How To Jump Start Your Car

Determine the location of your battery

Pop the hood and assess which side your battery is situated. If you aren't sure where it's, look in your owner's guide. It's also important to find out the positioning of the battery at the car supplying the leap to place it properly alongside yours.

Position the car providing the jump start service on the right

There's nothing more frustrating than getting the car that you're getting a jump out of in the incorrect place where your jumper cables can't reach your car.

​You need to park your car close enough in which the jumper cables will hit both cars' batteries comfortably. Open the hoods on either of your cars and fasten them so that they won't close. Be certain that the car providing the hop is closed off.

Attach the jump start cables

Clamp 1 end of the jumper cables on the battery of the car providing the jump. The cables are color-coded - red for positive and black for the negative. Connect the red cone into the red post on the battery first then join the black clamp to the dark post of the battery. While doing this, ensure that the metal straps on the opposite end don't come in touch with one another. If they do, it might create a harmful electrical spark.

Connect the cables into your car's battery

​Again, be sure that the remaining clamps don't touch each other. Connect the red cone into the red post in your own battery. Connect the black clamp to either the alloy of your car or truck or into the black post in your own battery. By linking the black clamp into your own engine in contrast to the battery post, it can lower the probability of a spark being generates around the battery.