S Type 3.0 Sport

Kevin,

Mongoose is the name of the cable that connects into your laptop and in to the diagnostice socket in the car.There are various sources to purchase the mongoose cable and it usually comes with the appropiate software for your vehicle.

Like all technology these days clones of the manufacturers equipment are available on auction sites,websites etc.

There are lots of options available,like all things nowadays you just choose what is suitable for you.

My particular S-type is a 2004 so i went for the cloned mongoose cable,with version 1.30 of the software,this has worked successfully for me.....eventually.

Like all things to do with technology,its not always straight forward and can be frustrating to set up,but once sorted i feel in my opinion it will save me money in diagnosing any problems that arise.

Generally speaking the software will only run on a Windows version of XP,on a dedicated laptop,this is because the software was written when xp was the available operating system at the time.You can also purchase the reccommended laptop that Jaguar used for the diagnostics at the time and load the system onto it.

I chose to buy a secondhand laptop as all i have on it is the Jaguar S-Type Diagnostics.If you go down this route make sure the laptop has at least 1.2gb of Ram as any less and i have found that the software fails to load.

Hope this explains what and how i have gone,any questions i will try to help.

Graham :D

Wow, that's really interesting dude, its a shame then that I'm non too computer literate. I don't think that I would have the dangly bits to try should a feat though.