Mechanics React to Winter Driving Fails

We asked real mechanics to break down some of the worst winter driving fails we could find on the internet.
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[@roymontgrand561]

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.

[@user-mt5lh9mj9b]

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

[@TheNZgeek]

yep have them in New Zealand for that reason as well

[@jakethet3206]

@@user-mt5lh9mj9b 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. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Charon37]

Thank you!!!!

[@wilbo_baggins]

​@@TheNZgeekwas going to mention that haha

[@lordcorgi6481]

I see Angelina, I click.

[@duckaroobonzai2648]

Your her onlyfan?

[@The1withlogic]

Same here.

[@crakkbone8473]

You guys need to go outside 😂

[@Aswd7773]

Yoo she has onlyfans

[@jaimedelgado7529]

​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

[@ChrisinOSMS]

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.”

[@crazy808ish]

LOL that's hilarious. Shitty situation but it's always nice to know it's not just you

[@sh1nyGT]

Bet that is not what the insurance company said 😂

[@morganflint001]

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.

[@Careless-sv6cf]

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.

[@seancarter6492]

Good humor in a tense situation is great 😃

[@mathewduafala5017]

The green bins are for organic waste. When they are they small, it's not yard clippings, but kitchen compost usually.

[@PrecisionAcc]

Yeah these guys live in California, they should know better., we have green bins too, just maybe twice the size in height

[@Fruitloop398]

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

[@danjones1608]

@@Fruitloop398 Seattle. It's legally required (though I can't imagine ever inforced) to compost.

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

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).

[@MeachPango]

​@PrecisionAcc not the same bins

[@AlphaRomeoOneFive]

Sandro must have been kicking it with the boys for this one. Always happy to see Angelina though

[@The1withlogic]

Sandro is from So Cal, he said “snow? What the fuck do I know about snow!”

[@keeyajavan]

@@mj8323 L comment

[@jjbowe]

Anyone checked to make sure the German Engineers didn't get him?

[@DR-sv8ke]

​@@mj8323imagine needing to edit a two sentence comment lol.

[@charlottelanvin7095]

"That was all you and your bald-ass tyres" - Angelina ♥

[@EmilySmirleGURPS]

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.

[@fire_tower]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

[@turbot_]

Weird in California the green bin is the largest bin and it's for yard clippings too.

[@BrushyHat]

Can confirm. We have bins like this for compost as well. Although ours are brown.

[@jameskeller7762]

Thank you, now I can sleep.

[@nel359]

Thank you!😂

[@trssho91]

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. ;)

[@kennethpowers8995]

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. 😖

[@nthgth]

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.

[@vladimirmihnev9702]

​@@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.

[@nthgth]

@@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.

[@TamaleLoco95]

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.

[@danpomeroy9952]

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.

[@firxproof]

That’s what I came here to say too. Like I don’t know where she would have gotten down there.

[@Adiscretefirm]

Unless the steps or curb had snow on them and it looked like a ramp?

[@DisDatK9]

"But officer the GPS told me to go down those 3 flights of stairs!"

[@oliviavelazquez3610]

That’s wild because I see the canal almost everyday and had no clue that happened 🤣

[@Cruton2025]

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!

[@R3nagadeL3roy]

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.

[@christophermiller1394]

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.

[@clintmiller88]

Pressure washer broom that works great for under the car

[@meekmeads]

If he slowed down, then stopped, he wouldn't have had to do that risky maneuver.

[@aaronabbey2604]

​@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.

[@meekmeads]

​@@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!

[@AKAhoy]

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.

[@JH-lo9ut]

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.

[@aidanmaxey-hild9203]

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.

[@aidanmaxey-hild9203]

​@JH-lo9ut Studded tires are highly recommended. But honestly, Winter specific or studded tires should be mandatory.

[@nthgth]

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.

[@jlo7770]

-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

[@4RILDIGITAL]

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.

[@Anubis78250]

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.

[@dustinshadle732]

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.

[@stanislavczebinski994]

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.

[@stanislavczebinski994]

@@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.

