Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for February 05, 2012
February 04, 2012
February 06, 2012
Transcript:
Gee,Thanks for the help,Ed.Now I don't just need a jump I need a electrical system. Glad to try to help, Bob.Boy, You'd think they'd mark those battery terminals better,so a guy wouldn't get the cables the wrong way
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naturally_easy almost 13 years ago
Ya…and the exploding battery ain’t to cool, either.
doc white almost 13 years ago
Trade it in. You will save money.
black_knight15_au almost 13 years ago
I now this feeling – was helping a mate shift and dropped his wife’s very expensive dresses in a puddle….Come to think of it, the next time he moved house he didn’t ask for my help … perhaps I did myself a favour …
Michael Jones almost 13 years ago
Ouch. Double-checking is well worth it.
On newer cars, there are several embedded processing units that are tied together via CAN bus (Controller Area Network). It doesn’t take much to take them all out with something depicted in this comic.
V-Beast almost 13 years ago
Don’t be so negative.
littleannoyingdog almost 13 years ago
Bummer!!!!
hippogriff almost 13 years ago
And don’t put monosodium glutamate on battery terminals; remember the song “Accent, you ate the positive!”
captainedd almost 13 years ago
Can’t be if corrosion is covering the terminals.
Seeker149 Premium Member almost 13 years ago
A certain family member went through this a while ago when we gave him a car we weren’t using. The crazy thing is, his old car supposedly needed a jump every few weeks, so you’d think he would know how to use jumper cables by then. Instead I came home that evening to the smell of burnt insulation and the neighbor’s toasted cables lying on the garage floor. Yeesh….