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Bought 6' of #4 welding cable for $11. (I used less than 4'.)
About $2 for shrink tubing and solder.
And no shipping.
I cleaned up and re-used the BMW terminals as they were still solid.


Have not tried them yet.

Very nice, Doug. You have my permission to engage smug mode and buy something very expensive and alcoholic to drink.

Airbear wrote:Very nice, Doug. You have my permission to engage smug mode and buy something very expensive and alcoholic to drink.

Actually I bought something inexpensive.
A butane mini torch to do the soldering. Works a treat.
(And some good beer.)

So you have enough left to make me up a + cable then?

Notice how much more flexible the welding cable is compared to the original? Far superior stuff. I get lots for free, but most of it is too large for cars. I do make up some bitchen jumper cables for friends.

Nice work Doug. One will usually find that in addition to welding cable being far more flexible than the OEM stuff; mostly due to the quality of the "twisting" of the strands and their diameter, additionally most cable available for welding use is rated for a good range of chemical exposure. - Ironically, a lot of OEM cables' insulator's are far less impervious to chemical exposure, including gas and oil than one might think or desire for such an application...

I can see the requests for custom cables coming in already Oh, yeah - see above.