Hyundai Sonata EF IV 4 owners manual page 136

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WHAT TO DO IN AN EMERGENCY 3- 3 D030A01A-AAT o If you should accidentally get acid on yourmetal part of the engine away from the IF THE ENGINE OVERHEATS skin or in your eyes, immediately removebattery. Do not connect the cable to any any contaminated clothing and flush the area moving part. If your temperature gauge indicates overheat- with clear water for at least 15 minutes. Then4. Start the engine in the car with the booster promptly obtain medical attention. If youbattery and let it run for a few minutes. This ing, you experience a loss of power, or hear loud must be transported to an emergency facil- will help to assure that the booster battery is pinging or knocking, the engine is probably too ity, continue to apply water to the affectedfully charged. During the jumping operation, hot. If this happens, you should: area with a sponge or cloth. run the engine in this vehicle at about 2,000 1. Pull off the road and stop as soon as it is safe o The gas produced by the battery during the rpm. to do so. jump-start operation is highly explosive. Do 5. Start your engine using the normal starting not smoke or allow a spark or an open flame procedure. After the engine starts, leave the 2. Place the gear selector lever in "P" (auto- in the vicinity. jumper cables connected and let the engine matic), or neutral (manual transaxle) and set o The battery being used to provide the jump run at fast idle or about 2,000 rpm for several the parking brake. If the air conditioning is on, start must be 12-volt. If you cannot deter-minutes. turn it off. 3. If engine coolant is running out under the car mine that it is a 12-volt battery, do not attempt6. Carefully remove the jumper cables in the to use it for the jump start. reverse order of attachment. or steam is coming out from the hood, stop o To jump start a car with a discharged battery, the engine. Do not open the hood until the coolant has stopped running or the steaming follow this procedure exactly: If you do not know why your battery became has stopped. If there is no visible loss of discharged (because the lights were left on, engine coolant and no steam, leave the 1. If the booster battery is installed in anotheretc.), have the charging system checked by vehicle, be sure the two vehicles are notyour Hyundai dealer. engine running and check to be sure the touching. engine cooling fan is operating. If the fan is 2. Turn off all unnecessary lights and acces- not running, turn the engine off. sories in both vehicles. 4. Check to see if the water pump drive belt is 3. Attach the clamps of the jumper cable in the missing. If it is not missing, check to see that exact location shown on the illustration. First, it is tight. If the drive belt seems to be attach one clamp of the jumper cable to the satisfactory, check for coolant leaking from positive (+) post or cable of the discharged the radiator, hoses or under the car. (If the battery. Then attach the other end of the air conditioning had been in use, it is normal same cable to the positive (+) post or cable for cold water to be draining from it when you of the booster battery. Next, using the other stop). cable, attach one clamp to the negative (-) post or cable of the booster battery. Then attach the other end of that cable to a solid

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