Hmmm, I wonder. For a 90 - 100 amp-hour, only 2 hours is a LOT of drain and/or a short kill time. Perhaps the battery was in poor condition in the first place? Or the Corvette was providing loud music for an entire block?

Indeed, it's a great question about the parasitic drain of systems on/engine off, and the sound system at normal, in-vehicle listening levels. Any knowledgeable people on this point????

Wouldn't it be clever to figure out how to use the ECO 2nd battery for the sound system when the vehicle isn't running.

Desert Hiker

 

I am in Europe for three weeks and my GPS shuts down after 4 days of no starts to conserve battery power. I set a timer in my InControl remote to wake up the day I return.
It shows my car in SF Bay Area , me in Prague but can't give me walking directions to the car.

 

Probably a good thing. You might not survive the elements.

 

I am also currently thousands of miles away from my car. I am not accustomed to the frustration of not having access to my Jag. Prior cars did not have this effect. Luckily I am home on Sunday.

Orkney.

 

Right on. That made me laugh tho... I thought it was some secret instruction. =) Well done.

Interesting that, even if you don't open the door, power off is "power off", and can't even roll up windows, etc.

I am not complaining. I LOVE this car.

 

Delightfully clever. Nice thought.

Still, great point about running down battery with modern electronics in a car. It might not immediately kill the battery, but I bet you would drastically reduce it's lifetime and reliability.

NB:

Jaguar *did* think of this. This isn't a bug, it's a feature.

I repeated this a few times:

After every 2nd or 3rd time you sit and turn on the car without starting the engine, then let it shut down, it will *not* let you turn on the electronics again *without* actually starting the car. They're worried about letting it run down, for sure. I am sure someone else has repeated this? Unless I am crazy, it seems built in.

 

Speaking of GPS.....

Anyone else know how to get google maps in place of the navigation? The NAV routes and arrival times are disastrously wrong. It's frustrating, it makes it useless.

 

Numerous posters, including myself, have posted that it is only a matter of time until some manufacturer incorporates software that allows whatever app is running on a coupled smart phone to be mirrored on the center screen. Since the coupled phone and music play functions are already incorporated on virtually everything vehicle made, it makes no sense why this hasn't yet been done. Once someone does it, everyone else will follow.

I don't use the F-Type nav at all, I use Waze on my smart phone since it is infinitely superior. It would be nice to have it displayed on the center screen, but I can live without it because I rely primarily on it's voice guidance.

 

Did you guys read this manual? It's almost too surreal to believe. It's like it was written by a marketing department speaking to a millennial who has never even heard of a stick shift. It was pithy and irreverent which was fun, but hardly helpful in any meaningful way, other than for a frightened newcomer to a car they shouldn't be driving.

 

I'm pretty sure the joke went over your head here...

 

Wow. I'm none to dense, so I owe a bottle of champagne to whoever made one over on me. I kept reading that, thinking that it had to be a joke, but it was well done and I really thought it was just some sort of fun thing the marketing department with together.

That's a fanmade document? Someone has more time on their hands and I do.

 

No it's official from Jaguar. But it was meant to be humorous, a satire of how few people drive manual cars these days. They handed them out at the launch to all the journalists there. I guess a lot of people expect everything to be serious from Jaguar, you're not the first, and won't be the last.

 

I don't mind being the mark. That's made me laugh a couple times. I am pretty impressed, but it will definitely confuse people.

I can say this car has really ruined my 1995 Jeep Wrangler. The throw is about as long in the F-Type (joke), but now the Jeep feels like a hovercraft on the road with a deadly lack of pick up.

I absolutely cannot comprehend the F-Type existing without a stick. It baffles me. =^D

Anyway... the desire for a more specific manual is that I am coming from a completely different type of vehicle, and I never trusted the upshift arrow on my Wrangler. I was sort of wondering, as subjective as it is for everyone, where people are shifting up. It's probably a fairly stupid question?

 

About 2500-3000 when accelerating at a leisurely pace. Otherwise, entirely situational.

 

So if I am just driving around normal and not in need of a good exhaust jostling, I will shift around 3K - 3.5K. If I am in need of some snaps and crackles from power plant, I will shift around 5K. I have learned that 1st gear low speed (under 3o MPH) driving once things are warmed up and the exhaust is in dynamic mode produces nearly endless detonation.

Orkney

 

Okay great. I am not too far off. Sometimes the engine sounds a bit revved over 3K. I always cringe when I hear someone driving a Porsche with engine whining at too many revs.

NOISES!

For my gurgling pops, 3K+ rpm in 2nd, letting the transmission break it back to under 2500- that whole time it's those delicious throaty purrs and pops.

The only times I've really been over 5K+ so far is when I was wearing the wrong shoes and messed up. I am tall, so the heel of dress shoes or wide rubber part of gym shoes can be a nightmare. I've been taking my shoes off and driving barefoot a lot. Now I've the reason to find a proper pair of driving shoes. =)

 

At 3K, it's just barely getting into the sweet spot of the power band. 3-5K is where you'll find most of the power and torque.

 

LOL Thanks for being patient with the 95 wrangler to Jag guy.... I was driving like a wuss. I have some more appropriate choice words, but I don't want to be crass.

The car comes to life at higher RPMs... rolling around this past week, I really opened the car up, and wow. I hadn't been really pushing it or testing it at all. It's fun to see the wife giggle so much. =) I absolutely see the ticket in my future, so I got to mellow out.

It's so damned fun.

Also, anyone else crush their gentleman parts when getting out of the car or is that just me? ha.

Also... the cup holder issue is pretty bad. Sunday drive and two iced coffees on a curvy road isn't the best experience. Well... from cups getting in the way, it isn't the best.

Overall, I'm pretty sure this is the best experience. =^D

 

The proprietary MINI cup is the perfect height to rest your forearm on (left holder) while rowing through the gears. That is, if you don't mind coffee stains on your shirt sleeve.

 

Small price to pay for rowing your own gears.

And to drive an F-Type, for that matter.