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re: Jump starting car - reversed cables
Posted on 2/6/16 at 12:41 am to Sigma
Posted on 2/6/16 at 12:41 am to Sigma
Take the battery out and get it tested. It's putting out some juice (your headlights came on you said) but maybe it's been severely weakened.
Could also be it blew a fuse - the fuse is your safety feature.
If you can get the car to somewhere like Auto Zone, they can read the codes and tell you if something is showing up in the computer.
Could also be it blew a fuse - the fuse is your safety feature.
If you can get the car to somewhere like Auto Zone, they can read the codes and tell you if something is showing up in the computer.
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Posted on 2/6/16 at 12:42 am to Sigma
womanPosted on 2/6/16 at 6:58 pm to Sigma
What was the outcome?
Posted on 2/6/16 at 8:09 pm to tigers win2
Negative never alone.
When I was first learning about cars, dad asked "Which color is positive/negative?" As a future accountant I pondered and said "In the black means positive money, in the red, negative." He laughed and said "Forget money when dealing with cars."
When I was first learning about cars, dad asked "Which color is positive/negative?" As a future accountant I pondered and said "In the black means positive money, in the red, negative." He laughed and said "Forget money when dealing with cars."
Posted on 2/6/16 at 8:12 pm to tigers win2
He fricked it up was the outcome
Posted on 2/6/16 at 9:08 pm to Real Pirate
Don't ever cross the streams!
Posted on 2/6/16 at 9:12 pm to Sigma
Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha. Gasp. Hahahahahahahah. Gasp hahahahahahaha
Posted on 2/6/16 at 9:16 pm to Sigma
Typical rookie mistake
Posted on 2/6/16 at 9:34 pm to Sigma
You have a voltmeter but yet you still continued to keep the cables hooked up AND started your car after you saw sparks? Something tells me you don't need a voltmeter. 
Posted on 2/6/16 at 9:51 pm to tigerpimpbot
quote:
Fairhope, AL
What year Camaro we talking about?
Nice
Posted on 2/6/16 at 9:53 pm to Sigma
Posted on 2/6/16 at 11:11 pm to Sigma
damn lucky one of the batteries didn't blow up on you....
Posted on 2/7/16 at 2:36 am to Sigma
quote:
So I get out and check the cables and it turns out the dead battery cables had been mismatched to the terminals, which means I reversed the polarity.
Check the blinker fluid before you do anything.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 6:10 am to Sigma
quote:
Aren't there built in safety features in newer cars to prevent this kind of thing from doing real damage?
No.
Car manufactures figure the average man knows the difference between a + sign and a - sign.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 7:34 am to Sigma
A buddy had this hppen to his wife's Ford Edge. Dumbass bro in law hooked it up wrong. Blew the main fuse. It also blew almost every fuse in the car. The navigation never did come back. It will not connect to the satalites anymore.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 7:38 am to MSWebfoot
Damn
Still rookie move
Still rookie move
Posted on 2/7/16 at 7:38 am to MSWebfoot
quote:
A buddy had this hppen to his wife's Ford Edge. Dumbass bro in law hooked it up wrong. Blew the main fuse. It also blew almost every fuse in the car. The navigation never did come back. It will not connect to the satalites anymore.
I did it working at Auto Zone on a bitches Mercedes.
It blew every fuse and every computer.
So, OP you're not alone.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 8:39 am to Kcrad
Bring a MB to AutoZone and you get what you deserve.
No offense to your young self.
No offense to your young self.
Posted on 2/7/16 at 9:50 am to Sigma
You blew the main fuse
Posted on 2/7/16 at 10:00 am to Sigma
I always ground the black cable on the block of the car with the receiver battery. It's saved me from some "boo boo's" in the past.
This post was edited on 2/7/16 at 10:01 am
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