P38A Alpine Radio and CD Changer

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Andy Burrell

Retired to the country
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Now my 2002 Vogue SE has passed the mot for another year I am going to fix some of the other issues it had when I bought it. It has the Alpine radio/cassette with cd changer in the boot along with the Harmon Kardon speaker system and sub woofer. All the bass speakers in the doors and the sub have all got perished foam so I have ordered repair kits for them but the cd changer is really hacking me off. I have taken it out and cleaned it a few times, it then works for a couple of discs and then either jams with a disc in or partially ejected or just comes up no disc on the head unit. I ideally want to keep the std head unit but wondered if any other Alpine cd changers would plug and play or am I stuck with the std model as the only option?
 
Now my 2002 Vogue SE has passed the mot for another year I am going to fix some of the other issues it had when I bought it. It has the Alpine radio/cassette with cd changer in the boot along with the Harmon Kardon speaker system and sub woofer. All the bass speakers in the doors and the sub have all got perished foam so I have ordered repair kits for them but the cd changer is really hacking me off. I have taken it out and cleaned it a few times, it then works for a couple of discs and then either jams with a disc in or partially ejected or just comes up no disc on the head unit. I ideally want to keep the std head unit but wondered if any other Alpine cd changers would plug and play or am I stuck with the std model as the only option?
Bin the CD changer and use music from a phone or dedicated device. I plug my phone into an FM transmitter and it gives me hundreds of tracks from my play list. There are I think better ways of doing it. We no longer bother with the CD changer.
 
Bin the CD changer and use music from a phone or dedicated device. I plug my phone into an FM transmitter and it gives me hundreds of tracks from my play list. There are I think better ways of doing it. We no longer bother with the CD changer.
I had thought that, any one you would recommend?
 
This is the FM transmitter that I bought. One for the P38 & the other for my Jaguar S-type. Unfortunately no longer available. Amazon product

It is possible to get a Bluetooth unit that plugs into the CD changer port on the back of the radio in a P38. This is a much more elegant solution but costs about £100 instead of £15.
 
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