johnnyecosse
New Member
Reading through 1998 Disco manual online and see that it says to jump start a diesel you go onto neg terminal on flat battery (bad practice) but you go to chassis on a petrol version (good practice). As far as I was aware the reason for going onto chassis was to keep spark away from battery - thus eliminating risk of battery exploding. Anyone know why the manual makes a distinction between the two variants? The only thing I can think of is that diesels need more juice to get started and going direct to battery gives a better connection. Am I right?