OH left her lights on...
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t happens as they say, but thats not the issue im having right now. as yet i haven seen the car and wont until tomorrow when im local again.
her friends boyfriend decided that he "does cars" and convinced her to let him jump start it with his car.
prior to his help, the car would do a lazy dead battery kind of turnover, and all the electrics worked fine.
using my jump leads that i keep in her boot for her "just in case", he then proceeds to create a massive spark and a moderate ammount of smoke under the bonnet and promptly all electrics in the car become totally dead.
i believe that he managed to reverse the connections to the battery which has temporarily killed the car.
being an old suzuki swift, there isnt much in the way of electrics in it, so im thinking there are only 2 possible components that may be blown.
either the Main 80A fuse under the bonnet.
or the battery is toast
or both!
any clues for me guys?
oh.. and the friends booyfriend will get a slap when i see him, and the OH too for not using the leads like i showed her lol
t happens as they say, but thats not the issue im having right now. as yet i haven seen the car and wont until tomorrow when im local again.her friends boyfriend decided that he "does cars" and convinced her to let him jump start it with his car.
prior to his help, the car would do a lazy dead battery kind of turnover, and all the electrics worked fine.
using my jump leads that i keep in her boot for her "just in case", he then proceeds to create a massive spark and a moderate ammount of smoke under the bonnet and promptly all electrics in the car become totally dead.
i believe that he managed to reverse the connections to the battery which has temporarily killed the car.
being an old suzuki swift, there isnt much in the way of electrics in it, so im thinking there are only 2 possible components that may be blown.
either the Main 80A fuse under the bonnet.
or the battery is toast
or both!
any clues for me guys?
oh.. and the friends booyfriend will get a slap when i see him, and the OH too for not using the leads like i showed her lol
Edited by SystemParanoia on Monday 2nd January 20:25
I'm sorry but what kind of bright spark gets the terminals on a battery mixed up?
Just try not to blow your fuse when you see them both tomorrow.
In my opinion you should start with seeing if the main fuse has gone like you've already said, then the battery and then onto other major things like the wiring.
Just try not to blow your fuse when you see them both tomorrow.
In my opinion you should start with seeing if the main fuse has gone like you've already said, then the battery and then onto other major things like the wiring.
A few weeks ago, someone was trying to jump-start a car outside the local doctors - I was waiting for someone and noticed they were about to connect-up the wrong way around and so shouted-over before the damage was done...
Having nothing else to do I stuck my nose in and suggested that they connect the neutral to the bodywork of the dead car and not the battery (as the battery looked v.old and worn and I don't like the odds of batteries like that going pop).
"I know what I'm doing - I have to do this at least once a month" says the bloke and so I leave him - he gets into the other car, she gets into the dead car and there's a pop followed by a horrible gurgling noise followed by silence...
My guess is that the old battery was so screwed that it was, effectively, a resistor - a the jump made it overheat and it exploded (the pop) and dumped it's contents into the car's electrics and/or onto the road (the gurgling).
Hey ho - the 'neutral to the bodywork' trick is also useful for not spiking some car's ECUs - or so I'm told (BMW owners, are you listening? This is underbonnet stuff which applies to YOU!)
Having nothing else to do I stuck my nose in and suggested that they connect the neutral to the bodywork of the dead car and not the battery (as the battery looked v.old and worn and I don't like the odds of batteries like that going pop).
"I know what I'm doing - I have to do this at least once a month" says the bloke and so I leave him - he gets into the other car, she gets into the dead car and there's a pop followed by a horrible gurgling noise followed by silence...
My guess is that the old battery was so screwed that it was, effectively, a resistor - a the jump made it overheat and it exploded (the pop) and dumped it's contents into the car's electrics and/or onto the road (the gurgling).
Hey ho - the 'neutral to the bodywork' trick is also useful for not spiking some car's ECUs - or so I'm told (BMW owners, are you listening? This is underbonnet stuff which applies to YOU!)
johnpeat said:
A few weeks ago, someone was trying to jump-start a car outside the local doctors - I was waiting for someone and noticed they were about to connect-up the wrong way around and so shouted-over before the damage was done...
Having nothing else to do I stuck my nose in and suggested that they connect the neutral to the bodywork of the dead car and not the battery (as the battery looked v.old and worn and I don't like the odds of batteries like that going pop).
"I know what I'm doing - I have to do this at least once a month" says the bloke and so I leave him - he gets into the other car, she gets into the dead car and there's a pop followed by a horrible gurgling noise followed by silence...
My guess is that the old battery was so screwed that it was, effectively, a resistor - a the jump made it overheat and it exploded (the pop) and dumped it's contents into the car's electrics and/or onto the road (the gurgling).
Hey ho - the 'neutral to the bodywork' trick is also useful for not spiking some car's ECUs - or so I'm told (BMW owners, are you listening? This is underbonnet stuff which applies to YOU!)
Having nothing else to do I stuck my nose in and suggested that they connect the neutral to the bodywork of the dead car and not the battery (as the battery looked v.old and worn and I don't like the odds of batteries like that going pop).
"I know what I'm doing - I have to do this at least once a month" says the bloke and so I leave him - he gets into the other car, she gets into the dead car and there's a pop followed by a horrible gurgling noise followed by silence...
My guess is that the old battery was so screwed that it was, effectively, a resistor - a the jump made it overheat and it exploded (the pop) and dumped it's contents into the car's electrics and/or onto the road (the gurgling).
Hey ho - the 'neutral to the bodywork' trick is also useful for not spiking some car's ECUs - or so I'm told (BMW owners, are you listening? This is underbonnet stuff which applies to YOU!)
Some people just don't listen.. We covered all this stuff at school (im only in college) unfortunately, I don't think much of the class was listening, so all this essential/basic car stuff (checking tread, pressures, jump starting and oil changing etc, and slightly more complicated stuff) will all have fallen on deaf ears.. johnpeat said:
Having nothing else to do I stuck my nose in and suggested that they connect the neutral to the bodywork of the dead car and not the battery (as the battery looked v.old and worn and I don't like the odds of batteries like that going pop).
"I know what I'm doing - I have to do this at least once a month" says the bloke and so I leave him - he gets into the other car, she gets into the dead car and there's a pop followed by a horrible gurgling noise followed by silence...
My guess is that the old battery was so screwed that it was, effectively, a resistor - a the jump made it overheat and it exploded (the pop) and dumped it's contents into the car's electrics and/or onto the road (the gurgling).
Hey ho - the 'neutral to the bodywork' trick is also useful for not spiking some car's ECUs - or so I'm told (BMW owners, are you listening? This is underbonnet stuff which applies to YOU!)
I always try connecting the negative to a lifting lug on the engine or some engine bay bodywork, but it has never worked for me- I have to resort to connecting directly to the battery. This is on several cars that I've jumped in the past. Why is this?"I know what I'm doing - I have to do this at least once a month" says the bloke and so I leave him - he gets into the other car, she gets into the dead car and there's a pop followed by a horrible gurgling noise followed by silence...
My guess is that the old battery was so screwed that it was, effectively, a resistor - a the jump made it overheat and it exploded (the pop) and dumped it's contents into the car's electrics and/or onto the road (the gurgling).
Hey ho - the 'neutral to the bodywork' trick is also useful for not spiking some car's ECUs - or so I'm told (BMW owners, are you listening? This is underbonnet stuff which applies to YOU!)
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