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Unfortunately, with Marion having just broken her hip (amongst other things), I'm not really at liberty to travel myself. Possible solution if nothing else comes up though.

Hi Ralph Its not all that difficult to get setup with with Jaguar IDS/SDD I Paid £70 for my Mongoose lead and software, I bought it from British diagnostics, but I think there more towards £100 now, but its a genuine mongoose lead not a clone, I use v131 software, which came with it, its the most complete software and works with every model, IDS is used with pre 2005 cars and SDD is used with post 2005 cars the software can be downloaded from every where on the internet, v130 & v131 are known to be one of the best, have not tried v130 yet, later versions after v131 are more for later cars and you loose some functionality on earlier cars, and really later software you loose IDS. Software needs to be installed on a computer with windows XP professional, I've set up a laptop dedicated for the jaguar, Good spec laptops for windows xp professional can be bought for less that £50 for mint cond one, from like gumtree or sphock. The software can do everything Jaguar can, so must be used with caution, but if your using it as a Diagnostic tool, its quite straight forward, programing basic modules is also quite straight forward, like adding jaguar voice, phone module, basic modules, but I keep away from like updating software in transmission and engine. but as a Diagnostic tool its great, you can plug in and scan every module on the car and It will bring up all the fault code, give you a possible reason for the fault and a remedy for the fault the software can also be run on windows 7 up to latest windows, using software like VMWARE, which creating a virtual windows 7, which works ok, but is no where near a stable as using a windows xp pro laptop. you also have access to a lot of dealer options like alarm sensitivity, double lock horn chirp, panic, global locking, drl, automatic arming, are just a few will try upload some pics of the IDS software if I get chance cheers Joe