| You go out to your car, get in , and turn on the | | | | the running vehicle with the hot battery. Locate |
| ignition just to find that your battery is dead. | | | | the battery in the running vehicle and determine |
| What are you going to do now, walk, Hitchhike, | | | | the hot and ground on it. |
| ride your bicycle, or simply jump your car off. To | | | | Now is the moment of truth, carefully take the |
| jump off your car the first thing you need is a | | | | red side of the jumper cables and hook them to |
| hot battery in a running car, you may summons | | | | the respective hot (+) sides of both batteries |
| your neighbor or a friend for help in this. The next | | | | taking precaution not to cause a spark. Then take |
| thing you need is a set of good quality jumper | | | | the black side of the jumper cables and hook |
| cables. | | | | them to the ground (-) sides of both batteries. |
| Raise your hood and locate the battery its usually | | | | Let the running vehicle sat there a few minutes |
| under there somewhere, its a black or white box | | | | to charge your battery. enter your vehicle and |
| with two electrodes protruding from it, you can | | | | try the ignition when your engine starts |
| refer to your owners manual for location. Once | | | | immediately disconnect the cables, thank your |
| the battery is located determine which side is hot | | | | friend or neighbor, shut the hoods. |
| and which is ground this is usually indicated by a + | | | | Good motoring. |
| or - respectively. Now is time to raise the hood of | | | | |