What do you guys use as a ground, doing it for the first time with this car and don't wanna **** anything up

 

strut tower bolt

 

not the greatest idea to use the fuse panel positive to boost another car. use your batter that is located in the trunk

 

Too late haha

 

Never boost another car with anything other then your battery. If you do, your just dumb haha

 

i thought the manual told us to use that

 

Yeah whats the big positive terminal for then?

 

I jumped my buddies car last night with the strut tower bolt and the positive terminal.

 

Lol i jumped a car with my balt....hit hard all the wheels fell off and it no longer runs haha jk

 

the post in the fuse block is virtually the same as your battery. the only difference is that when jumping off this terminal instead of directly on the battery is that there is a very large amount of current passing through the line that goes from the battery (+) to the post in the bay, but this is always the case for example when you're starting your own car, and there is no harm done.

 

some real sterdy ramps

 

To test that your fuses are getting power...........

 

I think it's the other way around...

 

It actually says in your owners manual to jump it from the post and that ground sooo...i dont know why nobody has looked??????

 

yup no one reads the manual anymore..

 

I figured lol

 

Ive jumped two vehicals with my cobalt before. No problems either time.


First time I tried to use the ground that your "suposed" to use, wich is a bolt on the left strut tower. That didn't work very well because its painted and the paint is non-conductive.

So I sucessfuly used the latch in front that the hood hooks into when it's closed.

And I used the Postive post on the fuse block no problem either time.
It keeps sparks away from the battery, so in a way its safer,
however it DOES provied a LONGER path of current since the battery is in the trunk so there is more
resistnce so it might take a lil more to jump, but both times it worked fine.
The second vehical I had to leave hooked up for like a n hour with my car idleing
to charge it's battery, since it was WAY dead (2Vdc left) and afterwards my jumper
cables were warm from all the current but once the battery got up charged on the
second vehical, it cranked up.

 

Dont listen to these guys, you can jump a car at the battery, at the Power Distribution center or at the Red jump starting post. any unpainted piece of metal will do for a ground. I would be interesting to see someone jumpstart a new Jeep Cherokee at the battery, seeing its under the front passengers seat.

 

Or a Chrysler Concorde.. It's in the bumper. Gotta pull the inner fender out

 

THATS WHERE IT IS!!!
I helped put out an electrical fire in one of those last week and neither myself, the owner, or the fire fighter could find it hahaha

 

yea i def jumped and had my balt jumped by that post. your an idiot if u wanna remove the net, empty your trunk, lift up the cover just to jump ur car. i can see doing that if ur on a highway or something like that. but i would def use the simpler, easy accesable port in the engine bay.

 

Then you get to show off your engine bay while his battery charges :p

 

my cars battery has been **** since i got it and i got a new one and it dies if the car sits for 2 days or more.