Hopefully, this has been addressed before. We are going on a 3-4 month world cruise and will be leaving our E-pace stored in our apartment blocks secure garage area.

Any guidelines for maintaining the car whilst away, particularly related to batteries going flat - mine is already on the way out (see other threads on 'low battery' scenarios). Do I put in a new battery now or see if I can put it on a trickle feed charger and so on. If battery dies whilst I am away, will one have reprogramming or other issues.

Also does it matter if I don't leave much petrol in the tank. Do I need to get someone to run the engine for a while - always difficult when the car is under a cover to protect the paint.

Any suggestions and observations welcome. Thanks in advance JimL

 

Make sure if your battery charger is actually a maintainer. CTEK make a few models. The maintainer keeps the battery working by steady discharges and recharges and can be left connected indefinitely. A trickle charger has none of these features and is likely to damage or cook your battery. An important point is that your battery is an AGM (Absorbed Glass Mat) and the maintainer must be in the correct mode. Check out the CTEK range. Enjoy your holiday knowing that your car is being cared for.

 

I would skip the old school trickle chargers that require you to select the battery type.
Genius trickle chargers detect battery type, condition the battery and can be left on the car indefinitely.
I have had one on my 19 EPace for about 3 years. I strapped it under the hood and permanently connected it to the battery.
I just pop the hood, plug an extension cord into the genius and I am done. I have numerous cars, so I have most of them on Genius trickle chargers as they don’t get many miles on them. For example, my EPace has 15k miles.

Here is the Genius on amazon:

Genius is designed for AGM and all other battery types.

As far as the car not starting for 30 days. No worries. My Jag sits for about 30-60 days all the time. But if you do that, the trickle charger MUST be connected the ENTIRE time.

You mentioned 4 months. I don’t think that would be a problem, as long as the battery never goes down on its charge.

 

With thanks - very useful.