Recently....saw a video talking about car grounding cable.

i know having good grounding does smoothen a lot of things....but 700 plus for 1 copper cable isn't excessive ?



i feel like can DIY it myself. for <100 bucks by using some good grade copper cable

Buy one roll of thick cables, cable lugs and compression tool.

DIY is cheaper.

Sorry how does grounding smoothen things out?

Last time I grounded my car, it added 10 hp.

mine is 5hp only. same as my sticker.

If your car is old or improperly grounded, the cables have more resistances.

The will be minimal improvements gained from improving the grounding.

https://www.carreviewsncare.com/voltage-sta...-myth-and-fact/

Hmmmmmmm

car age...so does cable.

I did the grounding before. Zero noticeable effect. Placebo also don't have.

based on the sharing...your car must be old enough to have noticeable effect

>10years car

Go electrical shop buy cable and DIY

cable 5hp, + sticker 5hp = 10 hp. the max limit increase is 10hp.

So how does earthing the car reduces the resistance inside the wires?

One thing most important when doing this grounding is ensure all cables are tied down properly.

I kena 1 cable was on a aircon aluminium (or is it copper) pipe. It was not tied down so due to vibrations from the engine, the Grounding wire keep hitting the pipe until got hole. Very expensive to repair. Some more got warranty SC open my engine bay and point out the grounding cable was the root cause. So need to pay my own money for the repairs.

700 for ground cable? Topkek. At most I would pay 100 for professionally done for one cable, usually there would be three.

pity the car

Eh? Not tie chain to bumper and let it drag on floor?

My car stciker alone alreay gained 10hp... no need grounding...

Stupidity till eternity.

Luckily I drive conti car, my ecu can till me if my ground isn't tight

Bottom line snake oil if ur car doesn't have big speaker amps and modified alternator/battery or corroded wire to put the stupid thing

if your car you cheapskate replaced with oem or halfcut spare parts and your car has all sorts of ah beng modified like audio, lights, then adding grounding has some good side to audio and lights but that does not add any bhp.

This post has been edited by Avex: Dec 13 2020, 08:59 AM

You should add neon light. Better hp per ringgit spent

My previous toyota seg blacktop has grounding issues. Particularly very obvious on hard to start and also during accelerations.
So i put in 4 points 100% copper grounding cables. No more hard start and accelerations become smoother. Oh that car is over 20 years old so the original grounding cable already corroded/oxidised.

It's adding fresh new cables to provide more paths for grounding, if existing cables are no longer reliable or efficient.

Electricity will travel through the path of least resistance.

Car electrical is DC.... Still need grounds?

Got feel 1. Becoz the ground cable is new/ better quality, coz i changed once, and the pickup feeling is different, but there wont be any hp increase....so yes u r rite, its kinda sohai to do that, hehehe.

Agree there will be a better feel especially after replacing old grounding cable.

However, spending RM799 TS posted video grounding cables are madness.

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1495749

LYN got ground cable seller

aiayah when parking, just tie a wire from car body to the pagar overnight can oredi ma

if your car isn't that old and u never mess with the cabling of the car
u don't have to worry about grounding problem as it is well grounded by the car manufacturer

hoi gemuk tayar tak pancit ke?

Can diy la..go buy any zero oxide 4awg cable and a few cable lug and you good..

How many years should i change once?

I hate this kind of edit. Potong. Potong. Potong. Potong. Headache listening to this kind of video.

Also, if your existing ground cables already rosak, already oxidized, already uzur, rust, whatever, then changing it surely helps.

Grounding a car doesn't mean earthing, the entire body/chasis of a car is essentially a negative electrode. Sometimes the connection is not as great. Notice that a sparkplug has only one cable going in, as the engine connects directly to it as a negative point

dah tak active for long2 time

well....it doesnt mess with your existing wiring.

is just adding another cable to the negative terminal of the battery and simply bolt it to the component that has skru hole.

thats plug n play.

yup, janji got some pure copper cable with high quality sleeving and you are good to go

you dont change but add it.

is absurd to spent that kind of money. on just yet another cable.

but hey...he just another jewtuber making content to earn a living.

it will not last long when ur car engine adopted to it it will become normal again , also the connection will be oxidized

Cables

This is way good enough, I dont think it requires as much as he said.

connection oxidized? do some metal polishing loh

not sure...but i see lots of ppl recommending 4AWG gauge wire.....kinda thick thou.

does it require that thick

this one cheaper but not sure seller still active or not

If you planning to ground your body ground battery, alternator + to battery, engine ground chasis, a high copper surface 1/0 or 4AWG will be good enough. Im running a parallel 12v and it does help a bit with overall charging, I was dragging my alternator at first because its not for parallel, but at least after thicker grounding, everything charge @ normal rate 14.3v±.

This post has been edited by anthonywongy: Dec 14 2020, 08:12 PM

That's how you stay fat, sell snake oil

i remember 14v is the optimal when the car running

not him who sell....indeed the another guy


good grounding does bring a lot of benefit.

but there is also "voltage stabilizer " which is bunch of capacitor being added.

You dont want it under 13.8v or over 14.5v.. impossible to be exact 14v, new vios unit all came in with alterntor charging@ 13.6v..