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POLL: DO U KNOW HOW TO JUMP START A CAR?
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:08 PM Author: emerald institution no (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039435) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 5:13 PM Author: 180 sickened school I once re-routed the control wiring for a massive diesel propulsion engine aboard a ship because it was starting when it was not supposed to start. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34047363) |
Date: August 21st, 2017 5:10 PM Author: pearly house-broken sneaky criminal set Yes, however I cheat by not actually grounding one clamp on the receiving end.
Also, I now have a portable emergency charger that makes it easy. |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:15 PM Author: up-to-no-good heaven i can barely change a tire. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039478) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:16 PM Author: Spectacular Unhinged Dragon Gas Station jump starting a car is probably easier than changing a tire (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039484) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:16 PM Author: puce piazza knife only if it's on YouTube (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039493) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:09 AM Author: stimulating dingle berry regret Its much easier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043078) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:16 PM Author: racy brass trailer park selfie Yes, I take out my phone; fire up the AAA app, summon help. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039485) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:16 PM Author: puce piazza knife (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039489) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:31 PM Author: Odious Hyperactive Lay CR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34045949) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:16 PM Author: puce piazza knife No. I only recently learned how to change a tire (by watching YouTube, of course). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039486) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:17 PM Author: glassy casino yes
done it multiple times with my car and other ppl's car. |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:18 PM Author: abnormal slippery keepsake machete One of the only things I can do (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039506) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:18 PM Author: glassy casino one of my house mates at the halfway house works as a toll-truck driver. He's amazed at the number of people who call a toll truck for a dead battery instead of jump starting their car. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039508) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:56 PM Author: galvanic theatre LOL "toll truck" tyft (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039776) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:11 AM Author: abnormal slippery keepsake machete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043084) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 9:27 AM Author: avocado vivacious weed whacker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043885) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 5:00 PM Author: shimmering area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34047277) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 5:18 PM Author: cracking tanning salon mood "towr" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34047400) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:19 PM Author: Opaque contagious dog poop psychic Yes. Had a car for a few years that wasn't driven often (and I didn't start it often enough) and had to jump it a few times. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039515) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:25 PM Author: Pontificating vibrant indian lodge yes. I also keep a charger and a car tire kit in the car for myself or if someone needs help. I've pulled over to help people on the road several times. I would say most of them simply don't know what to do and you just walk through it be it a dead battery or a tire.
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:26 PM Author: Purple useless brakes wtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039565) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:27 PM Author: Laughsome Free-loading Partner Hospital Your generation is fucked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039575) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:30 PM Author: glassy casino (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039594) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 9:23 AM Author: Wonderful electric furnace lettuce (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043866) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:38 PM Author: appetizing coral milk becky *Attaches clamps to nipples*
*scratches head* |
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Date: August 23rd, 2017 1:23 AM Author: Poppy Resort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34050527) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:31 PM Author: crusty umber spot literally did this twice in the past two weeks for people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039600) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:31 PM Author: glassy casino I've done the following as an Asian male: 1. jump start my car 2. change a tire 3. change the oil 4. change the battery. 5. apply paint and sand paper on a small scratch
yes i used to drive a shitty car. |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:45 PM Author: Laughsome Free-loading Partner Hospital Lots of azn tuners, rice burners, drift cars. Nothing special. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039701) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 6:42 PM Author: pearly house-broken sneaky criminal set Please list accomplishments achieved under your current identity as a black pangender unicorn, tyia. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34040093) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:37 PM Author: drab national I forget what order you're supposed to connect the clamps. Also on one of the cars you're supposed to put the black/neg. clamp on the frame of the car, not the neg. battery terminal for some reason. I'd have to check the owners manual. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039639) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:39 PM Author: glassy casino put in the black ones in both cars put in red ones in both cars. |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:35 PM Author: Disturbing kitchen *leans in to mic* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34045998) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:45 PM Author: crusty umber spot I usually connect the black ones to both cars, connect the red to the functioning car battery, start up the functioning car, then connect the red to the dead battery, let it charge for 30 seconds, then try to start the dead battery car.
