Not knowing that is so american. PS : i was wondering in the beginning too. I agree its funny haha where i live its a big container. But in the big city there is alot of small ones
@@ÉdouardBrasseur It’s not about being American. He does for real stuff, not this stupid stuff. ANYWAY… It’s just that some places have it, some don’t. Including different American cities. Here in Los Angeles, where Donut is located and most of the hosts live, food waste goes in the same large green bin as yard waste, not a special small bin. And BTW, I believe the clip in question is from Washington state, so, y’know… those Americans know about them. 🤷🏽♂️
to be fair, it’s slightly different everywhere i’ve lived I remember brown being compost, yellow being recycling, and black being trash where i used to live
The reason it was funny is because of how tiny it is. In California most area have the same size bin for all 3. In the bay area i have seen smaller bins but never this tiny. Looks like a child’s size bin.
My Buddy hit a patch of black ice near Poughkeepsie and wound up in a ditch, the NY State Police hit the same patch responding to the call, on the same trajectory, made contact, pushing the car another car length into the ditch. The first thing the officer said was “Well obviously you weren’t at fault here.”
Had an odd situation that the police didn't believe until it happened to them - I live in Wisconsin, and during winter the side roads can be... challenging. My late husband and I were traveling to a different county when we decided to turn back. Got stuck, got out of the van to push it... Then the van slid into the ditch. When the cops showed up, they wouldn't believe that we were not in the vehicle when it went fully in. Then the tow truck did the same thing. Turns out there was an ice shelf above the ditch that hid how deep it was.
I bet so many people probably called the city about that black ice and it landed on deaf ears but after the cop crashed driving over the same black ice the city probably started shutting down roads the next day to salt all the black ice in and around the city limits.
We have them here in Ontario, though at least where I am the recycle and garbage bins are different (we have 3 separate, smaller, blue bins for recycling. One for fibres/paper, one for cardboard, and one for containers like bottles, jars, and cans). Our garbage bins are just pails (basically cylinders with a rounded lid, the typical image of a garbage can, though ours are plastic and have attachments to hold the lid in place to ward off raccoons).
The tiny trash cans at 13:05 are "Green bins" - they're for compostable food waste, so that instead of just sitting around in a landfill and rotting and stinking up the neighborhood, it gets turned into soil and the natural gas that gets made goes to power plants.
Some people believe that 4W drive means everything works better. Sure you can crawl through more snow, accelerate faster and so on, but that corner is still as sharp, that ice is still as slick, that hill is still as steep and your braking and road grip is still the same as if you had two wheel drive. Four wheel drive is fine, and can be very important, but it doesn't mean you can ignore the snow and ice. I've often heard recommendations to run ordinary two wheel drive for as long as possible, then engage full all wheel drive when the situation requires it. Also you vill often be better off if you use the all wheel drive to get out of situations where two wheel drive wouldn't let you get further. If you enable all wheel drive and press on the risk is that you may get a bit further into the woods only to end up unable to get anywhere, and now you really are in trouble.
Fan from Minnesota here! just wanted to lest you know that YES they do just leave the cars in lakes and fish them out later. what usually happens is when the guys from Iowa come up all excited to go ice fishin' they forget to check the depth of the ice and there new work truck falls through! then they call the insurance man who then hire a crane operator who uses a specialized crane called a SUVE ( pronounced soo-vee) to get it out. keep up the good work!
The lady drunk driving on the frozen canal happened in Indianapolis. The crazy thing is, there’s virtually nowhere that you can easily drive down to the canal. She had to drive down a flight of stairs or over a curb and down a short steep hill to get there. There’s no way she didn’t know that she f-ed up long before she crashed through the ice.
right before she broke through the ice she was probably thinking: phew, totally saved that! Found another road, no one will ever know I drove down a flight of stairs!
In blizzards, I get behind YOU and follow your lights because ai know you can drive and your markers are all I can see. Safe distance and preferably letting you know, of course.
@@aaronabbey2604 I said slow down, gradually, then stop. The driver violated the very basic rules of driving, not looking ahead and preparing, obviously he's not familiar with the 12-second rule! Also not driving according to conditions, yikes! The driver also violated so many other basics, he/she shouldn't have a license and be allowed behind a wheel at all!
I have actually heard tires squeal on a gravel road. It shocked me and the driver, but we figured we must have dug through the loose stuff, then found the base. Over time, especially in farm country, the gravel will compact as hard as cement. When they added some flood control drainage, they had the same machines to tear up the compacted gravel and even used jackhammers on it. It was fun to watch during summer break at 14 years old, cuz all I had was my chores and one tv channel. Even in iowa, we have those remote places. I miss Texas lol.
He probably lost control on black ice - but went over normal asphalt sideways afterwards. Once you are sideways - it's hard to recover. Even more so when towing a trailer.
@@dustinshadle732 He refers to those 80ies tv shows - with added tire squeal on clearly visible loose dirt and gravel. Truely an 80ies thing. But yes - the right type of dirt becomes as hard as concrete. Especially chalk does that as soon as it gets wet.
13:01 That is a compost bin from Ontario, Canada. They started a compost recycling program decades ago. You can get small plastic composable bags you toss all of your old left over food, vegetable peels, rotting food, etc and put them in these little pails which is collected on weeks they collect recycling.
I lived in Fairbanks AK for 3 years in the Army. It gets -50. All you need to keep your car running is a headbolt heater and automotive heater pads for the oil pan, transmission pan and battery pan. All the auto parts stores have the Alaskan winterization kit. They even sell a 4 outlet plugin so you can just have one cord sticking out of your grill.
AMEN. I’m from PA but lived in FL for a couple years and it was great working on cars that were 10+ years old with nuts & bolts that weren’t even hardly rusted. As long as the vehicle wasn’t a truck or something that was taken out on the surf you really didn’t see much corrosion. Come back up to PA though and you’re struggling to get hardware off when doing an exhaust on a car that’s only a few years old. Gotta love that salt/brine mixture getting sprayed on the road all winter long. 😖
Seriously, F road salt. Just plow it and maybe put sand here and there. Montana doesn't use road salt... _Montana._ If they can get by without it, anyone can.
@@nthgth well at some point its so cold that salt doesn't work anyway. Montana sounds like a place like that. In my experience places that regularly get really cold and lots of snow have less problems with it then places where only get snow once in a decade. Snow isn't as bad if you are prepared for it and know what you can and can't do. But if you are on summer or All season rubber (called NO season for a reason) and don't know what to do it can be BAD, specially if you believe you are immortal. PS 4x4 doesn't stop any different then normal car and are usually heavier, making things worse.
@@vladimirmihnev9702 that's a pretty good point that I never thought of -- that if it's usually too cold for salt to work, maybe they don't even try it even in early or late winter. And that Montana might be there. Also, totally agree about 4WD and AWD. Great for not getting stuck, nothing for anything else.
Am Canadian... I can 100% guarentee you that 4 wheel drive and snow tires does not mean you can drive like its summer-time mid winter on snowy roads.. we have a family member that lives in the middle of nowhere and we sometimes drive up to her place for mini vacations and more often than not, we get passed by big pickups or all-wheel drive SUVs and then we all bet as to how far (not if) down the road we will see them in a ditch. Slow your speeds on everything... braking, accel, turning ect... we rarely wait long.
Engineering Explained did a great one about AWD/4WD and Winter driving. th-cam.com/video/1KGiVzNNW8Y/w-d-xo.html Effectively, 4WD/AWD gives you a LOT more grip going uphill or trying to get moving on snow. So much so that it is even better than Winter tires on a FWD/RWD vehicle. But stopping is entirely the tires, and winter + AWD/4WD is massively better than just AWD/4WD The graph at 9:05 shows this really clearly
My coworker owns an AWD Alfa Romeo Guilia and he drives like a maniac. Even when I put 4 new tires on it, he still crashes it lol. I've warned him all the gadgets and AWD do not make you immune from losing control. It's only there to help you. It's never an excuse to drive like that year round
Patience gets you where you gotta go usually. I've passed people in big lifted trucks and other supposedly good off road vehicles. They get impatient or hit the brakes when they over cook it up a hill or around a corner and they are off the road. Or just stuck.
Hi. As a rally driver (Ret), and a Finn, I give You a tip, concerning driving on slippery ways: Take a look at Swedish Rally, that´s how to do it! It´s the only Rally on snow, unfortunately, in WRC, but they know what driving in snow is. Big time. from a Finn in Diaspora
To answer the crane question. Truck falls through. You have to wait a couple more weeks for ice to be thicker for crane. You go out to spot, cut square in ice, then use crane. The cranes weight is distributed so it’s not all in one spot.
