What to do when your car battery is dead

Hi all. I'm posting this "what-to-do" tip to everyone after what happened to my family. My dad's car battery died, but he didn't panic, 'cause he already knows what to do, so I just want to share this with you.

Before that however, let's break it down to a few case scenario:

(1) If your car battery dies in a place where you have contacts/people to help

This is what you do (and it should be standard procedure). Call your friend(s), and ask if they have a cable that can charge their car battery to yours. If they do, ask them to bring the cable, connect (-) negative to (-) negative, and (+) positive to (+) positive. Accelerate the car (but make sure it's on breaks), and try to start the your car.

If that fails, don't panic. Do THIS: SWAP the car batteries (assuming all car batteries are standard size). Before you do that, make sure you turn on the engine of the car with the better battery. The battery only serves as a starter to the car, but once taken out, it is still able to mobilize. Of course, radio, lights and air-con will not work, but at least you can drive the car away to the nearest mechanic.

Transfer the battery to the other car, start it up, and go to the nearest mechanic straight away. If it's at night, bring the respective cars home, and immediately fix it the following day. If the following day is a Sunday, sucks to you then. Half joking. Wait for Monday. XD

Ahha, who ever said the situation will happen as according to the scenario above? Talk about Lady Luck not being with you. You could be:

(2) stuck in the middle of nowhere, or in a state/city with contacts miles away from you.

Watcha gonna do then? Panic? Say "We're gonna die!!" "This is the end of me!!" "I regret not doing this this this this..."? Of course not! What happened to "think positive" these days? Sheesh.

Anyways, try to (1) call for the nearest mechanic/toll car. Yeah expensive, but what to do? You don't have much of a choice. (2) Ask for assistance from other drivers. That's about your only alternate option.

Whatever you do, don't PANIC. Think of ways to SOLVE.THE.DAMN.PROBLEM. There's bound to be one. Anyways, take care while you're on the road, and make sure your cars are equipped. Otherwise, how do you take out the battery? =D

Best of luck.

PS: If anyone has better suggestions/think my suggestions are crap, do post it in my comment box. We'd all like to learn. Thanks =)

~eNd~