Jumper cables
 

Anybody have experience with this as a jumper cable? I know I can get opinions, anyway!
http://www.autosportcatalog.com/imag...easyjumper.jpg

Doc, I'm not sure if you really want to jump your car through the cigarette lighter. The cigarette lighter is fine for slow charging, but I'm very hesitant to use it for jump starting a car. Pushing several hundred cranking amps through those tiny wires are dangerous...besides that, won't you blow a fuse trying to jump start your car that way (I think the cigarette lighter only has a 40A fuse)? I would skip the cigarette lighter thing and just buy a regular good 4 or 6 gauge jumper cable. As I've mentioned in another thread on the main forum, I had problem jump starting my car, even with a 10-gauge jumper cable. Those wires on the cigarette lighter thingy definitely looked smaller than 10-gauge.

Lighter Model Is a Joke
 

I agree that the lighter does not offer a heavy wire conection.

You have a 2005 X5 what do you need jumpers for?

The car will turn off the interior lights if you leave them on.

If you need jump call BMW assist for free.

Doc, if you really want a pair of jumpers, hit an AutoZone or Walmart and buy the thickest pair they have...get good, strong jaws. They are all very good these days.
I'd pass on that sucker in the pic. Very good ones are not expensive.

You doing roadside defibs?! Lol!
BR,md

Yeah, so imagine where I would have to put the plug on the cig lighter model!!:D

That isn't really an option if you are trying to help someone else, is it?

yeah... riiiight.. and then you wait focken 3 hours for an idiot to show up with some shitty cables and a flatbed that's not long enough to put the x5 on..

SHOW OF HANDS.. HOW MANY HAVE USED BMW ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE OR BMW ASSIST AND HAD THE SAME EXPERIENCE?

there are quite a few!!

Don't think i've had this experience yet because I have not used BMW Roadside assistance. MBZ roadside service comes with their guns out. AAA the same. I do know that in the past I have told the operator to make sure the driver knows he will not be providing service for a Chevrolet. Nothing wrong with Chevrolets mind you; but towing a Chevrolet and a BMW? Two different animals.

Never used BMW Roadside Assist, but my wife had a flat tire and called them (she would have changed it, but it was pouring rain). Just under 20 minutes to arrive, and then he followed her to a nearby tireshop to drop the flat tire off so that he didn't have to put it in the trunk wet. She was impressed. Small sample size, but the contractors they use here seem to be pretty good.

Total POS

OK, you were all right about the lighter plug jumper cable being junk. I had to use it today; wife's MB E320 needed a jumpstart. Tried the nifty-neato toy, and it just did nothing. Left it in, with the X5 running, for 10 minutes, and still nothing. Finally, I used my old-fashioned real jumper cables, and cranked the MB right up.

What a waste! Glad this all happened at home, where I still had the old jumper cables sitting on a shelf in the garage!

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