12:30 - I'm a delivery driver in the Seattle area and I have delivered in that neighborhood for 4 years now, that Porsche has sat there unmoved in that persons yard the whole time. I'm guessing it happened in the big freeze we had Christmas time 2023. as per the tiny trashcans I actually don't know just know lol
Which part of the country you at where it wasn't unseasonably warm and rainy for Nov and December? I'm in the Northeast and can't even count those months. The actual winter started in January.
The trouble with saying "wash the salt off" is as experienced here in North Central Wisconsin: if the temp outside is below freezing and you don't have access to a heated garage (most of us don't), washing your car results in your doors, windows and mirrors freezing shut, where water was trapped and froze before it could dry or run off. So, we could stand in the cold and wipe off the excess water after the car wash (we don't), or we only wash our cars on the 1 to 3 days each winter in which the temperature is favorable to do so, assuming you have the time to sit for hours in a line at the 1 or 2 car washes in your small town since all 3-5000 people are trying to wash their car that day. So, your car might get 1 or 2 car washes all winter and otherwise be a salt encrusted mess the remainder. An example is a small town near me, Crandon WI. Crandon is the county seat of Forest Co. and has a population of 1700 people (yes, it is the most populous town in the county), and the surrounding communities/rural residents that come there for their needs adds about another 1500 within a 5 mile radius. Crandon has a single 2-stall car wash facility. The next nearest car wash is 25 miles away. Everyone's car is rusty, and salt covered. It's logistics, you can't put even half those cars through a single facility on 1 warm day. FYI, never buy a used car from Wisconsin or Michigan, unless you desire a cheap rusty car for something like an off-roader or beater vehicle.
Also, as a New Englander: Black Ice is specifically a threat when the temperature is ABOVE freezing during the day (when the snow melts and pools into water) and then dips back BELOW freezing at night (when that water turns into clear black ice). Watch your outdoor temperatures, rain, and elevation!
That's ice, not black ice. Black ice specifically forms when the road is colder than the air and the moisture in the air freezes to the cold surface creating a super thin but slippery surface.
Very true I used to live in Connecticut. I moved down to Florida when I was like 21. During the summer when the sun bakes the pavement and then it will start down pouring out of nowhere, It’s basically like driving on black eyes for the first 15 minutes because all that oil from the pavement is now being slammed with torrential rain. It’s almost worse than black ice.
I get what you meant, but I imagined waking up in the morning and checking the weather at home and being like , "Let's we how high we are today.... 300ft higher than yesterday huh?"
I live in Indianapolis, IN. The canal driver happened last year, and there's no road that leads to the canal. The only way down are either stair cases or a large grass hill at one end of the canal. I recognized the video as soon as it started lol.
Michigan man here, they started using Beet juice last year. The problem with it is when it warms up it actually slows down the snowmelt and makes the roads even more slippery. Plus, the sugar in the Beet juice attracts animals to the road. They discontinued the practice this winter because accidents went up.
In the northern provinces of Canada and Alaska it's fairly common to use external heaters on diesel trucks and equipment that's been sitting in extreme cold. Usually they just use blankets around the motor. In some cases they also have attachments on the cooling systems so you can connect the cold vehicle to a running one and warm the motor up that way. Then, once you get it started, you don't shut it off unless you absolutely have to.
Northern interior Alaskan, this winter we saw -62F out at my place. We winterize our trucks and Isome of us with older vehicles cover our engine bays with a thick and heavy duvets, sleeping bags, etc. I have to let it run for 30 minutes when its anywhere below freezing to -35F. But once we hit closer to -40F to colder, then it varies until the transmission wishes to shift gear. Some days were out in 30 and on the road, some days it takes 50 minutes. You do what you have to. When i'm at the other cabin which has no running electricity, I bring a torch and a propane Mr. Buddy heater to thaw the truck out manually. it's common to face some funny repair bills come spring. Last year I destroyed my whole front end by traveling into town. Had some massive potholes that devoured suspension, tires, joints, and even claimed a few short car bumpers.
Do you use studded tires in Alaska? Here in Scandinavia, they are mandatory during winter months. (Well, studded or non-studded friction tires) Also, most cars have an electric block heater installed. You connect your car to a power outlet with a timer, and it will start heating the engine for about an hour before you leave for work. It is usually combined with a small area heater inside the cabin, so the car will be nice and warm and de-frosted. It is stupid simple, but it makes driving to work on a cold winter morning bearable.
I live in Alaska, too. My area sees -50 for months, and we use block heaters and oil pan heaters. Sometimes, even battery trickle chargers. Studded tires are highly recommended. It's just rough on the cars, and the road conditions are terrible. Pot holes that destroy cars, and when it gets to like -25, -30 salt won't work, so cities will start sprinkling gravel on roads for traction. Once summer starts, it's a mess of flying rocks and broken windshields. About every other car has cracks and chips.
I live near Syracuse, NY. The worst thing about winter (besides road salt) is having to brush off, or worse, de-ice my car every other day in the winter. (Not so much this past winter though) I like lots of things about both Alaska and Scandinavia, but I sure am glad I don't have to worry about block heaters and all that. Edit: NY has terrible potholes too, state-wide. Long Island too. So I get that part.
-35 and I gotta work the truck never shuts off. I've left vehicles (diesels) running for weeks on end. I work in the oilfields in north dakota, ain't no one stealing vehicles in -30 plus windchill. I've been through the struggles of cold starting diesels in 40 below and it's not worth it, just leave it running lmfao
12:30 ice covered road, no traction. What can you do? Put it in neutral. Straighten the wheel. Feet off the pedals. When the wheels turn, you get some traction back for steering. Steer safe. Apply brakes gently, release brakes if slide starts again. You can't stop easily, but you can control the slide, by not sliding.
These clips really show the harsh realities of winter driving. It's eye-opening to see the lengths people go to in order to keep their vehicles operational in such brutal conditions.
From the heart of The Snow Belt ❄️ in Cleveland... *Get a set of good snow tires to run 4 mo./year! *Don't undercoat with oil! Undercoat with a lanolin-based coating (Fluid Film/Surface Shield/Woolwax). *Get a block heater to extend the life of your engine.
@@davecarsley8773 I'd like to see the condition of your vehicles' frames and undercarriages... We get brine on the roads here and untreated vehicles rot away.
My friend moved to Montana awhile ago and she says they don't use road salt. If Montana doesn't need to aggressively destroy their cars, I don't see why anyone does.
7:36 Colorado does not use beet juice on the road. Some local municipalities in the mountains may use it, but the state does not. Colorado uses magnesium chloride. Other de-icers are always being explored, but beet juice was rejected as it contains high levels of phosphates that were deemed too damaging to the oxygen levels our waterways.
True that! Glad someone else knows that too 🙌🏽 the snow never sticks around long enough in the denver area to be super motivated to find new de icers tho lol
I have a Honda fit and it has hit -30C and colder on rare occasions. starts up every time. Transmission shifts heavy at first but synthetic synchromesh helps in extreme cold.
15:36 Youre hearing their serpentine belt squeal, basically its a tightened belt but it's installed in a heated garage, in the winter you have to readjust it to prevent squeal. The belt has changed in size thanks to the tempurature.
Never have I ever had to readjust my be my due to temperature, the friction from the moving parts heats it all in no time. Edit in fact that's what the tensioner is for.
@@PS1212 seriously if the tensioner is faulty you replace it ,not adjust it. There is nothing to adjust that's why its called a tensioner. Most of my vehicles are 20 years old, or more. Ive had my 92 ford f150 for 8 years haven't heard one squeal nor my 01 venture or my 07 caravan. My 75 gmc had a bit at the start of the winter but i had a bad alternator and a belt ...but that's not a serpentine belt. Well maybe you drive those European cars or something.
Years back on a private road that was covered in ice I lost control and slid off the road at about 5-10 mph. My car was an 87 Jetta and the front wheels ended up around a foot off the road. I spun the tires trying to get out. The next day I called a tow truck to tug the car out of the snow and found my tires were frozen to the ground. With the only frozen contact patches being the two front wheels, it still took a hefty amount of tugging from the tow truck to break it free.
Years back on a road that was covered in ice I lost control and slid off. My car was an 87 Jetta and I spun the tires. The next day I called a tow truck to tug the car out of the snow and we had s3x
To some of us in the colder climates, the idling causing ice makes sense. When idling the exhaust doesn’t get that hot for the volume of air, but still produces a ton of water vapour, and if left in the cold it will star to freeze in your exhaust.
You kidding me? I idled a car all night in -40 during the 2013 polar vortex stuff. There's absolutely no chance in hell a fully warmed idling gasoline engine is producing so little heat that the exhaust can freeze. 600rpm in a 4 cylinder is still 20 cylinder volumes of air and fuel burning per second. Just because it's idling doesn't suddenly make that exhaust not hundreds of degrees. Even -50 is only 80° below freezing, versus exhaust air moving faster than external air multiple hundreds of degrees above freezing. Somebody filled that shit with water and a story was made up. Even if it was plausible it'd freeze from the back to the front since that's the coolest region, quickly creating a plug. It wouldn't slowly freeze along up into the heat and fill a significant volume.
