If your battery is flat on an XJ 6 sovereign

[Alastair]

I did see a posting that someone put on about if your battery was flat and you couldn't open the boot of your vehicle, then open the bonnet and apparently there is a wire that you can link to, and use the chassis of their vehicle as the Earth.

I've been unfortunate and had to rest up following surgery for 5 weeks and went out to my XJ6 sovereign and the battery was flat. I phoned Jaguar care who came and the boot it did open and they just linked up and suggested that I ran the car for an hour on the drive after it had been started up.

I asked if it was possible to use a trickle charger and was told that that was not recommended. However I spoke to my local Jaguar agent who has one of those people who knows everything about everything and he said it was absolutely fine to use a trickle charger, you have to take the Bulb that lights the boot out, or you're just running things down again. That worked fine and I just charged it for 3 hours. I thought I had posted this somewhere else but I'm not terribly brilliant with technology

Best,

Alastair :-)