6 - 4 Roadside Emergency
Trunk Underfloor Access
The space under the trunk floor houses
the spare wheel, battery, jack and rear
fuse box.
To raise the floor panel, press down the
rear of handle (A) then, holding the
handle at the front, swing the floor panel
upwards ( B). Hook the handle securely
over the top edge of the trunk
opening ( C).
Emergency Starting
This vehicle is fitted with automatic
transmission. In the event of a discharged
battery preventing a normal engine start,
the vehicle cannot be started by pushing
or towing. Either use jump leads
connected to a booster battery (e.g. on
another vehicle) or fit a fully charged
battery (see page 7 - 15).
Emergency Starting Using
Jump Leads
Both the booster and discharged battery
should be treated with great care when
using jump leads. Al ways use high quality
leads capable of carrying the starter
current of the vehicle to be started.
Before commencing, the following
precautions must be taken:
• When the battery of another vehicle is being used, ensure that the vehicles
do not touch. Alternatively, remove
the charged battery and place near to,
not on, the vehicle with the
discharged battery.
• Ensure that both vehicles have all electrical services OFF,
the parkbrakes applied and the
transmission in the ‘P’ (park) position.
• Where the jump leads are of a different colour, e.g. red and black,
use red for positive (+). This aids
identification and helps to avoid
crossing positive (+) to negative (–).
Take extra care to avoid crossing the
polarity when using cables of the
same colour.
Roadside Emergency 6 - 5
Caution:
1. If using a jump start vehicle, under no circumstances should the
vehicles come into contact with
each other. This could establish an
earth connection, which may
cause sparks and damage.
2. Do not run the engine of the jump start vehicle when boost starting a
Jaguar vehicle. If the jump start
vehicle’s engine is running and
the jump leads ar e disconnected,
damage to the Jaguar vehicle’s
electrical system will result.
3. The booster battery voltage must not exceed 12 volts.
The procedure must be followed exactly,
being careful not to cause sparks:
1. Unclip the battery positive (+) terminal cover.
2. Attach one end of the red jump lead to the positive (+) terminal of the
booster battery and the other end to
the positive (+) terminal of the
discharged battery. Make sure that a
good connection is made.
Caution: Do not connect the negative
jump lead directly to the negative (–)
terminal of the discharged vehicle. 3. Attach one end of the black jump lead
to the negative (–) terminal of the
booster battery and the other end to
the earth stud on the left-hand side of
the spare wheel well.
4. Start the engine.
5. When started, allow the engine to idle for five minutes before disconnecting
the cables.
6. Disconnect the black jump lead from the earth point and the booster battery
negative (–) terminal. 7. Disconnect the red jump lead from the
positive (+) terminals of both
batteries.
8. Refit the cover to the positive (+) terminal.
9. Close the trunk floor panel.
After starting the engine, it may be
necessary to reset th e electric parkbrake
as described on page 4 - 34. See also After
battery reconnection on page 7 - 16.
