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2. Connect one terminal clamp of the
plus/+ jumper cable to the positive
terminal of the battery or to an auxil-
iary jump-starting terminal of the
support vehicle
3. Connect the second terminal clamp
of the plus/+ jumper cable to the
positive terminal of the battery or to
an auxiliary jump-starting terminal of
the vehicle to be started
4. Your BMW is equipped with a special
nut – see arrow 2 – to serve as the
ground or negative terminal.
necting the jumper cables
Attach a terminal clamp of the
minus/– jumper cable to the negative
terminal of the support vehicle's bat-
tery or to a suitable ground on its
engine or bodywork
Always adhere to this sequence
when connecting jumper cables;
to observe this procedure can
o sparks at the battery terminals
ose an injury hazard.<
5. Attach the second terminal clamp of
the minus/– jumper cable to the neg-
ative terminal of the battery or to a
suitable ground on the engine or
bodywork of the vehicle to be
started.
uxiliary jump-starting terminal
d in your BMW's engine compart-
acts as the positive battery termi-
efer to the engine compartment
ew on page 120. The cover of this
ary terminal is marked with a +.
Starting the engine
en the cover of the BMW auxiliary
mp-starting terminal. Do so by pull-
the tab – see arrow 1
1. Start the engine of the support vehi-
cle and let it run for several minutes
at a slightly elevated engine idle
speed
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