Jaguar XJ6 / XJR Bluetooth Installation

Before you order or start

• The radio must have the TAPE/CD button. That button is what switches the radio over to the module.
• At the back of the radio there is a round 8-pin DIN8 socket. If a CD changer was fitted, its lead is plugged in there.
• The car does not need to have had a CD changer. The socket is there either way.

An aftermarket radio has no DIN8 socket, so the module cannot work with it.

How to remove the X300 radio

The X300 radio comes out from the front of the console. It comes out by hand: take off the trim around it, undo the screws that hold it and ease it forward. No special removal keys are needed.

Removing the radio from a Jaguar X300 or XJ40 migueldefender · 7 min

Plug in the module

1. With the radio out, find the round DIN8 socket on its back (1). Note the radio's serial number from its label while you are there.
2. Unplug the CD changer lead, if there is one.
3. Plug in the JAGAUX cable. Line up the key and push straight in.
4. Run the cable from behind the radio to the glovebox, where the module will live.
5. Refit the radio.

Connect

1. Plug the noise filter straight into the module.
2. Plug the JAGAUX cable into the filter. Press each plug until it locks.
3. Put the module where you can reach the USB ports: in the glovebox.

Fit and route

1. Clip the microphone to the headliner next to the mirror, or to the sun visor.
2. Run the 3 m lead down the windscreen pillar, under the steering column, to the module.
3. Plug it into MIC and press until it seats fully.

Keep the microphone away from air vents and the open window. Air noise is what callers hear most.

The car's own microphone, where fitted, cannot be used with the module.

Pairing

1. Ignition on, radio on, press TAPE/CD.
2. On the phone, open Bluetooth and choose JAGAUX.
3. Play music. The radio shows CD1 TRACK01, as if a CD changer were playing.

You pair once. Several phones can be paired, one is connected at a time.

Set the volume once

1. Phone volume all the way down, radio at about three quarters.
2. Raise the phone until the sound starts to distort, then back off a little.
3. From then on use the radio's knob.

Track buttons

The seek keys ◀ ▶ next to A-MEM skip tracks, and buttons 1–6 choose a folder on the USB stick, just as they chose discs in a CD changer.

Calls

• The right ▶ seek key answers an incoming call.
• The left ◀ seek key declines it.
• Call volume is the radio's volume knob.

AUX

Any player with a headphone socket plugs into AUX with the cable from the kit. Remove the USB stick and pause Bluetooth music first, and control the player itself.

USB stick

• Format the stick as FAT32.
• Up to six folders. Buttons 1–6 choose a folder, like discs in a changer. Sub-folders are ignored.
• MP3 and WMA up to 320 kbps. Files over about 50 MB can stutter.
• Tracks play in the order they were copied, and the folder repeats from the start.
• After track 99 the display counts from 1 again. The order stays correct.
• Pause Bluetooth music or disconnect the phone before you plug the stick in.

Updates are rare. Support sends one by email when it fixes something specific.

1. Copy the file to an empty FAT32 USB stick.
2. With the ignition on, plug the stick into the module.
3. Wait about 30 seconds, remove the stick and pair the phone again if asked.

1. Check that the DIN8 plug is pushed fully home at the back of the radio.
2. Unplug it, check that no pin is bent, and plug it back in, straight and without twisting.
3. Still no luck? Write to [email protected] with a photo of the plug and the radio front.