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Is it better to air down the tires for traction on snow and ice?
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Nice video
65/35. Max protection
I know you get a lot of questions. Here's mine. 05 Explorer, hesitation or bucking when accelerating. Replaced plugs, wires, MAF and Ignition Coil. Ideas?
When scotty moved out of Texas, Texas began falling apart! Coincidence? I think not!
That's on Abbott
It's a pile of junk!
Him vibrating and flailing his arms around kept the city of Houston warm.
Because refugees from California are fleeing to Texas. The bad thing is the refugees are bringing their liberal values with them.
@@daviejz6698 Yeah for sure bro, those liberals took their winter storms with them
A bad day watching Scotty is better than a good day without him. Edit: my dad in the 70s was insisting use synthetic oil way back when. He said above all things only use synthetic. It was the one thing in my car I spared no expense, even when my funds were very limited. Thanks Dad, you were right.
Back then synthetic oil really was synthetic.
It's really not that more expensive. In fact, could be considered less expensive because you can drive 10K miles verses only 3K with conventional oil.
The 94 Celica is freaking out, "why am I in this new place with snow on me."🤯
Same thing in Texas. "Celica, deal with it".
No biggie, Japan can be very cold as well
Cold starts 😳
That’s what I say about my 16 Azera. Poor car is sitting under snow in Ontario Canada after growing up in South Georgia
Scotty should get himself a Celica GT Four. He deserves one
Good stuff Scotty!
It is true that full synthetic oil flows better than conventional at frigid temperatures. However, even synthetic oil flows way better at 130 degrees than it does at -13 degrees. So I still let my engine warm a bit before taking off. Everyone seems to forget the transmission fluid flows much better at warmer temperatures than at sub zero temperatures too.
“Warm up your engines!!”
Up in Canada, my grandmother would put two 100-Watt lightbulbs under the engine of her car, while it was parked in her unheated garage, and then she would cover the front part of the car with blankets that went right down to the ground. The blankets kept the heat from the lightbulbs inside the engine, so when the temperature went down to -45F for a few nights, her radiator never froze like the way all of her neighbor's cars froze and burst.
That’s cool 😎 fair play to your granny 👍
My dad did the same thing to his old Allis-Chalmers tractor in the winter.
Everyone here knows that when it ships below -25, we park the car and take the dog sled.
My grandma do the same and after a month, goslings came out somewhere!
That is damn clever!
I had a neighbor who would start his car and rev the engine full blast for about ten seconds. I put a note on his window explaining how the oil is in the sump and all that. So, for a week, he'd start his car like you're supposed to. Following week, back to revving the engine full blast. You can't fix stupid.
Stop using what oil?
There's that crazy man again who's out yelling about cars in the cold
Scotty reminds me of
Dr Emmett Brown from the movie "Back to the future".
It's 31 deg today, what are you talking about cold lol. Was 4 this morning. I always run synthetic but I'd especially use it anyplace that has cold weather.
@@aaronlopez3585 and he's menacingly approaching a Chrysler product with his touchscreen scanner. Call the police cause it's gonna get real ugly.
@@elihernandez330 hahahaha good one.
He's from upstate NY. He's NOT afraid of the cold, OR snow.
And always remember that all wheel drive won’t help when you are braking. Good tires are everything.
Learned that in my Subaru 😬😬
You will NEVER convince Southerners that 4 wheel drive does not help you stopping on ICE !! Only crashing their 4 wheel drives after driving on ICE will change their minds !
@@Katmandu2 I hate to watch out of staters in CO thinking they are invincible in their SUV on black ice...ah NO...it is so SAD that they don't understand physics at all.
Awd has nothing to do with breaking 😂 it’s traction
Hey S.K. Another great video. I'm 55 and been obsessed with cars and how they work since I was 7 or 8. Been involved in auto svc since 13. I absolutely agree with 99 % of what you say in every post. Your videos should be mandatory material for anyone getting a drivers license and/or drives or owns a car. Please keep up the great work. Health and happiness to you and yours.
Its 18°to 30°C here in Africa(Zambia).. I may never need this information but I dedicate my attention to this informational video
That's HOT 🔥. Celsius. Not fahrenheit.
@@jeffreydevoti7000 Celsius suka
@@jeffreydevoti7000 ‐30° would be tragic here😂😂
@@mrpoohbearlvr yes 30°Celsius
Interesting.. Today was gorgeous here in N Mn at 20°F.. Last week was -40° or 60° colder than today(Actually 72° below freezing it was)..