I'd been expecting him to have a close encounter of the crunchy kind with a parked car. This was a little less embarrassing, before the vid hit the 'net.
13:40 Ya.. she's never driven in a cold environment, you gun it; you get even less friction. The trick is the 'feather' the gas pedal. You switch from reverse to gas & vice versa & just barely touch the gas to get where you wanna go.
yup ice laughs at your max gear max revs and laughs even harder if that hits grip and destroys expensive things... in slopes like that the best is usualy to let it free roll straight backwards so you can steer some at least... have tried it and it can work
Up in Alaska we just let it idle. I set my idle higher in winter so you don't worry about stalling in these situations. I'd have switched to reverse and keep it in gear til I got to the bottom, but his tires sucked so it probably wouldn't have mattered
I dunno. Depends on the situation and the vehicle. I have to gun it sometimes, and sometimes you just go with the flow. My driveway is steep as f and because of access easements the road is all kinds of rough. We're driving on 8-10" solid ice right now as the snow is thawing, some rain and then freezing temps at night. I've only not made it up once and had to go all the way back down half mile slipping and sliding in reverse.
Amen Angelina’s shout out to chicago mechanics. So much respect for her!! understanding the difference of work us Rust belt techs are fighting daily. shits rough but turning bolts is life.
11:23 I was expecting him to maybe have some insanely powerful windshield wipers to throw the pound of snow off his hood, but no, man proceeds to rev bomb his civic
It is funny that North America get these "extreme winters" and the authorities in most places (and alot of citizens) still refuse to recognize studded winter tyres. Something that the Nordic countries has been using for ages. And what's with the locked tyres? It never work. In drivers education here in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, it is part of the "Risk 2" course. We have to learn how to avoid and obstacle in bad road conditions. If you fail that part, you cannot continue. The course is not optional, you have to pass to get your license.
Yeah. Just need to be aware of the low, low limits the car now has. On Long Island, almost no one used winter tires to my recollection. Moved to Syracuse, the snowiest metro area in the US on average, and the first winter I got by just fine with factory "Prius tires" all-seasons, with RWD even! (Winter tires do make a noticeable difference though so I still recommend them. More fun to drive too)
@@nthgthI drove a vw gti in Salt Lake (was living/working there) always had summer tires for like 2,3 years.. finally bought a set of snow tires and the difference it made was astounding. Mind blowing how much better car handles with snow tires vs anything else.
I've driven all season tires for FORTY YEARS and through deep snow with my 2012 VW Passat, 2002 Dodge Intrepid, 2004 Dodge Caravan, 1989 Chrysler New Yorker, 1989 Firebird, 1979 Firebird, and 1974 Le Sabre. Almost always before the plows were out or while they were plowing and with very little trouble. The chick at around 17 minutes should have gunned it. Your tires will get warm and dig. I've done it several times. In January of 93 there was an ice storm in Wisconsin and I was driving my 74 Buick while coming home at 1am from working at Neenah Foundry. I had to gun it almost every time I stopped, just to get the tires dug through the ice. They got warm and cut through. I also kept 300lbs of sand in the trunk. It took me a 1/4 tank of gas to get 16 miles.
I like you! 😂 Michigander here and I’ve never had winter tires either. Nor have I been in any accident that were my fault. Even more… no accidents in winter in 30 years of driving.
In places like Alaska, Vehicles have to be kept in heated spaces, or ran 24/7 in the winter months, to avoid freezing up. Sometimes, engine block heaters are not enough to cope with that kind of cold. That's just one of the reasons things cost so much more up there.
As someone from Winnipeg, Manitoba (AKA Winter-peg), ive had no problem with all season tires on my truck. True, winter tires would afford me better traction on ice and snow, but proper winter driving is more effective no matter what tires you got on. I see wrecks everyday and the cars have winter tires. I always say "Winter tires dont fix stupid drivers". Just give your self time to get where your going. Give room ahead of you, even though some will just hop in that space, just back down a bit and gove room again. And just take it easy on the pedals. We just had about 8 inches of snow dump on us and now -40° temperatures and i haven't slid once.
You can't replace Angelina with that other female on the last video, Angelina and Sandro are #1, and black ice is a horrible air freshener, and horrible road condition, also little can most likely for compost
i live in finnland.we have long winters so when we go to driving school there is a little obstacle course called ¨liukas rata¨-literally ¨slippery course¨.there is 1:1 size rubber moose that you have to dodge from a specific speed and lane+other exercises.and yes even in the summer,they use oil and soap to make the course slippery,sometimes even more than on actual ice.also it is illegal to drive without snow tires in the winter
Northern Alberta Canada here. I was the only one of four roomates whose car started on a -40 morning(-40 being the spot where celsius and fahrenheit intersect). An 05 neon stick shift. Loved that car for winter driving. I bragged while I helped the rest get going. They were watching when I bent my clutch actuator when I tried to drive away. My comeuppance was three days trying to fix it in those same temperatures.
FOR 9:37 TIME STAMP I believe it's Alaska or Russia where they idle a car for the entire winter so they can have the car running daily when they need it I believe they also have blankets that they put over the vehicle or a tarp so when the car is idling able to help keep form freezeing
The vehicle getting pulled from the lake is classic northern Minnesota (Brainerd, specifically). Every year, ice fisherman get a little too ambitious while hauling icehouses out on lakes and go through the ice. It costs a fortune to remove sunk trucks, but is really really legally required, because lots of oil, gas, and metal in lakes is not so good for their health. I've always heard it takes about 8" of ice to safely drive a full size truck on ice.
0:27 it isn't weight, the problem is the TIRES, drove CDL in Alaska 48,000+ pound vehicle. second one is again the tires 6:23 that is nothing, I've seen cars in Alaska that you can see from inside to the ground under the car, rust protection is spray the underside with truck bed liner spray. 7:55 that is NOT black ice as you can hear the tires squealing on DRY ASPHAULT 37 years driving in Alaska. 15:20 for extreme cold run synthetic 0w-30 motor oil and synthetic 80w-90 gear oil
One thing that Russian clip didn't talk about is the heavy oil problem in low temps. The internals beat themselves to death on the low viscosity oil. You're basically sacrificing an engine if you try to start it below -40. In Fairbanks we have oil heaters that we use to keep it from sludging up. It's also why automatic car starters are a thing. You can set them to autostart every couple of hours and run for 20 minutes to keep the internals kosher.
As a Minnesotan I've been on some real slippery situations on the road before but always got out in one piece. You can just drive onto the lakes during the winter time if there are people ice fishing, there will be paths cleared for cars too. I used to eat lunch on the frozen lake in my car. That black ice can get you. I've been driving down a hill with a intersection at the bottom and the hill was iced over when I went to slow down and I lost control. I corrected myself towards the traffic light pole while it was thankfully on red and once I went over the curb I braked on the grass and my car hit a bush but there was no scratches. My car has actually lasted me 10 years out here still going strong and I barely wash it.
Worked at a water treatment plant that took used frac water from gas drilling and essentially burned off the water. The salt that remained was used to salt the roads all over the state during winter... Chemicals were never removed just the water content and all kinds of acids and caustic stuff used so who knows exactly what is in that stuff they spread on the roads
I'm from Canada and working in a heavy equipment rental yard, when we were renting out some of the machines in the winter we'd have insulated tarps and herman nelsons or frost fighters to thaw out the engine before we'd start it.
Four winters in Chicago my second winter I got my drivers license at 20, new driver, learning as we go along, slip sliding away. It’s crazy out in Chicago. I never got into any hard-core accidents, thank goodness, but one time when I was slowly turning a street with nobody else on it making a left my card did a 360 lol, I think I was driving a Grand Prix 71 and then it just stopped and I carried on driving. I’ve seen a lot of accidents and yeah, driving in the snow is not a joke. Now I’m back in LA and I have no problems ever with the weather lol
I live in Canada and always have summers on even in the winter I love going around corners and sliding my car but I also know how to correct it and control the slide
They are recycle receptacles for states that allow you to smash the cans first. But some of those states even don’t have these type of recycle cans, like California.
I remember doing the opposite of heating a car up enough to work while I was in the military. 2 hours before the aircrew was going to start preflight checks, we had to hook up Air Conditioner units to drop the temperature of the plane to about 80°F just so it would be cold enough to turn the plane on.
