Great information, our 2016 Subaru Forester has something like that on the positive battery post. I've jumped it several times & I did use the positive battery post as those connections were not really accessible! I can see someone using the other ones though! Those fuses in the photo look replaceable but not something I would normally have in your extra fuses.
Thanks Mike for sharing this failure mode and providing the picture. I haven’t seen a positive battery connection with multiple fuses and distribution cables like that before. Is this a common practice? It seems to me not a good idea to locate multiple fuses in the positive battery connector. It is obviously confusing to someone needing to jump start the vehicle but also a place for dirt and corrosion to accumulate. Do you think they didn’t have any space to locate a fuse box (or distribution power center as it were) elsewhere?
In russ comment about connecting a jumper wire from the pos terminal to the neg terminal. What gauge wire is used?
Great information, our 2016 Subaru Forester has something like that on the positive battery post. I've jumped it several times & I did use the positive battery post as those connections were not really accessible! I can see someone using the other ones though! Those fuses in the photo look replaceable but not something I would normally have in your extra fuses.
Thanks Mike
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Thanks Mike for sharing this failure mode and providing the picture. I haven’t seen a positive battery connection with multiple fuses and distribution cables like that before. Is this a common practice? It seems to me not a good idea to locate multiple fuses in the positive battery connector. It is obviously confusing to someone needing to jump start the vehicle but also a place for dirt and corrosion to accumulate. Do you think they didn’t have any space to locate a fuse box (or distribution power center as it were) elsewhere?