We drive and fish on frozen lakes now.. 5months we'll be swimming in same lakes..
God be with you brother.peace
Im in Dallas and boy I tell you im so glad I spent good money on all season tires full synthetic oil and all my maintenance before this snowy apocalypse. I drove my lil jonda accord 01 through this whole ordeal and shes still running great 👍.
What viscosity grade you are using in that fine machine? 5w20?
I just keep adding napa oil and filter changes
@@tomorrowcomestoday1621 yea im pretty sure high mileage full synthetic not sure what brand but the good stuf
All season tires are a significant compromise in cold weather where it snows or gets icy. I use dedicated winter tires in Ohio since we get plenty of snow and ice. They provide capabilities far beyond an all season, even on dry pavement, because the compound is much softer. Obviously it doesn't make sense to have them in Texas, but I wish more drivers had them here.
@@confidentlocal8600 if I had the money I would totally have more than one set
Something that may be of interest about synthetic brake fluid.
Back around 2002~4 I was working as an instructor at MMI and took my job probably more seriously than some of the other instructors so I did my own research (some of the lesson plans had not been updated in 15~20 years)
Off topic, I managed to really piss off one guy who 'knew everything' and actually did know an awful lot of stuff.
He had been complaining about lesson plan updates at least 2 years, I got changes made in less than 3 weeks.
US military was the main proponent for using synthetic brake fluid way back (late 70's?) as they had thousands of vehicles parked up and not used for years at a time.
The fluids were checked 'regularly' (don't know if bi-annual or more often?)
Anyway, they found that in some area's of the country, (high humidity areas?) hydrophobic brake fluids didn't prevent systems problems as water vapour in atmosphere got into the systems over time and instead of being absorbed by the conventional fluid were actually present as water droplets sinking to the lowest point which required replacement of way more expensive parts. I forget the outcome but think it was along the lines of change synthetic fluid every 3~4 years which was close recommendation for conventional fluid.
Lived in upper Midwest for decades, and have driven only small front wheel drive vehicles in the winter with no issues what so ever. Never got stuck with the stock tires. Obviously did not drive into snow drifts higher than the front grille, but still chugged along in deep snow. Have to worry more about the inexperienced drivers in snow. Favorite was a four banger in stick...had excellent control in the snow. 👍😎
That's why I don't understand why people say you don't have to heat the car up...its not really heating it but giving oil and systems a chance to do its thing.
Leaking exhaust gases into the cabin can definitely kill. I like the point into the wind advice. Scotty, you always have some gems of knowledge worth listening to.
I live in New England which in this case Massachusetts where it can be freezing cold in the winter. Sometimes I have to borrow my dad's 4WD 2010 Toyota Highlander if its icy on the roads.
where's the GOAT??
Get your own 4wheel drive.
Moral of the story is use quality fluids.
Yeah, especially if your building babies....
Yes!!!
Amsoil...Theres none better.
A bad fuel pump relay will also cause a running car to shut off after you come to a stop. Happened on my 79 VW Rabbit on a road trip from Pa to Tx. The Rabbit would start and run normally. As soon as we would get off the interstate it would shut off. It would not start up again unless we waited about 15 - 20 minutes. After that it would start up and run normally again. Pull off the Interstate and it would shut off once again. The battery and alternator tested good. Found out if was a bad fuel pump relay.
I had a dodge K car with a 2.2 liter engine in 1983 that was left at the Butte Montana airport for a week. When I got back the air temperature was 50 below zero.. I was afraid it wouldn't start and i'd be stranded but it turned over and started up.. It sounded like a cement mixer and I couldn't shift the manual transmission for about 15 minutes till it warmed up a little. It got me home though and I was very relieved.
LOL cement mixer. I remember the power steering howling like a banshee.
Even -25 in WI made my Omni 2.2 manual feel like it was stuck in molasses. I switched to auto trans fluid.
"Cross country skiing on the beach." LOL Thank you Scotty. Stay warm.
Actually Scotty, when driving in the snow a little lower tire pressure results in a larger contact patch giving more traction. Nothing wrong with that... unless of course you're planning on racing around in the snow at high speed, but then you probably gonna have more bothersome issues to contend with. Don't worry about missing this one, you seldom do.
