First Fix FAILED! NOT just a seal! 2008 Jaguar XJ 350

39 thoughts on “First Fix FAILED! NOT just a seal! 2008 Jaguar XJ 350”

1. Wtf did this guy do? Wow it just needed an alignment adjustment.

2. You could have fried the electronics jumpstarting the car not supposed to jump start these cars

3. Tracks are availiable on ebay for cheap

4. Have you tried timing the cables Ray @Rainman Ray's Repairs

5. I would look for assembly from a Junkyard

6. 2200 bucks for track assembly from Jag yikes that's a pretty old jag too @Rainman Ray's Repairs

7. Here in the UK 🇬🇧 this jaguar is worth peanuts or known as a junker and therefore I wouldn't spend all this money n time on
   It. If it was my car I'd just seal up the sunroof. Or dump the car.
   Stick with Japanese cars.

8. Very interesting lesson on sunroof repair.

9. too bad if the whole body is bent from a repaired rear end crash that makes the sun roof not fit anymore….

   Got a jig?

10. you carefully meticulously, bent the thin sides and folded the head gear to get it out of there.

11. I remember the local Jaguar dealership in California in 1974.
    They had about 5 XKEs lined up facing the street. They couldn't sell them. They eventually sold them of course. I wonder for how much?
    That was the last year for XKE I think 🤔

12. Maybe the seal has a front and a rear placement requirement. Could be thicker in certain areas.

13. $2200 to fix a Jaguar that's nothing.

14. IMO if you must have a luxury vehicle it should be leased. #1 They lose value so quickly buying leaves you upside down very rapidly. They lose value faster than non luxury vehicles. #2 As they age, they are a nightmare to keep fixed, parts are expensive and these vehicles tend to be complicated to repair. #3 Most people buy these things to impress their neighbors, co-workers, etc. No one is impressed by a five year old luxury vehicle. You are going to want to flip it every three years anyway if you want to keep impressing people who are impressed by that type of thing. #4 The payment is generally a lot lower for a lease than it is to own. If you drive a lot, this can change quickly but these vehicles aren't generally designed to be driven a lot anyway and doing so completely destroys the value even faster than it is being lost anyway. The entire time the vehicle is leased you aren't responsible for maintenance or repairs. You do not actually own the vehicle and you can turn it in at the end and get another new luxury vehicle. Personally, I don't own luxury vehicles, but if I decided I wanted to own a luxury vehicle, I would lease it.

15. The aluminum drier vent works fine for intakes if they are 4 inches LOL

16. Nothing cheap on a Jag!

17. Can you imagine what this would have been like years ago when car headlining was fabric, held in place with springy metal rods. At least the headlining is a one piece moulding nowadays.

18. Wish I could have told you it needed a new tracking system before you took out the headliner 🤣☝️🤟👽🎬

19. I'm amazed the owner is willing to pay for all this labor for a sunroof leak. I would have patched the shit outta it (don't care if it works) and call it a day and pretend I never had a sunroof.

20. Jaguar repair process set it on fire because it's a rebadged ford Mondeo

21. No sunroof is a good sunroof….

22. Oh yes, sunroofs break. Your example sounds like what I found and tried to do. Took one out to swap it for a good one (I thought). It was a complete cluster—-. Excuse my language. Made me not happy. Just don't have sunroofs. Oh, and good luck. After all an auto body shop might be able to do. Love your vids.

23. Sloggeth hit the nail on the head, an adjustment at the motor to sync the cables will usually square up the roof in the opening and fix that gap. At this point the customer needs to decide if they want to replace those cracked pieces (I couldn't see how badly they are worn or cracked, but if bad it would be a shame to do the adjustment and put everything back together and then have the parts break).

24. Gotta wonder who was in there before, and why.

25. Working on cars for 32+ years now I learned on working on 1 sunroof that’s a job left to a interior shop. These are not jobs I will touch in our shop. Good luck

26. Flex seal.

27. Uhgggg!

28. JB weld that mf shut and keep on rolling

29. What a pain in the ass.
    What you pay for a Jaguar.
    This shouldn't be necessary. Period.

30. And that is why you don't spend money to have a hole in the roof of your car…

31. I could never work in a shop that has the phone ringing out in the shop.

32. Best place for old Jaguars is a shredder.
    I don't even see newer Jags in my part of England. Mercedes are quite rare too but plenty of BMWs about.

33. This is firmly in the “I’m gonna pay the guy” category of car projects for me! Nice work of keeping everything clean too!

34. Correction: I have never got bored and left one of your videos.

35. Sunroofs are more trouble than the entire rest of the car. I really do not like them or even see their point.

36. Well done in that tear down Ray, I would not have done that on the XJ production line in fear that the clips would break!

37. NEVER buy a car with a sunroof. Learned this a while ago. 2000 Nissan Maxima. Horrible car. All kinds of issues. Would NOT recommend. The sunroof was just one of the issues.

38. Sunroofs are nice but when it comes to maintaining them they can be a pain in the Ar.. Great video Thanks Ray

39. Seekins is good! Nice hat.

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