Jaguar X-Type Sat Nav Update and Retrofit
On the X-Type the map and much of the software come from the DVD in the boot drive, so updating the navigation means fitting a newer disc. I'd read the part-number suffix on the current disc and check whether the unit is Denso or Alpine before buying anything. A car built without navigation can't be updated into it; that's a full conversion.
How bad is it · Safe to drive
Safe to drive — only the maps are affected
An old map disc still routes, it just doesn't know newer roads. Nothing else in the car depends on the map version.
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.
The map is only as new as the DVD in the boot
The car can't download anything: the map data is pressed onto the navigation DVD, and the drive reads it each time. On the earliest North American cars Jaguar at first offered no newer disc at all.
Roads built since the disc was made are missing. The disc label carries a part number whose last letters give its version — for example AG for 2004.1 and AH for 2005–2006.
Eject the disc from the boot drive and note the suffix. Then check the drive's label: a Denso disc won't run in an Alpine unit, so buy for your own unit and region.
Fit a later disc. The dealer part C2C11185 replaced C2C147, quoted at £319 + VAT (£374.83); US cars used NAVTEQ upgrade discs at around $199–260. Ask the dealer first — some swapped an older disc for the current one free of charge.
No factory navigation: a retrofit is a conversion, not a plug-in
On a navigation car the touchscreen also runs the climate control, through a remote climate module, and the boot drive joins the fibre-optic D2B ring beside the CD changer. A car built without navigation has a different dash loom, fascia and connectors.
Buttons and knobs for the heater and a plain radio, no touchscreen and no DVD drive in the boot. A screen bought on its own won't do anything.
Price the whole list before starting: screen of the right variant, matching radio, GPS antenna, boot DVD drive and liner, fibre-optic connectors, map disc, climate module, and the extra wiring. Manual air conditioning makes it harder still.
It can be done with a complete donor set and a hand-made loom; a dealer quote runs to about 8 hours plus around $1,500 in parts. Buy a unit from your own market, as US and European units differ.
No postcode search on early cars: software and disc both too old
Postcode entry needs two things at once: newer software in the navigation computer and postcode data on the disc. Cars up to about October 2001 left the factory with neither.
UK car, no postcode option in destination entry, original disc with the suffix AC (August 2001).
Read the disc suffix: postcode data arrived with AE, from about October 2001. Ask the dealer whether the unit's software has had the upgrade.
Worth doing both halves: the dealer software upgrade and an AE or later disc. A later disc on its own brings postcode entry but not newer roads unless it's a newer map edition too. The same upgrade adds a low-fuel warning listing nearby filling stations.
Menu items greyed out on the move: a safety lockout
Jaguar blocks destination entry and some menus while the car is moving, and made the lockout deliberately hard to get round.
The icons work when parked and grey out as soon as you drive off.
Stop the car and open the same menu again.
Enter the destination before setting off, or let a passenger do it with the car stopped. Nothing needs repairing.
Portable sat nav instead: the heated windscreen can block the signal
The heating wires in the windscreen weaken satellite reception. The element stops short of the edges, leaving a clear strip where a GPS receiver gets a fix.
Portable unit slow to find satellites or never finding them, only in a car with a heated front screen.
Move the unit or its receiver to the edge of the glass, for example the clear triangle on the driver's side, and compare.
Worth trying: mount it at the edge of the screen, or fit an external antenna made for heated screens. A neat mount over the unused phone buttons beside the radio keeps it tidy.
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Jagaux Android conversion kit
Keeps the factory screen and puts Android — maps, music, apps — on the NAV button. Climate, menus and audio stay as they were, nothing is cut, and the car can go back to stock at any time. Built to order.
cars with the factory touchscreen: XJ (X350/X358), S-Type, X-Type 2002–2009
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Jagaux sat nav retrofit harness for the X-Type, S-Type and XJ
The wiring for fitting factory sat nav to a car that left the factory without it, so the conversion is a plug-in job rather than building a loom yourself.
X-Type, S-Type and XJ with the factory touch screen
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.
Confirm the car has factory navigation
A touchscreen that also runs the heating and a DVD drive in the boot. Without both, there is nothing to update.
freeRead the disc and the drive
Note the part-number suffix on the disc and whether the drive is Denso or Alpine. Those two decide which disc you can use.
freeAsk the dealer about a free exchange
Some dealers swapped an older disc for the current one at no charge, or promised the next edition free. Ask about the software upgrade at the same time if postcode entry is missing.
freeBuy the right later disc
Match the unit maker and your market. A used disc of the right type is often the cheaper route.
about £320–375 new; less usedNo navigation fitted? Weigh the conversion against a portable unit
A full conversion needs a complete donor set and new wiring. A portable unit mounted at the edge of the windscreen does the job for far less.
a portable unit costs a fraction of the factory systemWhat it usually isn't
Don't spend money here first:
If none of this finds it:
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- 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.
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