How to Jump Start a Car

Sometimes, you’ll find that your vehicle won’t start due to issues with the battery. This means you’ll likely need a jump start. If you don’t know how to jump start a car, the service pros at Green Family Hyundai have a guide for you to make you a more informed driver in East Moline. We’ll tell you how to properly jump start a car as well as give you a link to the service specials available at Green Family Hyundai. We hope to be your service team for everything from routine maintenance to tough engine jobs!

The Proper Way to Jump Start a Car

Before you get started on jump starting a car battery, you’ll want to ensure you’ve got the right equipment. If you aren’t going to call a jump start car service such as AAA, you’ll want to have a set of jumper cables on you in your Rock Island car. From there, you just have to follow these steps:

1. Have the car with the working battery park facing the other vehicle, then make sure that the vehicle is turned off. Check to make sure both cars have their parking brakes engaged.
2. Open both hoods and locate the batteries. You might have to take off a plastic hood to expose the battery terminals.
3. Find the positive and negative terminals. Make sure they’re clean and don’t have any corrosion on them.
4. Connect the red clamp to the positive post on the dead battery.
5. As you uncoil the battery cable, hook the other red clamp to the positive terminal of the battery with the charge.
6. Connect the black clamp to the negative post on the good battery.
7. Place the final clamp on an unpainted metal surface on your car’s frame.
8. After you’ve got everything hooked up securely, start the engine of the vehicle with the good battery first and after that, the one with the dead battery.
9. Once the dead vehicle has started, carefully remove the jumper cables in the opposite order they were placed on, then shut off the car that was used to jump-start the dead car.
10. Keep the engine running on the restarted vehicle for at least 10 minutes to make sure the weak battery doesn’t die again right away. Check your owner’s manual for more info.

Get Service Done with Green Family Hyundai

Now that you know how to properly jump-start a car, we’d love to help you out with anything else facing your car. We’ve got a qualified service team that’s ready to help no matter what ails your car. Contact us today with any questions or schedule service with us online to save yourself a step.