Freeze - Out Prevention: 2 Winter Hacks Every Driver Must Know

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you're kind of feeling crappy, you feel lower than a snake's belly and worse than a bag of hammers

and a crump, you know, a million bucks all crumpled up, you ever been there, help somebody,

just help somebody, that day, you know what, buy the guy or gal's breakfast meal or sandwich and

coffee behind you when you get up to the window, just say you know what, I want to pay for that,

whoever that is behind me, I want to pay for whatever they ordered and just pay for it and

watch how your day turns around, if it costs you 20 bucks to pull yourself up out of that

petty party or whatever it is you're going through, to take your eyes off yourself for

a few minutes, it's fabulous, you know what, when it's summertime and I've built a couple of

new beetle convertibles, restored them and we bring them out to the cruise events and let the kids

have their picture taken, most of the moms, they push the kids out of the way, no, no, this is me,

let me get in there, but we let the kids get in one at a time and have their pictures taken,

you know what, I can have the crappiest day or week going, I'll hop in my 2003 snap orange,

we call her orange crush, beetle convertible, go topless, cruise down the Niagara Parkway,

the Boulevard, all the way into Niagara Falls along, you know, because we live along in the

studios along the south shores of Lake Erie, just beautiful area, you know what, I just put my coolest

hat on in my shades and go for a small cruise down the parkway all the way through Niagara Falls,

Lundy's Lane out along towards Niagara on the lake, grab a cup of Joe and you know what,

I feel so much better, man alive, try that sometime, get you some of that, you're really

feeling bad and feeling low, just go for a cruise, put some of your favorite music on,

go along the waterfront, excuse me, still suffering this winter, whatever, I think I

need a fuel injection flush, that'll take care of it, sorry about that, if that was your ears,

anyhow, it's reality, I find that just works for me, try it sometime, you know you're feeling

kind of poopy, get in your car, grab a cup of Joe, hot chocolate, whatever, and just put some really

nice music on and go for a little cruise, watch what happens to your attitude, because remember

your altitude is determined by your attitude, absolutely, that's what we need to do all the

time, all right, let's jump into our morning coffee, you ready, on three, two, one, I'm counting

it down for you, three, two, one, man that's really good, that's a little hotter than yesterday,

you know I had some dental surgery, yeah, just last Friday morning,

it's been a challenge, but you know what, it's my first day without having to take

a Tylenol, so we're bonusing right there, we're bonusing, absolutely, I'll take it,

still just starting to eat a little bit of harder food, that's what's on the regiment from the

Maxio Facial dentist, yeah, did a great job, what a team, what a team, absolutely, upper James,

Hamilton, I'm gonna put a little plug in for Rockwood, Rockwood dental surgery, great place,

all right let's get into this, I've got another motor mouth winter tech tip for you and then we'll

give thanks to our program partners and recommended businesses because without them, we wouldn't have

a YouTube channel and we wouldn't be here for you, so I've got some topics, I got a topic

with some stuff to share for you, so get your crayon ready, get your brown paper bag, fold it

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from, car connection workshop and you'll be all set, all right, motor mouth's winter tech tip

number 33, don't forget the cabin air filter because if it's clogged, your defrost and heat

will blow weaker than your new year's resolutions, I mean that, you know what I mean, exactly, so

if you want really good defrost and lots of blow or if you're, it sounds like you got lots of blow

but no go, not much is coming out at the floor in the center dash into the defrost, you may want

to have somebody take a real good look and this is what I say, if I have to go in and look at your

cabin filter, you're getting a new one because I'll tell you what, there is a video, we did back in

October I think it was, 2008 Nissan Rogue and I'll tell you, I think I created

a yoga move, I really do, yeah, you know what the hardest most difficult yoga move is?

The swan, have you ever seen it performed? I looked, I go, no, that, no, not at all,

not even going to attempt that but I'll tell you what, I think I invented an even better yoga move,

getting that cabin air filter out of that 2008 Nissan Rogue and it needed to come out,

there was a freaking melted chocolate in there, two of them, it was gross, how they got in there,

I don't know, the wrapper was still there but the chocolate was all, looked like a mushroom,

I'm thinking what the heck is that, I've never seen that before, leaves and debris and hair and

whatnot, anyhow I vacuumed it all out, all that is captured on a YouTube video on our YouTube

channel, Niall Motormouth Jenkins, we're everywhere, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook,

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sometimes 10 and a diet soda, yeah, it was gross but it'll show you what that cabin air filter

looked like and there wasn't a whole, there was a lot of blow but no go, coming out of the dash,

the frost and at the floor, when I put that new filter in there and I set the thing for

center dash and almost put me in the back seat, so I seriously suggest get on that

cabin air filter, find out if your vehicle is equipped and just get a new one in there,

because they plug up with all kinds of heavy-duty hardcore bacteria and if you have any kind of

cardio respiratory issues, you're sucking in 100% concentrated bacterias, not good.