It was -40 F and below (with wind chill) where I live for over a week last winter. I spent a total of 18 hours working on mine, my bosses, and an Expedition from work (small utility company). That doesn't happen here, but I grew up where it does, and had swapped my Altima to 0-20 when it hit -20. I'm just glad the trucks have cast iron blocks so I could put a bunch of mag heaters on them.
That warming method up at 11:07, I saw a variant a while ago, was waiting for my wife outside her work during the winter (-15 C/5 F) when a lady started her Peugeot 308. She proceeded to floor it for a few minutes (bouncing of the rev limiter style) to warm it up, I was thinking of getting out and educate her, but I realized it was after all just a Peugeot...
6:38 *Rusty Jones & Ziebart! Unfortunately nobody appeared to do that to my 2006 Nissan frontier I bought used. The iron mods just eaten that thing away. The back bumper is just a shell of chrome... shops don't want to touch it because all the nuts and bolts and flanges and everything are all rusted together.*
9:37, this happens surprisingly often here in New England with the advent of automatic engine shutoffs. People idle their engines to keep the heater going, which doesn't keep the engine on long enough to keep the exhaust hot. So I've heard of outdoorsmen, traffic cops, and homeless people struggling with this phenomenon.
5:19 Crane says "Ice Recovery Unit" and you'll notice load spreaders (4:59) made from u-channel across the ground right next to the hole though for some reason they don't appear to have any on the back wheels so the ice must be thicker now.
Snow and drifting... Always awesome. I also have a story to tell, but instead of a car it includes a Sisu XA-185 APC (PASI), 2 APC crew members, a lightpole and one very angry Major. So I'm finnish and did my conscription back in 1999-2000. I will not tell places where this happend or names who were involved for the obvious reasons, but it was early February and we've had our company photo just taken, included 2 of our Sisu XA-185 APC's, that has the combat weight of 13 500kg and 6x6 drive. Picture was taken in this open training field with some lightpoles around it and one way in and one way out. Officers had already left with the other PASI and rest of our company was heading to the main road, that went by the field. Suddenly we heard the reving of that one PASI engine and saw, that our two sassy APC drivers were trying to do donuts on that snowy field. They stopped and started to drive towards the entry, but suddenly pushed the pedal to the metal and accelerated that 13,5k kg armored coffin toward the bank of snow about 100m side of the entry road. Not sure how they did it with the chains on the wheels, but they managed to whip the rear and drift sideways with that thing, but it was not stopping as quickly, that they probably thought. We all wathed in horror how the PASI was slidingtowards the one lightpole, but in some miracle, just when we thought, that the PASI was gonna mow down the pole it stopped and gave a little bob on the right side of it. Gap between the right side of the PASI and the pole couldn't be more then 20cm. We all (including the drivers) were relieved untill suddenly a SISU NA-110 (NASU) drove in and a absolutely livid Major jumped out and pretty much teared those two driver a new ones and yelling "TODAY YOU HAVE YOUR LICENCES, BUT TOMORROW YOU DON'T!!!". Those poor bastards also got a grand sack of crap from our company commander, but they also got their licences back week later, because we were going to exercice and we were lacking of PASI drivers. But oh man was it glorious to see that APC slide.
6:50 oil spray was pretty common until about 30 years ago, at least in east germany. Just covered the underside of the car in used engine oil, had a ride across the fields and the result was pretty resistant to salt and mechanical impacts. Nowadays it's illegal, cause of possible damage to the environment.
I live in what used to be known as the Frozen North Eastern US. We don't get the snow we used to get but it still snows and ices up. I have All Weather Nokian WRG4s and they actually got grip on black ice (after I slipped ass over tea kettle trying to get to my car). All weather tires are the best one tire solution to having to deal with occasional snow/ice conditions.
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For 13:11, those green bins are for places that do composting. So instead of throwing their banana peels and rotten vegetables, they compost them.
Not knowing that is so american.
PS : i was wondering in the beginning too. I agree its funny haha where i live its a big container. But in the big city there is alot of small ones
yep have them in New Zealand for that reason as well
@@ÉdouardBrasseur It’s not about being American. He does for real stuff, not this stupid stuff. ANYWAY… It’s just that some places have it, some don’t. Including different American cities. Here in Los Angeles, where Donut is located and most of the hosts live, food waste goes in the same large green bin as yard waste, not a special small bin. And BTW, I believe the clip in question is from Washington state, so, y’know… those Americans know about them. 🤷🏽♂️
Thank you!!!!
@@TheNZgeekwas going to mention that haha
Those green bins are for organic recycling (compost). We have them in Canada.
Can confirm
to be fair, it’s slightly different everywhere i’ve lived
I remember brown being compost, yellow being recycling, and black being trash where i used to live
Brown for compost, green recycling and black trash here
The reason it was funny is because of how tiny it is. In California most area have the same size bin for all 3. In the bay area i have seen smaller bins but never this tiny. Looks like a child’s size bin.
Yes sir
My Buddy hit a patch of black ice near Poughkeepsie and wound up in a ditch, the NY State Police hit the same patch responding to the call, on the same trajectory, made contact, pushing the car another car length into the ditch. The first thing the officer said was “Well obviously you weren’t at fault here.”
LOL that's hilarious. Shitty situation but it's always nice to know it's not just you
Bet that is not what the insurance company said 😂
Had an odd situation that the police didn't believe until it happened to them - I live in Wisconsin, and during winter the side roads can be... challenging. My late husband and I were traveling to a different county when we decided to turn back. Got stuck, got out of the van to push it... Then the van slid into the ditch. When the cops showed up, they wouldn't believe that we were not in the vehicle when it went fully in.
Then the tow truck did the same thing.
Turns out there was an ice shelf above the ditch that hid how deep it was.
I bet so many people probably called the city about that black ice and it landed on deaf ears but after the cop crashed driving over the same black ice the city probably started shutting down roads the next day to salt all the black ice in and around the city limits.
Good humor in a tense situation is great 😃
11:27 suppy's look of sheer disheartened despair is killing me omfg, its like a parent catching their kid drawing on the wall
The green bins are for organic waste. When they are they small, it's not yard clippings, but kitchen compost usually.
Yeah these guys live in California, they should know better., we have green bins too, just maybe twice the size in height
That’s what I was assuming. Where do they do this at? I live in Colorado and they don’t do that here. I know I Germany they have to do that
@@Fruitloop398 Seattle. It's legally required (though I can't imagine ever inforced) to compost.
We have them here in Ontario, though at least where I am the recycle and garbage bins are different (we have 3 separate, smaller, blue bins for recycling. One for fibres/paper, one for cardboard, and one for containers like bottles, jars, and cans). Our garbage bins are just pails (basically cylinders with a rounded lid, the typical image of a garbage can, though ours are plastic and have attachments to hold the lid in place to ward off raccoons).
@PrecisionAcc not the same bins
The tiny trash cans at 13:05 are "Green bins" - they're for compostable food waste, so that instead of just sitting around in a landfill and rotting and stinking up the neighborhood, it gets turned into soil and the natural gas that gets made goes to power plants.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Weird in California the green bin is the largest bin and it's for yard clippings too.
Can confirm. We have bins like this for compost as well. Although ours are brown.
Thank you, now I can sleep.
Thank you!😂
Growing up in Colorado, my dad always said, "two wheel drive or four wheel drive, once you lock the brakes you're a two ton hockey puck"
Some people believe that 4W drive means everything works better. Sure you can crawl through more snow, accelerate faster and so on, but that corner is still as sharp, that ice is still as slick, that hill is still as steep and your braking and road grip is still the same as if you had two wheel drive. Four wheel drive is fine, and can be very important, but it doesn't mean you can ignore the snow and ice.
I've often heard recommendations to run ordinary two wheel drive for as long as possible, then engage full all wheel drive when the situation requires it. Also you vill often be better off if you use the all wheel drive to get out of situations where two wheel drive wouldn't let you get further. If you enable all wheel drive and press on the risk is that you may get a bit further into the woods only to end up unable to get anywhere, and now you really are in trouble.
In Pagosa I quickly learned the best thing you can do is shift to neutral and flutter the brakes.
@@blahorgaslisk7763it's also good to know that four wheel drive and all wheel drive are not the same.
@@raymond9642Did you ever bash into the side of a feed store?
@@Daniel-Weaver Nah that was Earl. I kept tellin' him he was gonna crash that rig.
Fan from Minnesota here! just wanted to lest you know that YES they do just leave the cars in lakes and fish them out later. what usually happens is when the guys from Iowa come up all excited to go ice fishin' they forget to check the depth of the ice and there new work truck falls through! then they call the insurance man who then hire a crane operator who uses a specialized crane called a SUVE ( pronounced soo-vee) to get it out. keep up the good work!
Sandro must have been kicking it with the boys for this one. Always happy to see Angelina though
Sandro is from So Cal, he said “snow? What the fuck do I know about snow!”
