How to Deal with Winter and your Car

What about summer heat then? The sun heats up your car a whole lot more than a heated garage would. And newer cars don’t rust that easily.

Keeping your car out of the heat as much as possible is good. The process of rust is accelerated by both heat and salt was my point. Spraying a jet of water on the undercarriage to wash off salt is good too.

Iowa they get snow?!?! try North Dakota :P

Russia has crazy drivers ,but they know about cold weather and engines.

Russia!

I also want to add that even though u think u got this fancy 4WD SUV… u still are driving on 4 patches of rubber about the size of your open hand. because that’s the only part of your car that makes contact with the ground is those small contact points from your tires. So don’t think that u driving those monsters thinking u will never slide or get stuck!

wtf ???
no sound!!!

In Russia, Car Drives You.

never thought of it like that, thats true and scary, the only part that touches the ground is about the size of ur hand

Chris, have you been consuming too much di-hydrogen oxide?

Gasoline, when burned properly, produces carbon dioxide. Diesel fuel, when burned properly, produces carbon dioxide. Fuel oil, when burned properly, produces carbon dioxide. When you eat lunch, and it is digested properly, your body produces carbon dioxide.

If there’s TOO LITTLE carbon dioxide in the air, your body doesn’t breathe on its own, and you die.

And methanol, when it evaporates into the air, does NOT turn into carbon dioxide. It turns into vaporous methanol. The only way it turns into carbon dioxide is if it *burns*.

This reminds me of Mark Twain’s comment that “Turnips should never be pulled, it injures them. It is much
better to send a boy up and let him shake the tree.”

Turn it up.

hahaha “Snow, sleet and ice”…we might get the odd winter frost here in August where the lawn freezes and the car windscreen has a light layer of ice, but aside from that I don’t know what you’re talking about. Prediction here for Christmas day is 38 deg celcius (100 F). Now that’s a traditional christmas :-)

have a great christmas, I’ll be sitting on a beach drinking beer, swimming and eating prawns and crayfish (lobster) thinking about you :-)

click the volume thing

LOL

I live in a van down by the river

Thats because your a hobo! !!_-_-_-_!!

In Russia, Winter Deals You.

shaveing cream works really good for your windows and they wont fog up at all

And if you run out of washer fluid, when stopped I sometimes just hop out and chuck the wettest snow I can find at my windshield and it works temporarily.

Also, always good to keep some salt in your trunk to help you get out of icey places, and in case of a rear wheel drive car, lots of salt in the trunk to weigh down the rear end.

i did a folow up video…..STAY-BILL is a product you can put in your gasoline to keep it from freezing if your garage has no heat

i did a follow up video….In Canada they sell Electric Dip Sticks to keep your oil warm,one end replaces dipstick,other end plugs into 110 outlet

We dont get snow here :( *cry*
~KrnSidez

Very good tips. Some of them you wouldn’t even think of, but help.

However, in the Video, Chris says Carbon Monoxide, but in the blog, it says Carbon Dioxide, which isn’t deadly at all.

Move to Florida. Even as far as Jacksonville is, you don’t have to deal with scraping windshields. No frozen locks either. I’ve only had one car where the locks would freeze. A good graphite lubricant is really all you need if your locks do tend to freeze.

If you’re in the midwest (like I was) you don’t have to worry about keeping your gas tank full as much, as all the gas sold has some level of Ethanol in it, which will make the water combine with the gas and not freeze in your gas lines.

Cheap windshield washer fluid is chemicals? They’re all chemicals, even if you only use water. Methanol is wood alcohol, and the claim that methanol turns to carbon dioxide only happens when it’s burned. Yes, you can suffer from methanol poisoning, but that has nothing to do with carbon dioxide.

Summer is when you kill your battery (because of the heat), but winter is when you find you’ve killed your battery because the car needs more juice from the battery to get the colder engine moving.

There’s no sound?

“Sorry for my bad English, I’m not American” <- He does realise use bad English too right?

Seattle snow is different from snow in other places. Our snow is soaking wet like a slushie as soon as it falls. Plus we have really steep hills. Not like in Iowa. If you Youtube “Seattle Ice storm” you’ll find footage of our city buses sliding down the hills sideways. :O

I never wash my car during the winter, so I never had frozen doors.

Living in canada, i get tons of snow, it sucks. I don’t even own a car, and i know the pain of cleaning of my parents card. :( the ice scraping of the windows. breaking ice off the windows and doors, so that they can open.

many typo’s above, not possible to delete and start over is there?

As a resident of Canada, I know how the cold effects(or is it affects?) one’s vehicle. It also makes me very thankful to have a heated garage. Anyhow, these are some very nice tips that I will consider using this, and following winters.

Chris,
“Do not buy liquid which contains methanol (CH3OH), because when in the air, it transforms into deadly Carbon Dioxide which can be very dangerous if inhaled”

If this is true, you should steer clear of Ponzi, she’s exhaling large quantities of Carbon Dioxide and is dangerous to your health. Also applies to your mother, the dog, ….. Carbon Dioxide is produced by every living animal!!!!!

I’m not sure I want methanol on my paint but Carbon Dioxide, NOOOOOOO.
Syguy

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

This is exactly what is wrong with the internet. People acting as authorities on anything and everything when they are not. This leads to inaccurate information being passed from person to person. Yes, methanol is bad if INGESTED (it can cause death), but don’t try to feed me **** about carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide for that matter. You really need to have someone look your information over before you pass it on when you go outside your realm of expertise. I’ve heard you ramble about those that pass on inaccurate information and here you do the same thing……Shame on you. How do you think you are going to look with your name associated with a false status on Snopes??

I would like to add to the list just because you have four wheel drive doesn’t mean you should go any faster on ice it will slip just as well as any car will.Make sure your tires are at the proper psi level don’t run low on air it doesn’t provide better traction if anything it gives a lot less.Also put a little WD 40 inside your locks it helps with freezing by displacing the water.

I know that those may seem like basic tips to some, but this is the first winter that I have my license so the tips are appreciated very much.

Thank you Chris!

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If you haven’t already done so, make sure you take a look at your vehicle’s tires. Make sure that they are not worn too low. Winter driving requires that your tires have enough tread for you to be able to handle icy roadways.
EXTREMELY DANGEROUS!

Store gas for not much more than a year!?!? I don’t know anyone who would recommend to store gasoline for more than a few months (except you). Maybe I should give you the benefit of the doubt. What you meant to say was get a couple gallons and add fuel stabilizer to it…..blah, blah, blah

After all, “methanol”, is just another… alcohol. And if too much in the air…

Cool, Russia! :)