Like most accidents, a number of improbable different things must line up to go wrong. This may make attaching it to a battery a challenge in some tucked away battery locations (not Miata's) when one battery post is tucked under an obstruction like the cowling-unless you have the option of auxiliary remote battery posts. The parrot style pictured has better insulation but depending upon design may have less reach and have fatter jaws. If you are one of the try-hards who advocates for such a technique, reevaluate your life and take a deep dive into why it's so important for you to flex on teenagers and old ladies. If the concern is that the polar opposite clamps will touch while you connect the clamps to the first vehicle, then one need only the single step of folding one of the clamps backward and making it bite it's own wire so as to keep it sequestered from its polar opposite. Connecting the positive from the donor car, and then the negative from the donee, and then turning around, going to town, and doing the Boot Scootin' Boogie while butt-chugging 40 oz of malt liquor is electrically identical to connecting both positive and negative from the donor car and then connecting both positive and negative from the donee car, or the inverse, or the positive on one, the negative on the other, then the negative on the first, then the positive on the second. Electricity doesn't flow until the circuit is complete, and electricity doesn't know which steps were taken. This feigned correctness merely overcomplicates something simple. There is no correct order in which jumper cables must be connected. I'm going to take this opportunity to vent.Īll of the 'I'm a super smart car guy, so here's how you REALLY connect jumper cables' instructionals are complete nonsense.

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