subject: A General Overview Of What You Need To Know About Jump Starting [print this page] If you have a dead battery in the course of your journey, you should at least know how to bring it back to life. Hence, it is very important that you know how to jump start the vehicle. However, some people tend to view it as rocket science which it really isn't. It is a relatively easy thing to do. One of the many misconceptions that surround the process of jump starting is that you are bound to get electrocuted. To some degree this is true, but only if you get the connections wrong. In order to confidently get around doing this procedure, you have to get a couple of things right: have the right equipment, know the right way of going about it and practice regularly. The last step is very important since you never really know when you might be called upon to apply this knowledge in an emergency. The following article provides a general overview of what you need to know about it.
In order to get the jump starting right the first time, you should make sure that you are at least conversant with some of the laws of physics primarily those that concern electricity. Hence, it is very important that you pay attention always lest you expose yourself to unnecessary risks vis--vis electrocution.
The second step is to make sure that you have all the necessary equipment. One problem that many car owners tend to encounter is that of lacking the basic tools that will make sure that your car will run in tip top shape regardless of whether or not it breaks down. You will find that most people who own convertibles will often lack a spare tire because they reason that a spare tire consumes a lot of trunk space. However, any good motorist will tell you that it is very important that you have a spare with you in case something goes wrong. The same case applies to jumper cables. You should make sure that you have them just in case you need to jump start your ride.
Another thing you need to jump start your car is another car. However, it is not always a requirement that you have someone else moving with that vehicle. The essence of the jump starting is to make sure that your car gets a jolt so that it will be possible to get it to move.
The other thing you need to do in the jump starting process is to make sure that you turn off everything that consumes power in your vehicle. This means that you should turn off the music player, DVD player, air conditioning and basically anything that is in the car and is powered by the battery.
Another step in jump starting a car is to make sure that you connect and disconnect the terminals the right way. This means that you should connect the positive terminal with the positive cable first followed by the negative cable. The order of removal should be in reverse meaning that you begin with negative terminal followed by the positive.
Then finally, you can jump start the car and be on your merry way. Make sure that you leave it running for a couple of minutes or so.