@@mj8323 L comment
Anyone checked to make sure the German Engineers didn't get him?
@@mj8323imagine needing to edit a two sentence comment lol.
"That was all you and your bald-ass tyres" - Angelina ♥
The lady drunk driving on the frozen canal happened in Indianapolis. The crazy thing is, there’s virtually nowhere that you can easily drive down to the canal. She had to drive down a flight of stairs or over a curb and down a short steep hill to get there. There’s no way she didn’t know that she f-ed up long before she crashed through the ice.
That’s what I came here to say too. Like I don’t know where she would have gotten down there.
Unless the steps or curb had snow on them and it looked like a ramp?
"But officer the GPS told me to go down those 3 flights of stairs!"
That’s wild because I see the canal almost everyday and had no clue that happened 🤣
right before she broke through the ice she was probably thinking: phew, totally saved that! Found another road, no one will ever know I drove down a flight of stairs!
I am a truck driver, double tanker in snow. I have stories! Honestly the guy who missed the big rig did the best he could! I’m glad he got props.
In blizzards, I get behind YOU and follow your lights because ai know you can drive and your markers are all I can see.
Safe distance and preferably letting you know, of course.
Pressure washer broom that works great for under the car
If he slowed down, then stopped, he wouldn't have had to do that risky maneuver.
@meekmeads If he tried to come to a complete stop, it would have been a much worse situation. But you need to rage bait for the trolling.
@@aaronabbey2604 I said slow down, gradually, then stop.
The driver violated the very basic rules of driving, not looking ahead and preparing, obviously he's not familiar with the 12-second rule! Also not driving according to conditions, yikes! The driver also violated so many other basics, he/she shouldn't have a license and be allowed behind a wheel at all!
In oregon we use sand, adds traction, but not a real de icer. But chassis rust and collapsing bridges are unheard of.
8:30 Funny hearing his tires squealing on 'black ice', gives me flash backs to 80's car chase scenes where all the tires squeal on dirt roads.
I have actually heard tires squeal on a gravel road. It shocked me and the driver, but we figured we must have dug through the loose stuff, then found the base. Over time, especially in farm country, the gravel will compact as hard as cement. When they added some flood control drainage, they had the same machines to tear up the compacted gravel and even used jackhammers on it. It was fun to watch during summer break at 14 years old, cuz all I had was my chores and one tv channel. Even in iowa, we have those remote places. I miss Texas lol.
He probably lost control on black ice - but went over normal asphalt sideways afterwards.
Once you are sideways - it's hard to recover. Even more so when towing a trailer.
@@dustinshadle732 He refers to those 80ies tv shows - with added tire squeal on clearly visible loose dirt and gravel. Truely an 80ies thing.
But yes - the right type of dirt becomes as hard as concrete. Especially chalk does that as soon as it gets wet.
@@stanislavczebinski994Dukes of Hazzard is the one that immediately comes to mind.
Nothing personal but don't all of you live In L.A.??? Maybe you know some snow, no hate, ya'll should do a Donut video in the snow.
Watching people in Southern California talk about winter driving is hilarious. Love from Canada ❤🇨🇦
Yes I grew up thinking all cars have block-heaters haha
Same here. 😁🇨🇦
Having grown up in Northern Quebec, full agree! ;)
Northern Alberta agrees!!
Lost it when they said you cant drive in winter on all season tires, big ups from Alaska!
13:01 That is a compost bin from Ontario, Canada. They started a compost recycling program decades ago. You can get small plastic composable bags you toss all of your old left over food, vegetable peels, rotting food, etc and put them in these little pails which is collected on weeks they collect recycling.
Same in UK but ours were even smaller
The green bin
Kitchener Ontario
Im in ontario. My area just started this in january
@gasNmudtv fair enough. They've use them in Durham Region for more than 20 years
I lived in Fairbanks AK for 3 years in the Army. It gets -50. All you need to keep your car running is a headbolt heater and automotive heater pads for the oil pan, transmission pan and battery pan. All the auto parts stores have the Alaskan winterization kit. They even sell a 4 outlet plugin so you can just have one cord sticking out of your grill.
I see Angelina, I click.
Your her onlyfan?
Same here.
You guys need to go outside 😂
Yoo she has onlyfans
Bull💩💩 ! U serious ?? Bro that's gonna break my heart. No way my Angie would do such a thing. Say it ain't so, @@duckaroobonzai2648
As a former rust belt mechanic from PA the moved to southern VA…. I can’t tell you how nice it is to have fasteners just come off 90% of the time. ;)
AMEN. I’m from PA but lived in FL for a couple years and it was great working on cars that were 10+ years old with nuts & bolts that weren’t even hardly rusted. As long as the vehicle wasn’t a truck or something that was taken out on the surf you really didn’t see much corrosion. Come back up to PA though and you’re struggling to get hardware off when doing an exhaust on a car that’s only a few years old. Gotta love that salt/brine mixture getting sprayed on the road all winter long. 😖
Seriously, F road salt. Just plow it and maybe put sand here and there.
Montana doesn't use road salt... _Montana._ If they can get by without it, anyone can.
@@nthgth well at some point its so cold that salt doesn't work anyway. Montana sounds like a place like that. In my experience places that regularly get really cold and lots of snow have less problems with it then places where only get snow once in a decade. Snow isn't as bad if you are prepared for it and know what you can and can't do. But if you are on summer or All season rubber (called NO season for a reason) and don't know what to do it can be BAD, specially if you believe you are immortal.
PS 4x4 doesn't stop any different then normal car and are usually heavier, making things worse.
@@vladimirmihnev9702 that's a pretty good point that I never thought of -- that if it's usually too cold for salt to work, maybe they don't even try it even in early or late winter. And that Montana might be there.
Also, totally agree about 4WD and AWD. Great for not getting stuck, nothing for anything else.
As a yinzer... I can't help but feel bad when I see out of towners driving black or dark colored cars in the winter.
Am Canadian... I can 100% guarentee you that 4 wheel drive and snow tires does not mean you can drive like its summer-time mid winter on snowy roads.. we have a family member that lives in the middle of nowhere and we sometimes drive up to her place for mini vacations and more often than not, we get passed by big pickups or all-wheel drive SUVs and then we all bet as to how far (not if) down the road we will see them in a ditch. Slow your speeds on everything... braking, accel, turning ect... we rarely wait long.
Yeah, it's not hard to know who is going to be in a ditch later when they pass you.
Engineering Explained did a great one about AWD/4WD and Winter driving.
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Effectively, 4WD/AWD gives you a LOT more grip going uphill or trying to get moving on snow. So much so that it is even better than Winter tires on a FWD/RWD vehicle.
But stopping is entirely the tires, and winter + AWD/4WD is massively better than just AWD/4WD
The graph at 9:05 shows this really clearly
My coworker owns an AWD Alfa Romeo Guilia and he drives like a maniac. Even when I put 4 new tires on it, he still crashes it lol. I've warned him all the gadgets and AWD do not make you immune from losing control. It's only there to help you. It's never an excuse to drive like that year round
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Patience gets you where you gotta go usually. I've passed people in big lifted trucks and other supposedly good off road vehicles. They get impatient or hit the brakes when they over cook it up a hill or around a corner and they are off the road. Or just stuck.
Hi. As a rally driver (Ret), and a Finn, I give You a tip, concerning driving on slippery ways:
Take a look at Swedish Rally, that´s how to do it! It´s the only Rally on snow, unfortunately, in WRC, but they know what driving in snow is.
Big time.
from a Finn in Diaspora
To answer the crane question. Truck falls through. You have to wait a couple more weeks for ice to be thicker for crane. You go out to spot, cut square in ice, then use crane. The cranes weight is distributed so it’s not all in one spot.
12:30 - I'm a delivery driver in the Seattle area and I have delivered in that neighborhood for 4 years now, that Porsche has sat there unmoved in that persons yard the whole time. I'm guessing it happened in the big freeze we had Christmas time 2023. as per the tiny trashcans I actually don't know just know lol
Cool
Nolan: WINTER IS COMING!
Me, who's been freezing to death in the snow and hail every morning for the past 4 months: NO WAY!
Which part of the country you at where it wasn't unseasonably warm and rainy for Nov and December? I'm in the Northeast and can't even count those months. The actual winter started in January.
My winter is already over 💀 it's hot outside again, except at night lol
In northern Finland I saw that most houses have these plug-in electrical heaters. Guess it just keeps the block above freezing.
