Dear all,

New in the forum, I'm looking to repair and bring to life my "neglected" 2000 Discovery II. The radio is fried. The model is XQD101390LNF and the Disco has the high-line radio system with the 6CD changer under the passenger seat and headphones in the third row. I'd like to install the same unit or one that retains it's functionalities as well as the faceplate color/style. As far as I understand, XQD101140LNF, XQD000110LNF and XQD00120LNF would all be plug&play. I've also seen at least one reseller claiming a XQD101580LNF which came from a donor Discovery II, although not sure if that would suit mine. Majority of Ebay's and other online resellers do not provide the codes and it would cost me a lot to send them afterwards back to the US/Europe in order to see if they could even retrieve them without the donor VINs. I've only seen one Ebay offer with the code, but at a prohibitively expensive price of >240 USD...

So, am I on a well known Sisyphean task of wanting to replace an original am/fm/cassette radio unit at a reasonable price? Are there just better, or just plain more realistic options?

Thanks in advance for any help and info, it will be much appreciated!

M

 

Not that hard to find, just contact any of the breakers on Facebook and they will have one.

 

I agree these are not difficult to find. Far less difficult than radios on my other cars. I have a brand new NOS one in my attic, and 2 good used ones (and no, I’m not selling them, sorry). It has not been my experience that it is difficult to find these at all. I pull them when I see a good looking uncorroded one in the salvage yard.

Anecdotally, you just need to find one with either high-line or base stereo -- basically there are 2 options for the alpine radio in the US market. Highline or base low-line. The exact part # really doesn’t matter, you just want he part # that correlates to what your car has -- ie either high line or low line.

Then, you can interchange the 99-02 market base or high-line (grey LNF finish trim) or the 03-04 alpines (black finish trim).

Not difficult at all. There are tons of them in salvage yards. You can even swap the front faceplate over if the cosmetics aren’t good.

 

Extinct, Bengoe and nashvegas, thanks a lot for your reply. I guess my experience has proven difficult, and none of the breakers and other internet sellers I've contacted seem to have one or do not reply. I've decided to buy one out of Ebay (with a donor VIN) and then try to get the code later from a dealer or one of the advertised decoders. I'll report back if I'm successful.

 

Good luck on getting a dealer to give you the code for a 20 year old radio. Please let us know how it works. I have a spare radio from a scrap P38 (for my P38) that I've been unsuccessful with getting the code for (I have the VIN of the car it came from). I've tried through the local dealer with no luck. As it's just a spare, I haven't pursued it farther.

 

Dude. There are no codes. NO CODES for these radios.

 

Care to elaborate? You mean to say that there are no codes available from dealers or decoders?

 

The stock Alpine radios on that came on just about every single NAS (US) market Discovery 2’s have no codes. The ones that look like this. No codes to enter, read the manual for the car and the radio... I don’t mean the codes are “hard to find” I mean “you do not need a code because “code does not exist for them”. Swap them in and out. Battery can die.

NOTE: This is different than other markets. I am pretty sure these radios IN OTHER MARKETS do have code enabled. So -- NZ/AUS/UK/EU/ROW/SAUDI - they do have code enabled. Not in US/Canada.



In the NAS market, you will find base cars with the completely garbage (Defender / Discovery 1 style / Freelander Style) radios and 03/04 HSE’s with those Becker CD based NAV radios may have code systems, I don’t know. I’ve never had a Disco 2 with either of those systems and that’s an incredibly small % of the market anyways.

 

My '01 D2 doesn't need a code. My '97 P38 does. I've read about some D1's and D2's that do need a code.

 

Nashvegas, I certainly hope you are right, because it would mean that the one I just bought from Ebay US should work without the hassle of finding a code...

In my case, the 2000 Land Rover Discovery Series II VIN SALTY1246YA263135 that I bought in the US in Tulsa OK, did have a 4 digit code (before the radio stopped functioning).