So I'm TRYING to install a Bluetooth adapter, and it requires that you find a CLEAR EMPTY FM station. I have done everything you can imagine to the radio tuning buttons and the only thing I can get it tp do is get it to JUMP FROM ONE BUSY STATION TO ANOTHER which is totally unhelpful.IE I can jump from 98.7 the next jump is to 100.2 but I'm missing everything between (98.8, 98.9, 100.0, 100.1 etc) I can't figure out how to tune up or down 0.1 MGhtz (?) at a time.

2008 S-type 3.0 Base - No Navigation.

 

Try setting the BT to a place in one of those gaps (they are the clear empty FM places). Then the car radio should jump to it.

 

Press and hold either of the seek/skip track butons below the screen. After two seconds the word 'manual' will apear in the display next to the frequency.
You can then change the frequency by + or - 0.1 mhz at a time by pressing the seek/skip track buttons.
Do not hold the buttons down as it will go back to auto scan mode.

Once you have the frequency you want you can store it by pressing and holding one of the store buttons on the screen.

(I just tested this in my car before posting these instructions.)

Going forward this may help you a lot: https://www.xtype.uk/docs/handbook/JJM-18-42-26-501.pdf

Mellow

 

Thanks m-e-l-l-o. You knew exactly what I was asking for. Thanks for the handbook page too. My own manual covers everything BUT the radio functions. Must have been a separate handbook that vanished with previous owners.

 

Each Country has it's own radio frequency assignments.

I always had to set the COUNTRY CODE during PDI if it was incorrectly set upon arrival to the US.

You can set other functions as well but some require a radio code when changing.

Make sure to have the code card when making changes.

 

so I followed this advice and I did get the display to change over to MAN but the very next push, long short, or hold while scratching your bu— just does the usual jump to the next available station however far that may be. I know it can be done, because when I first picked up the car in San Diego on Halloween I sat down, plugged in my Bluetooth and randomly futzed withe the button fo 20 seconds and I turned in 88.1 fm, and hit Save and it worked fantastic...all the way to San Francisco where 88.1 is the local Mariachi station.

it’s now Valentine’s Day and I still have not figured out how I did it. It’s tempting to just use the speaker phone in the dash cradle - which is legal, but I find it’s too distracting so I just power off when I get in the car. I don’t get it, I can be hanging upside down doing sit-ups at the gym while dialing a gas station in the Australian outback, but I cant seem to even be able to accurately hit the one speakerphone keypad button when I’m sitting in the drivers seat or any other button from that seat. It has to stay off until I figure this out. Help please!

 

Patience grasshopper..

I Also did just verify M-e-l-l-o-w is correct on how this works.

Press the seek etc..

Quick pressing on the button worked for me.

 

Last week I pulled apart the dash to install a double din Pioneer head unit, and I found a mysterious small round box that simply had a switch and three radio stations listed - and the one selected was the very same radio station that the Bluetooth dongles I tried out and WOULD ONLY work an that one station. Somehow it locked in the station and would let the radio tune any other way. I think the previous owner installed that for HIS Bluetooth dongle or the Parrot system and never bothered to disclose that when I purchased the car. I removed it, because all three of the radio stations were full of static - so it would NEVER have worked right. The double din head unit fixed all that and offered MANY music and GPS options for my non-Nav 08 S-type. Yeah.

 

cannot get a spare /empty frequency to link up to FM TRANSMITTER...............feeling dumb for sere!!!!!!!