The trouble with saying "wash the salt off" is as experienced here in North Central Wisconsin: if the temp outside is below freezing and you don't have access to a heated garage (most of us don't), washing your car results in your doors, windows and mirrors freezing shut, where water was trapped and froze before it could dry or run off. So, we could stand in the cold and wipe off the excess water after the car wash (we don't), or we only wash our cars on the 1 to 3 days each winter in which the temperature is favorable to do so, assuming you have the time to sit for hours in a line at the 1 or 2 car washes in your small town since all 3-5000 people are trying to wash their car that day. So, your car might get 1 or 2 car washes all winter and otherwise be a salt encrusted mess the remainder. An example is a small town near me, Crandon WI. Crandon is the county seat of Forest Co. and has a population of 1700 people (yes, it is the most populous town in the county), and the surrounding communities/rural residents that come there for their needs adds about another 1500 within a 5 mile radius. Crandon has a single 2-stall car wash facility. The next nearest car wash is 25 miles away. Everyone's car is rusty, and salt covered. It's logistics, you can't put even half those cars through a single facility on 1 warm day.
FYI, never buy a used car from Wisconsin or Michigan, unless you desire a cheap rusty car for something like an off-roader or beater vehicle.
Cheers from Menomonie! 😭 So true
@@lengmoua6861Menomonie!?! Born and raised there. Went to downsville elementary. Now living in Lake Hallie. Lol
I mean you can just spray off the underside with a hose at home since the underside is the main area it actually matters not the doors and windows
@@noodlelynoodle. Once again, It's gonna freeze crap together.
Yeah southern folks always forget water freezes...
Also, as a New Englander:
Black Ice is specifically a threat when the temperature is ABOVE freezing during the day (when the snow melts and pools into water) and then dips back BELOW freezing at night (when that water turns into clear black ice). Watch your outdoor temperatures, rain, and elevation!
That's ice, not black ice. Black ice specifically forms when the road is colder than the air and the moisture in the air freezes to the cold surface creating a super thin but slippery surface.
Very true I used to live in Connecticut. I moved down to Florida when I was like 21. During the summer when the sun bakes the pavement and then it will start down pouring out of nowhere, It’s basically like driving on black eyes for the first 15 minutes because all that oil from the pavement is now being slammed with torrential rain. It’s almost worse than black ice.
@@richardhcarter It's particularly a danger on bridges/overpasses and in places where mountains cast part of the road in shadow most of the day.
@@richardhcarterblack ice is a myth- this post made by NH gamg
I get what you meant, but I imagined waking up in the morning and checking the weather at home and being like , "Let's we how high we are today.... 300ft higher than yesterday huh?"
I live in Indianapolis, IN. The canal driver happened last year, and there's no road that leads to the canal. The only way down are either stair cases or a large grass hill at one end of the canal. I recognized the video as soon as it started lol.
In Canada it's 10-15 minutes to let it warm up haha.
All seasons are ok in snow, if you know how to drive in snow, and if you aren't a low slung rwd 😅
2:28 Bro is drifting in the church parking lot.
That was the power of Christ😂😂😂
Jesus take the wheel !
The best places to have fun when it snows, honestly.
The power of christ compelled him 😂
The power of Christ compelled him
😂😂
Michigan man here, they started using Beet juice last year. The problem with it is when it warms up it actually slows down the snowmelt and makes the roads even more slippery. Plus, the sugar in the Beet juice attracts animals to the road. They discontinued the practice this winter because accidents went up.
Beet juice is so random. In California they use gravel, which worked pretty well in my experience.
@kuebby not random at all. Michigan produces alot of sugar beets. I'm guessing this guy loves near the saginaw bay/thumb
@@kuebby It gives traction if on top of the snow... but it doesn't melt the snow... you guys don't get much snow. The salt is a necessity.
As a Canadian I can both confirm that the little green bins are for compost waste and that these fails are all skill issues 😂
As a fellow Canadian, I agree!
@@smokiethebear3334motion carried 😂😂
Aye
In the northern provinces of Canada and Alaska it's fairly common to use external heaters on diesel trucks and equipment that's been sitting in extreme cold. Usually they just use blankets around the motor. In some cases they also have attachments on the cooling systems so you can connect the cold vehicle to a running one and warm the motor up that way. Then, once you get it started, you don't shut it off unless you absolutely have to.
Northern interior Alaskan, this winter we saw -62F out at my place. We winterize our trucks and Isome of us with older vehicles cover our engine bays with a thick and heavy duvets, sleeping bags, etc. I have to let it run for 30 minutes when its anywhere below freezing to -35F. But once we hit closer to -40F to colder, then it varies until the transmission wishes to shift gear. Some days were out in 30 and on the road, some days it takes 50 minutes. You do what you have to. When i'm at the other cabin which has no running electricity, I bring a torch and a propane Mr. Buddy heater to thaw the truck out manually.
it's common to face some funny repair bills come spring. Last year I destroyed my whole front end by traveling into town. Had some massive potholes that devoured suspension, tires, joints, and even claimed a few short car bumpers.
Do you use studded tires in Alaska? Here in Scandinavia, they are mandatory during winter months. (Well, studded or non-studded friction tires)
Also, most cars have an electric block heater installed.
You connect your car to a power outlet with a timer, and it will start heating the engine for about an hour before you leave for work. It is usually combined with a small area heater inside the cabin, so the car will be nice and warm and de-frosted.
It is stupid simple, but it makes driving to work on a cold winter morning bearable.
I live in Alaska, too. My area sees -50 for months, and we use block heaters and oil pan heaters. Sometimes, even battery trickle chargers. Studded tires are highly recommended. It's just rough on the cars, and the road conditions are terrible. Pot holes that destroy cars, and when it gets to like -25, -30 salt won't work, so cities will start sprinkling gravel on roads for traction. Once summer starts, it's a mess of flying rocks and broken windshields. About every other car has cracks and chips.
@JH-lo9ut Studded tires are highly recommended. But honestly, Winter specific or studded tires should be mandatory.
I live near Syracuse, NY. The worst thing about winter (besides road salt) is having to brush off, or worse, de-ice my car every other day in the winter. (Not so much this past winter though)
I like lots of things about both Alaska and Scandinavia, but I sure am glad I don't have to worry about block heaters and all that.
Edit: NY has terrible potholes too, state-wide. Long Island too. So I get that part.
-35 and I gotta work the truck never shuts off. I've left vehicles (diesels) running for weeks on end. I work in the oilfields in north dakota, ain't no one stealing vehicles in -30 plus windchill. I've been through the struggles of cold starting diesels in 40 below and it's not worth it, just leave it running lmfao
4:40 this is peak nolan i appreciate your character do not change you gem of a man
12:30 ice covered road, no traction.
What can you do? Put it in neutral. Straighten the wheel. Feet off the pedals. When the wheels turn, you get some traction back for steering. Steer safe. Apply brakes gently, release brakes if slide starts again.
You can't stop easily, but you can control the slide, by not sliding.
The small green bins are for disposing compost. We have those here in Canada.
These clips really show the harsh realities of winter driving. It's eye-opening to see the lengths people go to in order to keep their vehicles operational in such brutal conditions.
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From the heart of The Snow Belt ❄️ in Cleveland...
*Get a set of good snow tires to run 4 mo./year!
*Don't undercoat with oil! Undercoat with a lanolin-based coating (Fluid Film/Surface Shield/Woolwax).
*Get a block heater to extend the life of your engine.
Nah. I'm a lot further north than you. The only thing you really need is the snow tires.
Meh, I'm up in Canada land, all my vehicles have block heaters I've never plugged one in.
@@jordanmercier3616 Using them can only help extend the life of your engine.
@@davecarsley8773 I'd like to see the condition of your vehicles' frames and undercarriages... We get brine on the roads here and untreated vehicles rot away.
My friend moved to Montana awhile ago and she says they don't use road salt. If Montana doesn't need to aggressively destroy their cars, I don't see why anyone does.
7:36 Colorado does not use beet juice on the road. Some local municipalities in the mountains may use it, but the state does not. Colorado uses magnesium chloride. Other de-icers are always being explored, but beet juice was rejected as it contains high levels of phosphates that were deemed too damaging to the oxygen levels our waterways.
True that! Glad someone else knows that too 🙌🏽 the snow never sticks around long enough in the denver area to be super motivated to find new de icers tho lol
I have a Honda fit and it has hit -30C and colder on rare occasions. starts up every time. Transmission shifts heavy at first but synthetic synchromesh helps in extreme cold.
It's funny watching people from Southern California talking about driving in the snow. That's like me talking about surfing.
I was thinking the same thing.
Nobody in Southern California is FROM Southern California lol
15:36 Youre hearing their serpentine belt squeal, basically its a tightened belt but it's installed in a heated garage, in the winter you have to readjust it to prevent squeal. The belt has changed in size thanks to the tempurature.
Never have I ever had to readjust my be my due to temperature, the friction from the moving parts heats it all in no time.
Edit in fact that's what the tensioner is for.
