[quote="X5Sport"]
You can get a CTEK adapter that fits onto the jump points (19mm socket to undo I think) and has a 'snatch plug'. Route the cable somewhere convenient and then you can lock the car and all sorted. The connection is watertight.
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you mean the clamp type? i already have it. or do you mean something else? damn! all my efforts might have been wasted then..
anyways here's wht i did. this is to make it 'wife proof' because for sure she'd forget and just drive off!:
bought a 13-pin plug off amazon (under £10), shaved off the locking bits and covered it with a pvc pipe for smooth release on drive off. also secured a cable to pull the plug to prevent straining the wire. the cable is secured to an L-ion secured to the ground, , at the same height of the tow-socket, about a metre away from the car to give tolerance for car being parked slightly left/right but still the 'pull' to be relatively from the rear direction.
and then fail-safe: if the cable snaps or comes lose eventually: the wire must have a weak point to break from. in case that causes the wires to short - added a fuse at the c-tek end of the wire (the car's socket already has a fuse in the car).
tbh not wife but i've been 'drivin off' forever since fitting this (around xmas) to test it, with teh rear camera switched on as well to watch the action. it works perfectly. never failed.
i need to periodically charge in the winter because i run the webo daily to pre-heat, after that the car often gets only about a half hr of running. before starting to charge, the car would start no issues. but there wasn't enough charge for the webo to pre-heat for half hr (webo cuts off leaving enough power to start the car).
Never anthropomorphise computers. They hate that.
