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.

JAGUAR S-TYPE 2.7 04- RADIO STEREO AUDIO AMP AMPLIFIER 2R83-18C808-BA AC X350 XJ | eBay - amp

JAGUAR S-TYPE 2.7 04- X350 XJ XJ8 XJ6 REAR SPEAKER ALPINE 2R83-18808-BC | eBay - woofers you will need two of these, X350 and S type are the same.

JAGUAR S TYPE PREMIUM SOUND ALPINE SPEAKER 2R83-18808-AC | eBay - 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

NEW JAGUAR LINK LEAD FIBRE OPTIC CABLE FOR SAT NAV CD CHANGER PHONE XR826721 | eBay

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

 

I don't ever intend to do this, but it was extremely interesting to read. The pics were excellent. Nicely done!

 

Since I had also been unhappy with my "FoMoCo" Speakers when I got my car, I have replaced them with Rockford Fosgate R1 682 (6" x 8"), which fit into the original Speaker holders. You only need some adaptors (which are labelled Ford/Mazda btw) to connect the speakers to the original wiring.

The original ones' are building a bit higher so I had to fill up the space with some foam Isolation. Later on I fitted the door panels with AluButyl-mats.

Now the sound is much more present and accurate - with less than € 100,-!

But nice Job done with all the pics aso!

Happy tooling!