Sloshing fuel

[Nicholas Hatch]

Hi, does anyone else have the sloshing fuel noise in their 2016 x260 model XF’s?

[Aubrey]

Hi Nick,

I found this item -see below -may be helpful.

I also read water inside door got in some how and needed draining for one chap.

When I had a jeep compass water got in and pulled in lower body panels only noticed when it started dripping out.

Kind Regards,

Julie.

The early XF is/was notorious for "tank slosh", I had it on both my 2010 XFS and 2010 XFR.
It was a fair bit worse in the diesel XFS than it was in the petrol XFR, no idea why.
When the fuel tank got down to about 1/3 full the fuel would slosh back and forward as you accelerated or braked due to inadequate baffling in the fuel tank.
The official JLR fix was to shove some foam baffle material into the fuel tank.

 

[Nicholas Hatch]

Thanks for that but I hoped that later XFs would have the updated tanks, but will ask  Jaguar uk 

[Nicholas Hatch]

Update on sloshing noise!

just had Mot and inspector said that there was something dripping from door!

checked after Mot and found that drainage holes were blocked up and I drained 3 ltrs of water out of door. 
I will be spraying some Oil inside of panel to try and inhibit any corrosion!

[Wrinkly]

10 hours ago, Nicholas Hatch said:

Update on sloshing noise!

just had Mot and inspector said that there was something dripping from door!

checked after Mot and found that drainage holes were blocked up and I drained 3 ltrs of water out of door. 
I will be spraying some oil inside of panel to try and inhibit any corrosion!

Nick

That is a lot of water. Wonder how long it has bee trapped in there. May be you should consider something stronger than Oil as an inhibitor of corrosion/rust. I would expect that something needs to be injected under pressure to cover the whole of the area/expanse that 3 Litres of water has been sloshing around.

Best Wishes and Regards, John

 

[Aubrey]

Glad you managed to find the cause.🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Wrinkly]

2 hours ago, Aubrey said:

Glad you managed to find the cause.🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was pleased that the fault had been found, as well. It could be that there are build quality problems or design matters that need attention though.

John

[Nicholas Hatch]

2 hours ago, Wrinkly said:

Nick

That is a lot of water. Wonder how long it has bee trapped in there. May be you should consider something stronger than oil as an inhibitor of corrosion/rust. I would expect that something needs to be injected under pressure to cover the whole of the area/expanse that 3 Litres of water has been sloshing around.

Best Wishes and Regards, John

 

Hi, John, as in Oil I did mean an Oil type inhibitors injected through the drainage holes but will be taking panel off to check for any further damage.

[Wrinkly]

Nick

Goodluck with your endeavours to stabilize any damage caused.

Best Wishes and Regards, John