07:15 theres your problem. there is a wooden log inside the engine...

I love how Sam carefully hides the brand labels of those products that did not contribute any cash :)

As a former owner of an XF 5.0, an XKR, and XKR-S...yes, these cars are fucking incredible and beautiful. Now I have a 2020 F-Type R, and I continue to love this brutish supercharged 5.0. Jaguar is the only car company that truly builds a car with a soul.

Hey Sam, i used engine flush on a 2001 skoda octavia 1.8T (audi engine) that hat a lot of gunk build up, and a problem with the oil pressure. After pouring in the stuff you could hear the engine running quieter. I drained the oil, and filled op with quality synthetic oil and a friction modifier. The oil pressure problem was gone, that was over 6 years ago. I have used an engine flush for every oil change since then and the engine never made any problems again. The car is still used regularly by a family member and it runs better then when i got it.

I knew nothing about these cars. Aside from the lack of reliability it's kind of like an E55. That debate moderator is legit!

The can of worms you opened with that Range Rover had their revenge.

I've owned an XF 5.0. 2012. It was awesome!!! No maintenance issues ever. Head turner, luxury, wonderful. Why did I sell? To buy a Jaguar XK-R. Now that IS a CAR!!! One of the best grand tourers ever! Yours was a steal man! And it looks great!

GM used these as well on their supercharged engines. The problem with the noise is that if the amount of play gets to be too large, and in your case, it sounds like it was very very close to that limit, the impellers inside the supercharger grind against each other and the entire thing comes apart. If you are lucky, the damage is small, usually valves (usually the edges get nicks in them from the metal shavings and some cylinder scoring) and the system bypasses the damaged part. Or it can send an inch piece of metal into a cylinder. IME, the replacement items are good for 40-60K miles, same as the original. They wear out and are a normal item to replace every 3-5 years. On this car, it's buried. On a GM, it's on the top of the engine and a 20 minute job.

Sam crac be the type of guy to let his house be eaten by worms and rebuild it the next week while listen to audible with his raycon earbuds

Yep I use a fluid extractor to pump out the oil on my MB and the filter housing is on the top of the motor. That pump has paid for itself many times over and the time it saves me is incredible. I have the oil changed on the car in less than 20 minutes. Main thing is to run the motor for a bit before doing the change because the warm oil will flow far better when being extracted.

bought a 2018 1 owner XE S 28K miles 10 months ago. i do my own oil changes every 5K with the JLR kit from FCP. this car makes me smile every time i drive it. unfortunately i have a 60 mile total commute to work 5x a week but the car preforms like day 1 six years ago. there are quite a bit of jags here in connecticut. i love seeing other jag owners. great video! educated me a bit!!

Re Friction modifiers: I daily drove an F350 with the 6.0 for a while (never had a single issue in 60k miles) and in my second winter with the truck, I started using a friction modifier. Made a world of difference on winter cold starts. It ran way smoother and quieter than it used to on those sub-10°F mornings

The sound of the supercharged V8 jags is amazing. One rolled by me one day on the interstate and I stopped by the dealership the next day.

I’ll probably find an engine knock car and it will have a real knock from a bad c-rod.

I love how you said youre in mexico especially when I know the actual road you were on lol.

I recently sold my '15 XFR. It was an amazing car and I had absolutely no problems with it. The driving dynamics are fantastic. They are pretty rare and it looks as good as it drives, so I got compliments on it all the time. I loved that it was not jam packed with tech. I needed an SUV for hauling, otherwise I would have kept it.

no wonder it was making that noise there is a piece of wood in there

Just to touch on the differences between the XF Supercharged and XFR. For pre-facelift XF-S models (2010 and 2011) it was mechanically identical to the XFR (i compared parts lists when I bought my SUpercharged) and for the facelifts, as far as I can tell, only the stock tire offered changed betweed it and the XFR. Most of what you got going for an R outside the extra 40HP was the sporty bolstered seats (available on XF "S" models and XFR in facelift only), an R badge on the gauges, infotainment, passenger dash panel, seats, and rear, 2 heat extractors on the hood, different front and rear fascia, and wheel design (both got 20" wheels as standard in the same width and offsets). Both have the same tuning capabilities and limitations (intercooler upgrades needed to breach 630Hp reliably, when to swap lower pulleys, the relative uselessness of changing the airboxes until 650+), the same 6HP ZF transmission, and the same E-Diff.

