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  • #52
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »
    When jump starting a car never connect the final negative lead to the battery. It may save you a trip to casulty and 40 quid. :D

    Please do explain.


  • #53
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    vibe666 wrote: »
    when driving on the motorway, if you think that you might need to overtake anything 1/4 of a mile ahead of you but another car that is going significantly faster than you is approaching you from behind in the overtaking lane, be sure to pull out in front of them at the last second without indicating rather than risk having to ease your foot off the accelerator slightly. much better for the other driver to have to slam on the anchors than for you to lose 1-2mph off your own speed.

    if the other driver doesn't psychically anticipate your need to pull out in front of him and manages to pass you before you can cut him off, be sure to show him the error of his ways by flashing him repeatedly*.

    * true story, happened to me this morning.:mad:

    People do seem to become awful stupid when they drive a car, and they flashing their lights after you passed them just confirms it. Its just non awareness of whats going on outside their car interior that is the problem.


  • #54
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »
    When jump starting a car never connect the final negative lead to the battery. It may save you a trip to casulty and 40 quid. :D

    Just jump start with one lead so?

    Sounds like you shorted your battery or connected the 2 batteries with wrong polarity.


  • #55
    high horse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭high horse


    Greyfoot wrote: »
    Indeed, worked like a charm on my Calibra Turbo and Nissan Primera, doesn't work on my beemer though :(

    Have you tried holding the key to your temple? Works for me :)


  • #56
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,066 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    JimmyCrackCorn wrote: »
    When jump starting a car never connect the final negative lead to the battery. It may save you a trip to casulty and 40 quid. :D
    €125 now, no?
    robbie7730 wrote: »
    Just jump start with one lead so?

    Sounds like you shorted your battery or connected the 2 batteries with wrong polarity.
    Doh!

    @)
    ( ~. )

    Not your ornery onager



  • #57
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,066 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    high horse wrote: »
    Have you tried holding the key to your temple? Works for me :)
    Bingo! The skull is a great concentrator...

    Just don't hold your mobile at your other ear at the same time, unless you want to fry something. :eek:

    Not your ornery onager



  • #58
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    OSI wrote: »
    Your supposed to connect the final lead to a metal part of the engine or engine bay. Not directly to the battery.


    Maybe this is to avoid igniting battery vapours like hydrogen. Outdoors it would seem unlikely though.


  • #59
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    Wolverine_1999 wrote: »
    Wow, that's handy :)
    When you regularly see less that 20-25 mpg its necessary I'd guess!


  • #60
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,066 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    robbie7730 wrote: »
    Maybe this is to avoid igniting battery vapours like hydrogen. Outdoors it would seem unlikely though.
    Just do it right. Hydrogen does not know whether it is indoors or not. A spark is a spark, and an explosion is...

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #61
    Bumpstop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Bumpstop


    Never as a prank pull the driver out of the vehicle, whilst the engine is running. It was in gear and he had his foot on the clutch.:pac:


  • #62
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,066 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Learned while a motorcyclist:

    Treat every other road user as an idiot, who may do the wrong thing at any instant. Be ready for this, and you have a chance of continuing to live.

    The above rule has helped me, and a number of people to whom I have imparted it, to avoid death or serious injury.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #63
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    Esel wrote: »
    Just do it right. Hydrogen does not know whether it is indoors or not. A spark is a spark, and an explosion is...


    I was not saying to connect it incorrectly,

    But gasses rapidly dissipate in the open air. Thats why charging batteries should be done in a well ventilated area, nothing to do with the gasses having the ability to "know whether it is indoors or not".

    So if jump starting, and its outside in the open air, any gasses are more likely to dissipate.

    The nature of lead acid batteries means its remotely possible for them to explode alright, not just during jump starting.


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