Having a bit of a nightmare with my car, a 2008 Jaguar XF Premium Luxury.
When I bought the car, second hand in early 2017, some small blisters where noticed in the middle of the NS front door. It looked like some reaction in the paint, possibly after a minor repair. The selling dealer agreed to sort it out along with a couple of other scratches. After 3 attempts and after every one the blisters started to come back around 3 or 4 weeks later. They had the paint manufacturer out and had the paint shop manager oversee everything. Door stripped, acid washed etc. 3 weeks later the little blisters started to re appear.
I though they were wet flatting it and the moisture was coming to the surface and a friend with a body shop agreed. The dealer agreed to another body shop of my choice looking over it.
Taking the car into my friends and stripping the paint, this is what we found and he and I was very surprised. The small blisters were actually rust spots! When I referred it back to the dealer (not a Jaguar AD) they dropped it like a hot brick and refused to do anything.
Down to me then, I thought just sort it out it's nothing major. First we pierced every small blister we could find
Then we welded in dent pins
and ground them back so all good metal
Guess what just over 4 weeks later small blisters start to appear on the door and similar have started to appear on the drivers door.
Completely miffed I sourced a replacement door. I noticed that the new door (from a newer car) had a spray type of sound deadening foam inside the panel where my original had a stick on pad type. When I pulled off the stick on panel in the original door I was met with this,
A perfect square of rust, which cannot be seen without removing the sound pad.
As the drivers door has now started to do the same I need to address that one next.
Anyone else experienced anything like this? Is it a known problem with the early XF's? I did contact Jaguar last year asking for their thoughts on the blisters and they refused to even have a look at it.
I think there must be some kind of water based glue or sealer used to stick these pads on which hadn't dried properly when originally fitted.
I'd like to hear what you think and should I try to involve Jaguar again even though the car is 10yrs old (Jaguar rust warranty is 6yrs).
Neil