The timming chain problem of those engines (5.0 N/A and SC 2010-12) it doesn't have anything to do with oil starvation, It's more a design problem of the timming guides and tensors.

I've used Liqui Moly MoS2 Anti-Friction oil on a 2002 MB SLK and the engine stopped making rattle noises after sitting for a while (common issue on M111 engines). Not sure which "friction modifier" you had in mind, but this oil with MoS2 made a difference in my case.

Dropped everything to watch ! Cool car Samcrac .big support from Tennessee

I've had pretty good luck with MotorKote oil additive, Sam! But I'm pretty sure it won't dissolve logs - soft or hardwood...

Should've replaced that outlet pipe assembly and the rear crossover pipe while you were in there. Very common to leak coolant. Also saw you taking the symposer bracket off... you can pull the symposer out with the charger with just two plugs being released. No need to fight the three t30s off the back.

Finally I see someone talking about an XFR!! I HAVE A 2010 and I love it !!😎

Jags are so underrated. Even the modern XFS is amazing.

"these worms..." groovin catarplillar rave: "am i a joke to you?"

My dad has a 2013 xfr but his one has an 8 speed gearbox like a xfrs and the inserts in the interior are carbon fibre

A good bit of Brit engineering! Lovely engine, beautiful styling, and as we say here in England " Goes like shit off of a shovel" a cracking motor!

project on a british car going sideways in 3....2....1.......

Damn a cheap 500hp Jaguar would be an awesome car Except that it’s a 50:50 chance that it’ll be a good deal or a scam

I love how Sam says " Even though we're in Mexico" @ 13:40 BUT we all know he lives in Ocala lol Love your videos man everytime I watch one of your auction buys it makes me want to go to an auction but I chicken out every time lol

My wife owned a car with a 231 Buick. They were notorious for oil control issues. I tore the top of the engine down and found thick dried oil all over the cylinder valley. I scraped it out with a putty knife but I couldn’t drop the pan. I changed the oil which turned black instantly on startup due to the buildup. I put a can of engine restore through it. Chunks poured out of the oil pan....chunks. A week later I ran restore through again and I got really dirty oil out of it. I refilled it and that oil change stayed clean. The flush had removed years of oil buildup.

When the old owner sees this video he’s gonna be pisseddd that’s why it’s good to know stuff about cars

Sam: "Boy that Range Rover didn't kick my ass enough. I think I'll buy this Jaguar."

Yep we’ve had a transmission selector failure where it refused to rise out of the centre console, thousands of pounds spent at a Jaguar dealer

I happen to own one of these mighty cars I love the car it’s a 2010 XFR. I want to tel you be always cautious of COOLANT LEAKS these cars if you don’t know already are notorious for leeks because of the horrid plastic tubing they use...

Excellent content Sam, can’t wait for more on the XFR.

The transition to the sponsor was again flawless.

After listening to that book, he still called them worms. 😂🤣 worms.

7:30 A LOG in there !!! ..easy repair!

My favorite engine shmoo is lucas, I even put one of their stickers over the check engine light!

Renn and Stimpy would've been proud of that log action lmfao

Best I've found is Motor Kote. Several years ago a truck driver told me it would stop the lifter tick on my 5.4 Triton expedition. Bought a quart , put it in and before I got out of the parking lot it quieted down. That was at 150k miles, it's got over 400k now. 1 quart every third oil change. Also used it in my last Kenworth, when I sold it , it had 1.9 million miles, no engine issues on a C15 Acert...on that one was 1 gallon every third oil change.

If you put something heavy on the gear selector it will break the mechanism that makes it rise, however the manual states you can still move it. I have the V6 version of this and I love it.

That is one clean looking jag for that price.

