Wonder if anybody has had a similar problem with any OBD scanner, I have a U581 hand held scanner which works fine on other vehicles (non Jaguar) now when I connect to my 2000MY XKR i do get readings but I also get "Electrical Fault" thrown up on the dash and may be coincidence but on one occasion my door mirrors stopped foldind/unfolding (after disconnecting battery and hard re set started to work again) so was wondering if it is damaging to use this scanner, Any one had this experience before ?

thanks

rrosscoe

 

Check the list here: https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/g...oved-**-33347/.

I don't think your is on the list for our Jags. Not sure who makes your "U581" though.

Wasn't that a U boat in WWII? :-)

Non-compatible OBD scanners can throw "phantom codes."
Vector

 

Sorry forgot to mention it is a MEMOSCAN number U581 sold by a company called UIF, it is the big brother to the U 488 as on the list of recomended scanners.
It does sort of work on the XKR but I am woried it may cause damage what with it throwing up Electrical Fault warning on dash, as the little brother works a would assume this one will be allright but its that warning I do not like,
Regards
rrosscoe

 

Update,
Well have had car to local independant who has genuine Jaguar diagnostic equipment and guess what, his will not read the data stream either so looks like I may have a wiring problem. He like me can read and clear dtc's but as I said we can neither get live data from it, anybody had anything similar? have looked at wiring diagrams to see if there was anything obvious but no, as far as I can make out this is a CAN problem, am I right?

Regards

rrosscoe