This seems to always work, even if I am wrong. |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:37 PM Author: Disturbing kitchen Your wrong.
1 red dead 2 red live 3 black live 4 black to metal on dead |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:50 PM Author: frozen temple death wish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd7QaliPSVM
you just clip them wherever and let it do |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:39 PM Author: Titillating navy space cr 99% chance it'll turn out fine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34046039) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 5:02 PM Author: passionate flirting hell halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34047292) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:39 PM Author: drab national I had a beginning auto tech. class at a comm. coll. a long time ago, in the evening. It was moderately useful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039652) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:48 PM Author: frozen temple death wish not only how to jumpstart, but also how to popstart (or "push start") a manual if you happen to have a hill handy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039722) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 10:05 PM Author: provocative pungent scourge upon the earth cruise ship now THAT's a skill. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34049193) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2017 4:06 AM Author: vigorous pink coldplay fan You don't need much of a hill really. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34050857) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:51 PM Author: snowy property Yes, but I'm apprehensive as fuck each time I do it because red & black bear no relation to + and - for me. I can't keep it all straight, but I have done it many times just using the manual or instructions on the cable. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039736) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 6:43 PM Author: pearly house-broken sneaky criminal set Are you one of those people who can't remember faces? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34040106) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:51 PM Author: Razzle box office preventive strike With written instructions, yes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039740) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:52 PM Author: fishy locale corn cake Yes, only because I keep a portable jumpstarter in my car. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039745) |
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Date: August 21st, 2017 5:53 PM Author: Rebellious step-uncle's house factory reset button Used to do it all the time in high school when I had a shitty car (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34039754) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:10 AM Author: stimulating dingle berry regret Of course. This is really easy. There are seriously people who don't know how to do this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043080) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:13 AM Author: Exciting double fault plaza A prole hasn't asked me for a jump in a mall parking lot for almost 20 years. Sad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043089) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 9:28 AM Author: Excitant travel guidebook Yeah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043891) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 9:31 AM Author: avocado vivacious weed whacker I've done it many times but couldn't remember the order off the top of my head. Would have to check the manual. I do keep both cables and a jump starter in the trunk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043907) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 9:33 AM Author: mewling garrison yeah man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34043913) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 2:28 PM Author: appetizing coral milk becky Starter went out on my car in high school so I parked on hills for a year and popped the clutch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34045929) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 7:21 PM Author: adventurous macaca Does it really matter what order you hook up the cables? I'm sure I've done it wrong and the car still starts. I think they say that you can cause an explosion or something if you do it wrong, but so far I'm still alive.
Tip for master men: If it doesn't start even after you hook up the cables, try gunning the accelerator on the dead car as you start it. I didn't know that trick for a long time. |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 7:24 PM Author: Ocher Thriller Cumskin Yes but only cause I hang out with insane Russian survivalist types at airsoft games. I also know how to pick mushrooms, and berries and kill a man with a Soviet field shovel. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34048273) |
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Date: August 22nd, 2017 10:12 PM Author: cheese-eating misunderstood nowag pit jfc, there are men that don't know how to do this?? wtf? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34049234) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2017 1:21 AM Author: Sinister adulterous crotch boiling water Whenever bros ask me for a jump I ask them if they know how to do it cuz I sure as hell don't (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34050519) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2017 1:25 AM Author: Curious parlour fanboi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34050533) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2017 2:59 AM Author: provocative pungent scourge upon the earth cruise ship millions of man-hours spent on science education every year and yet the priciples of extremely simple electrical circuits elude most of the population (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3707907&forum_id=2#34050793) |
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Date: August 23rd, 2017 4:08 AM Author: vigorous pink coldplay fan So does algebra
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