S Type 2002 onward Premium Sound Retrofit

[Tame Technician]

Just incase it helps anyone on here, this is the how to. Part 1

SO I own an S type R. Only thing is, like many it doesn't have the Jaguar / Alpine Premium sound, as as such the sound system isn't the best.

I had always wanted to retro fit premium, with second hand parts from scrapped cars being so cheap, it seemed achievable. But having seen a few how to's on the jaguar forum, where a number of people who have done it on X types, I couldn't be bothered to make up a harness and run wires to the door speaker and to the boot for the amp so shelved the idea.

When doing some other work on the car, I found the wiring for the amp was already in the boot taped up to the rest of the harness.



So I took a door card off and hay presto wiring for the speakers is there as well. No need to make up a harness and run it the length of the car and to each door, result.



So the eBay stalking began. After about 4 weeks, I had a set of 4 door speakers for £44, an Amp for £72 and a pair of woofers for £35. Not bad at all.
Here is what I got

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361086624720
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301099861386
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/361086624720

There are more out there right now, but it takes some searching and waiting to get all the bits together, had a quick look come up with this lot on eBay now.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301099861386 - amp

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JAGUAR-S-TYPE-2-7-04-X35... - woofers you will need two of these, X350 and S type are the same.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JAGUAR-S-TYPE-PREMIUM-SO... - Door speaker you will need 4. X350 and X type are not the same as S Type so make sure they look like the ones in the picture.





Then came fitting, door speakers couldn't have been simpler. Door card off, remove the two hidden screws bellow the rubber trim in the pull shut area.



Then use a plastic trim tool to press the interior door open handle surround off. The handle its self stays where it is.



Then pull the door trim off again a plastic trim tool helps overcome the snap fit slips without marking the panel.

Once off you can remove the standard speaker.



Wiring for these are in the wet side of the door behind the speak. Once removed the nice "Ford Motor co" speaker looks like this.





The harness for the new speaker is taped up and covered in foam, just pull the foam back a bit and cut the tape, fit your alpine speaker and plug in. Repeat exactly the same procedure with all 4 doors. Took me an hour with a cup of tea.



Then I needed to fit the amp, I kinda forgot to take enough pics here, but It goes on top of the Nav Unit/ CD changer stack regardless of what you have fitted the metal stack braket should always be there, I have Nav but no CD changer. Once fitted and the LH boot trim put back, it looks like this.



The two grey connectors plug in the back of it, as soon as you plug them in and the fibre optic cable, the head unit will have the extra functions DSP, subwoofer levels and higher volume controll 35 instead of 25 I think.

Only thing I forgot was the fibre optic cable, I actually made one with the bits from my car, It appears mine had a CD changer when new, but a few year later the MP3 / Ipod Jaguar ACM was fitted, so where the CD changer should have been plugged in, a loop lead was added, I just had to change the female end to a male end and swap the in and outs round. This wont always be the case, and normally an extra link lead is needed.

Somthing like this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-JAGUAR-LINK-LEAD-FIB...

It doesn't matter in what order the modules are connected, so just do it how the cables reach the best, if you have to modify the cables, just remember each module has and in and an out, and the out of the first module goes to the in of the next to continue the loop.



With the white protective cover pushes back you can see the connector 2 out arround and connector 1 in arrow.



The subs require the rear parcel sheft removing, will get that writen up with pics in a few weeks.

Hope this was helpful and or interesting to you guys.
TT

[Tame Technician]

Purely for test purposes you can unplug the CD changer and plug its connector into the amp to make sure everything works, check the amp isnt a duffer. Obviously the speakers needed to be wired up fisrt.

Take the a good look at what you have, just incase like mine there is already enough connections to complete the loop, and you can just move stuff arround.

But more likely you will need somthing like this, One connector that goes back to the front of the car, one for BTphone, one for CD one for NAV and one for the AMP.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jaguar-S-type-D2b-Optica...

Edited by Tame Technician on Monday 17th November 22:46