Jaguar XJ6 (X300) CD Changer EE-01, EE-02, Won't Eject
EE messages are the changer's own mechanical complaints: EE-01 an eject or disc-change failure, EE-02 a disc left in the player. The changer rarely needs replacing. I'd start with a plastic strip under the magazine or an empty magazine.
How bad is it · Safe to drive
Safe to drive — only the changer is affected
Radio and tape carry on. Go gently with a stuck magazine: forcing it can bend the disc trays.
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.
A disc stuck between magazine and player
A disc that won't go back into its slot blocks the magazine. EE-01 is an ejection error, not an electronic fault.
EE-01 at switch-on, often after a cleaning, home-burned or labelled disc; the magazine won't come out; the changer may whirr for a minute after switch-off.
Slide a thin stiff strip — plastic ruler, credit card — under the middle of the magazine and push it right in to trip the release. The changer needs no power for this, but placement matters: centred, pushed inward. Or hold eject and tap the magazine's lower corners; a disconnected changer can be reconnected briefly to use its own eject.
Once the release trips, the disc drops back and the magazine comes out; reinserting it often clears EE-01 by itself. If it returns every few weeks, the mechanism needs opening. Magazine drawers wear — avoid a slot that keeps jamming.
A disc left in the player — EE-02
One disc is already in the player. With every slot full it has nowhere to go back, so the changer ejects the magazine or shows EE-02.
EE-02 when selecting CD, or the magazine thumping out when the car starts.
Empty the magazine, reinsert it and hold eject until the changer cycles through all six slots; it returns the stranded disc to a free slot.
The empty magazine itself; the ejecting stops.
Something loose inside the mechanism
Screws drop out of the nylon arm that drives loading and ejecting, or the small white worm gear slips off the magazine motor's shaft. Either way the mechanism jams.
EE-01 that no trick clears; perhaps a rattle inside.
Changer out (power lead, four mounting screws), case off, springs and cushions out. Look for loose screws, a worm gear rolling about, or a wheel jumped off its post; turn the wheels by hand to find where it sticks.
Refit the screws in the geared arm — they sit upside down and work loose; small spares will do. A loose worm gear goes back on the motor shaft with a tiny dab of silicone.
The laser sled sticking on its guide rods
The laser rides on two rods, moved by a small servo. Dry, dusty or idle for months, it sticks: finds the disc, can't read it.
A disc is selected but no tracks are found, with no NOT CONT. Starts in cold months, then all year.
Open the changer and look at the lens and rods; try moving the read head back and forth by hand.
Wipe the lens with a soft swab and put a thin coat of silicone grease on the guide rods. A head seized from disuse often frees after a few strokes by hand.
A peeling label jamming a disc in the drive
A home-made paper label lifting off a burned disc snags inside the drive, and the disc can't leave the player.
EE02 that an empty magazine doesn't clear; a burned or labelled disc was the last one played.
Changer out and open. Peel the loose label away with the disc still in place, then find the gear that raises the disc platform and turn it by hand.
Worth trying: raise the platform by hand, then ease the disc out with long-nose pliers. Turning the gears is safer than forcing the disc. If NOT CONT appears afterwards, that's a separate radio fault.
The eject button's switch sticking
If the blue eject button on the changer, or the microswitch under it, doesn't return fully, the changer keeps seeing an eject request.
The magazine pushes itself out at switch-on, not every time, with E02; unplugging and replugging the changer never triggers it.
Changer out, cover off — note the four support bushes — and look at the switch area around the eject button.
Worth trying: ease the button back into its seat, clean or lubricate the switch. Not a proven cure.
Corroded pins on the changer's plug
Corroded pins on the changer's short lead break the connection intermittently.
Errors that come and go, especially in damp weather.
Look at the pins of the round plug.
Worth trying: unplug and replug it several times to scrape the pins clean. Not a proven cure.
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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.
A card under the middle of the magazine, pushed in
No power needed. Tap the lower corners if it resists, or hold eject.
freeEE-02: an empty magazine, eject held
Let the changer cycle all six slots and return the stranded disc.
freePressed discs, no labels
Burned discs and stick-on labels are the worst offenders, especially in cold damp weather.
freeChanger out and open
Loose screws in the geared arm, a worm gear off its shaft, a peeling label, dry guide rods, a sticking eject switch. Note where the springs, cushions and support bushes go.
free, an afternoonOnly then a used changer — of the right generation
Later radios accept only Jaguar-specific changers; see the NOT CONT page for this car first.
$30–120 usedWhat it usually isn't
Don't spend money here first:
If none of this finds it:
On jagaux.com
- Jaguar XJ6 (X300) CD Changer NOT CONTThe other changer message on this car — and a different fault.
- Jaguar radio code generatorFree. For the X300 factory radio, when it asks for its code after the battery has been off.
- XJ6 (X300) radio pinout and wire colours
- 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.