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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: Fantasy-prone School Kitty Cat 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: passionate outnumbered trailer park voyeur 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: bright roommate 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: vermilion messiness 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: Thriller Electric Furnace 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: pearl irate headpube 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: geriatric skinny woman 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: Startling Lay 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: pearl irate headpube (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: Chestnut Juggernaut 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: pearl irate headpube 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: Unholy ruddy elastic band 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: Jet swashbuckling degenerate 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: Unholy ruddy elastic band 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: Pea-brained know-it-all affirmative action den 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: Jet swashbuckling degenerate (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: Floppy godawful philosopher-king heaven (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: Hilarious Main People (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: lascivious mentally impaired hissy fit "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: frisky newt 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: diverse brilliant masturbator old irish cottage 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: Ocher shrine 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: Bisexual mauve fat ankles 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: Unholy ruddy elastic band (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: cracking wine nowag (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: electric sooty turdskin *Attaches clamps to nipples*
*scratches head* |
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Date: August 23rd, 2017 1:23 AM Author: Rose Hairraiser Ticket Booth Dopamine (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: transparent ape goal in life 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: Unholy ruddy elastic band 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: Bisexual mauve fat ankles 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: bright roommate 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: maize mexican 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: Unholy ruddy elastic band 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: magenta church building *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: transparent ape goal in life 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: magenta church building 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: lavender motley sound barrier library 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: Stimulating canary preventive strike theater stage 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: spectacular digit ratio stead (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: maize mexican 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: lavender motley sound barrier library 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: mustard dilemma 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: Odious Amethyst Chad Boistinker 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: Titillating lilac useless brakes 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: bright roommate 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: flirting trip french chef 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: Poppy arousing temple coldplay fan 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: cream kitchen 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: geriatric skinny woman 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: Beady-eyed institution 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: multi-colored cruise ship wagecucks 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: Floppy godawful philosopher-king heaven 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: Comical Rambunctious Sanctuary Personal Credit Line 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: electric sooty turdskin 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: dashing cowardly resort place of business 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: apoplectic stage national security agency 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: Navy native 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: tripping theatre 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: Blue Station People Who Are Hurt (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: mustard dilemma 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: Odious Amethyst Chad Boistinker So does algebra
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