Higher speed just means roads, especially highways
Experienced winter driving N. Dak and Mont for 65+ years. Lowering tire pressure makes more drag. The drag negates the traction gained. During summer, lower pressure and push your car in neutral on flat concrete. You probally cannot move it. Raise tire pressure and then can push with one hand. I have shown this many times to the doubters. Small tire patch has more grip on ice than a tire with less weight per square inch of tire. You throw sand bags in the trunk to put more weight per square inch of tire. Tall, skinny tires go through snow better than fat tires because the snow is hard to push. Yes, you are pushing it to get through not just sinking in it.
Scotty. Good timing on your party gettin the hell out of Houston when u did.
Most of the expansion and contraction of the air in tires is due to the water vapor content. The advantage of pure nitrogen in them is the lack of water vapor. By itself, nitrogen is fairly inert.
Hey Scotty! I had a similar problem with my '89 Chevy truck as did the Impala! If it was warm, it did not always want to turn over! When it cooled off, it started fine! I replaced the positive battery cable, and that took care of it! On a funny note, I did it in a mall parking lot across from an auto parts store! It worked perfect after that! Love your channel!
I’m so thankful for this man, Scotty your like a gear head father I never had!
Scotty, I've been a mechanic for 50 yrs, and I've never heard of brake fluid freezing because it absorbed too much water. Not once.
Never heard of a battery repeatedly recharging itself enough to start a car with a bad alternator either.
@@daltonharward6499 True, also hot engine due to oil temperature needs less electric power to crank than cold one.
@@daltonharward6499 . I dont think he’s thinking it charges itself, likely some kind of fault that it settled through the attempted start and sitting with the battery chemistry.
@@daltonharward6499 i think electrons gather at the end after time they will in the battery and one side uses up electrons then the other side moves them to the side used up giving you one chance more to start car
Scottys spot on with his first question about awd vs front wheel in winter weather.I have awd and its good in heavy snow but if its slick or icy its got a tendency to spin a little.
If you’re outside and it’s snowing, make sure snow doesn’t cover your tail pipe.
I learned to drive in MN in a 63 Volvo. I have driven midwest winters for decades almost exclusively in RWD (I hate wrong wheel drive) just fine. Proper tires and technique beats fancy tech any day IMO. :)
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With a FWD car, if you come upon a hill and your front driving wheels start slipping, backing up the hill might work. I had a driveway that when it snowed I could not get out but when I drove in reverse it went up the hill just fine.
I bought an old "project" F150. It is red, my wife wanted a red pickup ... No comments please. I have put new tires on it, repaired the exhaust, and am making a list, checking it twice. I got 4 new snow grip tires, a week later, every drop of snow in the arctic land on our front lawn. I had bought the last of those tires before the snow hit. There are more things left to do, but the truck is a project I will finish. it would have been better to buy a different truck, but she wanted a red truck.
Lower air pressure actually gives you more traction on slippery surfaces like snow. Most people that drive off-road will let their tires down to really low pressure so that they have more traction. The main reason you don't want to have super low air pressure is that it will destroy the tires if you drive really fast, like on the freeway. Really low air pressures also use up more fuel.
Tires also blow at speed with low air pressure. Off roading at less than 20mph is a lot different than driving 55mph on a highway
@@louism8217 we were talking about snow, not pavement that's safe to drive on at 55. I might be spoiled by being in California, but when there is snow on the pavement here, the speed limit is 25 on all roadways. 2wd cars even have to use chains if the pavement isn't completely clean.
Additionally, I'm not advocating dropping air pressure down to minimum for off road driving, but 35-40 is definitely a bit high for snow driving.
@Frank Ruiz it's a very subjective thing. I've been lucky enough to not need to use my chains yet, but the problem is the many many snow tourists that have no idea how to handle snow. They're the reason chains are so over required.
Cannot believe we have to tell people not to run their cars when the garage door is down. People (some) are stupid.
Just like the recall on Toro Snowblowers that says there is an amputation warning because the auger doesn’t disengage when you release the control people have to be told that?
I got two words for you: Natural Selection.
Lysol...do not take internally
Some people with a garage under the house have never woken up because they forgot to turn the car off.
@@rodbutler8069 They have these little boxes called Carbon Monoxide detectors, maybe buy one? Instead of buying 100 dollar sneakers and 800 dollar cell phones, go pick up a detector. They are like 30-40 bucks.
Scotty's got more energy since he moved to Tennessee. The humidity must have been stifling in Houston.
