CD Changer pinout

[lux_r]

Does anybody have a pinout diagram for the standard factory CD changer. I want to graft in an ipod and need to know what signal lines I have got before I start chopping things about.

[lux_r]

OOOPs, should have mentione, its a 2000 XKR, standard ICE not premium. and it has the satnav but I suspect the pinouts are the same when they come to the head uint although they seem to pass through the satnav ?

[a8hex]

The unit in my wife's 2001 Merc looks very like the unit in my 94 XJ6. But in the case of the Merc the connection from the auto changer is fibre-optic. I have no idea whether this might be the case of the Jags too.

[lux_r]

I have wires, fibre optic would really have me confused, nowhere to cut in and start modifying things..

[drummerboyXJR]

Hi, its the 2 smallest guage wires in there, they are wrapped together inside a grey outer from memory. Good luck, you will need the smallest soldering iron available!
Dont do what i did and cut through the whole lot, as there are about 9 to join back up again.

[Cecil]

Please can you post up what you did if it works successfully?
Thanks
C

[lux_r]

Drummerboy, thanks for this, do you know if it is simply one for left channel & one for right bundled in one outer cable? what about the return.? maybe some kind of braid, that would make sense?

Cecil, if I get it to work I will for sure post with every step and any rights/wrongs I find. I owe this much to the folks on the various forums who have helped me in the past.
During the same "pull the car to bits" session I am alos looking at replacing the Alpine satnav head with a TomTom unit. I want one that actually shows the street I live in

[NormanD]

lux_r said:

Drummerboy, thanks for this, do you know if it is simply one for left channel & one for right bundled in one outer cable? what about the return.? maybe some kind of braid, that would make sense?

Cecil, if I get it to work I will for sure post with every step and any rights/wrongs I find. I owe this much to the folks on the various forums who have helped me in the past.
During the same "pull the car to bits" session I am alos looking at replacing the Alpine satnav head with a TomTom unit. I want one that actually shows the street I live in

Some Members in the XK8/R club www.xkec.co.uk have done what you want

Join up and you can then get into their Club Forum for help

[lux_r]

I was sent a great link, its been done before, the info is there, its soldering iron time for me
http://jaguarforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=119...

[drummerboyXJR]

Sorry, forgot to check back on my post. That link pretty much covers it, i also put the switch in to fool the head unit a CD was playing, worked very well.

[lux_r]

Its done, iPod working via the Alpine head unit, volume controls from steering wheel (no track change) iPod in the ashtray, and Garmin Sat-Nav instead of the out of date alpine.
Instructions are here http://webplaza.pt.lu/stewart/