Lubrication?? No, no. Lubricity my friend.

Hi Sam, You asked to comment on Oil Advertises for Sludge, well I've been using these for some 15 years here in Australia and have had fantastic results along the way. We use all types here and they are so good to bring cars back to "As Knew a condition" I kid you not. Love your blogs, keep up the good work mate. - Alan.

“Auction diagnoses as engine knock” I feel as if anyone who’s the slightest mechanically inclined could tell you that’s most definitely not an engine knock. Truly a steal.

That thing is a beauty.

7:15 I really thought that you found a F*cking log on top of the block. I almost lost it

Sam I've used liquimoly mso2 antifricton with great success, it's not a huge difference as the oil is the main component and has all the detergents and friction modifiers. But the mso2 is great stuff!!!! But engine flush is not generally recomended and especially with small passages inside the engine, use some atf in the oil, drive a few 100 miles, then change oil again. It will slowly dissolve the gunk but the flush will break off chunks quickly and can clog more than it unclogs

I bought a super charged Buick Regal 2 years ago, same super charger, same engine noise, same replacement part. It is a really nice car dirt cheap. Still driving it.

7:15 first appearance of the Jaguar log tool.

“Even though we’re in Mexico” - drives by street sign in English. 😂

I add hexagonal boron nitride and tungsten disulfide (tablespoon and 1/2 teaspoon respectively) to all my engines now and it smooths them out significantly. Idle revs are lower, they have more power and are less burdened, and get better mileage. The smallest grade powders also reduce wear by 55% or so depending on concentration by weight.

I use archoil in my 2005 powerstroke diesel and I noticed right off that the engine starts quicker and is much quieter. It can also be used in gas engines. I am going to start putting it in my cars. Good stuff!

Hot shot secrets, runs cooler, can hear a audible difference, runs smoother, great stuff

I see you scrolled past audiobook David Goggins “Can’t Hurt Me”. an excellent book!

If you're disappointed "when you get behind the driver's seat" (3:20), I'm not surprised. Try getting IN the driver's seat instead. The difference will be immediately apparent.

Yes you need a Family garage and a good specialised Jag scape yard Like EUROJAG to run these lovely cars ! Bought my Dad a V8 for his retirement biggest smile I ever saw on his face £42k car bought for £11k 8,000 miles on clock. Bless him he did start complaining about the Fuel costs . You did a great job on that XFR Some simple fixes! Our S Type is 15 years old 67k now on clock worthless to anyone but me, so lovely to drive Dad had 10 years of luxury travel until he Left us Best thing I ever did to repay him for being a great Dad .

I love how Sam can drive on public roads with a new car and be perfectly fine but Rich does it and ends up getting his car impounded 😂. Looking forward to seeing the XFR build though!

Wow! That is a whole lot of worms!

My daughter has a wrangler that had a tick on the top side ..thought it might be a rocker arm bearing or something that wasn’t getting a good supply of oil. Ran a flush and used ROYAL PURPLE and FILTER ran and at first nothing was different for the motor until about 50 miles that bearing or rocker arm what ever it was no long makes a noise. In fact you had to actually life the hood to made sure the engine is actually even running and at 75,000 mikes that motor has another 300,000 left in it. Thxs royal purple with oil filter and oil..your products are great..and not much more than a cheap FRAM or even STP.

I remember that you need to hold the Traction button for 10 seconds from the top gear action movie episode

I have a XF and the gear selector dial has been known to fail and get stuck down, huge job to get it fixed and a absolute nightmare job, I'd also recommend going into your climate settings and putting the rotating vents into 'always open' as cool as it is having the spinning vents, if and when they stop working I believe it's a dashboard out repair, again a total nightmare... Fantastic cars to drive and personally I found it to handle waaay better than a BMW 5 series, only bad point for me is that in the UK a XF is horrible to keep fueling when we're paying not far off $2 per litre of V Power

Sam’s got himself a Jaaaaaaaag! Perfect👍

I used a friction modifier I got off a traveling salesman back in the early eighties when gas prices skyrocketed. I put it in a '64 Pontiac Bonneville and immediately the engine idle sped up. That saved me from trying to figure out how to set the idle on the Carter AFB carb. Sold it to a relative who ended up spinning a main bearing.

