Total Complaints
1 filings
JAGUAR XJS · model year
1 NHTSA complaints for this specific cohort.
NHTSA overall rating
Not crash-tested
New Car Assessment Program
The 2001JAGUARXJS carries 1 consumer safety complaint in NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation database for this specific model-year cohort. Within that volume, owners reported 0 crashes, 0 fires, 0 injuries, and 0 fatalities. No NCAP 5-star crash-test rating is available for this model year in the federal database.
Component-level analysis is where model-year complaints become actionable: the top complaint category for the 2001 XJS is visibility:rearview mirrors/devices:interior with 1 filings. Concentration in one or two component groups is the classic signature of a systemic defect; a flat distribution usually reflects normal aging, warranty complaints, or isolated build-plant variability.
NHTSA currently has 2 investigation files overlapping the 2001 XJS. Owners comparing this cohort against neighboring years should pair the counters above with the complaint-by-year trend on the parent model page — a spike in a single year often tracks to a platform refresh, a new transmission supplier, or an updated ECU calibration. Use the related-complaint feed below to read raw owner narratives before deciding whether any pattern here affects your specific use case.
Total Complaints
1 filings
Crashes Reported
0 reports
Source
NHTSA ODI
Federal complaints database
At or below the fleet median complaint volume.
| Component | Count |
|---|---|
| VISIBILITY:REARVIEW MIRRORS/DEVICES:INTERIOR | 1 |
INTERIOR REAR VIEW MIRROR IS MOUNTED TOO LOW. IT BLOCKS VIEW TO RIGHT OF CENTER, AND IT IS NOT ADJUSTABLE FOR LOCATION UP/DOWN OR LEFT/RIGHT. IT IS MOUNTED BY A SINGLE SPHERICAL JOINT WHICH ALLOWS ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT BUT NO LOCATION ADJUSTMENT. I AM ONLY 5'-10" TALL; WITH SEAT MOTORED TO ITS LOWER LIMIT MIRROR BLOCKS VIEW THROUGH WINDSHIELD. CURIOUSLY, JAGUAR MOUNTS MIRRORS IN S TYPE CARS WHICH DO NOT HAVE RAIN SENSING WIPERS BY A BRACKET CONTAINING TWO SPHERICAL JOINTS--SEPARATED BY AN "INTERMEDIATE LINK." FOR CARS WITH RAIN SENSING WIPERS JAGUAR ELIMINATES THE INTERMEDIATE LINK (AND ONE OF THE BALL JOINTS) FORCING THE DRIVER TO ACCEPT THE MIRROR LOCATION AS BUILT. NO LOCATION ADJUSTMENT IS POSSIBLE--ONLY ANGULAR ADJUSTMENT. QUESTION IS "WHY IS THE INTERMEDIATE LINK NECESSARY WITH SOME S TYPE CARS AND ELIMINATED WITH OTHER S TYPE CARS? THREE TIMES I HAVE MOVED FROM STOP SIGNS INTO THE PATH OF OTHER DRIVERS BECAUSE THEY WERE HIDDEN BY MY MIRROR. FORTUNATELY FOR ME ALL OF THEM WERE AL
Data as of 2025. Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, NHTSA recall campaign API, NHTSA NCAP crash-test ratings, and NHTSA FARS for fatality cross-reference.
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.