Rofl, you got it bass-ackwards bro. Little humidity in most of Texas, metric funk-ton in Tennessee!
@@outofmoney3556 might I ask how high very high is? Up here in northern Arkansas (which is mostly indistinguishable from any other part of AR) Summer runs 70-90% average ish. My understanding is Tennessee is way up like AR too.
@@Joe_JesusWins_Lewis I meant at this time. I'm aware it gets hot in Tennessee come the summer months. Houston is a very humid place. What are you talking about?
@@IKhanNot I'm just wondering what the Houston relative humidity runs in spring/ summer, as a comparator of here. Went to California years ago and the 114 degree weather did not phase me one bit, no sweating, nothing, lack of humidity on coastal areas is really nice imo.
@@Joe_JesusWins_Lewis Because California isn't very humid other than some downtown locales. Houston gets 100% humidity at times.
tire pressure changes about 1psi for every 10*F
That's interesting!
Mine did not lost a single pound and it's been -20 F some nights last week
@@kostadinustavalkov1902 Your tires must be politicians; they always have an excess of hot air.
@@hottuna7 always one guy that has to involve politicians in everything 🤣🤣
@@kostadinustavalkov1902 My reply was meant to be humorous, but the truth is, by definition, ALL humans capable of communication are politicians; it's just that those in power give the rest of us a bad name!
Hi Scotty from Canada. Started watching your channel. A lot of useful information on it. Thanks.
I just wanted to say that I absolutely enjoyed the longer videos that you put out on your informational Utube channel with history of detailed content on certain particular subjects!! Jeff Grant Mooresville NC
Cross skiing on the beach. A new sport created by Scotty. I love it!
Good, timely information. I never thought about pointing the car into the wind to carry exhaust gas away from you in the event you have to stay warm in the car. Thank you Scotty.
Scotty probably feels like he’s living in Canada again 😂
I think it may be warmer here right now.
@@ayebee1207 That's right! Now that he lives in Tennessee, he gets to experience multiple snow storms a year. Gotta love the south!
@@ayebee1207 Way back in Winter either 1990/91 or 91/92 there was a similar cold-front in Houston TX. I needed to go to Bryan College-Station (Home of the Aggies) and on the West-Side of "greater Houston" the Highway-Over-pass (I-10-West & 290-West as well as others) were all frozen and icy, cars failed to get to the top lanes. I think they even shut down these traffic-lanes.
Also Water-Pipes burst too in Houston, back then they even used "Plastic PVC-pipes IIRC) which burst. Plumbers made a fortune after that fixing everything...
@Frank Silvers
He was born in Niagara Falls, NY - just across the Canadian border. Probably visited many times.
@Frank Silvers
Scotty went to school (university) in Canada.
I like when mentioned "clunker" and showed a Chrysler🤣
Isn't that a Silverado?
@@brockturner3112 haha
Hey
It is a Chevy
Was it a concorde ? Speaking from Experience.
Scotty,your from lewestownny,im in buffalo ny,here we use the old trick in cold weather,putting a old blanket over the engine and battery,it really works ,will allow a quick start of engine,just leave a note on steering wheel to remove blanket before turning key.
A friend of mine did that and his car caught on fire
When I had snow when I drove rear wheel drive cars, I would put sand bags in the back. It worked pretty well.
Same for 2W drive pick-up 🛻
In that weather a Tesla will go 50 miles With heater off 🤣😂
The pictures he puts in the corner a priceless!!! Hilarious
They are. I usually take a screenshot, and use the pics on my status. 😅😅😅
Jack frozen in the shining , all work n no play ,makes jack a dull boy
Most things shrink when they freeze
I switched to Royal Purple HPS a few years back. Have no regrets.
I miss my first car, which had rear wheel drive, in winter (here in Bavaria, 35 years ago, when we still had REAL winters)!
I went out at night and drove through the snowy roads, training how to go in right angles through the bends by deliberately making the rear come.
You can save the situation with an RWD that way when you go too fast into a curve, with an FWD when you are too fast, it's over, you go straight.
As you combine propulsion/braking and steering on one wheel, and have only one amount of friction, when you overdo it, only one remains.
In any case, you have to be careful in the snow, RWD or FWD. When I start, I always test the conditions, accelerating until the traction control kicks in, braking until ABS kicks in, to know where I am.
One more hint, embarassingly a woman told me that:
When it is so slippery that you cannot get out of your sloping garage entrance as you lose grip with your FWD, go out backwards, there is more load on the lower axle.
