I hooked up the jumper cables backwards and now the car has very little power flickering lights on the dashboard and will not start.
Sep 13, 2020 at 10:58 AM
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ASEMASTER6371
✓ASE Certified Mechanic
52,796 POSTS
Good afternoon,
This is not good.
With luck, you may have just blow fuses for this. In a lot of cases, control modules are damaged from the voltage surge of hooking up the cables backwards.
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