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Left me top sign on overnight and got a flat battery. No real problem but looking at manual for my 56 plate TX4 it contradicts itself. The pic shows the leads connected to donor battery as + to - & - to +, the wording says connnect + to + but - to somewhere on bulkhead, but then in the instructions to disconnect it refers to the - being connected to the donor battery and to my vehiclebattery, both via the - lugs. In short does anyone jump their TX4 on a regular basis and if so how do you connect the jump leads.
Ta.

Just jump it as normal as in red to red black to black,loads of manuals say black/negative to chassis

Thanks for the reply. Got it started ta.

I think this idea of clipping a lead to the bodywork instead of the battery and making it the last lead to connect and the first to disconnect,was to make sure any sparking would occur away from the batteries and minimise any danger of ignitingf any gas either of the batteries is giving off.

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Selling Imperial tools for old cars.

Its easy, remember red to the left, black to the right, of the bolt through the neck

how does that work if battery terminals are different ways around in vehicles ? Its red to red/live and black to black/ negative simple

Keep taking the tablets

Says the man with a unhealthy obsession with LTI,you stick to the skoda and worry about where to position your phone

Well I got it Skippy.

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Grandad,

They are very slow on the uptake on that side of the map Grandad

Blackpool just to help you think Frankenstein

Your far too quick for me bob

Come on Blackpool your down in the dumps about something admit it, or SWMBO has got you to do the odd jobs you have been putting off

you wont beat terminal-terminal connections to ensure a good clamp+connection

BTW, not many "jump" leads qualify to carry full cranking ampage (which is why they can get hot)

put the red-red(+/pos) and black-black(-/neg) battery-battery

start the donor vehicle and rev it to 1200rpm, holding the RPM, this will add charge to the dead battery at 30-40amps, after 5 minutes try the non-starter car

at tickover the donor vehicle isnt putting any leccy into the dead car

i used to have a home made set of leads using really thick cables and welding clamps, 20ft long, they coulda started concorde, lost em somewhere

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Probably still on the Concorde that crashed!

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Grandad,

yeah, the last time i used em it was on a CESM's Citroen

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