[@chadmiller2224]

@@stanislavczebinski994Dukes of Hazzard is the one that immediately comes to mind.

[@WolfThornBlu]

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.

[@JXSnWp]

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.

[@gingernutpreacher]

Same in UK but ours were even smaller

[@user-cz5to7je2t]

The green bin

[@user-cz5to7je2t]

Kitchener Ontario

[@gasNmudtv]

Im in ontario. My area just started this in january

[@JXSnWp]

@gasNmudtv fair enough. They've use them in Durham Region for more than 20 years

[@ItchyKneeSon]

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]

Nah. I'm a lot further north than you. The only thing you really need is the snow tires.

[@jordanmercier3616]

Meh, I'm up in Canada land, all my vehicles have block heaters I've never plugged one in.

[@ItchyKneeSon]

@@jordanmercier3616 Using them can only help extend the life of your engine.

[@ItchyKneeSon]

@@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.

[@nthgth]

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.

[@cameronm9090]

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.

[@b_man-25]

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!

[@crazy808ish]

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.

[@WickedPhase]

My winter is already over 💀 it's hot outside again, except at night lol

[@NoobPWN3R666]

As a Canadian I can both confirm that the little green bins are for compost waste and that these fails are all skill issues 😂

[@smokiethebear3334]

As a fellow Canadian, I agree!

[@pattaccone5347]

@@smokiethebear3334motion carried 😂😂

[@user-eo3ph1jn8e]

Aye

[@charvakkarpe]

Angelina is smart. She caught the screeching tires on black ice. And suggested spinning the tires on the icy road. Her comments are always spot on and in the other mechanic videos you can tell she's a real mechanic and knows her stuff. Anyway, the green bins are compost bins.

[@MBrulla]

"All season isn't good enough for winter" *laughs in Wisconsin* I've never had anything else.

[@EdwardWinslowThe19th]

So true, my guy!

[@nthgth]

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)

[@jlo7770]

​@@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.

[@nthgth]

@@jlo7770 yeah it's seriously night and day, I don't think I could go back in this climate

[@adam346]

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.

[@Bobbias]

Yeah, it's not hard to know who is going to be in a ditch later when they pass you.

[@TenkawaBC]

Engineering Explained did a great one about AWD/4WD and Winter driving. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3yqmomwg7OKbrs 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

[@thelonelywolf88]

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

[@ronc.belden157]

An Alaskan enters the chat

[@jg8263]

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.

[@lengmoua6861]

Cheers from Menomonie! 😭 So true

[@meegstomtom]

​@@lengmoua6861Menomonie!?! Born and raised there. Went to downsville elementary. Now living in Lake Hallie. Lol

[@noodlelynoodle.]

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

[@MrJJandJim]

@@noodlelynoodle. Once again, It's gonna freeze crap together.

[@Mountain-Man-3000]

Yeah southern folks always forget water freezes...

[@braybarnes1714]

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.

[@adammartinez5308]

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.

[@patricktheexpat]

Wait, doesn't everybody love 311?

[@kevinscott7292]

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!

[@richardhcarter]

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.

[@Bonbonbon739]

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.

[@annehaight9963]

@@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.

[@bradparker716]

​@@richardhcarterblack ice is a myth- this post made by NH gamg

[@kimbaleon27]

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?"

[@donaldsmizu1728]

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

[@michaelgplayzz]

Cool

[@SPDFRK]

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.

[@dont_at_me__]

Like if Angelina is your reason for being here❤❤❤

[@codyscheuerman3798]

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.

[@kuebby]

Beet juice is so random. In California they use gravel, which worked pretty well in my experience.

[@prezzatocustoms]

​@kuebby not random at all. Michigan produces alot of sugar beets. I'm guessing this guy loves near the saginaw bay/thumb

[@catfishbilly7425]

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.

[@chrishamel3001]

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.

[@Irondogg2011]

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.

[@ShitHappensRLY]

1:21 one crucial thing I noticed that when the camera truck clearly started to slide off the road, the driver kept it as straight as possible so he won't get jackknifed or overturned. So he went from completely totalling the truck to possibly ripping off some plastic parts and being fairly stuck in the field, which is recoverable. Maybe even the load stayed somewhat intact.