I love in nw Montana and I've never heard such a thing. It gets well below zero here. So I think someone is selling some bullshi
Never heard of that before
@@wynottgivemore9274 as a Canadian im speaking from experience. Also not all of them having working tensioners, especially after 2 decades of use
@@PS1212 seriously if the tensioner is faulty you replace it ,not adjust it. There is nothing to adjust that's why its called a tensioner. Most of my vehicles are 20 years old, or more. Ive had my 92 ford f150 for 8 years haven't heard one squeal nor my 01 venture or my 07 caravan. My 75 gmc had a bit at the start of the winter but i had a bad alternator and a belt ...but that's not a serpentine belt. Well maybe you drive those European cars or something.
Years back on a private road that was covered in ice I lost control and slid off the road at about 5-10 mph. My car was an 87 Jetta and the front wheels ended up around a foot off the road. I spun the tires trying to get out. The next day I called a tow truck to tug the car out of the snow and found my tires were frozen to the ground. With the only frozen contact patches being the two front wheels, it still took a hefty amount of tugging from the tow truck to break it free.
Years back on a road that was covered in ice I lost control and slid off. My car was an 87 Jetta and I spun the tires. The next day I called a tow truck to tug the car out of the snow and we had s3x
Why nor pee on it
@@dedasdude First two questions for you. Why use the grammar of a 5 year old nor proper spelling?
To some of us in the colder climates, the idling causing ice makes sense. When idling the exhaust doesn’t get that hot for the volume of air, but still produces a ton of water vapour, and if left in the cold it will star to freeze in your exhaust.
You kidding me? I idled a car all night in -40 during the 2013 polar vortex stuff. There's absolutely no chance in hell a fully warmed idling gasoline engine is producing so little heat that the exhaust can freeze. 600rpm in a 4 cylinder is still 20 cylinder volumes of air and fuel burning per second. Just because it's idling doesn't suddenly make that exhaust not hundreds of degrees. Even -50 is only 80° below freezing, versus exhaust air moving faster than external air multiple hundreds of degrees above freezing.
Somebody filled that shit with water and a story was made up. Even if it was plausible it'd freeze from the back to the front since that's the coolest region, quickly creating a plug. It wouldn't slowly freeze along up into the heat and fill a significant volume.
2:30 Within seconds, hits the most Subaru crunching obstacle in the football field+ sized lot. That kid's NOT going places. LOL
Right, like the only obstacle in the middle. Hopefully it wasnt an adult
It would be worse if it was the curb, rims are more expensive than a fender.
I'd been expecting him to have a close encounter of the crunchy kind with a parked car. This was a little less embarrassing, before the vid hit the 'net.
@@Razmoudah
Oh yeah, hit something nice and expensive, and you will never make friends with your insurance company, ever again !
@Grumpy_old_Boot No, you can. It just takes a few years.
13:40 Ya.. she's never driven in a cold environment, you gun it; you get even less friction. The trick is the 'feather' the gas pedal. You switch from reverse to gas & vice versa & just barely touch the gas to get where you wanna go.
yup ice laughs at your max gear max revs and laughs even harder if that hits grip and destroys expensive things...
in slopes like that the best is usualy to let it free roll straight backwards so you can steer some at least... have tried it and it can work
Give us a break! We're Californians. I would've guessed the same!
Up in Alaska we just let it idle. I set my idle higher in winter so you don't worry about stalling in these situations. I'd have switched to reverse and keep it in gear til I got to the bottom, but his tires sucked so it probably wouldn't have mattered
I dunno. Depends on the situation and the vehicle. I have to gun it sometimes, and sometimes you just go with the flow. My driveway is steep as f and because of access easements the road is all kinds of rough. We're driving on 8-10" solid ice right now as the snow is thawing, some rain and then freezing temps at night. I've only not made it up once and had to go all the way back down half mile slipping and sliding in reverse.
Amen Angelina’s shout out to chicago mechanics. So much respect for her!! understanding the difference of work us Rust belt techs are fighting daily. shits rough but turning bolts is life.
As a mechanic, I wanna thank you for talking about that job. Here in TX we don't get bad rust so I commented y'all on that.
Thank you for your service. You're on the front lines everyday protecting our rust. God bless Amurica 🇺🇸
In Estonia we use studded tires or lamellar tires in the winter
11:23 I was expecting him to maybe have some insanely powerful windshield wipers to throw the pound of snow off his hood, but no, man proceeds to rev bomb his civic
It is funny that North America get these "extreme winters" and the authorities in most places (and alot of citizens) still refuse to recognize studded winter tyres. Something that the Nordic countries has been using for ages.
And what's with the locked tyres? It never work.
In drivers education here in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, it is part of the "Risk 2" course. We have to learn how to avoid and obstacle in bad road conditions.
If you fail that part, you cannot continue. The course is not optional, you have to pass to get your license.
"All season isn't good enough for winter"
*laughs in Wisconsin* I've never had anything else.
So true, my guy!
Yeah. Just need to be aware of the low, low limits the car now has.
On Long Island, almost no one used winter tires to my recollection.
Moved to Syracuse, the snowiest metro area in the US on average, and the first winter I got by just fine with factory "Prius tires" all-seasons, with RWD even!
(Winter tires do make a noticeable difference though so I still recommend them. More fun to drive too)
@@nthgthI drove a vw gti in Salt Lake (was living/working there) always had summer tires for like 2,3 years.. finally bought a set of snow tires and the difference it made was astounding. Mind blowing how much better car handles with snow tires vs anything else.
@@jlo7770 yeah it's seriously night and day, I don't think I could go back in this climate
New England. Used snow tires on one car. Never again. It made my car so slow and burned theough so much gas. All season has been fine.
13:15 They're green bins! For food waste.
Nolan with the 311 RIZZ. You guys are funny.
chains are good in snow and ice, however they are illegal on the east coast states..
"This guy hates himself and he hates his car" ahahahahahahah 11:41
I've driven all season tires for FORTY YEARS and through deep snow with my 2012 VW Passat, 2002 Dodge Intrepid, 2004 Dodge Caravan, 1989 Chrysler New Yorker, 1989 Firebird, 1979 Firebird, and 1974 Le Sabre. Almost always before the plows were out or while they were plowing and with very little trouble.
The chick at around 17 minutes should have gunned it. Your tires will get warm and dig. I've done it several times. In January of 93 there was an ice storm in Wisconsin and I was driving my 74 Buick while coming home at 1am from working at Neenah Foundry. I had to gun it almost every time I stopped, just to get the tires dug through the ice. They got warm and cut through. I also kept 300lbs of sand in the trunk. It took me a 1/4 tank of gas to get 16 miles.
I like you! 😂
Michigander here and I’ve never had winter tires either. Nor have I been in any accident that were my fault. Even more… no accidents in winter in 30 years of driving.
Little trash cans are probably compost. Remember to compost guys
The idea of accidentally driving onto a canal scares the hell out of me. It's like something right outta my nightmares.
Like if Angelina is your reason for being here❤❤❤
In places like Alaska, Vehicles have to be kept in heated spaces, or ran 24/7 in the winter months, to avoid freezing up. Sometimes, engine block heaters are not enough to cope with that kind of cold. That's just one of the reasons things cost so much more up there.
HOW ON EARTH CAN ONE FORGET TO TURN OFF HIS F**CIN CAR?!?!? 😂😂😂
I've almost done that before. I honestly hate the pushbutton start.
Wait, doesn't everybody love 311?
Yeah I personally won’t stand for the 311 slander I got their logo proudly on the back of my truck lol
Angelina ❤
As someone from Winnipeg, Manitoba (AKA Winter-peg), ive had no problem with all season tires on my truck. True, winter tires would afford me better traction on ice and snow, but proper winter driving is more effective no matter what tires you got on. I see wrecks everyday and the cars have winter tires. I always say "Winter tires dont fix stupid drivers". Just give your self time to get where your going. Give room ahead of you, even though some will just hop in that space, just back down a bit and gove room again. And just take it easy on the pedals. We just had about 8 inches of snow dump on us and now -40° temperatures and i haven't slid once.
This! I’ve never had winter tires! I’m in SE Michigan. Been here my whole life.
You can't replace Angelina with that other female on the last video, Angelina and Sandro are #1, and black ice is a horrible air freshener, and horrible road condition, also little can most likely for compost
i live in finnland.we have long winters so when we go to driving school there is a little obstacle course called ¨liukas rata¨-literally ¨slippery course¨.there is 1:1 size rubber moose that you have to dodge from a specific speed and lane+other exercises.and yes even in the summer,they use oil and soap to make the course slippery,sometimes even more than on actual ice.also it is illegal to drive without snow tires in the winter
Northern Alberta Canada here. I was the only one of four roomates whose car started on a -40 morning(-40 being the spot where celsius and fahrenheit intersect). An 05 neon stick shift. Loved that car for winter driving.
