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Re: 2010 kit jaguars
There was an issue seen last year in a small amount of Jaguars (I believe it was well under 1%) where one driving direction would be lost (either forward or backwards).

I'm working from memory, but I believe they tracked this down to a specific FET that wasn't up to snuff. You can search for the issue and find it.

As Chief Delphi commonly does though, the people who had problems complained and the people who didn't have issues didn't complain. This seems to have resulted in a somewhat slanted view of the actual failure rate.

The new black Jags have this issue remedied. We've been unable to get an answer on the gray ones so far. There is another discussion on this issue that you can find in one of the can threads where we're waiting for the answer. They (TI) may be a bit reticent because they don't want to appear to suggest that there is anything truly wrong with the gray jaguars - many teams used them pretty successfully last year.