Re: [DML] DeLorean Jumpstarting.

["Payne" <bpayne@xxxx>]

I was unaware of this too, except when I worked at a car dealership a few
years ago, I was sent to jump start a customer's vehicle. I've always jump
started other cars by having the cables on the battery terminals of the
running vehicle, and on the stalled car I hook one to the positive terminal,
and one on the frame or engine block as a ground. The customer I went to
rescue basically told me I was stupid and that the live vehicle had to be
grounded and the dead one hooked up to both battery terminals. He said if I
did it my way it would blow up. I kept quiet since I didn't want to argue,
but was surprised when his method actually worked. Is this safe? I know it
seems to work but I don't want to risk hurting the DeLorean in any way if I
have to use his method. It just goes against all of the instructions I've
been shown all my life.

payne

> I've used these connections when having to jump start my DeLorean,
> but was unaware that I could use them when using my DeLorean to
> jumpstart ANOTHER vehicle. Every instruction sheet that I've ever
> seen has said that the running vehicle must have both cables
> connected to it's respective battery terminals, and it's the dead car
> that has to be connected to the positive terminal, and the engine
> block.
>
> -Robert
> vin 6585 "X"