How can I jump start my 535 diesel? The battery is in the back but I see there is a ve connection in the engine compartment. I don't know where to connect the negative lead and am scared of shorting something. Help!

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You will need to get to the battery inorder to do this. If you can't, because the lock is not functioning, you will need to call a locksmith and have the lock replaced. Do this properly, if you don't you could cause more damage than just a dead battery.

Connect battery to Battery in the sequence First positive to positive on battery, then negative lead connect to good battery, last connection is made to an engine earth on the stranded vehicle. Run engine for approx. ten minutes before starting. remove leads in reverse order.

Some times the extra amperage coming from the alternator the diesel motor will burn out the electrical components of a smaller vehicle. This is why you should never jump start your lawnmowers, motorcycles, or any small engine with a full size vehicle. Check your battery, then alternator, and keep tracing it back until you find the source of the problem.

Try jumping it, sounds like the battery can be dead. But there is a solenoid on the firewall I believe the left side inner fender (in the engine compartment) you can turn the ignition on and jump the two leads with a screwdriver and see if the motor turns over. Remember this is a huge motor with high compression and the glow plugs have to fire to start. Takes a lot of juice to get it going (thats why it has 2 batteries). Make sure you have charged batteries. If not charge/jump the truck. The starter can only be tested off the truck, a solenoid if bad only cost a few bucks ($20-$30) but they don't fail too often

Hi, I think you have a bad altinator or eletrical short which drains your battery over night, once you jump start your vehicle the altinator charges your battery enough that it starts all day but if it is parked for longer time the battery drains.

Hi,
Jump starting means, connecting two cables to boost the power of your battery from another power source( another normal powered battery ).
You must look first for your battery, that is located in the engine compartment.
Connect a jump cables from the positive( + ) pole of your battery to another car w/ the same voltage of battery, connect another cable to negative( - ) pole of the another battery to your engine expose metal ground. DO NOT START YOUR ENGiNE/TURN ON. Let the other car start the engine, let it charge for 15 minutes.
Then, pull out the cables attach to your battery and to another. YOU MAY TURN YOUR ENGiNE and START the engine.
Hope that fixes your problem!
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Hello, there is a place under the hood you can use to jump start this vehicle. here is the instructions.


Locate the remote positive terminal which is located under a red tethered cap on the engine compartment fuse block. Remove the cap to access the terminal.

Do not remove fuse block cover to jump start the vehicle.

Locate the remote negative (-) ground terminal, marked GND (-), which is located at the front of the engine compartment on the driver side of the vehicle.

Don't do that, if you don't know how the jump start Mercedes Benz be careful it's so dangerous, if you do one simple wrong thing when you jump start it can damage your all electronic management system if in case you did the wrong thing you may have to spend $ xxxxxxx, if you don't know how to do that get help from someone who know how to do it, keep in mind don't mix up negative and positive cable when you jump the battey at least jest for a 000.1 second, that's enough for get damage, battery jump start point in engine compartment have a good look, has covered by read cap, open cap and you can see copper point in it fix the read battery cable (+ positive cable) on it then connect other end of same cable to the + terminal of battery again I would like to remind don't mix up, after connect + terminal please double check did the right, then connect - cable on to the Body ground connection near by positive point you can see another probe for ground it's located near the shockabsober top mount, after that connect other end of negative cable to the negative terminal of battery before connect it once again check other 3 connection are in right order

+ battery......................................................... + car

- battery.......................................................... - car

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you can also jump the battery to battery

+ battery jumper................................+ battery in the car
- battery jumper................................- battery in the car,

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The battery is located under the rear bench seat cusion. there is a lead(posistive) in the engine compartment with a black plastic lid with a red plus sign on it. lift up the lid and attatch the positive lead to it. find a good ground like one of the metal eyelit brackets on the engine and connect the negative lead. the most important thing is not to cross the leads