Nikkonos
Well-known member
Yeah, you know those little cell phone size booster pack.
Here's what happen, step mom called saying her 2014? Jeep Cheeroke Sport won't start.
I grab some booster cable and my said small booster 'cause I know it work and its easier and quicker to use.
So once at the Jeep, I plug the small booster pack and start car. (took two tries) Then its start. Take the booster off and close the hood and decided in case to follow her home.
I did notice my cable on the pack were hot. Didn't think much of it. INB4 wrong side connection blah blah....
anyways few minutes pass and a loud boom happen, the case broke due to the batteries been inflated and was still hot.
Now, I had this small booster pack for 4-5 years and always worked great, I boosted ALOT of cars with it without problems. I even used it last week to boost my teens Echo. So WTF.
Its smelled like I had cooked the batterie, but everything was plugged correctly! Not a stupid mistake.
Now the Jeep did start and went home without issues, no ''battery'' or ''error messages'' or any warning light in the dash, but it didn't start back at her home.
So she most likely need a new battery.
But why a simple boost from this device fucked up this device, again all connections were correct. Maybe my pack was just ''done'' after all theses years?
Or did the Jeep have a trouble in charging ''overcharging'' the battery, voltage regulator? My device did stayed plugged in like 30 second after starting the Jeep time to get out and take it out.
Weird or what?
Sorry no pics of my exploded pack.
Here's what happen, step mom called saying her 2014? Jeep Cheeroke Sport won't start.
I grab some booster cable and my said small booster 'cause I know it work and its easier and quicker to use.
So once at the Jeep, I plug the small booster pack and start car. (took two tries) Then its start. Take the booster off and close the hood and decided in case to follow her home.
I did notice my cable on the pack were hot. Didn't think much of it. INB4 wrong side connection blah blah....
anyways few minutes pass and a loud boom happen, the case broke due to the batteries been inflated and was still hot.
Now, I had this small booster pack for 4-5 years and always worked great, I boosted ALOT of cars with it without problems. I even used it last week to boost my teens Echo. So WTF.
Its smelled like I had cooked the batterie, but everything was plugged correctly! Not a stupid mistake.
Now the Jeep did start and went home without issues, no ''battery'' or ''error messages'' or any warning light in the dash, but it didn't start back at her home.
So she most likely need a new battery.
But why a simple boost from this device fucked up this device, again all connections were correct. Maybe my pack was just ''done'' after all theses years?
Or did the Jeep have a trouble in charging ''overcharging'' the battery, voltage regulator? My device did stayed plugged in like 30 second after starting the Jeep time to get out and take it out.
Weird or what?
Sorry no pics of my exploded pack.