Car battery question

[duckman91]

I recently got a new car battery for my VP calais a few months ago and it went dead so i took it back to where i bought it and got it recharged.

my car is working fine now but when i put in the battery the first time i noticed that i attached the terminals in the wrong order ... meaning i put on the negative terminal before the positive one .

Just wanted to know if that would do any damage to anything in the electrical

[hi_ryder]

could blow some relays and fuses. but if you say its all ok should be fine. ive seen smoke come from an alternator once on a hq couple years back one of the apprentices hooked up the jumper pack backwards... but it didnt seem to do any damage...

[304runner]

I did this on the weekend... I couldn't start my car, and naturally I thought she was toast but turns out I only blew a 20A fuse under the hood..

[levymetal]

i've often put negative on first, positive last. i usually disconnect positive when working on electrics because it's easier to remove (lazy ). never once had a problem. it shouldn't matter, i thought the only reason you're supposed to take negative off first / put it on last is to avoid short circuiting your tools with the body on the positive terminal.

[VNVacationer]

Should not matter what order you connect up the battery but as said by others if you put the negative on last there is less chance of accidentally causing a short with your tools to the body