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Originally Posted by borked
while we're on this subject, can someone explain what difference it makes if you connect the negative terminal to the hotstarting chassis or the -ve of the battery? I always connect to the chassis, but my current owners manual says the -ve battery terminal.
The order of connecting is important too - I can never remember, so I have it written on my cables!!
But yeah, I've hotstarted about 15 times others cars (half of those being the wifes, of course) and never had any prob.
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Hook up the positives on both cars while keeping the neg away from any grounding surface. Hook up the negative on the car that needs jumped and hook up the neg on the car doing the jumping last. You can leave the car that is running on while starting the other. Your car is always pulling from the battery, the battery doesn't push. On top of that your alternator puts out 14.4 to 16v . Nothing will fry. The only ones that fuck up their car when jump starting are people who do shit the wrong way. Ive jump started probably 300 to 400 cars or more over the years and NEVER fucked up anyones electrical system. Ever. or my own. lol