I bragged while I helped the rest get going. They were watching when I bent my clutch actuator when I tried to drive away.
My comeuppance was three days trying to fix it in those same temperatures.
FOR 9:37 TIME STAMP I believe it's Alaska or Russia where they idle a car for the entire winter so they can have the car running daily when they need it I believe they also have blankets that they put over the vehicle or a tarp so when the car is idling able to help keep form freezeing
The vehicle getting pulled from the lake is classic northern Minnesota (Brainerd, specifically). Every year, ice fisherman get a little too ambitious while hauling icehouses out on lakes and go through the ice. It costs a fortune to remove sunk trucks, but is really really legally required, because lots of oil, gas, and metal in lakes is not so good for their health. I've always heard it takes about 8" of ice to safely drive a full size truck on ice.
Those green bins are compost bins. In Canada many regions pick up food waste and compost it.
0:27 it isn't weight, the problem is the TIRES, drove CDL in Alaska 48,000+ pound vehicle.
second one is again the tires
6:23 that is nothing, I've seen cars in Alaska that you can see from inside to the ground under the car, rust protection is spray the underside with truck bed liner spray.
7:55 that is NOT black ice as you can hear the tires squealing on DRY ASPHAULT 37 years driving in Alaska.
15:20 for extreme cold run synthetic 0w-30 motor oil and synthetic 80w-90 gear oil
That last clip is from a restaurant parking lot on Lake Erie in Buffalo called Hoak’s
One thing that Russian clip didn't talk about is the heavy oil problem in low temps. The internals beat themselves to death on the low viscosity oil. You're basically sacrificing an engine if you try to start it below -40. In Fairbanks we have oil heaters that we use to keep it from sludging up. It's also why automatic car starters are a thing. You can set them to autostart every couple of hours and run for 20 minutes to keep the internals kosher.
As a Minnesotan I've been on some real slippery situations on the road before but always got out in one piece. You can just drive onto the lakes during the winter time if there are people ice fishing, there will be paths cleared for cars too. I used to eat lunch on the frozen lake in my car. That black ice can get you. I've been driving down a hill with a intersection at the bottom and the hill was iced over when I went to slow down and I lost control. I corrected myself towards the traffic light pole while it was thankfully on red and once I went over the curb I braked on the grass and my car hit a bush but there was no scratches. My car has actually lasted me 10 years out here still going strong and I barely wash it.
Worked at a water treatment plant that took used frac water from gas drilling and essentially burned off the water. The salt that remained was used to salt the roads all over the state during winter... Chemicals were never removed just the water content and all kinds of acids and caustic stuff used so who knows exactly what is in that stuff they spread on the roads
I'm from Canada and working in a heavy equipment rental yard, when we were renting out some of the machines in the winter we'd have insulated tarps and herman nelsons or frost fighters to thaw out the engine before we'd start it.
13:14 those "tiny trash cans" are green bins they are for your compostable things if you dont have a conposyer and garden to pitt it on
Nolan had me cracking up with the 311 joke, so true hahaha
Four winters in Chicago my second winter I got my drivers license at 20, new driver, learning as we go along, slip sliding away. It’s crazy out in Chicago. I never got into any hard-core accidents, thank goodness, but one time when I was slowly turning a street with nobody else on it making a left my card did a 360 lol, I think I was driving a Grand Prix 71 and then it just stopped and I carried on driving. I’ve seen a lot of accidents and yeah, driving in the snow is not a joke. Now I’m back in LA and I have no problems ever with the weather lol
my old AWD Audi Quattro had a warning in the owner's manual. "This vehicle can not break the laws of physics"
I live in Canada and always have summers on even in the winter I love going around corners and sliding my car but I also know how to correct it and control the slide
They are recycle receptacles for states that allow you to smash the cans first. But some of those states even don’t have these type of recycle cans, like California.
Lived in northern sweden where it is to cold to use salt, my car had no rust at all. after one winter in southern sweden killed it.
I remember doing the opposite of heating a car up enough to work while I was in the military.
2 hours before the aircrew was going to start preflight checks, we had to hook up Air Conditioner units to drop the temperature of the plane to about 80°F just so it would be cold enough to turn the plane on.
It was -40 F and below (with wind chill) where I live for over a week last winter. I spent a total of 18 hours working on mine, my bosses, and an Expedition from work (small utility company). That doesn't happen here, but I grew up where it does, and had swapped my Altima to 0-20 when it hit -20. I'm just glad the trucks have cast iron blocks so I could put a bunch of mag heaters on them.
That warming method up at 11:07, I saw a variant a while ago, was waiting for my wife outside her work during the winter (-15 C/5 F) when a lady started her Peugeot 308. She proceeded to floor it for a few minutes (bouncing of the rev limiter style) to warm it up, I was thinking of getting out and educate her, but I realized it was after all just a Peugeot...
13:03 its for compost in Quebec we have the same little trash haha
Ouch. Calling out Wisconsin like that. @11:00
6:38 *Rusty Jones & Ziebart! Unfortunately nobody appeared to do that to my 2006 Nissan frontier I bought used. The iron mods just eaten that thing away. The back bumper is just a shell of chrome... shops don't want to touch it because all the nuts and bolts and flanges and everything are all rusted together.*
that was an epic bad news hack that almost made me spit my beer. "Dude I hit your porsche" "NOOOO!" "You're right, it was the Rav4" "WHEW"
6:50 Where i live in Norway they salt the roads both summer and winter to keep the dust away as well as snow and ice.
9:37, this happens surprisingly often here in New England with the advent of automatic engine shutoffs. People idle their engines to keep the heater going, which doesn't keep the engine on long enough to keep the exhaust hot. So I've heard of outdoorsmen, traffic cops, and homeless people struggling with this phenomenon.
Small garbage bins are for organic waste like your leftover meals. Popular in Canada
5:19 Crane says "Ice Recovery Unit" and you'll notice load spreaders (4:59) made from u-channel across the ground right next to the hole though for some reason they don't appear to have any on the back wheels so the ice must be thicker now.
Snow and drifting... Always awesome. I also have a story to tell, but instead of a car it includes a Sisu XA-185 APC (PASI), 2 APC crew members, a lightpole and one very angry Major. So I'm finnish and did my conscription back in 1999-2000. I will not tell places where this happend or names who were involved for the obvious reasons, but it was early February and we've had our company photo just taken, included 2 of our Sisu XA-185 APC's, that has the combat weight of 13 500kg and 6x6 drive. Picture was taken in this open training field with some lightpoles around it and one way in and one way out. Officers had already left with the other PASI and rest of our company was heading to the main road, that went by the field. Suddenly we heard the reving of that one PASI engine and saw, that our two sassy APC drivers were trying to do donuts on that snowy field. They stopped and started to drive towards the entry, but suddenly pushed the pedal to the metal and accelerated that 13,5k kg armored coffin toward the bank of snow about 100m side of the entry road. Not sure how they did it with the chains on the wheels, but they managed to whip the rear and drift sideways with that thing, but it was not stopping as quickly, that they probably thought. We all wathed in horror how the PASI was slidingtowards the one lightpole, but in some miracle, just when we thought, that the PASI was gonna mow down the pole it stopped and gave a little bob on the right side of it. Gap between the right side of the PASI and the pole couldn't be more then 20cm. We all (including the drivers) were relieved untill suddenly a SISU NA-110 (NASU) drove in and a absolutely livid Major jumped out and pretty much teared those two driver a new ones and yelling "TODAY YOU HAVE YOUR LICENCES, BUT TOMORROW YOU DON'T!!!". Those poor bastards also got a grand sack of crap from our company commander, but they also got their licences back week later, because we were going to exercice and we were lacking of PASI drivers. But oh man was it glorious to see that APC slide.
Its my weekend. Watchin laughin. High as hell watchin this. And the time zone changed and oh my god it wasnt good for my mental health😂😂😂
In Boulder, CO they have tiny trash cans like that. They recycle most stuff and have a compost pickup, so they generally don't make a lot of trash.
Pretty sure it’s Ontario, and we’ve got green bins for compost haha
6:50 oil spray was pretty common until about 30 years ago, at least in east germany. Just covered the underside of the car in used engine oil, had a ride across the fields and the result was pretty resistant to salt and mechanical impacts.
Nowadays it's illegal, cause of possible damage to the environment.
I live in what used to be known as the Frozen North Eastern US. We don't get the snow we used to get but it still snows and ices up. I have All Weather Nokian WRG4s and they actually got grip on black ice (after I slipped ass over tea kettle trying to get to my car). All weather tires are the best one tire solution to having to deal with occasional snow/ice conditions.