s reached the end of its (sealed for) life. 😕
When to change transmission fluid on a Jaguar?
If you ring ZF, even they will say that the fluid should be changed by 70,000 miles. As most people know, “sealed for life” just means that the fluid is designed to last for 60,000 miles so that Jaguar could reduce the calculated cost of ownership for 60,000 miles by not needing a gearbox fluid change.