beware, battery cables aren't what they used to be...

[Sportcamper]

I jumped started a Toyota (obviously it was a Toyota) pick up truck yesterday with my 2009 F-150…Is there any danger of jump starting cars with these complicated electronics?

[CosmicCowboy]

I jumped started a Toyota (obviously it was a Toyota) pick up truck yesterday with my 2009 F-150…Is there any danger of jump starting cars with these complicated electronics?

No, but you should put the negative cable on the "jumping" vehicle to a direct ground and not to the negative battery post.

[Sportcamper]

He had a jumper cable set where you connect the cables on both cars & then connect a middle socket…I have never seen cables like that before….The middle sockets had lights to verify that the cables were connected correctly…

[Wild Cobra]

What a load of garbage. We're talking about the battery cables on a Ford Expedition here, are we not? That's got nothing to do with "clean and efficient"!

I take it you were never involved in the automation or manufacturing industry.

It's cheaper to make assemblies with automatic equipment, then the labor is less intensive to install it. With the cost of union labor in the auto industry, it saves money.

Care to make any more ignorant statements?

[Wild Cobra]

I was exaggerating about being a computer science major. But like you stated, you are fimiliar with that sort of stuff since you deal with it daily at your work. For a guy like me when the mechanic tells me that the cpu is bad inside my vehicle, I just pretty much ask him how much. Thats a big plus if you can work on the cpu on your vehicle. Probably save boatloads of money too!

What's bad is they could be lying, and most people don't know. If such costs start getting expensive, get a second opinion. If you can't move it, buy or borrow a code reader and let another expert see the results.