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I have had a strict rule for many years of not jump starting any of my cars, nor providing a jump for anyone else. I threw away all jumper cables years ago.
My wife has declined doing it for people at work, RACV/Q are setup better for this these days and don't take too long to come. I've had new batteries put in from flat battery to driving away within an hr.
So today I had a guy who has detailed my Skoda before and came to do our new Hyundai Santa Fe. He had been here all day in the freezer cold in our garage and at night when he was done and had to get to the other side of Melb quickly his car was dead. Turns out it had happened a week before and he has a charger at home as its happened before.
He knocks on the door and asks for a jump. I was going to say no as per usual and ask him if he had RACV, but the guys car is at my front door, and I'm guessing the answer is no. You can sign up on the spot as I did it once before years ago, but despite that I said ok. So we are in pouring rain and I bring the SKoda over, of course its terminals are covered in that blue stuff so we give up and use the Hyundai. Car starts fine and off he goes.
Now I did say to him, do you know how to connect them and right order and connecting the negative to the block rather than the neg terminal etc, and said I don't like doing this. He connected them in the right order, but I realised with both cars I left the engine running on mine as we connected them. Had he given me a few seconds I would have realised that, its been over 15 yrs since I'd done it, so wasn't thinking.
Overall I'm not feeling too good about that fact, there are so many issues with power spikes and electronics, I am getting a little paranoid that I've probably killed something, or spiked something in my cars I shouldn't have. Am I being paranoid?
Both my cars started fine and ran fine when I put them away after he left, we saw no sparks and we disconnected his car almost straight away....but stlll that lingering thought of what if?
---------- Post added at 09:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:34 PM ----------
Might add that we took off the cables in the reverse order while both engines were running, also supposedly a no no, but I've always known to do it that way years ago...again before ECUs though...so god knows what lucky dip damage I might have done...
My wife has declined doing it for people at work, RACV/Q are setup better for this these days and don't take too long to come. I've had new batteries put in from flat battery to driving away within an hr.
So today I had a guy who has detailed my Skoda before and came to do our new Hyundai Santa Fe. He had been here all day in the freezer cold in our garage and at night when he was done and had to get to the other side of Melb quickly his car was dead. Turns out it had happened a week before and he has a charger at home as its happened before.
He knocks on the door and asks for a jump. I was going to say no as per usual and ask him if he had RACV, but the guys car is at my front door, and I'm guessing the answer is no. You can sign up on the spot as I did it once before years ago, but despite that I said ok. So we are in pouring rain and I bring the SKoda over, of course its terminals are covered in that blue stuff so we give up and use the Hyundai. Car starts fine and off he goes.
Now I did say to him, do you know how to connect them and right order and connecting the negative to the block rather than the neg terminal etc, and said I don't like doing this. He connected them in the right order, but I realised with both cars I left the engine running on mine as we connected them. Had he given me a few seconds I would have realised that, its been over 15 yrs since I'd done it, so wasn't thinking.
Overall I'm not feeling too good about that fact, there are so many issues with power spikes and electronics, I am getting a little paranoid that I've probably killed something, or spiked something in my cars I shouldn't have. Am I being paranoid?
Both my cars started fine and ran fine when I put them away after he left, we saw no sparks and we disconnected his car almost straight away....but stlll that lingering thought of what if?
---------- Post added at 09:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:34 PM ----------
Might add that we took off the cables in the reverse order while both engines were running, also supposedly a no no, but I've always known to do it that way years ago...again before ECUs though...so god knows what lucky dip damage I might have done...
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