Jaguar Xjv8 1998

• Recall 8563 [USA]: This can result in breakage of the gear teeth potentially causing the transmission to "lock up" at speeds below 15 mph.
  Vehicle description: passenger vehicles. Fine cracks within one or more of the gear teeth with in the gear train, inside the automatic transmission gearbox.
  dealers will replace the automatic gearbox.
  owner notification began july 1, 1999. Owners who take their vehicles to an authorized dealer on an agreed upon service date and do not receive the free remedy within a reasonable time should contact jaguar at 1-201-818-8500. Also contact the national highway traffic safety administration's auto safety hotline at 1-888-dash-2-dot (1-888-327-4236).

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Tl*the contact owns a 1998 jaguar xjv8. While driving 65 mph, the vehicle decelerated and then came to a complete stop. The contact restarted the vehicle and the limp home mode feature displayed on the instrument panel. The limp home mode feature would not allow him to drive the vehicle more than 15 mph. The dealer has not inspected the vehicle. The contact received the following two recall notices in march of 2007: recall # 99v138000 (power train:automatic transmission) and recall # 98v022000 (vehicle speed control). The dealer stated that they would not repair the vehicle as part of the recalls because the contact would first need to repair the transmission. The vin was unknown. The current and failure mileages were 80,000.