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Fuel · 9 owner reports

Other fuel system problem on the 2011 Jaguar XF

2 fires 2 of the 9 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.

Only 7 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 9
With an odometer reading 7
Reports per 1,000 built 1.3 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 14%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 2
Typical repair $300–$2,200
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 5th

When other fuel system problem gets reported

There are 9 reports of other fuel system problem on the 2011 Jaguar XF, 7 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 90,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 7 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 88,500 miles — —

Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.

What a percentile can and cannot tell you here

These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.

What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.

Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.

What happens, and what it costs

Of these reports, 2 a fire is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.

Putting it right typically runs $300–$2,200 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2012, at a median of 65,000 miles, and latest on the 2011 at 90,000 miles.

By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 19; the 2011 has 9. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.

If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.

Median
  1. 2009 Jaguar XF other fuel system problem 71k
  2. 2010 Jaguar XF other fuel system problem 65k
  3. 2011 (this one) 89k
  4. 2012 Jaguar XF other fuel system problem 64k
  5. 2013 Jaguar XF other fuel system problem 88k
  6. 2014 Jaguar XF other fuel system problem 37k

Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

What owners wrote

Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.

When I attempted to start the vehicle the low-pressure fuel line ruptured spilling approximately 2-5 gallons of gas under the vehicle - creating a massive safety and hazard issue in the shopping center parking lot. If I was actually driving the car when the hose ruptured gas would have spilled over the entire hot engine resulting in fire or possible death.

27,225 miles NHTSA complaint 1404124 filed 2017-08-28

While driving down I-95 south, a motorist pointed to me and at my vehicle that a problem had occurred. My 2011 xf jaguar leaked fuel. I pulled off the freeway and stopped the car. After raising the hood, I could see gasoline leaking from the engine. The vehicle totally burned up after having a fuel fire resulting from gasoline leaks. Nothing I could have done to cause this vehicle fire.

88,500 miles NHTSA complaint 1411303 filed 2017-09-29

On july 20, 2017, at approximately 6:30 am, I was driving my 2011 jaguar xf in the far right lane enroute to the philadelphia international airport for a flight to attend my youngest sister's funeral. I was traumatized by the sudden massive fireball and car fire, and the possibility of missing my early morning flight. The fire started while I drove down I-95 south in philadelphia, pa. It was a motorist that pointed to me and at my vehicle that a problem had occurred. I could not determine what the problem was but I knew the performance of my vehicle was very poor. Another indicator of something being terribly wrong is that I could see blue smoke coming from the hood of my car. I exited the freeway immediately and stopped the car on enterprise avenue. After raising the hood, suddenly and without notice, I could smell and see gasoline leaking from the left side of my engine. It did not take long for the vehicle to become engulfed in fireball flames from gasoline leaks. I did nothing to cause this vehicle fire. At all times, I maintained proper speed limits and I always continued proper maintenance records on my vehicle.

75,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1484160 filed 2018-07-19

Also reported on the 2011 Jaguar XF

Fuel pump failure

12 reports median 64k

Fuel leak or fuel odor

10 reports median 82k

Airbag inflator rupture

10 reports median 40k

Other engine problem

9 reports median 70k

Loss of braking

5 reports median 123k

Other electrical problem

3 reports median 105k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 9 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 9 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.

Questions this page answers

At what mileage does other fuel system problem happen on the 2011 Jaguar XF?

Across 7 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 90,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is other fuel system problem on the 2011 Jaguar XF?

9 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.3 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.

What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars

Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed