Depending on where you drive, you
may experience reception problems.
Interf erence can be caused by any of
these conditions:Driving on the north side of a
large commercial truck on an
east/west road.
Driving in tunnels.
Driving on a road beside a vertical
wall, steep clif f , or hill to the south
of you.
Driving on the lower level of a
multi-tiered road.
Driving on a single lane road
alongside dense trees taller than
50 ft. (15 m) to the south of you. After you’ve registered with XM
Radio, keep your audio system in the
satellite radio mode while you wait
f or activation. This should take about
30 minutes.
Driving on the north side of an
east/west mountain road.
Large items carried on a roof rack.
There may be other geographic
situations that could af f ect XM radio
reception. While waiting f or activation, make
sure your vehicle remains in an open
area with good reception. Once your
audio system is activated, you’ll be
able to listen to XM radio broadcasts.
XM Radio will continue to send an
activation signal to your vehicle f or
at least 12 hours from the activation
request. If the service has not been
activated after 36 hours, contact XM
Radio.
If your XM Radio service has expired
or you purchased your vehicle f rom
a previous owner, you can listen to a
sampling of the broadcasts available
on XM Satellite Radio. With the
ignition switch in the ACCESSORY
(I) or ON (II) position, push the
power/volume knob to turn on the
audio system and press the XM
RADIO button. A variety of music
types and styles will play.
If you decide to purchase XM
satellite radio service, contact XM
Radio at
, or at
1-800-852-9696. You will need to give
them your radio I.D. number and
your credit card number. To get your
radio I.D. number, press TUNE until ‘‘0’’ appears in the display. Your I.D.
will appear in the display.As required by the FCC:
Changes or modif ications not expresslyapproved by the party responsible f orcompliance could void the user’sauthority to operate the equipment.
www.xmradio.com
Receiving Satellite Radio Service
Playing the XMSatellite Radio (U.S. EX-L model)
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Playing a Disc
Playing Discs (EX and EX-L models without navigation system)
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TUNE KNOBDISPLAY
BUTTON
CD BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME KNOB SCAN
BUTTON
U.S. EX and Canadian EX and EX-L models
EJECT
BUTTON
LOAD
BUTTON REPEAT BUTTON
EJECT
BUTTON
TUNE KNOB
SCAN
BUTTON
SEEK/SKIP BAR
LOAD INDICATOR
CD/AUX
BUTTONDISPLAY
BUTTON
RANDOM
BUTTON
POWER/VOLUME KNOB
U.S. EX-L model
SEEK/SKIP BAR RANDOM BUTTON
LOAD
INDICATOR
DISC SLOT
REPEAT
BUTTON
DISC SLOT
LOAD
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To load or play discs, the ignition
switch must be in the ACCESSORY
(I) or ON (II) position.
You operate the disc changer with
the same controls used f or the radio.
To select the disc changer, press the
CD button (CD/AUX button on
models with satellite radio), the disc
and track numbers are displayed.
The system will continuously play a
disc until you change modes. Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session
NOTE:
If a f ile on an MP3 or WMA disc is
protected by digital rights
management (DRM), the audio unit
displays FORMAT, and then skips to
the next f ile.
Video CDs and DVD discs do not
work in this unit.
The specif ications of the compatible
MP3 f ile are:
Sampling f requency:
32/44.1/48 kHz (MPEG1)
24/22.05/16 kHz (MPEG2)
Bit rate:
32/40/48/56/64/80/96/112/128/
160/192/224/256/320 kbps
(MPEG1)
8/16/24/32/40/48/56/64/80/96/
112/128/160 kbps (MPEG2)
Maximum layers (including ROOT): 8 layers
The specif ications of the compatible
WMA f ile are: Bit rate:
48/64/80/96/128/160/192 kbps
Compatible with variable bit rate
and multi-session
Maximum layers
(including ROOT): 8 layers
This audio system can also play
CD-Rs and CD-RWs compressed in
MP3 or WMA f ormats. When
playing a disc in MP3, you will see
‘‘MP3’’ in the display. In WMA
f ormat, ‘‘WMA’’ will appear in the
display. You can select up to 99 f olders, or up to 255 tracks/f iles.
Sampling f requency:
32/44.1/48 kHz
To Play a Disc
Playing Discs (EX and EX-L models without navigation system)
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Do not use discs with adhesive labels.
The label can curl up and cause the
disc to jam in the unit.
Your vehicle’s in-dash disc changer
holdsuptosixdiscs.Press the LOAD button until you
hear a beep and see ‘‘LOAD’’ in
the display.
To load only one CD, press and
release the LOAD button.
The disc number f or an empty
position is highlighted and the red
disc load indicator starts blinking. Insert the disc into the disc slot
when the green disc load indicator
comes on. Insert it only about
half way; the drive will pull it in the
rest of the way. You will see
‘‘BUSY’’ in the display while the
disc load indicator turns red and
blinks as the disc is loaded.
You cannot load and play 3-inch
(8-cm)discsinthissystem.
When the disc load indicator turns
green and ‘‘LOAD’’ appears in the
display again, insert the next disc
in the slot. Do not try to insert a
disc until ‘‘LOAD’’ appears. You
could damage the audio unit.
Repeat this until all six positions
are loaded. If you are not loading
all six positions, the system begins
playing the last disc loaded.You can also load a disc into an
empty position while a disc is playing
by pressing the appropriate preset
button. The system stops playing the
current disc and starts the loading
sequence. It plays the disc just
loaded.
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Playing Discs (EX and EX-L models without navigation system)
L oading Discs in the In-dash Disc
Changer
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Each time you press the DISP button,
the display shows you the text data
on a disc, if the disc was recorded
with text data.
With the f older name, you will see
the FOLDER indicator in the display.
The TRACK indicator is shown with
the file or track name.
The display shows up to about 16
characters of selected text data (the
foldername,filename,etc.).If the
text data has more than 16
characters, you will see the first 15
characters and the indicator in
the display. Press and hold the DISP
button until the next 16 characters
are shown. You will also see some text data
under these conditions:
When a new f older, f ile, or track is
selected.
When you change the audio mode
to play a disc with text data or in
MP3 or WMA.
When you insert a disc, and the
system begins to play.
When playing a CD-DA with text
data, the album and track name are
showninthedisplay.Withadiscin
MP3 or WMA, the display shows the
f older and f ile name.
To select a dif f erent disc, press the
appropriate preset button (1 6). If
youselectanemptypositioninthe
disc changer, the system will try to
load the disc in the next available
slot. You can use the SEEK/SKIP bar
while a disc is playing to select
passages and change tracks (f iles in
MP3/WMA mode).
Each time you
press and release the side of
the SEEK/SKIP bar, the player skips
f orward to the beginning of the next
track (f ile in MP3 or WMA mode).
Press and release the side, to
skip backward to the beginning of
the current track. Press it again to
skip to the beginning of the previous
track.
To move rapidly within a track, press
and hold the or side of the
SEEK/SKIP bar.
You can see the album, artist, and
track name in the display. If a disc is
recorded in MP3 or WMA, you can
see the f older and f ile name, and the
artist, album, and track tag.
Playing Discs (EX and EX-L models without navigation system)
T ext Dat a Display Funct ion
T o Change or Select T racks/Files
SEEK /SK IP
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NOTE: With the optional CD changer,
use the preset buttons (5 or 6) to select
a different disc. Press and release the
preset 5 (DISC ) button to select the
previous disc or preset 6 (DISC
) to
select the next disc in sequence. µ
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To
select a different folder, turn the
TUNE knob to move to the
beginning of the next f older. Turn
theknobtotherighttoskiptothe
next f older, and to the lef t to move to
the beginning of the current f older.
Turn it again to skip to the beginning
of the previous f older. Turning the
TUNE knob more than one click
skips several f olders at a time.
To continuously replay
a track (f iles in MP3 or WMA mode),
press and release the RPT button.
You will see RPT in the display.
Press and hold the RPT button for 2
seconds to turn it off.
This feature,
when activated, replays all f iles on
the selected f older in the order they are compressed. To activate folder
repeat, press and release the RPT
button repeatedly until you see F-
RPT in the display. The system
continuously replays the current
folder.PressandholdtheRPT
button for 2 seconds to turn it off.
Selecting a dif f erent f older with the
TUNE knob also turns of f the repeat
feature.
You will hear a beep. To continuously
replay the current disc, press and
release the RPT button repeatedly
until you see D-RPT in the display.
Press and hold the RPT button for 2
seconds again to turn it of f .
