Rjackson32
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Westchester
I am in the process of selling my car. Someone called me and wanted to come see the car and was about 10 minutes away from my house. I told him to come over and check it out and then realized that the battery had died. I went to jump it but it was past the point of being jumped. Since NAPA was closed I took the battery out of my 99 M3 so that the guy would be able to testdrive the car when he arrived. The battery was a bit bigger, about 2 or 3 inches and I had to work to get it in. Also the terminals were slightly larger. I was rushing and didn't get the negative terminal on all the way. I thought it would be sufficient....
As soon as I touched the positive cable to the terminal it sparked (it wasn't a crazy amount of sparking, nothing I haven't seen before) and so I went forth with putting the positive wire onto the terminal. A few seconds after my fuse box started sparking...smoking...caught on fire. I ripped the positive wire off the terminal, grabbed the top off the fuse box and noticed that the green wire coming out of the fuse box was on fire. I grabbed the fire and put it out.
After collecting myself I tried it again. This time securing the negative wire onto the terminal. Then slowly touching the positive wire to the terminal. As soon as I did this my horn started blaring (as it was doing while I was putting the fire out originally) and the fuse box started sparking again.
I postponed the testdrive..obviously..but he is coming back to see the car tomorrow at 5. I need to get this fixed. I don't want to loose the sale. What kind of damage do you think I did?
As soon as I touched the positive cable to the terminal it sparked (it wasn't a crazy amount of sparking, nothing I haven't seen before) and so I went forth with putting the positive wire onto the terminal. A few seconds after my fuse box started sparking...smoking...caught on fire. I ripped the positive wire off the terminal, grabbed the top off the fuse box and noticed that the green wire coming out of the fuse box was on fire. I grabbed the fire and put it out.
After collecting myself I tried it again. This time securing the negative wire onto the terminal. Then slowly touching the positive wire to the terminal. As soon as I did this my horn started blaring (as it was doing while I was putting the fire out originally) and the fuse box started sparking again.
I postponed the testdrive..obviously..but he is coming back to see the car tomorrow at 5. I need to get this fixed. I don't want to loose the sale. What kind of damage do you think I did?