For the life of me, I could not get "juice" from the battery nipple on my Treg.

Ae you referring to the charging dock (left side/under hood)? Or directly off the battery terminals?

 

If you are describing the terminal as a "nipple", I wonder if you're looking at the right part.
I hope you used a different term when you asked the woman in the minivan for a jump
.

 

Deviant999 - I am referring to the "battery post" under the hood that is directly in front of the driver's side. Are you suggesting to me that there are battery terminals elsewhere? perhaps I confused a charging dock/post with battery terminals that I did not see in the dark?

 

Yes ofc there are, under your driver's seat and if you own a V10 you can access the rear battery in the trunk quite easily...(first one is quite difficult to access)...

 

Patr80l - the "nipple" was more appropriately a battery post. I removed a small red plastic cover with a "+" sign on it. I assumed this was the aforementioned battery nipple. lol... told the women that my nipple had no charge.... they responded with confused stares.... lol

 

Hi Soccer,
On my 2007 V6 TDI there is a negative stub close to the positive stub with the red cover. However here in Australia they are on the passenger side.

 

I cannot confirm if jumping works but charging through those posts does. However with so much electronics on board I think there is a lot of risk of jumping power from Touareg.

 

I have successfully jumped another vehicle with the Touareg, and vice versa in several occasions.

In every situation the "forbidden method" of directly connecting the negative terminals was required for success. I'm not recommending it, just saying it has worked for me.

 

I guess I should educate myself on the dangers of "jumping" in another thread...

 

The negative terminal is probably where I went wrong. I did not see it last night. Therefore I connected the negative jumper cable to a piece of metal on the car. At least I though it was metal.... thanks for the help guys.

 

Yes, you can use the under bonnet terminals to jump start a car but when using jump leads, you need to be VERY careful that you do not fry any of your car's very expensive electronics.

Someone else on here was a good Samaritan a few years ago and the car he tried to start had an electrical problem that fried his Touareg's alternator.

 

Can't say I disagree with that.

The early Touaregs are a mythical battery vampire with infinite possible electric issues.

Our modern Touaregs seem not to be battery sucking nightmares, but still have infinite possible electric issues.

A little jolt of power the wrong way could potentially do a lot of harm.

 

noobytoogy - under these cirumstances, what process do you follow to protect your electronics?

 

@ soccer247:

Procedure?

Section 3.4 pages 75 and 76 in my 2003 Manual so hopefully it will spelt out somewhere in your rather newer one!

To be honest, whilst I happily tow/push start manual cars I no longer carry jump leads and leave folks with automatics to await roadside assist.

 

Get a jump box. Saves your rig and are handy to start a boat or run 12v tools.

 

I have one, 0% success with Touareg in past. Not sure specs, but it's definitely under-powered for a dead egg.

Agreed can be handy for jumping lesser vehicles and other uses especially if you have one with AC inverter built in and/or air compressor..

 

I have used the Treg to jump start other cars and the other way round on the odd occasion when I have played too long with VagCom. Never had an issue. I have a custom set of jumper cables made from 32 square mm cross section copper flex ( used for body protection earthing in medical X-ray machines), which has an effective current rating of over 1000 amps at 12 volt. I would be happy to help out a Kenworth using the AGM battery in the Treg....

It's not what you do but how you do it!

Stu....

 

It's not what you do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but how you do it!

Stu....

. . . or who you are . . .

 

Exactly as Stuart said, just a pair of good cables is all you need..