07-18-2006, 09:44 AM
Apoc Wrote:white_2kgt Wrote:Look, unless the battery has a dead short you can still jump the vehicle. A BROKEN battery is different than a DEAD battery. Next time you can't jump a car, unhook the - cable and try.
Isn't that just semantics? A battery can be so dead that it's broken... and everyone's right!
A battery w/ a dead short WILL NOT take a charge and start working again. One that was just ran down b/c you left a map light on will take a charge and start working again. What the OP stated, so hence there should be no reason why it could not have been jumped. It could have been drained so far that it wouldn't take/hold a charge but not contain a dead short. Usually when I make a statement to a question posted on a forum I am addressing the OP problem or one that I quoted, not every single situation that mankind could possibly encounter.