How to Jump a Car With Jumper Cables? Step-by-Step Guide

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What Do You Need to Jump a Car?

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Apart from a dead battery, signs like your engine cranking to start or your battery catching a cold is when you need to jump-start your vehicle.

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The Process

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Finally, connect the first negative (-) clamp to the black terminal of the working battery with the second negative clamp hooked onto a metal surface of the car, which should be unpainted.

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Try again by swapping the ends of jumper cables. If that doesn't help, call your mechanic for further assistance or tow your car directly to them.

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How to Jump a Car With Jumper Cables? Step-by-Step Guide

What Do You Need to Jump a Car?

Apart from a dead battery, signs like your engine cranking to start or your battery catching a cold is when you need to jump-start your vehicle.

How Do You Know If You Need to Jump a Car?

The Process

1

S T E P

Park the cars with their bonnets facing but not touching each other and switch off their engines for added safety and maximum outputs.

ST

2

S T E P

Once parked, pop their bonnets to spot the batteries and prepare the jumper cables by straightening and untangling them.

ND

3

S T E P

The positive terminals are marked red, and the negatives are black. Connect the positive (+) red clamp to the red terminal of the dead battery first and to the working battery after that.

RD

Finally, connect the first negative (-) clamp to the black terminal of the working battery with the second negative clamp hooked onto a metal surface of the car, which should be unpainted.

4

S T E P

After connecting the cables to the ends of both the batteries, you need to start the dead and working car for an instant jump. Leaving them idle for a minute will also recharge the dead battery.

TH

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S T E P

Now that you have jumped your battery, you need to disconnect the jumper cables in reverse order of how you connected them, which prevents any possible mishaps.

TH

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Now start the car with a not-anymore dead battery, and let it run for at least 5 minutes. Or better, driving it for 15 minutes would bring it into momentum and maintain it.

TH

Try again by swapping the ends of jumper cables. If that doesn't help, call your mechanic for further assistance or tow your car directly to them.

What to Do If the Car Won’t Start With Jumping?

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