Hello,
I got a bluetooth ODB2 plug that I use with Car scanner and was wondering if JLR SDD would work with this plug or if I need to get another wired plug.

Thanks.

 

You require either a MONGOOSE cable for several hundred dollars or a DA Dongle for a couple hundred. There are Chinesium variants out there such as a mAngoose cable, but some have had cars bricked by using those. Some have also done perfectly well. Me, I bought a Jag Approved DA Dongle.

 

+1

Drew Technologies stopped production of the Mongoose a couple of years ago so the only option would be to look for a genuine used one. The Chinese clones are perfectly satisfactory for code reading but I would not use one for programming. The best option is the DA (Diagnostic Associates) Dongle.

Graham

 

Thanks for the explanations. I just need to have the AUX input activated ...sounds costly for just 10 mn use

 

@Tiepolo Check out this thread with related topic... https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...d-help-236030/

 

Where can this dongle be purchased? I checked DA's site and they don't list it as an available option. They only have the newer car donlge: "Jaguar Land Rover JLR- DoIP VCI"

 

The J2534 is the item you need.
Sucks that they more than doubled the price in the past five years or so, I paid like $160 back awhile.

https://www.diagnostic-associates.co...thru-interface

 

My nose has been hanging over this for a while:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/294220572125

 

At that price I'm pretty sure that OBD2 adapter is a Chinese clone not an actual Drew product.

 

It is used, not new...

 

187 sold, he's using cloned adapters.

 

Fair enough. And another dream quietly dies...

 

Not necessarily - I have a clone adapter ($60 from china) - it works ok for reading the car. That said there have been comments that folks have bricked the car - not sure if they were trying to do programming. You could still buy the system and get one of these as Cee Jay posted a link to:

https://www.diagnostic-associates.co...thru-interface

 

That's really a shame it's turning so complicated to just tick a box in a bios...
Can't any computer guy out there just make an ODB dongle for dummies that would just activate AUX input once a button on it would be pressed and launch a script?
The bricking hazard really frost me and now I'm not sure anyone could activate aux for me...