Motormouth: Grounding jumper cable can prevent sparking an explosion
by Bob Weber, Chicago Tribune
Sep 27, 2019
2 minutes
Q: I have a question about jump-starting a dead battery. One expert told me not to connect the negative cable to terminal on the dead battery but rather to connect it to a grounding point. Yet, when our 2016 Subaru Impreza had a dead battery, the mechanic did connect the negative cable to the negative terminal on the dead battery. The car started fine,
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