You probably keep jumper cables in your vehicle so you can solicit a jump if your car battery dies or offer a jump to a fellow driver. But jumping batteries on cars built after 2000 might not be so ...

Brush away any dirt or gunk from the posts, because you'll need to create as clean and solid connection as you can. First, connect one end of the red clamp to the positive post on the dead battery.

The problem is that your car has a dead battery and won’t turn over. The Obvious solution would be to call a friend for a jump. But is the friendless hacker out of luck in such a situation?

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One of the most useful tools for your safety and peace of mind while driving a vehicle is a portable jump starter. It wasn’t that far in the past that if you went to start your car and found the ...

For longer excursions, I always encourage motorists to have a tire inflator and portable jump starter on board. As someone who has had to push and bump start their car a non-zero number of times ...

Larger portable jump-starting devices that clamp to a car's battery have become common in the past few years. But even smaller devices, which plug into a car's power outlet, are now on the market.