Question

Please try to answer... one time my battery died in my truck and a stranger stopped to give me a jump. She didn't know how so let me hook the jumper cables up, I forgot which to hook first, positive or negative, in a hurry and at the time didn't think it was a big deal I hooked both negatives up first then hooked the positives to the battery. After a minute my car started.. a month later i randomly ran into this person (we lived close by) she preceded to tell me that something happened to her car battery and it was my fault

Answer 1

(1) Connect one red clamp to the positive (+) battery post of the "dead" battery.(2) Connect the other red clamp to the positive (+) post of the good battery.(3) Connect one black-end clamp to the negative (-) post of the good battery.(4) Carefully connect the other black-end clamp to some large metallic part of your car's engine block. Never connect it to the negative (-) post of the "dead" battery because this causes sparking which could ignite battery gases.hope this helps