Each time you press and release the
RPT button, the mode changes f rom
f ile repeat to f older repeat, to disc
repeat then to normal playing.
This f eature plays the
tracks within a disc (the f iles within a disc in MP3 or WMA mode) in
random order. To activate random
play, press and release the RDM
button. In MP3 or WMA mode, press
the RDM button repeatedly to select
RDM (within a disc random play).
You will see RDM in the display.
PresstheRDMbuttonfor2seconds
to return to normal play.
This
feature, when activated, plays all
f iles on the selected f older in random
order. To activate f older random,
press and release the RDM button
seeF-RDMinthedisplay.The
system will then select and play f iles
randomly. This continues until you
deactivate f older random by pressing
andholdtheRDMbuttonfor2
seconds, or by selecting a dif f erent
folder with the TUNE knob.
In MP3 or WMA mode
In MP3 or WMA mode In MP3 or WMA mode
FOLDER SELECTION
REPEAT (TRACK/FILE
REPEAT)
FOL DER-REPEA T
DISC-REPEA T
RANDOM (Random within a
disc)FOLDER-RANDOM
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Each time you press and release the
RDM button, the mode changes
f rom f older random play to random
play (within a disc random play),
then to normal playing.
This
feature, when activated, samples the
f irst f ile of each f older on the disc.
To activate folder scan, press the
SCAN button twice. You will see
F-SCAN in the display.
The system plays the f irst f ile in the
f irst f older f or about 10 seconds. If
you do nothing, the system will then
play the f irst f iles in the remaining
f olders f or 10 seconds each. Af ter
playing the f irst f ile of the last f older,
the system plays normally.
Pressing either side of the SEEK/
SKIP bar, or selecting a dif f erent
folder with the TUNE knob also
turns off the scan feature.
Each time you press and release the
SCAN button, the mode changes
f rom scan to f older scan, disc scan
then to normal playing. This function
samples each f irst track of all the
discs in the in-dash disc changer in
the order they are stored. To
activate disc scan, press the SCAN
button repeatedly until you will see
D-SCAN in the display. The system
will then play the f irst track/f ile of
the f irst disc f or approximately 10
seconds. After playing the first track
/file of the last disc, the system plays
normally.
The scan f unction samples all tracks
(f iles in MP3 or WMA) on the disc in
the order they are recorded on the
disc. To activate scan, press the
SCAN button. In MP3 or WMA
mode, press the SCAN button
repeatedly to select SCAN. You will
see SCAN in the display. You will get
a10secondsamplingof eachtrack/
f ile on the disc. Press and hold the
SCAN button again to get out of scan
mode and play the last track/f ile
sampled.
Pressing either side of the SEEK/
SKIP bar also turns of f the scan
feature.
In MP3 or WMA mode
Playing Discs (EX and EX-L models without navigation system)
F-SCAN (FOLDER SCAN)
DISC-SCAN
SCA N (T RA CK /FIL E SCA N)
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If you see an error message in the
display while playing a disc, f ind the
cause in the chart to the right. If you
cannot clear the error message, take
your vehicle to your dealer.
Thechartontherightexplainsthe
error messages you may see in the
display while playing a disc.
If you see an error message in the
display while playing a disc, press
the eject button. After ejecting the
disc, check it for damage or
deformation. If there is no damage,
insert the disc again.
Theaudiosystemwilltrytoplaythe
disc. If there is still a problem, the
error message will reappear. Press
the eject button, and pull out the disc.
Insert a dif f erent disc. If the new
disc plays, there is a problem with
the f irst disc. If the error message
cycle repeats and you cannot clear it,
take your vehicle to a dealer.Solution
The ejected disc will not be reloaded automatically. Cause
Error
Message
Current track will skipped. The next supported
track or file plays automatically.
Press the eject button and pull out the disc(s).
Check the disc for serious damage, signs of
deformation, excessive scratches, and/or dirt.
Insert the disc again. If the code does not
disappear, or the disc(s) cannot be removed,
consult your dealer. Do not try to force the disc
out of the player.
Track/File format not
supported
Mechanical Error
Servo Error
Disc Player Error Messages (EX and EX-L models without navigation system)
Features
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UNSUPPORTED
FORMAT
BAD DISC
PLEASE CHECK OWNERS
MANUAL
PUSH EJECT BAD DISC
PLEASE CHECK OWNERS
MANUAL