Just be careful, things and go wrong quick.....

My dad and uncle had a battery explode on them when I was small. Don't know what happened, I was inside the house and heard what sounded like a shotgun blast. Went outside and my dad and uncle were rolling around on the grass with battery acid all over them. My dad got the worst of it and ended up with bits of plastic in his eyes, luckily he recovered. Needless to say, my dad won't jump start any battery, he'll lend you the jumper cables, but from there you're on your own

 

What happend to your dad is he tried to jump a frozen battery and it arched which is what caused it to explode. I used to jump our International five ton flatbeds with my pick up all the time. The only thing that you really have to worry about on a computer controlled vehicle is the initial voltage spike. To counter this turn on something that will absorb the spike like the heater or the head lights. If you are not carefull the voltage spike from the running vehicle can do all sorts of weird crap to the pcm and other sensitive electronincs on a newer vehicle. If you really want to be safe buy a booster pack they tend to a little more gentle on sensitive electronics.

 

You should always make your last connection on the good battery. That prevents any sparks from igniting the gasses coming off the dead one.

 

i had one explode onetime just by turning the key.
it was a normal temp day50s to 80s not sure exactly it was along time ago

 

They can arch if you they are not clean and have alot of crap on them. I was driving a golf cart and had one explode while I was sitting on it.

 

bet that grabed ya by the booboo

 

First ya say it then ya do it.......

 

Lets get passed all this trivial conversation about batteries and crap and get to the root of the real problem here...what was your wife doing "questioning" you in the first place???

 

 

Answering that question might be like holding a lit stick of dynamite in your hand.

 

Are you ***uing kidding me? Her father must not like you for dinging his daughter because he's full of chit. I wouldn't worry about it ever again. I jumped my car, an 88 crown vicky from my dad's Goldwing (a motorcycle), which is 6 volt system I think, small battery anyways. It jumped that car like nothing. I've jumped trucks with cars before and vice versa. Rev the engine a bit to charge faster, which you should do anyways.

Wifey needs to hand you the keys for a "protective of her car" beat session on her Infiniti thing. That ought to teach her to call daddy on things as commonly done as jumping a dead battery. C'mon honey, I've jumped high performance cars from those portable jump boxes. Doesn't say much for infiniti if it can't even jump a dead battery

 

I don't know how many times I had to go boost moms caravan when she went through her leaving the lights on phase. I have an 1150 cranking amps battery and moms is about an 800 and she hasn't had any problems with anything yet.

 

You father inlaw cant stand you maybe?
Sound like next time the wife car breaks down you shold tell her to call him..

 

There is a certain amount of truth to this.
The way to do it with min. risk is to connect the batteries without the helper car running.
Let some of the charge equalize into the dead battery for about 10 minutes.
This reduces the charge the doner car has to put out.
Then start the doner car and let it put some charge into the low battery before trying to crank the truck.
Starting the doner car takes charge out of it's battery as well as seeing the low battery but treats them as one battery for that period of time.
This is an attempt to keep the doner alternator from trying to charge a flat battery with huge currents that could be more than it's designed to output.
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As a side note, almost all replacment alternators have an instruction sheet that tells you to put a charge into the battery before starting with a helper source so the new alternator is not lost from outputting more than it is designed to handle. Remember that the alternator regulator must key it's output from the charge level of the battery. If the battery is flat or very low, the regulator can run wide open and damage the alternator before the battery charge level rises and begins to taper down...

 

there is a risk for everything though, its probably not going to do anything, just like changing your oil on a hot engine, the cold oil could crack the block... yea right.