Hello 

 

I have recently bought a 2010 Elegance so should have Bluetooth as standard? 

 

I have been unable to pair my phone (Sony Android) 

It's not a case of it won't pair but a case off when I goto phone>settings the ecreen or dash display just says no phone connected? 

 

My phone is unable to find the car either. 

 

Been looking online and have seen about old cars and modern phones not being comparable. 

 

I have looked under the plastic cover in front of the drivers seat and I do have a box/module.... But it is a metal one and not one like I have seen via Google search. 

 

Is this even a Bluetooth model and if it would need replacing what part number should I be looking for. 

 

 

Many thanks 

Tony 

Yes, that's your bluetooth module. I had thesame one in my yetimand connected plenty of different android handsets to it. Sounds like it may be faulty...

1 hour ago, Ev2uk said:

My phone is unable to find the car either.  

 

You do have the car switched on when trying to find it?

I had a 2010 elegance and it was fine with the phone i had when I got the car. Couple of years later I upgraded my phone and it would not work with the car correctly.

We are now nine years on and it could just not work at all with your current phone?

I had a 2010 Elegance (140 4x4) and it worked fine with my Sony Android phone (Z3 Compact).

 

I have to say that my Bluetooth module did not look like the one in the OP's photo: it was in a black plastic case, not a metal one.

 

As for the pairing problem:

• You have to make the car 'visible' (via the Maxidot bluetooth menu) for the phone to be able to find it;
• If searching for the phone, you have to make it 'visible' so that the car's BT module can find it.  On my Sony phone it was visible whenever the Bluetooth settings screen was displayed (with BT turned on, of course).  You then search for the phone via the Maxidot bluetooth menu;
• You may find that you need to give the car permission to use the contacts on your phone - this appears as a notification at the top of the phone screen.  I have a feeling (it's a while since I've followed the procedure) that if you don't do this then the car won't connect to the phone.  IIRC the notification will time out after a while so if you miss it you have to start over.

Apologies if you know all this and have been following the correct procedure and it still isn't working.

 

With the BT module in my 2010 Elegance knew if the phone connected because it gave forth a sonorous "bong!" every time you turned the ignition on.  It also did that if the connection to the phone dropped, which used to happen a lot with my Samsung feature phone.  The connection to the Sony was always rock-solid though.

13 hours ago, kenfowler3966 said:

I had a 2010 elegance and it was fine with the phone i had when I got the car. Couple of years later I upgraded my phone and it would not work with the car correctly.

We are now nine years on and it could just not work at all with your current phone?

+1 for me. My 2017 ‘phone will not link with my 2011 car, although my previous ‘phone would.

My Pixel 2 worked fine with my 2009 car as did my Galaxy A5.