My rover 75 V6 froze up due to oil starvation (serious neglect by previous owner). After changing the cilinderhead it sort of half froze next day. We were able to losen it manual by turning the crank. After adding a lubrication additive no problems have occurred since.

I never liked oil extractors. It never really gets all of the sludge in the bottom of the oil pan. I'd also consider getting a used oil analysis on everyone of your auction buys just to see if it may bring any potential issues up.

Love these jags! I'm a tow truck driver and, a lot of the newer (2016-20) have some silly electrical issues, but I've driven them off my bed and into the shop and man do they feel smooth! Sound AMAZING stock! SOOOOO COMFY! Plenty of visibility! And as you've already mentioned, quite affordable! It's like if Cadillac made a baby with BMW and it came out with Jag!

13:40 “even though we’re in Mexico...” immediately drives past an American flag

I flushed my '88 Jaguar XJ40 when I bought it then added a friction modifier with the new oil. I noticed the engine was smoother and my fuel economy improved. I told the new owner to do the same thing when he got the oil changed.

I see the problem, there's a log in the engine 😂

12:07 *serbian accent* "Turn off the traction control" "You have to hol it down for 10 seconds" Full 10? Full 10.

I don't know if i would attempt this on an engine like this, but an old school mechanic from my area told me that back in the 70s and 80s they would use kerosene heating fuel or off road diesel fuel as a motor flush. He said they would just dump in about a half gallon right on top of old oil, if it was overfull was not a major concern as this was only in the engine for a few min, but they would run the engine and rev it a few times for about 10-15 min before draining out everything. they would then add another half gallon of fuel and run it again, again fill level which would be low at this point was not a concern, another 10 min or so. drain it again, then fill it up with fresh oil and filter. He said that this would wash out a large majority of sludge buildup and help clear any of the really small oil passages, but like any of the off the shelf solutions was only a band-aid for an obviously bigger problem. When I asked about any negative side effects of the fuel in the crank case he told me that there is a small chance that it could cause excessive wear on things like bearings or rockers, basically any moving part, but that for such a short running time it was unlikely. he also cautioned against doing a motor flush of any kind, either with fuel or with a store bought additive too often, and that he personally would never repeat the process on back-to-back oil changes unless the engine still had a very excessive build-up.

I like when you're in "Mexico", you pass an American Flag (13:47)...

How the heck does sam find cars like these? I would have never been able to find this

Seems like you learned a lot from the Land Rover to work on this car. Guess the Land Rover was not a total fail because you took a lot of new information for future jobs like this

as soon as i saw the thumbnail and read the title i knew exactly what is was. my gen 2 cts-v had the same issue. that rattle sound was horrendous!! unmistakable if you know what it is. its actually a "spring loaded isolator"

Nice transition into the ad. Also I watched the debate. At first I was like man it's over an hour no way am I watching it all. Well that hour went fast. Having Chris fix "hey guys, times up" was a nice touch

"Even though were in Mexico, we want to be considerate of the people who live here......" wow

That jaguar logo on steering wheel is lit 🔥

It's super easy to remove the supercharger or any other part. My problem is putting it back together.

The shifting knob failed multiple times on my dads here in the uk apparently at the time the road side assist said it was common and Jaguar would not replace it under warranty

Dude, when can we get that Sam-croc shirt?!?!?!

3:55 the chevy spark

this video is a blessing to anyone who has the exact same sound, I found a 2010 xF Supercharged it has little hail damage, 105k miles he's asking $4900 I'm trying to buy it in morning

I had one of these XFRs. Lovely car. Immensely powerful but the power is completely usable. One thing I will say is stump up for a good set of tyres as it can get very tail happy in the wet. Pirelli P-Zeros are on the mark with this car.

