Jaguar X-Type AUX Input, iPod Module Silent or Freezing
The X-Type radio has no AUX socket; the factory answer is a dealer module that poses as a CD changer. If that module is fitted and silent, I'd check three things before blaming it: the fibre loop in cars without a changer, the car's setup, and a selector switch that needs the engine off for several minutes.
How bad is it · Safe to drive
Safe to drive — no effect on the car
Nothing here is urgent. The main risk is buying a second module when the first was never set up.
Which one applies to yours depends on your symptoms, your model year and what has already been done to it.
Likely causes, most common first
Read the check cost before the odds: a free check that rules a cause out beats a likely guess that costs money.
No fibre loop, or not enabled in the car's setup
The module joins the audio through the CD changer connection, which is fibre-optic. In a car that never had a changer, the fibre ring must be closed with a jumper, and the car told a changer is present.
No boot CD changer. The module was just fitted and the radio doesn't offer it, or offers it and plays nothing.
Make sure the kit's fibre jumper was actually fitted. Have a dealer enable the CD changer output in the car configuration — for example, about $30.
Fit the fibre loop — it comes in the kit, but a dealer fitting can leave it out. Then have the changer source switched on if the radio still doesn't offer it. Done right, the playlists come under steering-wheel control.
There's no AUX input to begin with
The factory radio has no analogue input, and the changer port carries light, not sound — no cable can tap it. Late cars may already have the module's connector in the centre console.
No AUX button that does anything, and nothing in the console armrest.
Look in the centre console for a module connector before buying anything.
The dealer module (C2S44674 — for example about £225 plus VAT in the UK), or a Bluetooth or streaming kit into the car audio. An FM transmitter is the cheapest route but prone to interference: tune it to an empty frequency first, let the radio search onto it and save that as a preset, and charge the player separately. A cassette adaptor works but tends to lose a channel within months.
The module freezes: selector, reset or a bad batch
The module has a CDC/ACM selector, read only after the car's electronics have gone to sleep. Some modules from a run of production weeks were faulty. A module from that run can also reset itself about every five minutes.
The iPod shows the Jaguar logo and locks up; iPod and changer controls hang; the line-in is silent.
Selector to ACM, engine off for at least five minutes. Reset the module through the small hole in its connection box, and update the iPod's software. Still freezing or cutting out? Have the dealer check the module's batch and build date; the later part, C2S46365, replaced the early C2S44674.
Worth trying: the switch, the wait and the reset, or an iPod software update. A module from the faulty batch has to be replaced.
Our product · Jagaux
Jagaux Bluetooth adapter for the XJ8, X-Type and S-Type
Bluetooth music on the factory audio system, without a new head unit. Check which system you have: press Mode on the radio — a 'Sub' setting means Premium Alpine.
later S-Type, X-Type and X350 XJ, Standard or Premium Alpine audio
The order to check them in
The point of the order is money: each step either rules a cause out or makes the next one worth doing. Green is free, amber costs a little, red is the one to arrive at last.
Check the console first
Late X-Types may have the module connector already. If a module is fitted, find its selector switch.
freeSwitch to ACM and let the car sleep
Engine off, doors shut, at least five minutes. Then try again.
freeReset the module
Through the small hole in its connection box. Update the iPod software too.
freeNo changer in the car? Check the fibre loop
The kit's jumper must close the ring where the changer would be.
freeDealer: enable the changer output
The car has to be told a changer is present. Ask for the module's build date at the same time.
about $30What it usually isn't
Don't spend money here first:
On jagaux.com
- Jagaux Bluetooth adapter for the X-TypeMusic and calls through the factory radio, instead of an AUX module or an FM transmitter. Not for cars with the premium fibre-optic sound system — check your car on the product page.
- Jaguar X-Type Bluetooth Not Working or NO PHONE
- X-Type radio pinout and wire colours
- Jaguar X-Type CD Changer Not WorkingIf the boot CD changer itself has stopped working.
- Jaguar VIN decoderConfirm your exact model year, engine and factory options before ordering parts — free.
Ratings, fuse numbers and torque figures vary by model year and market. Read the legend on your own car before pulling anything, and use the figures in the manual for your car, not the ones in a video.
Check your VIN: exactly which car you have and which bulletins apply to it.