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Out of the Blue
[Dec 19, 2020, 3:53 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

We finally got the roadside assistance guy out to jumpstart MrsBlue's dead car, so it was homeside assistance in this case. He got it started, and confirmed what we suspected, that the battery was basically shot. So rather than let it idle to try and recharge the battery, I just drove it to the auto parts store and replaced the battery. It's now working right again, and it's nice to have confidence in it, especially in winter weather. Thankfully it died in front of our house where it was easy enough to deal with, rather than leaving us stranded somewhere.

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Re: Out of the Blue
Dec 20, 2020, 01:46

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Re: Out of the Blue Dec 20, 2020, 01:46

Dec 20, 2020, 01:46

Blue

jacobvandy wrote on Dec 19, 2020, 20:06:
Calling a guy out just to jump a car? Yikes.. Portable battery banks are cheap these days, Blue. Lots of models come with jumper cables and even a modest capacity (say 20,000mah) is enough to start an average car several times before you need to recharge. Keep it in the trunk or just take it with you on long trips for cheap insurance, and you can also use it to charge your mobile devices away from home or during a blackout.

I have one of those jumper dealies. Or had, rather, as I learned with this incident that it too had died.

But we have roadside assistance as part of our auto insurance, so it then became the easiest way to handle this at that point.

Stephen "Blue" Heaslip
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