Roadside Assistance for Jump Starting a Car
If you happen to have left the headlights of your car on all the night, or due to any other reason such as the cold, the battery of your car may be discharged and need jump starting. As car batteries get recharged when the engine is running (this does not mean that your vehicle has to be moving: it is to the engine and not to the wheels that the battery is connected to), if you start and stop the car after very short intervals, the battery may not work after some time as enough time is not given to it to get charged well enough.
This discharging of car batteries may be a problem if it happens when you are out on the open road. If you do not happen to know the process of jump starting a car well enough, or if you do not have on hand your car’s manual which details this process, you should not try to stop other cars and try this on your own. It is also not always guaranteed that the car which stops to help you would have an owner conversant in jump starting a car!
Roadside assistance is the best way to go forward here. Those who provide such services can help you in most locations: you only have to call up the provider with whom you have a subscription (this may be obtained by approaching the roadside assistance provider or may be given to you along with a car insurance scheme) and let them know of the location you are in and the help that you need.
As it is not necessary that you travel with tools that are needed for jump starting (in Danish it’s called Har du brug for starthjælp) a vehicle, such as cables and crocodile clips, roadside assistance can give you much help and save valuable time and effort by arriving on the spot to help restart your battery.
Jump starting a car is not a piece of cake, as you have to know which connections to make: surveys show that people have been injured while in the process of jump starting their cars on their own, so it is a safe and smart alternative to let the roadside assistance company’s employees help you in this: they are adept at such work. Once the jump starting procedure has taken place, your engine simply has to be running long enough to recharge the battery.
It may be that you car battery is not simply discharged, but has frozen or is in a state that cannot be fixed by jump starting. Roadside assistance can still be of help: it can help diagnose and fix the problem, and in the worst case scenario, these people can also tow your vehicle to a garage or repair shop so that mechanics can have a look at it and fix things.
In case you do need jump starting of your car, you simply have to call the roadside assistance providers with whom you have signed a contract, and they will help you promptly
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