Greetings from Galveston, Tx. Scotty for president!!
LOL, loved that triangle shaped tire. That was awesome.
It can get -65 F in Fairbanks, Alaska. I can vouch for synthetic oil - saved my Mazda's engine all those years.
Clean connections and install them properly and tighten them. That stops the destruction and gives proper life to components.
A cable or connection that drops voltage can make you misdiagnose.
don't drive away immediately after starting when it's really cold or you could spin a bearing and destroy your engine.
Lol, never heard this
@@angrypants7619 spin it just enough that the oil lubrication hole no longer aligns and then the journal starves of lubrication and prematurely wears. You have metal to metal contact on startup which has the friction required to slip the bearing.
Hey Scotty, You forgot to mention about the exhaust hoses that some mechanic shops use to clamp on to the end of the tail pipe to direct the exhaust smoke out of the garage, so they can run the car inside the garage and route the exhaust smoke outside.
You see that at fire stations as well, but for most of us, and in most years, it does not make sense to invest the time or resources.
The proper system also has a fan to actually suck air from that hose and blow it out of the building
@@gkelly941 A lot of things people do, buy or try don’t make sense either but I don’t comment on what other people are saying when they are not speaking to me. I was just sending a comment directly to Scotty and for some reason you had to chime in. So before you comment on other people opinions and views stay quiet 🤫
Give it up to Scotty for making a video in a middle of a blizzard thank you Scotty we appreciate you we really do
My husband's Highlander is 2 wheel drive but has snow mode. He has really put that to use this week and he said it works great. He's been pretty impressed with how well it handles the snow and ice.
Well Scotty you may want to rethink one item, the first time I’ve ever noticed this in the On snow and especially ice dropping the air pressure down is huge help in traction. This comes from over 50 on the and off road, the lower pressure puts a bigger softer tire on the ice or snow. The number of people I’ve helped get going on the ice (at the time hopelessly immobile at the time) by dropping their rock hard tires down 15-25# depending on the tire and vehicle.
Scotty's 94 Celica is all like, "I think we should go back to Humid Houston".
Clarksville TN has PLENTY of humidity. Just wait until July and August.
Hi Daniel. 👋👋
Like your hair ☺☺👍
Texas is freezing now too
@@labourlawact7826 Thanks man. Back at you. I always rinse it with cold water in the shower
@@danielcarrillo1057 That sounds like an awesome idea.
It's so nice and pitch black.
Handsome😊😊
Your so right... I drive an 06 Toyota Corolla in New Brunswick, Canada with just All Seasons. Never drove with winter tires.
front wheel drive is great, no doubt. 4 wheel lock is king though. that doesnt mean you wont slide on ice or anything, you have a little bit more control and traction. that doesnt mean you get to go faster though.
Castrol full syn never let me down.
I always Walmart’s Supertech full synthetic engine oil and it has never failed me.
If it's API it will never fail you
Wat about mobil 1
I use castrol gtx ultraclean synthetic blend 5w20 in my truck
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5:23 but if you got a clunker with exhaust leaks *shows a Chrysler* 😂😂
Here in Arizona I'm free to use 10w-30 throughout the whole year. Good down to 0°F, and it rarely gets below 30°F. Coolant mix almost means nothing here. I just make it 50/50 and ignore it until it needs top off.
Hey Scotty, I was taught that most materials expand when heated and contract when cold, with the exception of water and rubber, which does the opposite. However, the air inside the tire will contract when cooled.
the air in your head to
I work as a sprinkler fitters 35 years and in business 28 years, so when water systems not heated what would happen yes it would freeze but when outside temp raises that ice would expand and blow steel piping systems apart and not a pretty sight but money in our pockets
Great video, thats why I keep my classic in the garage, the garage is its blanket.
Install a cheap ceiling fan in your garage and constantly keep it on low. It will dissipate any lingering moisture from the concrete.
Any background heating?
@@barnabyjones6995 yes have two ceiling fans and also a central air vent for super bowl weekends, a nice man cave basically.
@@tonysdiecastcustoms 👍
Engine oil may not, but wind turbines sure do! 😅
They actually don’t. I’m not sure you’re being sarcastic or just miseducated on the matter. If it’s the former then carry on. 😂
@@michaeltaye9576 thats what they told us happened in texas
@@michaeltaye9576 oh thanks for your permission internet monitor! 🤪
They forgot to get the cold weather package lol like a car stealer ship lol
Enlighten us Michael what do they do?
