AutoUtility currently tracks 5 official NHTSA owner defect complaints for the 2016 Jaguar XF. Engine & Cooling issues are the most frequently reported category, appearing in 1 complaint (20% of submitted records). Among these NHTSA complaint records, 1 filing cites a crash.

Key Problem Findings
  • Total NHTSA Complaints: 5 reports
  • #1 Reported Problem Area: Engine & Cooling (1 reports • 20% of submitted complaints)
  • Secondary Problem Areas: Electrical System (1), Wheels & Tires (1)
  • Crash-Citing Complaints: 1 filings
  • Fire-Citing Complaints: 0 filings
  • Complaints Reporting Injuries / Fatalities: 0 injury filings • 0 fatality filings
Reporting Methodology: Statistics describe unverified consumer submissions voluntarily filed with NHTSA. Complaint volume is not normalized for vehicle sales volume or miles driven. Multiple components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission.
Total Complaints
5
Submitted to NHTSA ODI
Crash-Citing Complaints
1
Filings citing a collision
Fire-Citing Complaints
0
Filings citing smoke or fire
Complaints Reporting Injuries
0
Filings citing one or more injuries
Complaints Reporting Fatalities
0
Consumer filings citing fatalities

Most Reported Problems for 2016 Jaguar XF

Top automotive subsystem defect categories ranked by unique owner complaint volume in federal records

#1 Problem Area 20% of complaints

Engine & Cooling

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#2 Problem Area 20% of complaints

Electrical System

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#3 Problem Area 20% of complaints

Wheels & Tires

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
✓ 0 crashes or fires cited
#4 Problem Area 20% of complaints

Driver Assistance & Safety Tech

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report
#5 Problem Area 20% of complaints

Steering System

1 owner complaint submitted to NHTSA ODI
⚠️ 1 crash report
Domain Share Note: Share percentage represents the proportion of unique complaint filings referencing each vehicle system. Because single complaints may cite multiple systems (such as engine and electrical simultaneously), domain percentages represent individual category incidence and may sum to over 100%.

Recent NHTSA Owner Reports for 2016 Jaguar XF

Representative defect filings submitted by owners to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation

Engine & Cooling NHTSA ODI ID: #11586656
Filed: 05/02/2024

"After acclerating twice to avoid an accident. The car had a check enine light appear. No other warnings, not even high temperature. the car engine stopped and I pulled over off the highway.White smoke appearing under the hood. My mechanic does a pressure check and determines it is not repairable...."

Incident Date: 04/25/2024 • Raw NHTSA Component: ENGINE
Electrical System NHTSA ODI ID: #11546721
Filed: 09/26/2023

"Dynamic mode alert locked up several times and panel was unresponsive intermittently and rear passenger footwell filled with water. . Cause is described by Jaguar dealer as rear window leak that passes through rear tail lamp and floods under the spare destroying the PCM module. Car surged once in..."

Incident Date: 08/10/2023 • Raw NHTSA Component: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER
Wheels & Tires NHTSA ODI ID: #11300906
Filed: 01/21/2020

"I PURCHASED MY VEHICHLE IN MAY 2019, SINCE MY PURCHASE, I HAVE TWO MAJOR TIRE BLOW OUTS ON MAJOR HIGHWAYS WHICH COULD HAD CAUSED ME AND MY FAMILY MY LIFE. THIS OCCURRED TWICE ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS. EACH TIME, MY TIRES SPLIT AND MY RIM COMPLETED RUPTURED CASES GREAT DAMAGE TO MY CARE. THE COLLISION..."

Incident Date: 01/04/2020 • Raw NHTSA Component: WHEELS
Driver Assistance & Safety Tech NHTSA ODI ID: #11010854
Crash Cited Filed: 07/26/2017

"TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2016 JAGUAR XF. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 3 MPH AND TURNING THE VEHICLE TO THE LEFT, IT DRASTICALLY VEERED TO THE LEFT AND ACCELERATED AT THE SAME TIME. THE VEHICLE'S CENTER FRONT END CRASHED INTO A BRICK COLUMN, WHICH CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO STOP. THE AIR BAGS DID NOT..."

