Jimny 55 plate CD Player not working

Amazon in the UK are listing the IN70JMSL for £189.99 + £5 delivery. It is strange but that is about £80 cheaper than from Xtrons direct and Amazon list Xtrons as the supplier. I would think that is about the best price in the UK.

www.amazon.co.uk/XTRONS-Bluetooth-Naviga...roring/dp/B089GN77WM

I am pretty sure this will fit your Gen 3 it looks identical to mine, unless Suzuki changed the facia before 2007, I don't think they did?

One other accessory you might like to get is the universal steering wheel controls, these are really needed as the touch display is hard to use when driving.

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Hi Robin,

Thank you so much for all of that detail!

I have left a question on the Amazon sellers item just to double check it will be suitable for mine. I also asked how much extra the Apple CarPlay would be, not sure if I need this or not? I have an iPhone. Do you have this on yours? If not, how does it work?

sorry for all of the questions but I am absolutely dull with all these sorts of things! Hoping to learn though!

thanks again Robin, you've been a huge help.

Derk

Hi Lambert!

Thank you for the photo! That definitely does the job! I need to have a look into all scenarios before picking which one.

thanks again.

Derk

Hi Derk,

No problem with the help Derk, I think the Xtrons head units are great, but let down by a poor manual and support. I have fixed most things by one means or another, but it took a little digging and only too happy to pass on my experiences.

My Jimny set up is fairly extensive, but I had a company car (BMW) with most of this on for the previous 9 years and I didn't really want to loose any of it. Plus I went a bit tech mad.

- Xtrons head unit;
- Xtrons OBD2 dongle and Torque Pro (built in) and SZ Viewer (OBD2 code reset, free, search on here for details of SZ Viewer);
- Reversing Camera & front camera, custom switch box to select fron camera for 7 seconds after reverse camera. There is another input for front camera but it doesn't come on automatically and you have to select it.
- TPMS (Type Pressure Monitoring) USB from eBay;
- DAB (Xtrons dongle)
- USB cable to charge/connect iPhone
- Xtrons [universal] steering wheel controls, very handy.
- Custom switch box to turn the Xtrons on when I unlock the car and switch it off when I lock the car.

The unlock/lock custom switch box was fitted as the Xtrons takes about 40 seconds to fully boot up and I don't really like to wait all that time, so I made and fitted a relay unit in to the central locking so that when the doors are unlocked it switches the Xtrons ignition switch input live and starts booting the radio whilst I am putting my bag in the car, then it is ready to go when I am seated and starting the engine.

My other car is similar but doesn't have a forward camera and has CarPlay.

The Xtrons fitted to my Jimny is Android 8 and does not support Car Play, it does however connect to my iPhone (6 & 11) for handsfree calls as well as for a music player, although you can't get cover flow or select the album, just start and pause or skip tracks.

Just open the Bluetooth app on the Xtrons and pair to your iPhone. You can then download your phone book and use it handsfree. Your iPhone then becomes available to play music from the main interface, the 'launcher' screen.

I didn't like the stock Xtrons Android launcher so replaced it with Car Launcher (Free), this has nice big chunky programmable buttons to select the various apps. The Xtrons launcher might be a lot better on the new version.

The Xtrons I have in my other car is a later version and I did get the CarPlay interface. This gives you the iPhone screen on the Android head unit, but it fiddly to use and was fiddly to setup and get working in the first place, not helped by the poor instructions. My iPhone 6 will only work using a USB cable, although the iPhone 11 might work on Bluetooth. To be honest CarPlay was quite expensive and I have never really used it, you can get hands free and music over Bluetooth without CarPlay and I think Poweramp app and copying your iTunes library to a SD card is much better.

I can't really see the point of using other iPhone apps controlled from the head unit, you might as well get a cradle and use them directly on your iPhone.

Robin

Hi Robin,

Thanks again for all of the details! Sorry I’ve taken so long to reply but I’m going to go for it, the Xtrons IN70JMSL. I’ve also been looking at the DAB dongles and there are 3 types compatible? USBDAB01, USBDAB02 and USBDAB03, which one did you go for please and how does it perform? I also noticed that you left a review on Amazon of the USBDAB01 which wasn’t great.

Thanks Robin.

Derk