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ArcaneGadget ,

Also; good luck jumping a truck with fucking 8-gauge wire.

fubarx ,

My last car, the battery was way in back of the trunk. Butt to front!

Bach37strad ,

There was a car talk puzzler long ago that this reminded me of:

RAY: This is from my delivery truck series and it was sent in by Rob Gretigney.

He writes:

I once worked as a delivery truck driver. The truck I drove was about 25 feet in length. One of the places that I routinely delivered to required that I pull into a narrow alley in order to unload my truck. One cold January day after making my delivery I discovered that my battery was as dead as a hammer. I had probably left my lights on when I went for coffee.

Another delivery driver had pulled into the alley right behind me and I asked if he had a set of jumper cables and a strong battery that I could use. He did but the jumper cables were only 16-feet long and wouldn’t reach from his battery to mine. The alley was too narrow to park the truck with the good battery next to mine, and my truck was too heavy to be pushed into a better position. We did think about temporarily replacing my battery with the one from the other truck so that we could at least get out of the alley, but the cable connections were so corroded on both vehicles that they wouldn’t budge. And, to top it off, we didn’t have any tools anyway.

Then I struck upon an idea that allowed us to get my truck started in only a few short minutes. What was the idea? Answer:

TOM: I know the answer! You put the two cables together and you put the bumpers touching.

RAY: Exactly. Jumper cables consist of two wires with clamps on each end so you’ve got four clamps. They’re kind of stuck together through the insulation, and if you peel them apart and then clamp the ends together, you have instead of one 16-foot long pair of jumper cables, you have one 32-foot long cable, but you only have one. But trucks have steel bumpers and steel frames, and the steel of the frame is the conductive path for all the electrons.

TOM: Phew.

RAY: You’ve made the electrons travel through one cable, and then through the frames of both vehicles to get back to the original jumping battery, and voila – the thing was started. Who’s our winner?

madkins ,

That’s a good one. I cringed a little inside when he said to separate them. I’ve pulled them apart a little as needed but the idea of completely separating them feels so wrong. I miss that program so much.

starman2112 ,
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Damn, guess I need different cables cause my battery’s in the trunk

StephniBefni ,

Do you not have jump points in the front? Most vehicles with difficult to reach batteries do Though there are a few exceptions.

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Oh shit, positive terminal is on the fuse box! I never even thought to check

acetanilide ,

Reminds me of when I was jumping a car once. One of the cars had the battery in the trunk, so the connection was more back to side.

A man came along and tried to mansplain how to do it properly (since you’re supposed to do it front to front apparently)

starman2112 ,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

God the temptation to let him take over and see how confused he gets when he can’t find the battery

acetanilide ,

Still living on that high today tbh

datavoid ,

“Ass to ass!!”

Socsa ,

Pooping back and forth forever

lemonmelon ,

))<>((

GBU_28 ,

I’m a front to front kinda guy

BaroqueInMind ,

Let’s dock, bro!

BaroqueInMind ,

Rock. I mean let’s rock. Shit fuck it won’t let me edit

RizzRustbolt ,

My muscles involuntarily flex.

Mango ,

69

JoShmoe ,

Feels like a missed opportunity to include this as an option.

Mango ,

Many cars have batteries in the back.

catsarebadpeople ,

Truck owners would be very insecure about that bottom photo.

Damage ,

No, Lois, HORSES are bad people!

catsarebadpeople ,

You’re actually the first person to get that joke haha

Annoyed_Crabby ,

Instead of Tinder they use Ignition.

omega_x3 ,

Good I was worried they were going to say hooking a truck up to a car is acceptable. We all know that is unnatural and against God’s plan.

Pandantic ,
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Front to front, but trucks!

eezeebee ,
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Hooking up trucks side to side is not recommended and may result in serious injury, and in some cases death

Jessica ,

I think they just messed up the text because the trucks are in an isometric view while the cars are in a silhouette view which implies the trucks are at a 90° angle to each other

scrubbles ,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

So unnatural, two male trucks doing that together

Pandantic ,
@Pandantic@midwest.social avatar

Yeah but I bet you find the female cars one hot, don’t you?

scrubbles ,
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

That’s completely different

ZOSTED ,

That’s the petrolarchy speaking 😞

dumbass ,
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I bet they chose those colours so people didn’t think it was gonna make their cars gay.

LarryTheMatador ,

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    Socsa ,

    And it’s art

    eupraxia ,
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    Two pickup trucks

    Making love

    American made

    Built Ford tough

    Two beautiful murder machines

    American angels in the sky

    Grown men cry

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