[@whyjnot420]

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.

[@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii]

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

[@dedasdude]

Why nor pee on it

[@whyjnot420]

@@dedasdude First two questions for you. Why use the grammar of a 5 year old nor proper spelling?

[@anoopko]

The small green bins are for disposing compost. We have those here in Canada.

[@dpfalmer]

I was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. I've actually worked outside on my car at -65°F. And that full car blanket and heater are something I've never seen before. Because you would only need them if you didn't winterize your car; and even then you only need to heat the engine, not the whole car. Back home everyone has a block heater to warm the coolant, plus an oil pan heater to warm the oil. Some people (me included) would also have a transmission pan heater if the car had an automatic, and (not me) a heated battery blanket.

[@wolvez2724]

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

[@nolanw1287]

Little trash cans are probably compost. Remember to compost guys

[@axiom3227]

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!

[@brinkfrost-doner8653]

that car that was covered in ice by the lake was in buffalo new york. it happened during one of the worst blizzards we had here in a long time. we called it snowvember lol

[@The585cphillips86]

I thought it looked familiar when I saw the WIBV!

[@PS1212]

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.

[@wynottgivemore9274]

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.

[@maddawgnoll]

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

[@urbancats1]

Never heard of that before

[@PS1212]

@@wynottgivemore9274 as a Canadian im speaking from experience. Also not all of them having working tensioners, especially after 2 decades of use

[@wynottgivemore9274]

@@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.

[@Oblivionbolt1]

chains are good in snow and ice, however they are illegal on the east coast states..

[@chimneychap5142]

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.

[@hellsphoenix9308]

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😂😂😂

[@PyspherE]

Watching the bewilderment of the donut fam and friends regarding driving on ice is funny to see as someone who lives up north in Canada and spend lots of time ice fishing. i also know folks with cottages on islands and they moved most of thier building materials in winter over ice because it was easier. The picker is a cool apparatus and it doesnt sink becasue they only rescue vehicles after the ice has grown thick enough to support the picker and vehicle weight. usually they are rescueing vehicles that sunk as soon as few earlier to a few weeks earlier. also you always drive with windows at least cracked so you can at least open you door easier if the vehicle goes through the ice. in some states is a legal requirement.

[@ChaseHerman1]

Dude Suppy is hilarious haha, love this channel and the people involved

[@jasonrr9817]

In oregon we use sand, adds traction, but not a real de icer. But chassis rust and collapsing bridges are unheard of.

[@nicoracien1924]

My friend use to work in the north, he was putting some diesel in a pan and light it up under the oil pan of his truck before trying to start it

[@billr3464]

The idea of accidentally driving onto a canal scares the hell out of me. It's like something right outta my nightmares.

[@karigilbert1984]

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.

[@joshpeterson1999]

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.

[@myphone7568]

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.

[@s0M8r]

Yeah we just got those small green bins here in SoCal two weeks ago. It's for compost, yard trimmings, etc.

[@robertt9342]

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.

[@somebodysdog]

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.

[@user-sv9je7bz4j]

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.

[@joshalsabeh20]

I love watching this... and chuckling in Canadian lol

[@TheTraubenstein]

I used to deliver newspapers early in the morning in rural Norway. When delivering to a particularly icy area on a hill, I started sliding down toward the fjord at the bottom. I said a prayer, pressed the clutch in and jammed it into reverse. The car groaned but was able to slow enough for me to pull into a driveway. That's US Navy Boat Coxswain training in action!

[@H0lland0ates79]

In my area the local water management has 3 different size cans customers can choose from depending on their usual needs. Of course at different price points

[@palorius]

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.

