How to jumpstart your car
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The three sentence summary is: The document provides instructions for jumpstarting a car in cold Vermont weather, including obtaining jumper cables and finding a trustworthy person to help, turning off unnecessary power draining devices in your car, connecting the red and black cables correctly between the two batteries, letting the good Samaritan's car run for a few minutes before starting your own, and thanking them before safely driving away.
How to jumpstart your car
- 1. How to Jumpstart your car in frigid Vermont
- 2. Its cold out and she just wont turn over!! Of course it’s the coldest possible, Practically record-breaking, Holy Brrr! day in Mid-March (when winter should be over!) that she just cant do it! Put on your hats an mittens and call a friend, here is how to jumpstart old Betsy back to life!
- 3. Firstly: equipment Jumper cables! In this case size does matter! Get yourself a longer set in case your battery is hard to get for the good Samaritan jumping you. That good Samaritan! Please don’t ask some sketchy perv, find yourself a nice old Vermont farmer who drives a reliable Saab.
- 4. Turn everything in your car off and pop that hood ! Turn off your headlights, dome light , radio, (anything that may have been the cause of your car to die) because those sources are still zapping energy from your battery! ~ If you have a new car it wont matter, but it helps with starting an older model. Now Pop that hood like you mean it!
- 5. Find your Battery!! • It will look a little like this feller here:
- 6. Red to red Connect the one of the red end of your jumper cable set to the red (positive) bolt on your battery and the corresponding black ( negative) to black bolt.
- 7. Now do it to the booster vehicle! • Repeat the previous step on that good samaritan’s battery! Just remember. Red goes with red and black goes with black!
- 8. Start your engines!! They go first, give her a minute or maybe five , and then go ahead and let her rip! And don’t you dare turn her off!
- 9. Remove your and then theirs.. Don’t forget to thank you rescuer!!
- 10. Shut that hood and your all set! Drive safe!