Make sure you have a bluetooth module installed.

 

What Jeff is saying is that your car most likely is not Bluetooth compatible and until you have this capability, there's nothing to be done. I believe I saw here that it is possible to retro-fit a car with a module but it may be less expensive to buy a new used car unless you do the work yourself.

The early Jags had a phone capability but it was not Bluetooth. They used a purpose-built Motorola handset that could not access Bluetooth.

The navigation system has nothing to do with it.

Eric

 

Well, yes and no. There are two modules. One is the phone module, the other is the Bluetooth module. If the car has the phone module, then Bluetooth can be added. If it doesn't then both need to be added. The parts alone for both are around $1000. It would be cheaper to replace the stereo.

 

Maybe I don't understand. My car has Bluetooth. It pairs with the phone to give telecommunication capability. There's no "phone" module...only a bluetooth one. It's the same with the Bluetooth thingies that people wear in their ear. The module communticate only with a paired phone. Am I wrong?

Eric

 

If you dig in there, there is a phone module. It is the device that links to the stereo. In the early "phone" equipped cars, the phone plugged into the module, then it became "hands free". In order for a bluetooth phone to talk to the stereo, the bluetooth module connects to the phone module, replacing the wire connection. Hence, an early phone equipped car can be upgraded to bluetooth by just adding the bluetooth module. If the car is not equipped for a phone then both modules need to be added. Also, I've heard that some early phone modules don't work with the bluetooth module, therefore those would also have to be replaced.

 

Regardless, I would put up the farm that on that 2000 there is no bluetooth, and would venture to say that pairing with a blackberry is not going to happen.

 

Yup. My thoughts as well. Probably another case of "but the radio has a phone button". That's why I tried to gently remind people that there are separate modules for those.

 

that car cannot have a factory installed bluetooth system..
only 03and up..
2000-2002 had old school phone system