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It seems to me that when consecutive document numbers from a standards body end up having anything to do with each other, it's more of a happy accident. You could easily see a 14229 that was about diagnostic protocols, and a 14230 that was about refrigerated storage of bananas, or something.

 

My cable doesn't have the j standard printed on it or anything I've seen some of the red plugs have a Mylar piece of clear over white with numbers stamped in it with the j standard right on the plug whatever it is I don't know the numbers. But I see the numbers that you wrote and I believe my cable is the 18 whatever. It's red and then and then the flexible cord grip which is clear when the unit is plugged up and plugged up to my USB on my CF-19 when data starts to move that cord grip will start flashing and green and if I lose connection that cord grip at the bottom of the plug will flash red. That's all I do know

 

Good guess I took the time to look it up.

Turns out, 14229 is actually derived from part of 14230!

• 14230 is aka KWP2000 and more, and deals with a variety of K-line details
• 14229 is a bigger picture standard built on top of some parts of 14230 and other standards as well

Bottom line: they are related; one does NOT supercede the other.

gMost likely, at least under some circumstances, both may come into play. Keeping all this stuff both documented and properly implemented can be a Real Pain -- meaning, it's likely one would occasionally find bugs in ANY implementation.***

*** (Long ago, my first job out of college included being the Compliance Engineer for the first digital phone system... ensuring what we did was compliant with all appropriate standards over the past century or so (!). Such fun