Jaguar's first SUV was a fine effort in most regards - now it's yours from £15k...
Note for reference: car weight and power data are hard to pin down with absolute certainty. For consistency, we use the same source for all our guides. We hope the data we use is right more often than it’s wrong. Our advice is to treat it as relative rather than definitive.When it came to dynamism, none of the F-Pace engines disappointed. Even the 163hp diesel was more than able to get out of its own way.
More than a few F-Pace owners, or their cars anyway, experienced turbo and clutch failures at mileages you wouldn’t expect that sort of thing to happen. One owner reported catastrophic engine failure at 54,000 miles, with JLR offering to pay 40 per cent towards the £16,000 repair bill. The JLR network did not always appear to cover itself in glory when it came to goodwill.
The SVR benefited from a new electronic active diff and braking-based torque vectoring system, along with bigger brakes. Owners of lesser F-Paces have reported ‘long’ brake pedals or variable pedal pressures. Brake discs seemed prone to rusting, and £1,500 dealer quotes to replace all four corners including pads were by no means unusual. Corrosion also affected some alloy wheels, and wheel bearings have failed. Noisy rear suspension has been noted on some F-Paces.
There was 20 per cent less boot space in the P400e PHEV than in other F-Paces, and underfloor storage disappears in that model too, which is a double whammy as that would have been a prime location for charging cable storage. Some cars have suffered tailgate/rear window damage as a result of the ‘gate opening apparently by itself. The cover for the rear towing eye has been known to fall off. Washer pipes became detached from the bottle.
Software updates improved matters but it seemed wrong to many owners that a premium car should be saddled with inferior screen tech in the first place. If you went for the optional InControl Pro system at nearly £1,800 on Prestige or R-Sport F-Paces you could follow your navigational progress more pleasantly on a more sensitive 10.2in touchscreen or in ‘3D’ via the 12.3-inch virtual instrument display. That’s assuming it was working OK – it sometimes went blank.
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