Just make sure you've always got a pair of jumper cables in your roadside emergency kit. 1. Park both cars nose to nose about a foot and a half apart.

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Next, connect one end of the black (negative) jumper cable to the black post of the charged battery. And the other end to an unpainted metal part in the dead car away from the battery. This ...

Another key item for emergency road kits are jumper cables. “Year round, we want to make sure that we have a pair of jumper cables in our emergency trunk kit," said Adcock.