I figure there will be some good stories under this topic, the battery operate fan thread got me thinking about one.
Yesterday I got a series of calls and texts from my daughter. Friend of hers had a car that wouldn’t start and she wanted to jump it. I’ve taught her how, and bought her good cables, but she wanted to confirm the hookup, so we walked through it. After we got off the phone she got different instructions from the girl’s father, and followed those. She called back later to ask if she needed to get new cables, hmmm.
I don’t know if the hookup was good or not, maybe the dead battery had an internal short, but whatever it was the insulation burned off the jumper cables. She said that there was a lot of smoke and the things were way too hot to touch. A guy stopped for the two college girls whose cars appeared to be on fire and unhooked them.
Many thanks to the anonymous guy!
Yesterday I got a series of calls and texts from my daughter. Friend of hers had a car that wouldn’t start and she wanted to jump it. I’ve taught her how, and bought her good cables, but she wanted to confirm the hookup, so we walked through it. After we got off the phone she got different instructions from the girl’s father, and followed those. She called back later to ask if she needed to get new cables, hmmm.
I don’t know if the hookup was good or not, maybe the dead battery had an internal short, but whatever it was the insulation burned off the jumper cables. She said that there was a lot of smoke and the things were way too hot to touch. A guy stopped for the two college girls whose cars appeared to be on fire and unhooked them.
Many thanks to the anonymous guy!