My winter car is a VW TDI; and I installed a zerostart coolant circulation heater and a CTEK float charger on the car. This way it starts like a dream no matter what; cold or a long time between use. How is this relevant?!? I have a neat little plug so its a super polished install, and on an infrequently used Jaguar, it would be neat:


For the Jaguar since you'd only need the one plug, they make a single plug model too:
Those links get me nothing; I am providing them to show the thing.

I have this in the fog light grille so I can plug in a drop cord and power both things (and theres an inline switch to turn off the coolant heater seasonally since why heat it in the summer lol); but you could put this in the floor of the XK8/R pointing downward and when you want to plug it in, just attach a drop cord. I'm not sure there isn't a plastic vent panel in the trunk somewhere (maybe I'm remembering my X308?) but you could drill and install this in the trunk floor.

 

DavidYau, where did you get that voltage panel that sits above your cd changer? Is there a part number and brand?

cheers

 

Stumpy,
Very interesting indeed. It makes me wonder what the quiescent current drop is when NOT locking the car in storage....

 

Sorry, apart from Brand Eeekit, I don’t have much details on what I installed. I literally picked it up from the back of a shelf in a boat years shop, and it wasn’t even in a box. I copied an idea from fellow forum member rothwell, from his thread below.

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-99805/page10/

Details of what he got are in post #201.

It’s really handy and just one of many great ideas rothwell shared.