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Car Battery Dead? Jumpstarting?

  • 21-07-2009 12:09pm
    #1
    Triton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭


    Went out to start my car this morning (haven't driven it in a week or two and its a '99) and there wasn't a kick out of it. I turned the key and nothing happened.

    Someone told me that the battery is probably dead because I'd left it inactive. Would this be right?

    I'm getting a lend of some jump leads. How exactly do I use them? Do I just connect the tops of one end to my car and then the tops of the other end to the battery of another car and start both cars or what?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Triton wrote: »
    Went out to start my car this morning (haven't driven it in a week or two and its a '99) and there wasn't a kick out of it. I turned the key and nothing happened.

    Someone told me that the battery is probably dead because I'd left it inactive. Would this be right?

    I'm getting a lend of some jump leads. How exactly do I use them? Do I just connect the tops of one end to my car and then the tops of the other end to the battery of another car and start both cars or what?
    • connect the positive of one battery to the other battery.
    • connect the negetive of one battery to the other battery.
    not nessarily in that order though
    • start the car that is running ok.
    • give it a minute or two with a few light revs as your battery is completely dead.
    • then try start your car.
    • if it starts, disconnect everything while leaving your car running, and go on a long drive and try get in some motorway, 120kmph driving too.


  • #3
    recyclebin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,529 ✭✭✭recyclebin


    From the AA:

    http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/breakdown_advice/using-jumpleads.html


  • #4
    zednanrefnomar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭zednanrefnomar


    kceire wrote: »
    • connect the positive of one battery to the positive of the other battery.
    • connect the negetive of one battery to the negative of the other battery.
    not nessarily in that order though
    • start the car that is running ok.
    • give it a minute or two with a few light revs as your battery is completely dead.
    • then try start your car.
    • if it starts, disconnect everything while leaving your car running, and go on a long drive and try get in some motorway, 120kmph driving too.

    kceire, Just added a bit more to your advice to avoid any misunderstanding. Hope you don't mind.


  • #5
    RentDayBlues
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,131 ✭✭✭RentDayBlues


    Not always! I recently bought jump leads and both positives need to be connected but the negative needs to be connected to the good battery and the body of the bad car! So double check the instructions


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