[@matthewholzinger1042]

About 20 years ago, my town worked with a local college in developing and testing beet juice. It works well. But it still has a couple shortcomings. 1 salt still works at a lower temp. 2 if there is rain or wet snow, it tends to easily wash away. The good 1 non-corosive 2 can be put down well before a storm as it will stick to the road. Unless it rains🤪

[@98Leonne]

Suppy is funny as heck, would love to see him on more episodes

[@longjohn526]

Best snow vehicle I ever had was a '91 Explorer because it had that big heavy Merkur "Twin Traction Beam" front end. It just had so much weight on the front tires it was almost impossible to get stuck. Terrible for gas mileage but excellent in crawling up hills in the snow

[@juhakivimaki94]

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

[@otarsulava]

Those who don't know - there is a TIRE GRIP SPRAY, search online, has yellow sticker with a blue top, you spray it on a thread, not on a side like tire shine, it forms a fresh rubber layer and improves traction. I always keep that can in the car every winter season, actually did used couple times on all season tires, 5 inch snow weather, made it through 🏋️ drive safe ✌️

[@davidestate]

Here is my Province in Canada, we use both De-icer and Salt. Either way it still a good idea to wash the car once the temperature goes up but most people can't wash their car right away as you have to wait of you will get freeze in or out of your car as the blowers do no remove ALL the water around the rubber seal.

[@leviathanmist]

13:11 So the tiny trash cans are an attempt to get you to throw away less and recycle more, which explains the giant blue recycle bin beside it. I lived in Portland in 2015 when they replaced our normal-sized trash cans with those tiny ones, and it was pretty miserable for awhile, but we did get used to separating out our garbage after awhile.

[@DrMurdercock]

no, they aren't its for organic waste for composting dude, wtf are you talking abou tlol

[@outsider7658]

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

[@RockMauler]

Love your site and think you guys absolutely rock. Might want to include the fact that you cannot steer if your front tires are not turning to your next snowy adventure videos. Suspect it’s the number one cause of loss of control in the snow and ice just saying.

[@thegunslinginghero4310]

I'm in northern New England and I have a rear wheel drive cadillac I drive in the winter. All season tires will plow through 5in of snow. They worked great for me.

[@gerble36]

Winter tires will do that 3 times better, stop a lot faster and corner around bents at better speeds. The difference between all season and winter tires is day and night in the snow. I have used both in cold conditions, there's literally no competition. Winter tires will do everything better then an all season tire in the snow. Are you sure you didn't have all weather tires? They aren't as good as all winter tires in the snow, but they are better then all seasons.

[@thegunslinginghero4310]

It definitely might be all weather... my father ordered them as a birthday present for me, so I think he got good ones and I'm just an idiot haha@@gerble36

[@Shinka666]

The icy hill one happened to me once at a stop sign on a uphill road, driving a C6 Corvette so only had rear wheel drive. Wasn't weather, it was that the house on the corner lot left their sprinklers on then the road froze with the runoff overnight. I just gassed it and it caught enough traction to stop sliding, luckily no one was behind me.

[@bradleyspear167]

The truck in the water at about 5:10 was like one here in Minnesota. He had his newer F350 taking his icehouse out on a lake up north, but it hasn't been all that cold this year so the ice isn't very thick so he went in. The icehouse was still on the ice.

[@flackenstien]

16:29 I can see this place from my house, like a minute walk, it's Hoak's Restaurant right on Lake Erie in Hamburg. The wind and waves there is insane; often the whole building ends up as an icicle.

[@LMBraun]

I remember my first car, 1977 Ford Granada with a 302. I used to have to start that car in -40 in the morning to get to work without having it plugged in overnight. Popped the hood, take the top of the air cleaner, and prime the carb with gasoline to get her fire started. The first 2 min of idling sound *rough*. But that engine is tougher than you think!

[@BrianJNelson]

5:30 I'm impressed they can stand right on the edge of that hole. Must be some REALLY thick ice.

[@bradrenfrew2749]

As someone who grew up in a town that got to -50 ~ -60's. I have never seen that car blanket haha. But I know of people who put sleeping bags over the engine compartment. Everyone has block heaters which really make the biggest difference

[@TurdinFergie]

In MN those greenies are for municipal organics for composting. Pretty sweet you can get free compost in the spring through early fall for your gardens...all the nutrients 🤙

[@scrambledmandible]

Meanwhile over here nobody recycles because there's no services

[@mintyfarmstuff96]

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.

