Auto Repair & Diagnostics : How to Jump-Start a Car

When jump-starting a car, safety is important, and jumper cables are needed to be placed on non-corroded terminals. Remember that negative is black and positive is red when jump-starting a car with help from an auto mechanic in this free video on car repair and diagnostics.

Expert: Tom Brintzenhofe
Bio: Tom Brintzenhofe has been a mechanic for the past 17 years.
Filmmaker: Reel Media LLC

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• auto repair
• car repair
• auto maintenance
• auto service
• car maintenance
• car care
• car service
• automobile
• car engines
• flat tires
• diagnostics

[mike3177]

If your battery is extremely dead, then hooking the neg cable to body won't do much good( like my battery). So then u have hook it up to the neg terminal. Nothing will explode unless you have a very old battery.

[EvanQuinn07]

i've touched the cable together before, it wasn't the 4th of july, just sparked a little bit, but it wasn't some explosion

[carismatic10111]

I'm falling asleep zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzz

[Megatron7285]

hehe

[shvelle197]

Ever notice How cheap and Junkie manufactures are making jumper cables these days for the public to purchase? They can barely start a golf cart let alone a 4 cyl. car. Those stupid end pieces they put on wouldn't grab anything but a nap let alone a battery terminal ! How making some quality stuff from the good ole USA.

[Jims07yfz450]

or if it's frozen.....

[tariqziyad]

i notice alot of mechanics don't really care wheather you start with the dead car or live car first, i wonder if it really matters.

I know by the book it goes RED-DEAD..RED-BOOSTER...BLACK-­BOOSTER..BLACK METAL PORTION OF ENGINE

YOUR WRONG WHEN YOU SAY BLACK CABLE IN THE BOOSTER CAR METAL PORTION IDIOT

[xapha]

so i go + --> + and -  --> frame / -?

[figotes]

make the last connection to the frame of the vehicle with the dead battery, at a location away from the battery. By not connecting the last clamp on to the dead battery, the risk of ignition is reduced. The described sequence of connections is intended to reduce the chance of accidentally shorting the good battery

[figotes]

Motorists can be severely injured by a battery explosion. In the United States in 1994, a research note by the National Highway Traffic Safety Association estimated that about 442 persons were injured by exploding batteries while attempting a jump-start