V1 How do i jump start? Battery dead.

[Ryan_m]

I hooked up the cables to the back electrical box and that didnt work. Do I need to access the battery under the hood?

 

[Gtstorey]

Positive on the jumper post on the fuse box, negative on a good ground should work. I would suspect your chosen ground point.
Of course if you have crappy jumper cables and using just a week battery to jump with, that could be the problem.
Otherwise you might have a more serious problem.
I have seen batteries fail in such a way that they seemed like they couldn’t be jumped, but that was jumping straight to the battery.

 

[ctuinstra]

I have seen batteries fail in such a way that they seemed like they couldn’t be jumped, but that was jumping straight to the battery.

True. Recently my battery in my Goblin failed in a way that no amount of jumping would allow it to run. Even trying to push/roll start it. It would pop off a bit but would not run. Tried jumping off of another car with decent cables, nothing. New battery and it started right up!

 

[Rttoys]

If the battery fails in a bad way, there’s no jump starting it.

if the battery is old and lost strength over time, yes you can jump start. If it breaks a cell it’ll kill the system and not jump start at all. The port on the fuse box should be able to jump start, unless the batty is just fried.

 

[G Atsma]

If one cell dies the whole battery is dead.

 

[Rauq]

If you can't jump it from the red terminal at the fuse box and the ground post underneath it, you probably have other issues. You're closer to the starter there than if you were at the battery.

 

[Ross]

If your battery is shorted, then you can't jump start it.
If you remove your dead battery, you can jump start it, but you want a battery in the system to drive it down the road, as the battery keeps the voltage stable for the computers.