Help for the XJ-S Owner

XJ-S Stereo

Tweeters

The 1983 XJ-S comes with an excellent sound system, except that it lacks tweeters. It is highly recommended that if your car doesn't have tweeters, go to Radio Shack and buy four Piezo tweeters, Cat. No. 40-1383, and install one in each corner of the car near the existing speakers. Just wire them in parallel with the existing speakers. If there are any induction coils in the line to the existing speakers (they are sometimes installed in a fuse holder), wire the tweeters in before these, so the coils serve the existing speakers only.

CD Changer Addition

David Brown sends this info on installation of a CD changer in the boot:

I believe all post-1988 cars are pre-wired. Depending on what year you have, a 7-pin DIN socket (that's what we call it in the UK anyhow) will be found in different places in the boot (trunk).

A Clarion changer unit will plug straight in and you're all set. For a Philips or Alpine unit, you have to disassemble the plug on your CD changer and rewire a couple of pins around. Basically you can CONTROL the unit as it is currently wired, but you would hear nothing. The head unit expects the sound signals to be traveling down some otherwise unused pins. Simple experimentation shows what they are.

On my Philips unit, I had a DIN plug which carried the instructional/power signals and had separate phono/tulip plugs which carried the sound. I patched those sound signals back into the DIN plug at the 11 and 1 o'clock positions. You could find out which pins SHOULD carry the signal by half connecting the CD changer to the cars socket, such that the changer works but you can still see the pins. Then dab each pin with a phono cable until you hear the music come through. Then you'll know which DIN pins are expected to carry the sound signal.

If you are lucky enough to have this connector, the stock Jaguar stereo includes controls to operate these CD changers remotely.

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