Originally posted by Osprey
About 20 years ago, in a then-new Ford P.U. we drove to San Quintin, stayed the night and left the cargo light on. In the AM the battery was dead.
Nobody, but nobody had cables. The desk clerk sent us an old man carrying an even older battery. He took off our cables, started the truck with his
old battery, very quickly switched cables to our dead one, got us back on the road. Since then I've used the method a time or two in the states for
stranded motorists but always on older cars. Can you still do that on new ones with all the computers? |