Recall Register

Jaguar XJ12: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 8 recall campaigns for the Jaguar XJ12, model years 1973 to 1996. NHTSA has 13 complaints on file for this model line. 5 of the 10 model years have a page on this register.

Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19732
  2. 19742
  3. 19753
  4. 19763
  5. 19772
  6. 19781
  7. 19791
  8. 19910
  9. 19941
  10. 19960
Jaguar XJ12: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1996 Jaguar XJ12 NHTSA page0177%
1994 Jaguar XJ12 NHTSA page110769%1,457
1991 Jaguar XJ12 NHTSA page0177%
1979 Jaguar XJ12 NHTSA page100%32,749
1978 Jaguar XJ12 NHTSA page1177%7,000
1977 Jaguar XJ12200%19,565
1976 Jaguar XJ12300%24,741
1975 Jaguar XJ12300%19,965
1974 Jaguar XJ12200%15,089
1973 Jaguar XJ12200%13,967

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Components in the complaints

22 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Jaguar XJ12: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Engine and Engine Cooling272.76
Vehicle Speed Control181.84
Electrical System136.43
Service Brakes, Hydraulic136.43
Suspension90.92
Tires45.51
Fuel System, Gasoline45.51
Power Train45.51
Exterior Lighting45.51

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Jaguar XJ12, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1990, with 1 campaign.
Complaints about the Jaguar XJ12, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 1999, with 4 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Jaguar: all 22 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Jaguar XJ12: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/jaguar/xj12/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
29 Mar 2018
Manufacturer in the recall file
JAGUAR CARS

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Jaguar XJ12 model years have the most recall campaigns?
1976 with 3, 1975 with 3, 1977 with 2. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Jaguar XJ12 model year has the most complaints?
The 1994 model year, with 10 of the 13 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Jaguar XJ12 name?
Engine and Engine Cooling: 6 component mentions. Vehicle Speed Control: 4 component mentions. Electrical System: 3 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Jaguar XJ12?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.