我是去年那辆捷豹F-Type被烧毁的车主。捷豹公司不肯赔偿全部损失，只愿意给我买新捷豹时优惠1万美元。我已经准备请律师了，但也想来Reddit上问问大家的意见。

Lawyer here (plaintiffs personal injury, in Texas). Consider making several well thought out, truthful videos detailing your story. Long enough to provide the essential details, short enough that people will watch them.

Invite friends and family to share your videos on social media. Send your videos to Jaguar corporate. Invite Jaguar to do the right thing by their customer so you can update your videos that they stepped up.

This is an inexpensive way to get Jaguar's attention. You might think a company wouldn't care about a handful of videos from a disgruntled customer, but you might be surprised.

Who did Maintenance on your car? Dealer, yourself or a 3rd party shop? There's so many factors, really no one in here can help you out

Regardless I don't think you will see anything from Jaguar. The 10k off is great, but IMO they're only offering because they can and don't want an upset customer or lose out on potential future sales with you.

IMHO anything with Fire & theft really falls under insurance. It's up to the insurance company to follow through and find out why the car caught fire etc. Even manufacturer defects are usually first paid by the insurance companies then the owners can hire a lawyer and go after the manufacturer.

I don't mean to sound rude, but something really doesn't sound right in this post. Your car caught fire, which happened obviously. However, you had been using it for Turo for a few years, and we all know how people treat rental cars. Regardless of whether or not it's a sports car that can take abuse, having the car redlined and slammed around all the time, which I guarantee happened, no car will take it.

You said that the fire was started due to mechanical failure and not owner negligence. How do you know that? Did you have an investigator come and see what the cause was? Because I'm sure it could have been due to the abuse it received during Turoing.

My last question is, why are you suing Jaguar over this? It doesn't seem like they did anything wrong, hell they offered you 10k off of another Jag. If anyone you should be raising a fuss with it would be your insurance company.

There's so much here that just doesn't make sense to me, somethings seems afoot. I could be wrong though, and I hope I am

They had a 3rd party investigator inspect the vehicle and it currently sits on my property now but it seems quite obvious the fire started due to a mechanical failure in the engine that wasn't due to owner negligence.

and maybe another person to reinspect the car to find the cause of failure.


These two statements really say everything. The only time people hire a second investigator themselves is when they don't like what the first investigator told them. Which was likely that the fire wasn't caused by a defect in the engine but by user error.

My suggestion? Consider the $10k they offered you to be significantly more than you realistically deserve and call it a day. Even if you get a lawyer on contingency (good luck for something like this - you're probably going to be paying out of pocket and in advance), and Jaguar settles, that settlement is going to be less than the amount they offered you.

Not to be a dick, but you should have had business insurance, and had your business assets covered by that policy. This is what happens when you run a business under the table. Chalk it up to a learning experience and spend the money you were going to blow on a suit on a good business attorney to make sure your ducks are in a row.