Hi all I'm a new member and this is my first post!

I have a jaguar xj8 3.2 auto v8 (1998) im thinking about replacing the original phone kit that would of come with the car, if possible 2 question:
1) what do people think of these ?
2) are they easy to install?

Any help and advise is greatly appreciated....

Kind regards,

Marvin.

 

I'm pretty sure the cell network type those used is not supported anymore (think late 90s brick style cancer cell phones). At least in the us. The best solution would be to install a Bluetooth hands-free unit in place of the oem cell unit. Look up my thread "Bluetooth integration" and there is a pdf that describes how to do it

 

thanks for the advise if I install a normal hands free kit will I be able to use the phone controls on the steering wheel ?

 

There's another thread going on right now, but it's very unlikely you're going to get much usage out of the steering wheel controls with any sort of integration.

 

No.

Unless you have the skills to reverse engineer the audio network communications protocol. Someone started to work on it, and their results were at the end of the PDF in my thread, but it's way over my head already.

 

Marvrh.
Why not keep the original phone? And if you car dont have one already, install an original..


My car (1998 Daimler) is fitted with the Motorola 8700, and it works really well. No bells and whistles though, but it do the job as a phone with flying colours.


If i had to choose between an well funktioning original phone and trying to shoehorn in something new.. i choose an original phone everyday and twice on sundays.. ;-)


/E

 

I had a factory fitted StarTAC in my 2001 X308.



The Motorola StarTAC 130 is a digital phone as confirmed in the introduction in the Manual and would still work:



However, the Jaguar version of this phone (which has 'Jaguar' in gold letters on the top of the case) had additional software installed to integrate it with the vehicle audio system. A standard StarTAC will not function with the steering wheel buttons.

Even fourteen years ago when I had my X308, the StarTAC was old technology. I used to leave it permanently in the vehicle docking station and divert my then current Nokia to it when I was in the car.

Graham

 

If you go the car PC route, you can actually teach the new system what the buttons are supposed to do. You press the button, the control box recognizes the signal, you say what it is supposed to do and done. Only works on the left side buttons. So you ckuld technically integrate a modern BT system even using the old controls.