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just wrapping up 31 years on radio, all right I'm going to give you your bonus accessory today,

yeah I have a topic, I have some things I'm going to share, but I have a bonus accessory for you

today, a component that is so overlooked, I don't know why because it's serious, it's a serious

component, but it's ignored for some reason and it has feelings, I think, drive belts, accessory

drive belts, that's why I said bonus accessory, got it, okay, accessory drive belts, many of

today's cars have one belt, drives everything, that's water pump, crankshaft, power steering,

air conditioning, the whole schmiel is run off of one belt, that sucker breaks its car down,

it doesn't matter if it's minus 20 outside, that belt breaks, the engine will overheat

in a matter of minutes, so why do we ignore a belt that drives everything that without it,

it's car no go, it means it's car down and you certainly don't want to overheat the engine

because that is death, you know as they say the black screen of death on your computer means

it's going to be a rough day, yeah absolutely, buy someone lunch, you'll feel better, yeah how many

of us have been there, the black screen of death, no, no, no I don't, a few too many times for me,

anyhow that belt needs to be seriously maintained, that means we need to check that sucker

every time the car gets in the service base, remind here's where you come in because preventative

maintenance is up to you, don't expect the service advisor to remember everything because you're not

the only customer that comes into the shop, into the repair shop, there's you know they got to fix

more than one car all day just so you know my pops thinks they should just drop everything and fix

his car, I had to say pops, they kind of have overhead, they kind of you know you can't have four

five six guys working on one car all day, oh yeah I go you're you're not the only customer I'm sorry

to tell you that but it's true so I'm I'm reminding you as well you're not the only customer and

everybody's car down situation is a emergency, right, how do I pick the kids up from school,

huh you know how am I going to get granted to the to the doctors tomorrow morning and then there's

this program after school and that program and it just gets nuts so why do we forget about the

accessory drive belt, I don't know it's an IDK, every time we had vehicles in the shop there was

always common what I called our standard operating procedures, do a quick check level check make sure

all the levels are good take a look at the drive belt have a look under the hood have a look around

see that everything is as it should be that way if there's something that doesn't look good we can

catch it before it goes awry and ends up costing you a bundle of money so make sure every time your

vehicles in the shop you should have on that repair order check the accessory drive belt

or belts in case there's an extra belt in there like my Honda Civic it has multiple belts it has

one super duper large one and it has a couple of smaller ones and I think you have to have hands

the size of Gumby yeah to get in there that's how it's teeny weeny I mean it's like wow like

you need like a six-year-old working on the car to get the belts off anyhow I don't want to digress

I got other stuff to share with you so today's the actual topic is freeze out prevention not the

10th avenue freeze out freeze out prevention two things you gotta know so here's where warm up that

crayon here we go number one oh it's over here there's my list that's the other list okay first

and foremost items that you're going to require and I will include those in the description of the

podcast you need a can of heavy-duty silicone spray you also need a can of PB blaster all right if you

want to check out a really good solid heavy-duty silicone spray you can check out castle products

on our website my good friend Castle Jim will be happy to ship a can out to you that's the

silicone spray I use I find it it's one of the best I used to get the German silicone spray made

in Germany but I just can't seem to find it anymore so I use the super heavy-duty silicone spray

from Castle Products so you can check in with my good friend Castle Jim and he'll even let you know

where you can pick it up because he is the he is the sole distributor in all of Ontario

and I think Canada like for 30 something years so don't tell him I told you about PB blaster

just just between you and me many years ago my friend Glenn Alice he's a locksmith for many many

many years introduced me to PB blaster and he said don't use anything else motor mouth on lock

cylinders and door hinges it doesn't attract dirt it's not sticky it's perfect for tumblers

key tumblers you know what I mean locks and for also for hinges you don't want any sticky goo on

hinges because it just attracts every low-life piece of dirt and then it just gets all caked with

some kind of goo and then you got to power wash it all off but with PB blaster you don't need to do

that it's not alcoholed so it stays it stays and it lubricates it doesn't leave a greasy mess

so it is the product that you're going to need for this topic today so again items required

heavy-duty silicone spray and a can of PB blaster and I'll tell you you can get that you can get a

good deal on that on a good size can at Princess Auto I nickname it the Prince of the Palace Store

so if you hear me say that or the jungle website you know which one that is right all right so I

will put the details again in the description of the podcast so here's what I want you to do

the daylight today is perfect it's wet snowing it's converted to rain it's come back to wet snow

and I'm looking at the temperature overnight it's going to be about 26 to 31 so you know what's

going to happen right freeze up so today might be too soon for you to do this but I would highly

recommend you put it on the top of your your honeydew list and get it done because yeah it looks like

tomorrow which is today Thursday uh the high for Thursday is 26 the overnight low 17 so guess what

freeze up yeah so it's going to be wet wet wet wet wet and then sometime it's going to flip right over

and we're going to go into the freeze zone so that means all the wetness is going to freeze

your door locks your windows so get those wipers up man like like 10 soldiers get them off the glass

or you're going to be having to burn them off the glass yeah you don't I don't want any wipers

getting busted and wiper motors and wiper transmissions because that's that can be a

thousand dollar a day right there that that just is not good it's not good so get those wipers off

the windshield today today because the overnight low is going to freeze things up so okay number one

lube all the locks and hinges on your vehicle with PB blaster that comes with a little hose

poke it through the hole in the key slot and give it a lube take a little Kleenex or a paper towel

with you just to you know I give it like a three second on each lock that's what I do three seconds

and then just catch the balance get the hose out of there so it stays in the lock cylinder

do all the locks and hinges and do it at least once a month just go around and redo it all winter

and you won't get frozen out your locks will work and then make sure you put the keys in

