{"id":1666,"date":"2023-03-10T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T15:55:22","slug":"how-to-jump-start-a-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/how-to-jump-start-a-car","title":{"rendered":"How to Jump Start a Car"},"content":{"rendered":"
While learning how to jump start a car can be easy, there are risks in it if done so incorrectly. As your insurance agent, we care about your safety!<\/p>\n
Watch these steps for jump starting a car from\u00a0Safe2Drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n What do you need to jump start a car?<\/strong><\/p>\n Before you can recharge and get going, you need a few basics:\u00a0jumper cables and a power source \u2013 either a portable jump battery (a\u00a0jump box<\/em>) or another vehicle.<\/p>\n Jumper cables are long, thickly insulated cables with toothy clips on one or both ends. These clips are called\u00a0alligator\u00a0<\/em>clips. The clips are distinguished by color, usually red and black, to indicate positive and negative polarity. The red clip is positive. The black clip is negative.<\/p>\n Jump boxes are portable batteries used to jump start a vehicle without connecting to another vehicle and come with special jump cables. These cables connect the jump battery directly to the dead car battery. Road side assistance usually uses a jump box when helping stalled vehicles.<\/p>\n What do you need to know about car batteries to jump start a car?<\/strong><\/p>\n Car batteries have two larger nubs, called terminals. There is a positive terminal and a negative terminal. Each should be clearly marked. Connecting cables to the right terminal is important to completing the circuit and gives power to the dead battery.<\/p>\n CAUTIONS WHEN JUMP STARTING A CAR:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Protect the donor battery<\/strong><\/p>\n A quick test that there is enough voltage for the donor, be sure that the car giving the jump start headlights are steady and bright when the car is started. If the headlights dim, that can signal that the battery is low.<\/p>\n How do you use\u00a0jumper cables to jump start a car from another vehicle?<\/strong><\/p>\n After the car is jump started:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Unclip the clips in the reverse order you connected them:<\/p>\n If the jump works and your car starts, don\u2019t shut off your engine! Drive around for at least 15 minutes to recharge your battery. If the car won\u2019t start the next time you use it, the battery isn\u2019t holding a charge and needs to be replaced.<\/p>\n Source:\u00a0https:\/\/www.idrivesafely.com\/defensive-driving\/trending\/how-jump-car-simple-steps-bring-your-car-battery-back-life<\/a>and\u00a0https:\/\/www.dummies.com\/home-garden\/car-repair\/how-to-jump-start-a-car\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While learning how to jump start a car can be easy, there are risks in it if done so incorrectly. As your insurance agent, we care about your safety! Watch …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1668,"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/careycoverage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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