The time line continuity was funny. Snow on car, no snow, snow on car...my favourite TH-cam channel.
I had an older airplane, the engine has both the oil warning lite and a pressure gauge, the warning lite sender was right by the oil pump (earl pump for texans) while the pressure gauge took off the far end of the system. I those days airplanes didn't use multivis oil rather 50 wt for summer and 30 for winter. With winter temps in the high 20s, if you could get the thang to start, the lite would go out almost immediately but it would take a minute or more to show pressure on the gauge. When Aeroshell came out I switched to it (a multigrade) pressure came up almost immediately, thank you shell. The plane had an alternative for really cold days (think N. Dakota) there was a switch on the panel that operated a little electric pump that would pump gaz into your oil, about a quart, this would thin it down enough to get going (there was 12 qts in the sump), not as bad as you'd think since airplane engines reach operating temp very quickly during takeoff due to 100% power (some only allow that for five minutes due to heat) and all that gaz will boil off lickety split. Of course the lead that was in the gas in now in the oil and avgaz had a LOT of lead in it in those days, nowadeys 100 octane was only a wee bit of lead. Nobody has figured out how to make 100 octane without lead. Airplanes generally change oil every 25 to 50 hours.
you forgot to mention that people should idle for a minute and then drive slowly because engine warms up faster driving. and if youre in a underground garage, dont idle it at all. i still see people doing this; so uninformed
Underground garages have forced air ventilation, but if power is out then yes, do not idle.
Geez scotty u got out of Houston just in time , sad situation there🙏
I got some age on me. In the winter I remember 18 wheelers coming into a warehouse I used to work at in Charleston SC back in the 60's. Depending where they came from some would have a piece of cardboard in front of the radiator. I was just an older teenager at the time. I asked a trucker what the deal was with the cardboard. These guys were coming in from the midwest or up north and I was told that was the only way to get the danged things to heat up. I don't want to live where it's that cold.
I have an OIL PAN electric heater. Here in Quebec, Canada we need it ! ! Cheers from Canada, snow country.
I recall seeing/hearing about "jeeps/trucks/tanks with frozen oil" in Korean War films set in/near the Chosin Reservoir.
Frozen for all practical purposes. Remember, that was 70 years ago and both the oil and the engines it went into, were nowhere near as advanced as they are today.
At very low temperatures, the oil was so cold and thick it wouldn't flow and engines would seize very quickly. Many times the oil pumps in engines were weak and would produce very little in the way of pressure at even normal temperatures.
Yes and they didn't have the oil tech we have today. It wasn't really frozen but gelled so badly it might as well have been.
Oil will flow "like molasses in January" -- in extreme cold it behaves like a GLASS and you can chip it off.
That was a terrible time. Troops called it Frozen Chosin.
@@demondavejeep In the USAAF, Alaskan fliers poured KEROSENE into their plane's oil to make it flow. Even now, in Winter, Alaskans and Canadians thin down Diesel fuel. They go from Diesel #2 to Diesel #1.5 to Diesel #1. (Diesel #6 is the thickest grade in commercial distribution -- think of Motor Ships) The Soviets used the same tactic all the way back. For the Germans, using kerosene for this purpose was a learning experience. Heck, they didn't have any kerosene to hand in the first place.
Hey Scotty, remember the metal spouts you stuck in cans of oil?
I just bought a new chrome American made Plews oil can spout right before they stopped using paper/foil cans with metal top & bottom 😖
I miss those oil cans
Some stations had many cans of oil with the same tap you are speaking of and had bulk oil in them.Damn dishonest but a few did this
Now I need to watch The Jerk again. “HE HATES THESE CANS!!! STAY AWAY FROM THESE CANS!!!!!!!” 🤣
Still have one of those spouts in the shed😃
Motor oil does not freeze, it just gets gets thicker, in cold temperatures.
Summer washer fluid will freeze in cold temperatures, and will become ice.
NEVER sleep in a vehicle that's running! A lot of people die when snow builds up around a vehicle they're stranded in and they're snoozing away inside, and exhaust gases build up underneath the vehicle. Warm the vehicle up, turn it off and catch a snooze. When it gets chilly you'll wake up, restart the vehicle, and repeat the process. If you're stranded and it's snowing, keep checking around the vehicle every so often to make sure it's not becoming encased in snow - so carry a shovel in your vehicle at all times as well. Living in northern Alberta has taught me at least this much.