Sam crack 👏 it is the same engine like the one in the range rover... what were you thinking 🤔

"even tho we are in Mexico" sees a USA flag hanging in the background 13:44

You don't want to swap the upper pulley on these, you swap the lower one. About the most you can pull out of this engine is 640 bhp but all it takes is a tune and lower pulley.

I have been using Liqui Moly Ceratec on a Mercedes C350 and a BMW X3. The Mercedes has almost 200K on it right now, things are still running smooth and shiny inside. The BMW got a liter of Ceratec within a week of purchase and it is coming up on its first 10K mile service (yea, I think 10K is too long, once this first one is done I am going to do the alternating 5K's by myself)

You can flush an engine with a quart of transmission fluid also.

I just bought a 12 xf not the r from the city action for 4K and bought the key for $450 73k miles it has the 5.0 na but still a super nice car especially for 4500 all in

Just got a 2011 Jaguar XF Supercharged. 77K Miles for 13.9. She is mean. 2nd day with her I hit 152. 1/31/2024 . Yesterday 3/19/2024 we hit 172. Out of the dashes listed 186. Then I cam here to see what I could do next. About to take your advice on alot of these upgrades. I'm thinkin Porsche Panamera after now. Thanx for the video

I use Liqui-Moli Ceratec in my 2009 2.0t Audi Cabriolet engine. (2009 Cabriolets have the earlier 2.0t found in the B7) Before the treatment I was burning oil to the rate of one quart per 1k miles (still within Audi's specifications). Since using every other oil change, I might need to top it off once, but no longer burn. I change oil around 4.5k. Car and motor has 205k.

You’re becoming even smarter with your experience. I’m in awe of what you take risks on, and then successfully wrench to become great vehicles. More power to you! 😀

Hey Sam thanks for the video for me it’s therapeutic it really helps me get through the day knowing you have a new video I say do a new video every day. Thanks for the content keep them coming I’m a big fan!

Oil extractors are da bomb! I picked one up a few years ago. In ten minutes I can do an in-driveway oil change after coming home from the office without bothering to lose the suit. They're quick, easy, and painless. No longer do I have to jack up the family's vehicles to get this regularly-scheduled maintenance item off the to-do list. But... My old 1993 C1500 pickup had baffles in the oil pan which made getting to the very bottom nearly impossible. Also, if the poly line extraction tube was forced, it would snake its way into the baffles and get hung up on the sharp edges of the metal. It sucked so bad to be able to do all the vehicles sans one. I finally bit the bullet, jacked up the pickup truck, and removed the oil pan for modification. A little bit of cutting and welding later and the oil pan was rendered safe for up-top oil extraction. It was a project well worth the effort due to the savings in hassle and time oil extraction provides. Also, even if one has an underside oil filter (like the C1500), oil extraction still makes sense. The oil system is closed loop. As long as one changes the oil per the recommended interval, moving oil filter swap intervals to 20k or even 30k is perfectly okay. If your filter media is clogging up that fast, the engine ain't going to last for much longer anyway. And think about it... Do you replace the fuel filter every time you fill up with gas? And the fuel system is an open loop setup. Oil extraction... Seriously, work smarter not harder. They also make power steering fluid changes painless -- drain the reservoir, top off with fresh, drive for a couple of weeks, and repeat.

My pop got his hands on a 67 Porsche 911s for a steal. It took a trip to California and back to Phoenix, but the effort had more than paid off. The owner thought that the engine was needing to be rebuilt. Pop started it, and it was running really rough. He took the air cleaners off of the Webber's and synchronized them, and wallah! I hopped in for the test drive and it ran like a raped ape, cornered 90 degrees turns doing an easy 60mph and accelerated with ease. If that guy was to learn that he had let go of a cherry Porsche for a salvage price, he might have took a drive off of a cliff off Mulholland drive or something. Pop restored the car to European specs and has been offered 500k for it several times, and he has turned it down. It's a beauty. It's the Porsche green, the color that looks almost army green and the red leather interior. Every screw bolt has been re- coated through out. That's the level of detail that he had done to that car. It's a great thing to find a gem mistaken for a lump of coal. Sounds like you did it with the jag you got there!👍