Incident Date: 06/22/2017 • Raw NHTSA Component: STEERING,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL
Powertrain & Transmission NHTSA ODI ID: #10939086
Filed: 01/02/2017

"THE VEHICLE STARTED ACCELERATING WHILE STOPPED AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT. THE BRAKES HAD TO BE APPLIED HARDER AND HARDER TO KEEP IT FROM GOING INTO THE INTERSECTION, THE BRAKES WERE APPLIED SO HARD THAT THE BACK WHEELS WERE SPINNING. A WARNING WAS FLASHED ON THE DASH BUT WENT OFF IMMEDIATELY ALL THAT WAS..."

Incident Date: 12/30/2016 • Raw NHTSA Component: POWER TRAIN
Consumer Narrative Notice: Excerpts are sanitized text descriptions submitted by vehicle owners to the federal ODI database. They reflect the reporting consumer's observations at the time of filing and have not been independently confirmed by vehicle manufacturers or government investigators.

Complaint History for Jaguar XF

Reported defect complaint volume across sibling model years (2015–2024)

Model Year NHTSA Complaints Crash Reports Safety Recalls Detailed Report
2015 Jaguar XF 19 0 5 View 2015 Problems →
2016 Jaguar XF Current Page 5 1 0 Current
2017 Jaguar XF 5 1 2 View 2017 Problems →
2018 Jaguar XF 2 0 3 View 2018 Problems →
2019 Jaguar XF 0 0 0 View 2019 Problems →
2020 Jaguar XF 0 0 0 View 2020 Problems →
2021 Jaguar XF 0 0 1 View 2021 Problems →
2022 Jaguar XF 2 0 1 View 2022 Problems →
2023 Jaguar XF 1 0 0 View 2023 Problems →
2024 Jaguar XF 1 0 0 View 2024 Problems →
Comparative Disclaimer: Complaint totals are unadjusted historical counts and are not normalized for vehicles sold, active fleet size, or total road mileage. Newer model years naturally have had less calendar exposure time to accumulate owner filings.

Detailed NHTSA Component Breakdown for 2016 Jaguar XF

Complete distribution of consumer defect reports across all 5 granular NHTSA system and subsystem classifications

Vehicle Component / System Total Complaints Crash Reports Fire Reports Reported Injury Entries Reported Fatality Entries
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM,UNKNOWN OR OTHER 1 0 0 0 0
Engine NHTSA category: ENGINE 1 0 0 0 0
Powertrain NHTSA category: POWER TRAIN 1 0 0 0 0
STEERING,VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL 1 1 0 0 0
Wheels & Hubs NHTSA category: WHEELS 1 0 0 0 0
Data Attribution & Reporting Methodology: Complaints are unverified voluntary submissions to the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI). Because multiple vehicle components can be cited within a single owner complaint submission, component-level rollups may sum to more than the unique complaint count (5). Injury and fatality entries in the detailed table reflect raw values entered by reporting consumers across individual submissions; they are not deduplicated casualty statistics and may include duplicate or unverified entries. Complaint volume is not normalized for sales volume or vehicle mileage and does not represent an audited component failure rate.

Official NHTSA Defect Investigations (1)

1 OPEN

Formal safety defect inquiries and engineering analyses opened by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI)

Official Federal Inquiries: NHTSA opens a defect investigation when safety screening or consumer defect trends indicate a potential unreasonable safety risk. An open investigation is a formal inquiry and does not by itself confirm a defect or result in a mandatory recall.
OPEN Engineering Analysis (EA) ODI Action #EA21002
Opened: 2021-09-17 • Currently Active

Desiccated Air Bag Inflator Rupture

Affected Component: AIR BAGS:FRONTAL:DRIVER SIDE:INFLATOR MODULE

From 2000 through 2017, Takata produced millions of air bag inflators using two types of phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate ("PSAN") propellant -- propellant 2004 and propellant 2004L. After prolonged exposure to high temperature cycles and humidity, inflators using propellant 2004 can degrade, causing the propellant to burn too quickly when ignited. The rapid burning can cause the inflator to rupture during deployment, potentially causing serious...

Active federal investigation. Official NHTSA File →
Official US Government Data Provenance

The complaint records on this page are retrieved directly from the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) public database.

Local Production Store Compiled: August 2026 • Deterministic Audited Dataset • Zero Dynamic External API Runtime Latency.