When your car battery dies, getting it started again usually does not take much effort. You just need another car and some jumper cables. But one worker at a car dealership in Las Vegas learned that doing it wrong can cause some pretty wild problems.
According to Motor 1, a man who works at an Acura dealership in Las Vegas posted a video on social media showing himself trying to jump-start a car. He goes by @cardinalecars online. In the clip, he talks while hooking up the cables to the battery. He says, “So your negative goes to the ground wire here. And your positive — put that.” Right after he finishes connecting everything and turns on the power, the car starts honking really loud.
He wrote “POV: Jump start gone wrong” on his TikTok video, and that is exactly what happened. The horn just kept going off, which was definitely not supposed to happen. It shows how things can go badly when you connect the cables in the wrong way.
The car seems to have a good sense of humor
This is not the first time a dealership interaction has gone unexpectedly wrong. You need to be careful about how you hook up jumper cables. If you do it wrong, you could hurt yourself or mess up the electronics in your car. Getting the order mixed up can cause real damage. You always need to start with the positive cable first.
There are four steps you need to follow in the right order. You start by putting the red cable on the positive side of the dead battery. Then you take the other end of that red cable and put it on the positive side of the good battery.
After that, you connect the black cable to the negative side of the good battery. For the last step, you put the other end of the black cable on a metal part of the car with the dead battery, but not on the battery itself.
The reason for that last step is really important. You should find a metal bolt or piece that is a few inches away from the battery. This matters because batteries let off hydrogen when you are jumping them. If there is a spark right next to the battery, it could blow up. Keeping that last connection away from the battery makes things much safer.
People who watched the video had plenty to say about what went wrong. Someone asked, “Don’t you put the positive cable on first?” Another person wrote, “Bro this deserves soo many more likes lol.” One more viewer joked, “Car got jokes noco be that quick.”
Meanwhile, other auto shop workers have dealt with their own frustrating customer situations and shared their experiences on social media.
