I have a 2005 Jaguar X-Type 3.0 (petrol) Sport Premium Estate, built in Jaguar (Coventry, UK) when Ford (USA) owned the Jaguar car company; so the Jaguar X-Type is really a Ford Mondeo in disguise.

I am considering purchasing the OBDLink MX+ Bluetooth Interface but it only seems to come with generic codes for Jaguars and is not offering Jaguar OEM Codes.

Q1. Is there a better OBD Bluetooth interface that offers Jaguar OEM Codes?

Q2. What is the best OBD Bluetooth interface (or cabled OBD code reading device) for a Jaguar X-Type (3.0 petrol)?

All advice welcome.

 

1) The X-Type, despite what automotive pundits liked to claim in an effort to disparage Jaguar, is NOT a Mondeo in disguise. The parts shared by the two cars are relatively minimal - the two cars do not look the same nor do they perform the same. If you can find wood (not plastic) trim in a Mondeo, along with similar quality leather…or if you can find any substantial body or trim parts in common, a different case might be made. Suspension parts, an engine block etc. are shared by many manufacturers. We might ask how many VW parts there are in a Bentley or an Audi…

2) I have found BlueDriver (which uses bluetooth, not cables) to be an excellent and complete OBDII reader for the X-Type, including my 2005 Sportwagon (which is equivalent to the UK “Sport Premium Estate”).

 

I always chuckle when a new uneducated, uninformed twit starts out with the "it's a Mondeo". There are articles in this forum describing how the X Type was developed (mostly from scratch) and IS NOT a Modeo anymore than Bentley is a VW just because there are some shared mechanical components. Next they ask for help after raising the hackles of members, smfh!

Look at the iCarsoft i930 & my preference for just a bit more money the LRII.

 

Well, that's a bit harsh, I think. People naturally assume that what they read written by supposedly informed auto journalists is the truth or close to the truth. The Ford/Jaguar nonsense continues today regarding the engines (particularly the 5.0 litre V8) that were designed and engineered entirely by Jaguar, but produced *for Jaguar* at the Ford Bridgend plant. So we have to cut people some slack - while correcting the errors.

 

The interface is just one part.

You'll need a Jaguar / LandRover IDS or SDD with an appropriate interface.

The rest is waste of time and money. Only for a few selected trouble codes stored in ECM - very poor.


catfondler

 

Excerpted from a 20th anniversary researched article on the X-type in the JCNA Jaguar Journal (summer, 2021) is the following:

"Then there was criticism among the Jaguar faithful that the engine was a Ford engine. That requires some explanation. Would you believe that it was actually a Porsche design? Porsche sold the design to Ford. Ford turned it into the capable Duratec engine and placed one version in the Mondeo, which was front wheel drive. When the X-type was developed to have AWD, rather than start from scratch, Ford utilized that basic engine, but not entirely.
For both the S-Type and the X-type, Jaguar took the basic block of the Duratec engine and engineered and developed new heads and ancillaries that better matched the performance customers expected from Jaguar. Those heads, designed and built in England, were shipped to the Ford engine assembly facility in Cleveland, Ohio. Once mated to the Duratec block, the entire package was shipped back to the X-type production line in Halewood. In addition to the cylinder head, the intake, exhaust, transmission, and modified suspension were engineered by Jaguar."

"Another criticism of the X-type was that it was a Ford European Mondeo in disguise. I am sure this assertion affected many Jaguar aficionados who did not want to see Jaguar devolve from its history of speed, power and luxury. Unfortunately, profitability is not necessarily included in that formula. Basic economic principles support the benefit of economy of scale through the sharing of components. Why the X-type was singled out when most manufacturers were sharing components in their lineups, escapes me. The X-type did have the Mondeo chassis, but not much more. Approximately 20% of Mondeo components were shared, according to Keith Adams of AROnline (https://www.aronline.co.uk/cars/jagu...lopment-story/). The chassis was used because there was not a Jaguar vehicle with a subframe capable of accommodating the transverse mounted engine and AWD powertrain system. Costs associated with development of a new chassis would have significantly undermined profitability."

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