# Service bulletin 6\-195NAS

A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.

- Type: Service bulletin
- NHTSA id: 10096404
- Published by NHTSA: 2017\-03\-27
- Manufacturer's number: 6\-195NAS
- Manufacturer's date: 2014\-12\-19
- NHTSA component: EQUIPMENT; STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\)

## NHTSA's summary

AN ISSUE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED ON A NUMBER OF XF \(X250\), XJ \(X351\), AND XK \(X150\) VEHICLES WHERE THE RESIDUAL TORQUE ON THE STEERING GEAR PINION BOLT COULD BE BELOW THE LOWER SPECIFICATION AND IN SOME CASES THE CUSTOMER MAY EXPERIENCE A KNOCKING NOISE FROM THE STEERING GEAR. THE LATTER WILL ONLY BE THE CASE IF THE EARLY STEERING DEGRADATION IS IGNORED BY THE CUSTOMER."

## The document

No address for NHTSA's copy can be built for this communication. Ask the dealer for it by the manufacturer's number.

## Components

Equipment and accessories, Steering, Steering gear

## Vehicles listed

- 2013 JAGUAR XF
- 2012 to 2013 JAGUAR XJ
- 2013 JAGUAR XK

## Other bulletins for the same vehicles and component

- [SSM71811](/bulletins/10226627.md), 2022-11-28, Service bulletin: STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\). Steering Gear Transfer Pipe change
- [K161NAS2](/bulletins/10096405.md), 2017-03-27, Service bulletin: EQUIPMENT; STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\). "SITUATION: AN ISSUE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED ON A NUMBER OF XF \(X250\), XJ \(X351\), AND XK \(X150\) VEHICLES WHERE THE RESIDUAL TORQUE ON THE STEERING GEAR PINION BOLT COULD BE BELOW THE LOWER SPECIFICATION AND IN SOME CASES THE CUSTOMER MAY EXPERIENCE A KNOCKING NOISE FROM THE STEERING GEAR. THE LATTER WILL ONLY BE THE CASE IF THE EARLY STEERING DEGRADATION IS IGNORED BY THE CUSTOMER."
- [TB\-5\-161\-NAS1](/bulletins/10051753.md), 2013-04-09, Service bulletin: STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\). JAGUAR: RESIDUAL TORQUE ON STEERING GEAR PINION BOLT IS BELOW LOWER SPECIFICATION AND WILL EXPERIENCE A KNOCKING NOISE FROM STEERING GEAR WHICH MAY BE CAUSED BY EARLY STEERING DEGRADATION. MODELS 2013 XF, XJ, XK. \*PE
- [SA\-K\-161](/bulletins/10051748.md), 2013-04-09, Service bulletin: STEERING:GEAR BOX \(OTHER THAN RACK AND PINION\). JAGUAR: STEERING GEAR HAS KNOCKING NOISE DUE TO RESIDUAL TORQUE ON STEERING GEAR PINION BOLT IS BELOW LOWER SPECIFICATION AND IF IGNORED, CAUSES STEERING DEGRADATION. MODELS XF, XJ, XK. NO MODEL YEARS LISTED. \*PE

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