When driving on the freeway at 60 mph, the SUV on my left cut into my lane so I had to change to the lane on my right. As soon as I made the lane change, my car violently fish tailed 3- 4 times. I was sure the car was either going to roll over or get into a serious accident. It even felt like the back tires were bouncing off the road and not fully planted on the ground. I took my feet off the gas and held the wheel as straight as possible, it felt like forever [but probably only 6-7 seconds] and the car stopped swerving and everything got back to "normal".
I have owned 4 Porsches, BMW 850, Lotus Evora and Mercedes, and I never ever experienced something like this before. The serving was so violent and jerky that my wife hurt her neck. I consider it a miracle that we did not roll the car or get in a major accident--luckily the car on my right saw what was happening and drove on the should to avoid my swerving car.
I called the dealership and could not get through to the Service Dept but left 2 messages about the problem--after 4 days no one returned my calls. I finally called the 6th time and got to talk to a Service person---I explained what happened and he did not seem shocked and was a little evasive. Seemed like this has happened before??
To make a long story short, I got rid of the Jaguar F-Type by trading it in---all within 4 days of the incident. Too scary to keep driving that car after experiencing something like that and wanted others to be aware of this "problem"
When driving on the freeway at 60 mph, the SUV on my left cut into my lane so I had to change to the lane on my right. As soon as I made the lane change, my car violently fish tailed 3- 4 times. I was sure the car was either going to roll over or get into a serious accident. It even felt like the back tires were bouncing off the road and not fully planted on the ground. I took my feet off the gas and held the wheel as straight as possible, it felt like forever [but probably only 6-7 seconds] and the car stopped swerving and everything got back to "normal".
I have owned 4 Porsches, BMW 850, Lotus Evora and Mercedes, and I never ever experienced something like this before. The serving was so violent and jerky that my wife hurt her neck. I consider it a miracle that we did not roll the car or get in a major accident--luckily the car on my right saw what was happening and drove on the should to avoid my swerving car.
I called the dealership and could not get through to the Service Dept but left 2 messages about the problem--after 4 days no one returned my calls. I finally called the 6th time and got to talk to a Service person---I explained what happened and he did not seem shocked and was a little evasive. Seemed like this has happened before??
To make a long story short, I got rid of the Jaguar F-Type by trading it in---all within 4 days of the incident. Too scary to keep driving that car after experiencing something like that and wanted others to be aware of this "problem"
- Wei L., Honolulu, US