Age and extreme cold can combine to reduce your car’s battery capacity dramatically, and driving in the dark for more hours each day during winter places an extra strain on your electrical system. To avoid being left out in the cold, Cars.com’s Matt Schmitz provides a rundown on how to jump-start your car in this week’s segment of Driving Smart.
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All wrong! NEVER turn the dead cars one while the operational car is on. Fast way to ruin sensors and shorten the life of your alternator
I’m leaving to watch another since you got lazy and ask me to do it the reverse order without actually doing it.
Thanks for make a quick and easy to understand video I watch it last night when I was on a rush for the car to start and this video make me learn how to do it
Fucking love a short video. Great talking speed also my friend
Lies, you don’t ground the negative to the dead car, you connect it!
Thank you for posting this!
Can you make a video on how to jump start your neighbours stolen car ?
I'm a little surprised you recommend driving the car to charge the battery after a jump start. True, we've all done it (and I've never experienced an issue). However, we were taught a car's charging system is designed to maintain the charge in the battery, not to charge a dead battery.
Here because I'm high as hell and had to jump start my truck in my drive way
Who's here cause they didn't have a dad amirite
Short. Brain happy.
Best description ever. Just done it and feeling chuffed!! Thank you.
Of course the damn car I’m tryna jump is a part of this video… must be a sign
finally a video on this topic that isn't 11minutes long.
super dope thank you!
I have never shut the engine of the running vehicle off. Also, I have never had any trouble when connecting to the negative battery terminal of the non-running car. I'm fearful that I might short out a nearby part that sends electricity to a vital engine part. But, I get you have to instruct people on the absolute safest method.
Black = negative (because black people are a bad thing)
Red = positive (because red indians are a good thing)
Short and sweet. !!!!! Thanks
Dude looks like he could rip 10 jump lead cables in half
We have everything to get the battery jumped except for the measuring tape. We’re waiting for my cousin to get off work and bring us one.
She likes it 20 inches apart
Short and straight to the point. Best video ever. Have a great day everyone 🙂
Can't you hook the negative up to the dead battery negative? Thats what I always do
Correct me if Im wrong, but idling most vehicles doesn't engage the charging system through the alternator, you have to be travelling something akin to 20km/h steady.
Awesome video! One of the best I’ve seen on jumpstarting cars
I never knew your supposed to connect it to bare metal and not the battery. Interesting
All good but it didn't work when connecting the black cable to something different than the negative end of the dead battery. I kept following the directions and connecting to metal surfaces and didn’t work. As soon as I connected it to the negative (black end) of the dead battery it worked, no explosion, no sparks, nothing.