"LJ909" (lj909) 05/20/2019 at 14:43 • Filed to: Jaguar, Jaguar F-PACE

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I literally just hung up with a member. He’s stranded on the side of the freeway in his ‘18 F-Pace. Has less than 15 thousand miles on it. Probably less than that. Said it lost all po wer while he was driving and an engine performance affected light came on. He’s currently being towed to the local Jaguar dealership in the OC. His first words to me on the call were “Remind me never to buy a Jaguar again”.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > LJ909 05/20/2019 at 15:11

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Huh, I didn’t know they were still using Lucas Electrics? :P

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > LJ909 05/20/2019 at 15:12

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He bought a Jag expecting reliability. ThTs where he went wrong.

lone_liberal > LJ909 05/20/2019 at 15:16

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In this time of confusion and upheaval it’s nice that some of the old traditions are still being upheld. 

Arrivederci > LJ909 05/20/2019 at 15:18

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Someone at my daughter’s school has one with a vanity plate, “F- PACE S”.  It takes all my willpower to not ask them what kind of car it is.

fhrblig > LJ909 05/20/2019 at 15:20

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I laugh at these fragile souls. They clearly never drove cars in the 70's.

I remember reading old Consumer Reports auto issues from back then and most of the little synopses for each model would read something like “the (insert engine here) usually started and ran well but stalled once or twice during warmup.” MOST of them said that, including German and Japanese cars.  Can you imagine how people today would react to their brand new cars stalling even once during warmup? 

LJ909 > DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! 05/20/2019 at 15:22

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People spending big money or just looking at a luxury badge are often fooled with thinking that spending big money=reliability . It doesn’ t.

fhrblig > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 05/20/2019 at 15:22

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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > fhrblig 05/20/2019 at 15:25

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Good old IT Crowd. :P

LJ909 > lone_liberal 05/20/2019 at 15:27

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Good to see Jag still being Jag.

LJ909 > Arrivederci 05/20/2019 at 15:30

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I hope it’s a faculty member. 

user314 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 05/20/2019 at 15:33

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Obviously ran out of the magic blue smoke...

LJ909 > fhrblig 05/20/2019 at 15:34

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It’s like I mentioned to someone else. The luxury brands have, and it’s pretty brilliant if you think about it, morpphed people into thinking that spending big $$ or that star badge or roundel or whatever other luxury badge on the hood means they are getting top notch quality and dependability and they really aren’t. So when that X5s engine fails, or that Audis electronics go, they are stupidity going to wonder what they are paying  $700-800-900-1000 bucks a month for. 

Khalbali > LJ909 05/20/2019 at 15:44

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I picked up donations from a lady a couple weeks ago that was complaining about all the problems with her Velar and how much she hated it and I literally almost chuckled. Like, you could have just googled “Ra nge Rover” and found that out.

LJ909 > Khalbali 05/20/2019 at 15:54

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A lot of luxury buyers are either too dumb or too old to do proper research on these vehicles. 

Tapas > LJ909 05/20/2019 at 16:11

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Damn...I hope it was a lease lol

LJ909 > Tapas 05/20/2019 at 16:21

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Im pretty sure it is. First owners of these things are usually always lease. It’ll be traded in with like 25k on the odo.