I have a 2008 facelift 2,5 X-type Estate with luxury pack and touchscreen stereo (not alpine/Premium). Is DAB standard or is it optional?

 

Just revisiting and refreshing this helpful thread, which I found whilst in the process of moving my Pioneer DEH8700DAB into my newly purchased X-Type in place of the original CD / phone setup this week:

1. to my delight I found that a powered DAB antenna amplifier (which takes a power feed from the Pioneer radio wiring and can be acquired for about £20 on amazon / eBay) which I was already using on the Pioneer in my previous car (1995 Mercedes C180) sufficiently amplified the Jag aerial signal to allow me to get a full suite of DAB stations and proceed without placing an aerial on the front windscreen.
2. the fibre optics connection to the existing Jag stereo is now redundant, so I simply taped that up.
3. I used the Dynamic Sounds fascia / steering wheel control loom. At first the steering wheel controls weren’t working, until I realised that I’d erroneously put the 3.5mm jack from the Dynamic Sounds kit into the aux rather than w/r socket on the 8700DAB - quick swap and everything was working fine.
4. The DEH8700DAB is ever so slightly too “deep” to sit flush against the fascia: for now I’ve put a strip of black insulating tape around the lip of the stereo to disguise the silver metal and at some point I’ll try and find a plastic surround that is a bit deeper.

Curiously when I first drove the car after the above (and whilst I hadn’t realised that the steering wheel controls weren’t working as per 3) I had the EML light come on whilst driving at around 30mph. It was the first time I’d ever seen the EML (and hopefully the last time for a long time!) After stopping the car and switching the engine back on it disappeared and has not come back. Could there be any connection between the work carried out above and the EML?