URGENT! Help Needed

[Cooky]

X300 XJR
Battery is totally flat and am unable to gain access to the boot to jump start the car.

Please can anyone advise where to take a feed from either the engine bay or under the passenger seat etc. to hook up my jump pack?

many thanks

[williaa68]

I dont know too much about Jags, sorry but is the cigarette lighter live with the engine turned off? If so, you could attach a trickle charger with a lighter connection. Wont work immediately but will give enough juice to get her started in a couple of hours and gives you a solution for the future. Sorry if this is a complete waste of time!

[groomi]

There is a manual lock to the boot, next to the badge on the right hand side. The key will be very stiff to turn due to the crud built up over the years, but gradually keep adding more pressure until it eventually opens. (Then use it every now and again to keep the mechanism freed up).

The trickle charger to the cigar socket also works - it doesn't have to be enough to start the car, just enough to press the boot release button.

Oh and BTW - if you open the drivers door with the key and then subsequently manage to acquire enough juice to start the engine - don't leave the engine running and then close the drivers door...

[Simpo Two]

groomi said:

Oh and BTW - if you open the drivers door with the key and then subsequently manage to acquire enough juice to start the engine - don't leave the engine running and then close the drivers door...

That might explain why my old S-Type locked me out half a mile from home when I stopped to post a a letter... keys in the ignition, engine running, all doors and boot locked, mobile phone locked inside, and me on the outside figuring out what to do...

Jaguar 1:0 up and into injury time.

Quite a good initiative test really. Ended up getting a complete stranger to give me a lift home to get the spare keys!

Final score: Simpo 2, Jaguar 1.

Edited by Simpo Two on Sunday 12th December 15:20

[groomi]

So Cooky, are you in yet?

[jas xjr]

bit of wd 40 into the boot lock will help

[Cooky]

update

sodding boot lock is more gunged up than a Bangkok lady boy's ring piece (allegedly)

trickle charge through the cig lighter is very slow, but managed to attach the jump pack to the fuse which runs the locks and then press the boot release next to the coloumn, then boot open and jump pack to the battery...car now running

Cooky and the PH crew 1 - 0 bastid Jaguar

thanks everyone


now anyone want to buy an XJR?

[groomi]

Excellent!

So the car is now running... and where are you, and what position is the door in?

[Cooky]

car loaded on the flatted and leaving sunny Devon en route back to Stockport for a new wing and and a freshen-up. then time to sell the trusted old steed as it's become surplus since we got the Aston for Mrs c and i got the Cerb back...will miss him a truly great car that will go anywhere and back at the turn of the key without a head full of cartoons and paranoia with every rattle.

[Cecil]

Glad you were able to get in to the boot without resorting to "other methods"

[Cooky]

LOL @ other methods Cecil

as in, ripping out half the interior trim and the rear seats, to try and find a live feed, also the handbook describes an imaginary aux power input in the N/S LH kick panel...prob some exotic diagnostic fitting bespoke to the main stealers. Anyway alls well now, just bloody frustrating at the time.

[mybrainhurts]

Cooky said:

lady boy's

Ladyboy's....

[mybrainhurts]

Simpo Two said:

That might explain why my old S-Type locked me out half a mile from home when I stopped to post a a letter... keys in the ignition, engine running, all doors and boot locked, mobile phone locked inside, and me on the outside figuring out what to do...

Jaguar 1:0 up and into injury time.

Quite a good initiative test really. Ended up getting a complete stranger to give me a lift home to get the spare keys!

Final score: Simpo 2, Jaguar 1.

Oh, I wouldn't say that....

If I'd been around with a brick, I'd have had a quick blast around and you'd have been down the scrapyard looking for a new window...


Edit..

Imagine the embarrassment if you'd not hooked the handbrake on properly...

Would you have chased it or walked the other way...?

Edited by mybrainhurts on Sunday 12th December 17:25

[Cecil]

Cooky said:

LOL @ other methods Cecil

as in, ripping out half the interior trim and the rear seats, to try and find a live feed, also the handbook describes an imaginary aux power input in the N/S LH kick panel...prob some exotic diagnostic fitting bespoke to the main stealers. Anyway alls well now, just bloody frustrating at the time.

There is a fairly harmless way involving removing the numberplate etc.

[Simpo Two]

mybrainhurts said:

If I'd been around with a brick

I live in a nice area; there are no brick-wielding hoodies like you round here.



I shot them all

[Cooky]

mybrainhurts said:

Cooky said:

lady boy's

Ladyboy's....

of course... you'd know