I know we all have most of us have remotes put the keys in and work the lock left right left

right and get that PB blaster in there number two spray all the entrance doors seals

or no not those no seals were harmed in its taping of the car connection workshop

just so you know and I don't need so seal flippers no so spray all the entrance way

door seals with the heavy duty silicone spray that is going to prevent the seals from gluing

themselves and welding themselves to the body of your vehicle because it's all nice and wet right

now and it's a little bit mild outside and we're going to drop right into the free zone and that's

what happens locks weather stripping windshield wipers will be glued to the windshield if you

leave them there guaranteed you'll be prying them off with a shovel and uh so you want to get all

those door seals sprayed even if they're damp when you're spraying the silicone spray on it will

dispel and disperse any moisture and if you do that once a month it only takes a few minutes

open all the doors go all the way around so leave the doors open let the silicone spray

dry on to the weather seals and guess what it doesn't matter how much ice comes you'll get in

while your neighbor is prying the door for the third time with something else he's found in his

garden shed or his garage you'll be in and already nice and toasty warm so these are the best ways

for me to help you help yourself to prevent you from breaking stuff tearing door seals that are

worth hundreds of hundreds of dollars and you got to put them back on you need them to keep the water

out pulling on these plastic door handles and it's happened to me busted the freaking handle right

off now you got a big job first you got to get the door open then you got to take all the door

panel all the fixings and accessories off and a lot of these door handles are not a treat to replace

more labor than handle if you know what i'm saying less parts ton of labor so we don't want you

pulling on the door handle like you're trying to start up a lawn mower or a chainsaw no not a good

idea because you will break it off it's plastic so take it easy yeah you know you know nobody's

going to tell you how to ditch by the plastic door handle trust me it's not going to happen no

so those are my two things freeze out prevention two things you got to know

and those are the two things and the bonus accessory make sure every time your vehicles

goes in the shop that the accessory drive belts are checked inspected and reported on reported

remember the four things that have to be on a work order to prevent lack of communication

and communication breakdown that costs everybody money especially you the consumer you got to

learn how to be a prosumer not a consumer a professional consumer four things on a work

order concern cause correction and confirmation i can't tell you enough when i close my shop

after 11 years because of health reasons i went to work for a major car company in canada the four

seas were drilled into our foreheads like you would not believe long before anybody else was talking

about it on youtube's and anywhere else the four seas in order for us to get any work orders

or repair work that was under warranty taken care of by the manufacturer there better be

the four seas covering the repair on the work order on what we call the ro the repair order

concern what's going on so on every repair order you're going to put inspect and report on all drive

belts okay that's the concern that should be on there every single time so concern cause what's

what is the cause of whatever number of problems so say you have five items those are five concerns

one being i want my accessory belts checked and reported on for condition and serviceability

so concern cause causes diagnostic time here's where i say don't leave the gate open the cows

are going to get out all right you tell them and give them and authorize one hour one hour of

dyag time i don't care if you have two items or five items on there of concerns each item that is

of concern is a separate entity on the work order make sure it's written down and look at it because

a lot of service advisors would never get a warranty claim to go in because their work orders are

incomplete and i don't mean that as a derogatory comment it's just you know what the proof is in

the pudding concerns all listed cause dyag time you're authorizing one hour then a report

then a report and if more time is needed you give them one more hour don't give them

carte blanche that's where the five o'clock surprise comes it's how much what you can't stop

breathing in so concern cause correction you also want on the work orders what is it going to

take to fix it and what is the total of all the components for all the items that i have on the

work order you want to know the cost what are all the parts that are going that it's going to take

to get the vehicle right lastly here's where you come in because this is the part that always gets

left off the confirmation i want my vehicle road tested to verify it's fixed and you have them right

that right on the work order then you sign it not until if you don't have helped them put the work

order together then you're what we cut say on the farm if you leave the gate open the cows won't

be there tomorrow morning to milk they'll all be outside you know we gotta round them up and it

takes hours yeah and they could already be dropping their milk on the driveway that's right so a work

order is exactly the same you leave the gate open then you know what there's a good opportunity for

you to be taken advantage of and for money to fly out of your wallet like a bunch of moths with

their tail fins on fire so that's about wrapping it up for this edition of car connection workshop

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motormouth how about doing this because we had a a number of emails what's all that information on

the sidewall of the tire what do i need to pay attention to how do i know what tire pressure

i need to set my tires to on my vehicle we covered that we did a we did a pretty cool

youtube video so that everyone can learn it all at the same time what's important what what is not

what is just way too much information that you don't need to know how simple uh we can make it

when you know what when we use the acronym kiss keep it super simple so until next time

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