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In Case of an Emergency

Emergency Starting

Form No. 8Q42-EA-01F

1. Make sure the booster battery is 12 V

and that its negative terminal is

grounded.

2. If the booster battery is in another

vehicle, don’t allow the vehicles to

touch. Turn off the engine of the

vehicle with the booster battery and all

unnecessary electrical loads in both

vehicles.

3. Connect the jumper cables in the exact

sequence as in the illustration.

•

Connect one end of a cable to the

positive terminal on the discharged

battery (1).

•

Attach the other end to the positive

terminal on the booster battery (2).

•

Connect one end of the other cable

to the negative terminal of the

booster battery (3).

•

Connect the other end to a solid,

stationary, exposed metallic point

(for example, the trunk latch catch)

away from the discharged battery

(4).

4. Start the engine of the booster vehicle

and run it a few minutes. Then start the

engine of the other vehicle.

5. When finished, carefully disconnect

the cables in the reverse order

described in Step 3.

Booster battery

Discharged

battery

Jumper

cable

Connect cables

in numerical

order and

disconnect

in reverse order.

Jumper cable

Connecting to Negative Terminal:

Connecting the end of the second

cable to the negative ( ) terminal of

the discharged battery is dangerous.

A spark could cause the gas around

the battery to explode and injure

someone. Connect the cable to a point

away from the battery.

WARNING

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