Q: When I put the charged battery in the car, the engine started and the vehicle moved with no key. Why?
I charge my battery and i was putting the battery back in my chevy i screwed the negative in first then the positive and thats when the car started to turn over and move forward. The car had no keys in the ignition.
My car has a manual transmission.
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