How To Jumpstart A Car

Unfortunately, you might forget to turn your headlights off or the battery just gets totally drained. And as a result, your car’s battery lacks the juice to power your vehicle. But don’t fret over this. You can simply jumpstart a car with the proper tools in a matter of minutes.
To learn how to jumpstart your car, continue reading below.
How to Jumpstart a Car
Equipment
Not much is needed to jumpstart your car. All you simply need is two things:
- Another car that is able to start.
- Jumper cables
Or, to really simplify things and prepare yourself in the event your car needs a jumpstart, you can always purchase a self-jumpstart tool from an auto store.
Step One: Parking & Positioning
Drive the other car and park it closely to the your vehicle, making sure that they don’t touch themselves. Ideally, the other car should be parked right in front of yours. And once they’re parked closely together, remove the keys from the ignition from both vehicles.
Step Two: Prepping The Jumpstart Sequence
Pop the hoods of both cars and locate the dead battery in your car. Once you locate the dead battery, take your jumper cables and connect one of the red clampers to the Positive metal component of your dead battery. Make sure your clampers don’t touch each other as this can cause a spark.
Take the black clamper that’s conjoined with the red clamper you positioned on your battery and set it aside on some plastic material. You want to ensure that your black clamper doesn’t touch any sort of metal at this time.
NOTE: it’s important that you connect your jumper cables to your dead battery first as this reduces the likelihood of electric shock in case you touch the metal components of your battery or jumper cables.
On the other end of your jumper cables, take both the red and black clampers and connect both clampers to their respective colors onto the battery of the other functioning car.
Once you connect them to your live battery, take the black clamper that’s closest to your dead battery and connect it to a piece of grounding metal on your car that isn’t located close to electrical wiring or fuel. Your car may have a grounding component designed for jump starting in the hood. Check your car’s manual to see if there is one.
NOTE: Connecting a black clamper to your dead battery is a safety hazard. By attaching the black clamper to your dead battery, you can cause a spark which can possibly light up fumes that are leaking from the dead battery, causing an explosion. Worn down or dead batteries can likely fail due to leaked hydrogen gas. Because of this, you want to avoid causing a spark.
Step Three: Jumpstarting Your Car
Start the engine of the functioning car and let it run for two minutes. After two minutes, attempt to start the engine of the car with the dead battery.
If your car isn’t running still, it may have other underlying issues. In which case, you will need to seek professional help to fix your car.
Step Four, Final Step: Removing The Cables
Remove the jumper cables from your dead battery first, ensuring that you first remove the black clamper so as to avoid possibly causing sparks that can come into contact with fumes. Then remove the red clamper without it and the black clamper touching anything.
Afterwards, remove the red cable and then the black cable from the other vehicle.
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