'apart from the fact that anyone 6' + often knock the lights on with a knee'

+1!

Sorry - that says nothing about remote opening.

If it's in the menus, it's hiding well.

When I first bought the car, I could open the boot remotely. I left the car for a few months [with the battery disconnected briefly] and now the remote doesn't work. Any suggestions?

Can you program a destination just using UK postcode? I can't see how to do it.

I may be leaving it for three months or more.

Thank you for pointing me to the manual - altho it wasn't quite on the page you gave me, it was close. I tried what they suggested. The cover to the manual key is a rather flimsy piece of metal? plastic? which when I tried to open it as suggested in the manual, popped off and shot across the garage....

It's going to be indoors.

Thank you.

Sadly, the printed manual I got with the car only has 251 pages.

I downloaded a pdf of the manual, but sadly page 287 concerns itself with the replacement of wiper blades.

But there is something on P285 which looks useful, and I will try that.

I'm going to be leaving the car for a few weeks, and so need to disconnect the battery. Presumably I can open the bonnet, lock the car and disconnect the battery. But there's a snag. Without the battery, how do I unlock the car to release the bonnet? There doesn't seem to be a mechanical lock. And l...