Hello Fellow F-Type owners.

I recently bought my dream car, a F-type Jag!

Over the winter months the car will sit in an underground parking garage without any power outlets nearby. I have searched for a solution to keep the car battery charged over the winter and I have stumbled on the CTEK CS Free . Basically, my intent is to keep this on the car and occasionally charge the CTEK CS Free at home and reconnect it to the car battery. Would this work?

 

It will certainly work. But, if your main use is to maintain the battery when it's parked, you can use a more basic model, like the MXS 5.0 for about half the price, but it does require an outlet. And, if you hang out until the Black Friday sales, it's been included in the past for $70-$80 (US). I don't see any price history on the "Free" that's much below the current $182.

 

The OP specifically said he does not have access to an AC outlet. So, his choices are so thing like the CTEK CS Free, which will need to be charged regularly, a stand alone back up power pack with a maintainer plugged into its ac outlet, or if the car is going to sit for an extended period of time…take the battery out and take it to where you can have it near an AC outlet to connect a standard maintainer to the AC outlet, and to the battery.

BUT….reading the specs on the CTEK CS Free, it seems in order to use it in maintainer mode, it needs to have it either plugged into ac, attached to a solar panel, or connected to another 12 vdc battery. So, you’d have to periodically take the 12 vdc battery inside to charge it.