Hi, we have just purchased a 2013 XKR and it is supposed to have a CD multi changer, we can’t find it anywhere, can someone please point us in the right direction??

 

On our XK the slot in the centre console is a multichanger and you can feed six CDs on there, one after the other.

Richard

 

Eee bah gum lass - in my 2009 it's that slot in the console - I presume the same for later models:

 

Ohhhh, thank you Richard, must have had a senior moment.
We were looking for a unit that we fed them all in together,,,,,haha

 

Owners manual download here if you don't have a hard copy:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5d6wnhghy6...02010.pdf?dl=0

 

Thank you McJag, much appreciated

 

An entertaining side-effect of this 'hidden' multichanger is discovering people's guilty secrets (musical taste-wise). A previous owner of my car had left a CD in slot 3, which turned out to be a Steps album. How long had THAT been in there?

 

Snooping through the GPS settings on a previously-owned car can be "interesting", also...

 

You’re so right, we found 4 cds Texas, Human League, Don McLean and Christmas hits

 

Thank you

 

My CD player is pretty good at jamming. Finally gave up on it, using bluetooth for all my music, including radio stations.

 

Eclectic...

 

My changer has not jammed… yet. And I have used it frequently, these many years.
Does beg the question, ‘How’ does one clean and lubricate the mechanism of the sealed unit.

 

You can buy 'cleaning' CDs which will keep the laser head spiffy. As for the mechanism itself, I'd leave it alone.

 

Often what gives up are the rubber bands that are used to drive things about in these mechanisms. They go hard and start to slip. If you can dismantle the unit, getting them to work again isn't too hard. Home hifi - OK. Car hifi - maybe many hours of extra dismantling

 

The CD player at least in my 07 is a Ford part. I'm assuming it's all the same throughout the x150's, since they probably wouldn't be any reason to use a different one. If you Google "Ford in dash 6 CD changer", you'll find a lot of information about the unit. It's same or very similar to the ones used in things like the Ford F-150, Expedition Etc of that era.

You'll find they're pretty common problems like jamming. Also failure to sequence through discs, Etc. There are no rubber belts in them, they are rather complex clockwork like devices. I've had a couple of them apart. There's a couple of tricks to putting them back together, that aren't visible unless you have the manual. I don't.

Then I realized I never use CDs anymore. So why bother?

So I recommend leaving it to people who specialize in repairing them, and have a power supply available to do so. If you don't, the only way to test them is to reinstall them, a tiresome procedure.

 

Agree no CD's. Why? I have 100+ albums in my phone. No lost or damaged discs. Random play options. Wife can chose albums while we're driving. Higher resale value if car has BT connectivity. Of course you don't get free CD's if seller forgets to remove.

 

I have six disks burned with .mp3s installed at a time with many others easily swappable, so about 200 songs per disk. Times six disks, that's 1200 songs at a time. Nowhere near the 8,000+ songs on the USB stick that stays in the console, but it does me fine.There's not a streaming platform invented that'd have zero songs I DON'T want, and I want to stay away from skipping four tracks then being forced to hear six songs I DON'T want to hear before I can skip again. I'll keep my Old Fogey method, it works better than the "new" stuff. For me, anyway.

 

Well, bugger me. I've had my 2014 XK Dynamic R for nearly 3 years now & always thought it was a single CD player only until today

 

Jon, Don't feel bad not knowing about the 6-CD mechanism.....I'd had my previous XK 2.5 years before I accidentally discovered the heated steering wheel....the little symbol didn't register in my pea brain as a steering wheel. In reality could it b some of us aren't smart enough to have these hi-tech/hi-powered machines...???