Jaguar S-type owners have reported 53 service brakes related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 16 most common service brakes problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's service brakes (24 problems). The second most common problem is related to the vehicle's brake light on (8 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.
The back passenger air bag in the door exploded and park brake fault. Read details...
This vehicle has issues with the automatic transmission, the transmission is not responding properly to the computer and needs to be reprogrammed in this model, also the parking brakes do get mixed up and if you put the gear control in drive it goes into reverse and the parking brake default light Read details...
The contact owns a 2005 Jaguar S-type. The contact stated that the rear brakes failed to properly engage and disengage. Also, the emergency brake randomly engaged and prevented the vehicle from moving. Read details...
Accident causing death with the rear brakes engaging with the car in motion, without any warning lights, etc. That has potentially lead to loss of control at speed. Electric parking brake which is too short and applies the rear brakes whenever the car suspension compresses due to carrying large Read details...
When applying the brake pedal to come to a stop vehicle intermittently commenced to accelerate. This incident occurred on five separate occasions. On two occasions it caused the vehicle to hit a pole and the back bumper of another vehicle. Dealer could not duplicate the problem. Read details...