i am going on holiday for 30 days
i have conflicting reports from dealers that say the car goes into sleep mode after 21 days some dealers have told me 28 days and some say that it does not even go into sleep mode at all and its all rubbish.
please does any members have a different view or experience of this problem .
will i need to go through the procedure of getting into the car through the passenger door etc after returning from holiday

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twinkle2222

As you can see in my profile, I live between Mexico and Spain. It means, that I leave my car many months some times. I use to disconnect the black cable from the battery and that’s it!! No problem at all
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Twinkle, If you leave the car for about five days without locking it, the battery will go flat. If you lock the car it will close it self down after about 28 days. You then need to unlock the car with the metal key - the alarm will sound - and then place the fob in the slot and the system will come back to normal.
Hope that helps.

Somewhere on the forum it's been suggested that the battery is drained slowly and at some point the car switches to sleep mode, so it's probably a pre determined voltage and not a set number of days.
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Now I wonder if you fitted basic towbar electrics, one of the pins is 12 volt positive, one negative. You may be able to use a standard caravan plug and connect to a specific trickle charger to backfeed and keep the battery fully charged.
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Perhaps another member could clarify if I am correct?
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egipp wrote:

If you leave the car for about five days without locking it, the battery will go flat.

Just make sure you can enter via the passenger door on your return if you have to. It takes less than a minute to enter this way, then you insert the fob and all comes back to life (remember the alarm will sound until fob is inserted).

Wizking is spot on !
exactly what I used to do when parked for over 3 weeks
If the passenger door is not accessible than it might be a problem, if its LHD no problem as the mechanical lock is built into the NSF door Jaguar x-type sport gone
Jaguar x-type 2.2d sport one of my best cars ever sadly gone
Freelander 2 GS auto 2008 most unreliable ever ! gladly gone
Freelander 2 GS manual 2013 only time will tell !

Does anybody else leave a car on trickle charge to avoid the standing volt drop??
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Other cars:-
1958 & 1959 Austin J40 Pedal Cars under restoration (I make many J40 parts)
If you have an Austin J40 or Pathfinder Pedal Car looking for a new home pls PM me.
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Yes I did for the first 18 months as it would never start in cold weather unless I kept a trickle charge on when parked. It was a real pain and at the time the dealer and customer support were useless . Come to think of it never had the problem of it going to sleep when parked until I got fed up with trickle charging and decided enough was enough for what I thought was a premium vehicle and started chasing landrover but ended up fitting an extra earth strap myself when LR refused to fit an extra earth and assured me it didn't need it !
Ironic the new ones are now fitted with two !
I should of slapped a patent on it
It still used to shut down after 3-4 weeks of being parked but at least when it was woken up by opening the passenger door at least it turned over and started which was always a relief ! Jaguar x-type sport gone
Jaguar x-type 2.2d sport one of my best cars ever sadly gone
Freelander 2 GS auto 2008 most unreliable ever ! gladly gone
Freelander 2 GS manual 2013 only time will tell !

Sorry, but I am not convinced by this. I have left my car for 4/5 weeks at a time and always unlock on the key fob and away I go. Freelander 2 HSE Lux 2013MY - Barolo Black with Ivory Leather. Alpine DVD - Privacy -Evoque 20" Dynamic Wheels and more to come.........

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fredastaire wrote:

Does anybody else leave a car on trickle charge to avoid the standing volt drop??
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Kind regards from Fred

They do go to sleep and around 4 weeks , when landrover assist came out the guy said very common issues, especially at airports .
So rubbish it ain't and its a real pain in the backside and Landrover assured me it was normal if I left it parked up for long periods which I did as it was useless at starting and a waste of time using Jaguar x-type sport gone
Jaguar x-type 2.2d sport one of my best cars ever sadly gone
Freelander 2 GS auto 2008 most unreliable ever ! gladly gone
Freelander 2 GS manual 2013 only time will tell !

Pab, I read what you say, but my Freelander battery went flat after 5 days unlocked in a locked garage. The mechanic who attended and started the car said this was common with most modern cars since, if not locked, there are certain items still on standby. His analogy was switching a TV off with the remote; the picture goes, but the set is still drawing a standby current. He said to always lock the car to avoid this problem. This I have done and have had no further problems in the subsequent four years. The five days 'flat battery' period without locking, and the 28 days full shutdown with locking, was subsequently confirmed to me by Land Rover Head Office. The eventual shut down after four weeks, needing the key to open the door, happened to me after an overseas trip, but, as Land Rover said, it all came back to life once the door was unlocked and the fob inserted.

egipp wrote:

if not locked, there are certain items still on standby. His analogy was switching a TV off with the remote; the picture goes, but the set is still drawing a standby current.