Comments on: How To Jump Start a Car

By: You must know how to jump start your car | Car Deal Expert

You must know how to jump start your car | Car Deal Expert — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:14:20 +0000

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By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:11:15 +0000

You run the live car to keep recharging the good battery by the alternator. Depending how dead the car is it could take a while.

By: geoff

geoff — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:26:13 +0000

Just yesterday after the gym this guy i work with said he needed a jump for his car, me being the only one with cables i was sort of moraly obligated to help. My batterys in my trunk and. My car is manual 5 speedso i had to back up and stay in the car with foot on the brake so it wouldnt roll. Without proper supervision he connnected the cables and i began to press the gas to juice him up. After afew seconds smoke was billowing into the air in my rear view mirror. They yeld for me to shut down. When i pulled the melted cables off with and old jacket i was then informed that the poitive and negative had been swapped on my end… bumper=burned, amongst other things. Dnt let ur friends touch ur battery..

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 23 May 2010 04:21:17 +0000

The one thing I would say different is make the last connection on the GOOD battery negative, or frame. Why? If you are worried about a build up of H gas, then why make the last connection, the only one that has a chance to spark, on or near the dead battery? The battery that is most likely to have H gas hanging around?

Make the last connection on the GOOD car, battery or other ground source.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:01:24 +0000

@Katie & Cassie, I think you 2 should stop worrying about this being a sexist article… I, I can’t speak for other men, don’t assume anything about women… My wife can do stuff on her own as well. She chooses not to because I take care of the cars. I think this article was written because men should know how to jump a car. Its “Written in the DNA” or something like stupid that. I, personally, think that EVERYONE should be able to jump a car, change a tire, change their oil, ect…

@everyone else, create a “Jump point” on your car…. I got some high power connectors, a high power relay (200 amp), and some 2ga wire. So when I hook up to the other car, I only have to worry about their battery, plug in my connector (located under the bumper) flip a switch and the other car has juice.

Something else you could do to keep you from getting stranded… If you plan on keeping your car for a while. Get a second battery, ground the negative, attach the positive side to a high power relay (again about 200 amps) then attach the other side of the relay to the other battery. Run a small wire to a switch located inside the truck from the second battery (to make sure you always have juice for the relay) to activate the relay. When your battery dies, flip the switch, start the vehicle, but don’t turn the switch off yet because you want to recharge the battery you just used for the “jump”.