The modern automobile is safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more technologically advanced than anything that came before it. Yet those improvements have come at a cost. For many owners, mechanics, and independent repair shops, that cost is repairability.
I am not a mechanic and can’t fix cars, but I have found the same to be true for just jumping a car with jumper cables.
Where is my battery on my 08 Toyota Corolla? Right there. I can see it.
Where is the battery in the 19 Honda pilot? Under some bullshit, have no idea where it is without a YouTube video and even then you need baby hands to fit through the junk and reach it without taking anything out.
Where is the battery in the 19 Toyota hybrid? I think it’s under the trunk?? I don’t know because by this point I had given up and just called a tow truck and purchased a portable jumper for my 08 Toyota I was trying to jump with those two vehicles from my family.
I’m not buying a new car until it rots out from under me.
Regard jumping, i heard a lot of stories people jumping recently made car and destroyed some component. How true is that i’m not sure but i’m sure not willing to experiment it.
From science pov: It is outrageous bullshit.
There’s shit tons of myth that goes around the car industry that doesn’t really pass the logic test, but you know, it’s what spread around the street and to say it otherwise is a sisyphean task. Because to not following and then have the issue comes out, it would be on me.