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Old Feb 28, 2013 | 01:06 PM
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Default Don't bump start always use jump leads,

Originally Posted by langer
It would tell you not to jump start the car if you shouldn't do it. There's only a very small majority that ever do any damage and it's normally down to human error. Pushing or bump starting the car is even worse as it can fil the cat with petrol and cause damage to it..
If you bump a car with abs it can send a 'spike' rogue electrical current to the abs ecu and damage the circuits, which requires a new ecu, this happened on my vectra
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