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a quick comment on jumper cables. The cables are only half the problem these days. Any newer vehicle usually has some weird terminal in the fuse box setup under the hood for jumping YOUR vehicle and many owners manuals tell you NOT to jump another vehicle from yours.
Now if you are lucky/dumb enough to have a hybrid, it becomes a whole new world. I had to have my Outlander PHEV hybrid jumped by the CAA a couple of weeks ago and while the truck driver was a great and knowledgeable guy, he readily admitted that he learnt something from my car. He had no idea how to jump it. I now carry the power pack that was in the basement for years in the car regularly. Hard to believe that a car packing a 4 Kw drive battery would ever need a jump but if the so called "auxiliary battery" is dead, the whole car is useless. Can not even unlock the doors !
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