[@VencedorGamer]

I got myself a set of high performance tires, and my front wheel drive HHR did well in the snow and rain.

[@goannaj3243]

In Australia we have snow country, no salt on the road but chains compulsory, can hire cheap at servo's (gas stations) don't have to use but need to carry, and look like a goose is not used where you should.

[@VDruid50]

also, I just remembered so a few years ago before the pandemic started we had a really bad winter storm here. My family and I try to be very safe drivers in the winter weather. I had went back to college at this point. I did not feel comfortable driving to and from school so I had a family member drive me. I drive that normally would take roughly 15 to 20 minutes took over an hour because of how the road conditions were and how slow and careful the family member that picked me up after the storm occurred while I was at school and had done to the roads.

[@christian_esquivel]

Nolan had me cracking up with the 311 joke, so true hahaha

[@garthhunt6279]

We have to use those frost busters and heater covers in winter here in canada to start our diesel generators

[@marc21256]

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.

[@jamesgcrawford]

Tiny can is a green bin, common places where green bin compost is picked up weekly but recycling/garbage alternates

[@vjmacintyre]

you need studded tires :D east coast of Canada here, we love Angelina!

[@palorius]

We do that in AK but a lot of places in the lower 48 have rules against studs to protect the asphalt cuz they don't budget for road re-paving.

[@T.K.9]

I just stumbled upon one of 1hr react video. Now Im here for Angelina and Sandro videos lmao

[@DirtbagCarpentry]

In montana, we use gravel to give traction on roads. Ice melt works for the first day, then it freezes overnight, making it much worse.

[@russellwood8750]

I have seen the winter jacket on vehicles with a heater to try and warm up the vehicle so just less stress on the engine. However, I never understood it if you’re living in that kind of climate have a heated garage. I live in a Northern part of Canada my truck parks in a garage that’s heated. I don’t have them silly issues. Now when I drive out of my garage and have to park my truck up somewhere and leave it for a while I have a plug-in heater for my oil pan and I also cover my windshield and wing mirrors with little covers. Which means if it snows and ice is up while it’s parked. I don’t have to spend stupid amount of time in the cold cleaning them all up 30 seconds and I’m in my truck with the heater on no scraping and brushing snow off. My wing mirrors of course have heaters in them so it can melt and clear them up but I still put the little covers on because it’s quicker than waiting for them to defrost . Imagine having to take that jacket on and off every day for months. I just refused to live there.

[@Fives5275]

As a mechanic from Michigan, I can totally relate to the rust problem

[@jenniferrollins2160]

This happened in my town a few months ago, A major ice storm came through, some buildings still haven't been fixed like some of the schools, yeah, the students are stuck in portable classrooms now

[@DoxNocon]

"This guy hates himself and he hates his car" ahahahahahahah 11:41

[@Incognito1786]

I hit a small patch of ice during The Winter Storm of '13 between Mississippi and Alabama (Snow/ice isn't something they see often). Thought I was going to die. It's weird, because one moment you're flying down the highway, the next moment you can feel your vehicle sliding. Learned VERY quickly not to even tap the brakes on icy roads. Just let off the gas and make very minor steering corrections, if you have to.

[@truthteller4908]

The way I fixed my issues going to big bear was getting a 4x4 diesel some snow rated tires and my tire cables 👌🏽 and always pack some shovels and a pavement ice scraper

[@thorenshammer]

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.

[@vxicepickxv]

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.

[@michealcrowe3425]

In the video where they pulled the truck out of the ice; I knew a guy who would keep old cars in lakes(no electrical components or drivetrain) to keep them from beginning to rust or get damaged. He’d have to clean or wash it a certain way as soon as it came out to stop it from oxidizing though

[@ShannonSouthAfrica]

Its like this whole snow and ice story is from another planet to us here in South Africa

[@arlyquino]

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"

[@jefferyshall]

The tiny trash cans are for food scraps to go be composted rather than into the landfill.