Advice needed - Trickle Charger for X150 XKR?

[cardigankid]

Can anyone recommend a suitable trickle charger for an XKR?

I understand that it has to be clipped direct to the battery. Jaguar unlike AM and Porsche apparently don't produce a branded one, which seems a bit of a lost marketing opportunity.

[a8hex]

I use a CTEK battery conditioner on mine.
I don't connect it to the battery, there are some terminals in the boot. Mine is a convertible, the FH is probably different. But on the LHS just inside the boot there is a vented plastic panel that unclips. Inside here there is a brass nut and bolt covered by a rubber boot which is the +ve terminal and there is a black bolt head on the side panel of the car which you can clip the -ve lead to. I keep meaning to get a sensible connector fitted so I can just clip the lead from the CTEK straight to the car like I do with my XK150.

[milu]

I think jag did a rebranded ctek one in the past. Anyway I have a Ctek with convenience connector ,works great!

[TorqueDirty]

What a coincidence!!

Was just about to post the pretty much the same question about the same car.

Mine is a 2009 5.0 XKR. Can I plug my CTEK in to the cigarette lighter socket or do I need to connect direct to the battery?

Cheers
TD

[a8hex]

TorqueDirty said:

Mine is a 2009 5.0 XKR. Can I plug my CTEK in to the cigarette lighter socket or do I need to connect direct to the battery?

Jaguars are not fitted with cigarette lighter socket. If you check in your owners manual you will find that, being a Jaguar, it is fitted with a cigar lighter socket.
I think it is isolated with the ignition is switched off, so as I said I connect mine in using the terminals provided in the boot.

If you look in the manual, see http://www.jaguar.co.uk/Images/XK_Owners_Handbook_... page 182 it talks about where you can connect a booster. As I said above I found there was a hex head (like a bolt head) inside the area with the +ve connector that I could use to attach the -ve lead from the CTEK to. I must get something better fitted.

[cardigankid]

Thanks guys, I've ordered a Ctek unit.

Reading the handbook is quite alarming in terms of the damage they say you can do to the electrics if you get it wrong.

[Biggriff]

Jaguar in York are putting on the crew battery connector on mine this week. They don't like being sat around as the electrics throw a fit. Just had to call Jaguar Assustance as it had sat around too long.

[DickyTVR]

You'll be fine with the CTek. I use one on my XF. Jaguar did sell them (rebranded) up to a year ago as they're listed in the XF accessories book.

[a8hex]

cardigankid said:

Thanks guys, I've ordered a Ctek unit.

Reading the handbook is quite alarming in terms of the damage they say you can do to the electrics if you get it wrong.

If you read the handbook then you'd never take it out of the garage. Just about everything beyond filling up the tank is accompanied by a warning that "this should only be attempted by a qualified Jaguar technician" I though half the manual had been written by an intern in the their legal department trying to show off.
Still
I discussed this with the guys I bought mine from and they laughed and said almost all the cars in the show room were regularly connected to a such a gadget since the engines were running but people were forever moving the seats and playing with other bits of the electrics, so they need charging.