Really stoked about my first Jag, a 97 XJ6 (X300) great shape with 122K on it. First order of business is figuring out a good way to get my iPhone connected up to the stereo. I actually bought this as my new commuter car. $3500

 

Welcome to the forum.

I didn't even know you could get the iPhone connected to the standard stereo.

I stand to learn.

Good to see you.

 

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Welcome to the forum,

Good luck with the 'phone, enjoy the car.

 

Welcome to the froum. I have a 1995 XJ6 and really love driving it. My wife liked the way it drove and wanted her own Jag. So I bought here a 2000 XK8 which is her daily driver.

Welcome again.

EZDriver

 

Hi, I presume that you are writing about getting the music from your phone to play through the radio.

Unless I am mistaken, your radio has a cassette player. If so, the hookup is simple: just use the phone's headset output to drive a cassette adapter.


I am not sure what is coming out of the iPhone, but I believe the jack is 2.5mm. If so, you will need a converter from 2.5mm to the 3.5mm plug commonly used on adapters. Both parts may be available at your friendly Radio Shack - or eBay.

There are wireless adapters around as well: you connect the audio source to the adapter, plug the adapter into the cigarette lighter socket and it emits the audio via FM. You tune your car radio to an unused frequency.

My experience with the wireless adapters is poor, though: audio sucks and frequency drifts. Not recommended.


Now, if you are talking about using the iPhone as a phone - this is a long story, better handled in one of the technical subforums here. Ask there. The brief answer is that you should use a Bluetooth adapter. Depending on whether your radio is phone-ready, you may be able to use a wire-in BT set to mute the music during the call and feed the audio through car speakers. There are (very) few kits like this around: I installed the Parrot CK-3100 in my XK8 and in wife's Audi A6 with great results. However, this requires installation skills, removal of radio and access to info on how to tie the phone output.


If this is not your cup of tea, you may want to use a self-contained Bluetooth kit with its own speaker, that does not tie into the radio. I'd stick with a brand-name kit; Motorola's HF series worked well for me in those setups.

Again, if that is the info you are looking for, I suggest the proper subforum here and other enthusiast forums, like Jag-lovers.org where I obtained a lot of useful tech data over the years.