How to recharge your car battery

What to do if a battery is discharged and recharged with a charger, or another car.

Causes of discharge of a battery

We have all suffered ever, either in our own car or a car that will be our transport, the dreaded sound off, strangled and died of one battery discharged.

Either because they forget to turn off the lights, or radio, or maybe we left a door or trunk open at night: the battery is discharged, and the car will not start. A not despair, that this note will learn to charge the battery simply, even if you've never opened the hood.

How to recharge your car battery

• The first sign is the sound off. Turning the key, after contact, the sound of boot donkey is heard making his appearance. And as much as you repeat the task, nothing changes. Well, in this situation the first thing to do is open the hood and check the level of distilled water to the battery . With the car without contact, open the battery and evaluate who has the sufficient amount of liquid, and not have cavity fill. Be sure to close well at the end, and try to start again.
• If it has not been a solution, we resort to a battery charger . These devices are extremely simple to use. They have a button or knob that lets you choose between a simple load or starting load. Then connect the clamps to the positive and negative poles of the battery, and plug the device into household outlets. We leave loading (if applicable), or put it up and we start the car.
• But if you do not have this device, we need to make bridge with another car battery . You need a wiring harness and special pliers, and a neighbor, friend or relative who has a car to give us your support. We put the car face to face with our own, to make the task easier, and we turned the car savior.
• Carefully connect the cables to the battery healthy , respecting the positive and the negative. Once again, very carefully, connect the opposite end of the cables to the battery terminals discharged, first negative and then positive, making sure to respect both the order and classification.
• Once done, we drive on to the dead battery, and let it run for a minute or two connected accelerating. We removed the cables carefully, without turning either vehicle speeding car and still recovering for a few more minutes. Then we follow up, we thanked the neighbor, without turning off the car. Remember that the battery will begin charging as you go driving , so you should not stop the march.