L405 trickle charging

[swisstoni]

My 2015 L405 stood idle for a couple of months.
It’s running fine but I know the battery could do with a charge to bring everything back to normal.
I have tried to trickle charge via the cigarette lighter socket. All is fine for a few minutes but then the car kills all systems as part of the normal shutdown sequence, including the cigarette lighter socket.

Before I start digging in the boot for the battery, has anyone found a way to overcome this?

[Dave.]

Have you got towing electrics?

https://www.disco3.co.uk/wiki/Charging_through_tow...

[swisstoni]

Dave. said:

Have you got towing electrics?

https://www.disco3.co.uk/wiki/Charging_through_tow...

Yes - have the built in tow bar.

[Dave.]

Get one of those adapter for your charger, job jobbed....

[swisstoni]

Thanks, ordered.

[NotBenny]

swisstoni said:

My 2015 L405 stood idle for a couple of months.
It’s running fine but I know the battery could do with a charge to bring everything back to normal.
I have tried to trickle charge via the cigarette lighter socket. All is fine for a few minutes but then the car kills all systems as part of the normal shutdown sequence, including the cigarette lighter socket.

Before I start digging in the boot for the battery, has anyone found a way to overcome this?

I'm confused - are you using the car again? if so, your alternator will be charging the battery... or are you implying that the battery has been permanently damaged in some way from being stood and you want to leave it on charge between uses now?

[swisstoni]

NotBenny said:

swisstoni said:

My 2015 L405 stood idle for a couple of months.
It’s running fine but I know the battery could do with a charge to bring everything back to normal.
I have tried to trickle charge via the cigarette lighter socket. All is fine for a few minutes but then the car kills all systems as part of the normal shutdown sequence, including the cigarette lighter socket.

Before I start digging in the boot for the battery, has anyone found a way to overcome this?

I'm confused - are you using the car again? if so, your alternator will be charging the battery... or are you implying that the battery has been permanently damaged in some way from being stood and you want to leave it on charge between uses now?

There were a few issues apparent that were not there before I stood the car. The SOS function stopped, the TPMS was giving false info and it stopped updating it's location on the InControl app.
All these have gradually sorted themselves out as I have started using the car again apart from the InControl location. I just want to get the battery up to full charge in the hope that this will eventually fix the InControl location issue.
Plus the car is not used often so I want to avoid these problems in future.

[cayman-black]

Right RR,s if not used regularly are best left on a trickle charge. Mine is always on one and it has had none of the usual problems.