Be a good neighbor brehs!

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

The girl who comes by and helps get my mother clean and to bed car wouldn't start the other night, so a breh tried giving her a jump to no avail. Ended up getting her towed back to her side of town. So Sunday car starts but my battery light is on. I drive it up to Auto Zone to figure out what the fukk is going and almost make it until the car stalls and I'm forced to park it next to a used car lot. I try to take the battery out, but It was like 110 degrees outside, and I'm literally fukking melting, left mom at the crib in case some shyt like this happened but now I don't have a way back to the crib. fukk it, get an uber and get back to the crib, get the car towed to a auto shop, but Monday the 4th so nobody there. today I get in touch with the mechanic and he informs me that I fried my alternator and my battery died.


And it will be $850.00 to be repaired. nikka WHAT?

So lesson here is don't be a good neighbor. And DON'T JUMPSTART OTHER PEOPLES CARS.

I literally NEVER heard of this being an issue before yesterday and have done it plenty of times.

Hopefully this will save one of you brehs and sistas a nice chunk of change.

The risks of jumpstarting a modern car

Modern cars rely on complex computers, which is why jumpstarting your car is a risky business.

www.mynrma.com.au

 

[YoungSimpson]

Yeah this is a known issue. I keep a jump starter in my truck and 1 in my wife's car too. It is also an air compressor and can blow up tires. Yeah I don't jump anyone off. My wife used to think I was being rude. Bit it is what it is.

 

[KBtheKey]

Yeah this is a known issue. I keep a jump starter in my truck and 1 in my wife's car too. It is also an air compressor and can blow up tires. Yeah I don't jump anyone off. My wife used to think I was being rude. Bit it is what it is.

Same. bytch stay charged for a long time too

 

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Never knew that

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

Never knew that

Well I did that so hopefully, you won't have to go through that.

 

[HabitualChiller]

Well I did that so hopefully, you won't have to go through that.

I appreciate you. Better to learn from the dumbass that went through it rather than have to go through it yourself

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

$850 for an alternator job?

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

$850 for an alternator job?

Alternator, Battery, Labor and some other shyt that was like $12 bucks. Labor was $293

 

[Denzel_Saucegton]

I don’t see you frying the alternator particularly it had to have been on its last leg already and a diode went out from the jump. You didn’t have any issues with starting before?
Anyway, hope you had the funds to get it finished and back running.

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

I don’t see you frying the alternator particularly it had to have been on its last leg already and a diode went out from the jump. You didn’t have any issues with starting before?
Anyway, hope you had the funds to get it finished and back running.

All i know is that bytch run smooth as hell after all that got replaced.

 

[97Pac]

$850 for an alternator job?

That actually doesn't seem unreasonable.

 

[5n0man]

Alternator, Battery, Labor and some other shyt that was like $12 bucks. Labor was $293

Changing an alternator is easy as fukk and a child could replace a battery. You could have done that shyt yourself with a 10 minute youtube video.

Brehs need to learn the basics of car maintenance. (If you got one of those bullshyt high maintenance european cars that's a different story tho.)

 

[Taadow]

As soon as they said the 8 in $800 to fix your alternator, you shoulda punched them in their mouth

 

[maxamusa]

The alternator theory doesn't make sense. Did you already pull the trigger on the "repairs"? Do you have a multimeter?