This is why living in Florida is nice!!!!👍 👍
We pay for it in the summer in the heat.
LOL😂. 👍
Enjoy your hurricanes and tropical storms. 😊
Scotty's neighbors are asking the age old question again... Who the Heck is that guy who moved next door? I can hear him inside the house!!!
Love the vintage metal signs on the wall!
Keep up Scotty!
As a 70 year old ASE Certified Master Mechanic I recommend waterless coolant and Optima Batteries.
I love your channel. Hello from Puerto Rico.
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I've been using antifreeze instead of oil for years because of this very reason.
Me too! Also in winter swapping your transmission fluid for antifreeze will help the transmission shift better, and keep it from freezing up.
You serious Clark?
@@philthyphil3324 I started using antifreeze instead of oil when I had a head gasket leak. My mechanic told me antifreeze was contaminating the oil. Years earlier he told me about antifreeze lubricating the water pump. I put 2+2 together, figured antifreeze can't contaminate antifreeze and it builds pressure much faster on start up.
Never looked back.
I live and have left for 35 or more years now in Central Florida. So we don’t worry about freezing down here with antifreeze. But we do use it as a coolant to keep it from overheating. I have not had any issues though. I do drive a GM Cadillac CTS, so I use the GM read or pinkish color colored as recommended and my radiators. Never had any issues bad of any kind!
You can run up to 70-75% antifreeze which will protect it to temps below -50.
Maybe I missed it... why do we stop using mobile one......
Ahhh... The shrinkage jokes never get old! 😂
In Germany we only use East german Addinol MV240 engine oil for older engines.
I live in northern Canada and I haven't had an issue with coolant freezing plugged in or not. Antifreeze is a solution it might turn to slush but the water won't freeze solid in solution the expansion rate is alot less then pure water
I use 0w30 and/or 40 in Fl. Figured I get the good start up protection when first starting and good heat protection once up to temp.
You really should use what the manufacturer calls for if you want best results
@@tyrelhoffman5722 I am currently. 5w30. Though Nissan did spec 0w30 as well.
I use 10w30 here in Orlando, Florida. I agree with you. Depends on what area of the country you live.
But most just go along with what the car manufactures recommends. They just recommend what is
Universal to place on oil filler cap and have no desire for your engine to last. Why would they as they
want you to buy another car as soon as necessary. Old school proven method for me living in hot
sunny Florida.
Whenever Scotty Kilmers drops the new videos I pack up the Hash Pipe with Rocky and get all schmoked up.
Schmoked🤣😂
Loser 💩
If there was any doubt about the overnight, Pop (from the 20s-30s) would throw a tarp over the wheelwells and front end.
And, a 100 watt light bulb under the front end.
Old Mr. Ryan, of Ryan's Auto Driving School, Lockport, NY, ALWAYS had us put in a can of STP into the '72 Impala 4dr. One winter day at Scalzo's garage he hands me the STP and it won't leave the can! Bubby laughed at me and put the can on his gas heater behind the desk, got it hot so it would make it out to the car before re-freezing.
Wow, that looks cold Scotty. Hello From Tampa, Fl. It’s about 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
Same around 80 before it's going to drop to the 50s the next morning
I’m in Tampa too..it’s a little gloomy today but I’ll take it over snow😅
My blood freezes to especially now in NY it's snowing again
I bet it is! I saw the weather radar where it shows where is snowing falling and I saw new york getting snow and I was like, yalls winter got BRUTAL!! X_X
I lived in Wisconsin for 18 years. 15 of those I had front wheel drive(Fiesta, Tempo, Escort) with radial all-weather tires and got stuck 3 times. Pretty good since I had 20+ miles one-way to get to work. Of course there were many times I just stayed home but usually everyone was staying home those times. Good info Scotty. I didn't know about the brake fluid. Stay warm!
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My neighbor in Finland Minnesota came and asked do you have a 8 volt ressistor for on a dodge. Yes on my wall was one.
Snow in texas there will be more tacomas frams rusting in half 15 years of these junk frames
Hey Scotty! hope you’re staying warm!!!
Glycol and water mixtures have a wide slushy range, they don't freeze until way below the published freeze point. They may get too thick to circulate and provide cooling, but it should not cause engine damage until well below what the tester says.
Hope Scottys neighbors know and appreciate him .