Mechanics React to Winter Driving Fails 

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.

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.”

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

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. ;)

I see Angelina, I click.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

The trouble with saying "wash the salt off" is as experienced here in North Central Wisconsin: if the temp outside is below freezing and you don't have access to a heated garage (most of us don't), washing your car results in your doors, windows and mirrors freezing shut, where water was trapped and froze before it could dry or run off. So, we could stand in the cold and wipe off the excess water after the car wash (we don't), or we only wash our cars on the 1 to 3 days each winter in which the temperature is favorable to do so, assuming you have the time to sit for hours in a line at the 1 or 2 car washes in your small town since all 3-5000 people are trying to wash their car that day. So, your car might get 1 or 2 car washes all winter and otherwise be a salt encrusted mess the remainder. An example is a small town near me, Crandon WI. Crandon is the county seat of Forest Co. and has a population of 1700 people (yes, it is the most populous town in the county), and the surrounding communities/rural residents that come there for their needs adds about another 1500 within a 5 mile radius. Crandon has a single 2-stall car wash facility. The next nearest car wash is 25 miles away. Everyone's car is rusty, and salt covered. It's logistics, you can't put even half those cars through a single facility on 1 warm day. FYI, never buy a used car from Wisconsin or Michigan, unless you desire a cheap rusty car for something like an off-roader or beater vehicle.

Also, as a New Englander: Black Ice is specifically a threat when the temperature is ABOVE freezing during the day (when the snow melts and pools into water) and then dips back BELOW freezing at night (when that water turns into clear black ice). Watch your outdoor temperatures, rain, and elevation!

that 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

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

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.

Michigan man here, they started using Beet juice last year. The problem with it is when it warms up it actually slows down the snowmelt and makes the roads even more slippery. Plus, the sugar in the Beet juice attracts animals to the road. They discontinued the practice this winter because accidents went up.

In the northern provinces of Canada and Alaska it's fairly common to use external heaters on diesel trucks and equipment that's been sitting in extreme cold. Usually they just use blankets around the motor. In some cases they also have attachments on the cooling systems so you can connect the cold vehicle to a running one and warm the motor up that way. Then, once you get it started, you don't shut it off unless you absolutely have to.

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

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.

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

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.

LMFAOOO 3:20 "all good BRAAAHH, I got this..." ~sizzle sizzle sizzle~

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.

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.

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

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

Little trash cans are probably compost. Remember to compost guys

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Wait, doesn't everybody love 311?

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 ✌️

Fan from Minnesota here! just wanted to lest you know that YES they do just leave the cars in lakes and fish them out later. what usually happens is when the guys from Iowa come up all excited to go ice fishin' they forget to check the depth of the ice and there new work truck falls through! then they call the insurance man who then hire a crane operator who uses a specialized crane called a SUVE ( pronounced soo-vee) to get it out. keep up the good work!

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

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

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.

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

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😂😂😂

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.

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

I love watching people from Southern California trying to talk about driving in the snow.

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"

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

Angelina is awesome. She called BS on that black ice. " Yeah buddy that was all you" lol

The cyber truck being stuck is a tire issue, that’s what happens to people with any type of vehicle that think summer tires are ok to use in the winter. Happens all the time, or “all season” which are actually only all season for the southern half of the US. Driving on ice with windows down is recommended, but when it’s -40 you won’t think it’s as good of an idea to have the window down.

😂😂😂i love listening to these guys as a mechanic in ny😂😂😂 talking bout winter tires and how bad rust is, " you merely spotted the rust, i was born in it raised by it"😂😂😂 that's why we laugh when highways get shut down with a quarter inch of snow, while in the meantime we're getting 2 and a half feet over night still getting to work on time in the morning lol

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

Those tiny "trash" cans are actually compost bins that get picked up weekly here in Canada 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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.

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.

16:32. Those cars have been turned into art. Looks kinda beautiful.

Angelina is back 👏👏. Happy 🎉🎉🎉

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

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

I like how Nolan is relieved that the car hit another crossover😄

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.

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

“Little Honda fit” yo I had to sign paperwork at the dealership stating I would not drive in snow. I was lied to. Hahahahah

"that seasoned" i just love her! :D

6:40 that's hilarious. As somebody who has actually dissolved floor pans, it takes a 15-20 year old car to do that. Not just a couple of years. 😂

I live in Michigan. I have seen and been involved in a few of these things in my lifetime. It did amuse me that a channel from California would be talking about winter driving. I thought winter was just a myth in your state. LOL

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.

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.

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

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.

The silence after the honda civic redline warm up. 😂

Worked at a water treatment plant that took used frac water from gas drilling and essentially burned off the water. The salt that remained was used to salt the roads all over the state during winter... Chemicals were never removed just the water content and all kinds of acids and caustic stuff used so who knows exactly what is in that stuff they spread on the roads

3:30 I live in Downtown Indianapolis and the craziest part of this to me is that claim that her "GPS turned her onto the canal." It's a Canal, there arent even any roads that lead down to where the canal actually is lmao.

Those tiny trash cans are a curbside compost service to the best of my knowledge.

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.

In Estonia we use studded tires or lamellar tires in the winter

I was born in the Mid-West. My Dad ONLY washed the car, during the Winter months. Every 2 weeks, we would make a trip to the car wash, from November until the end of March. Oh, did I mention he worked for the State, for road repairs and SALTING the roads. Yeah, my Dad knew, best to get that salt off your car to leave every two weeks during the summer.

I'd love to work on cars with Angelina, for like the rest of my life :D respect for the knowledge 👍

That's Canada which explains the ice on the roads and the green bins are organics only and not for houses doing composting. Green organic waste hence the small size, black garbage and blue is recycling.

The guy in the Honda rev banging it in the cold just noticed it also has maintenance due soon light.

Hit a patch of black ice on my bike in january. Broken femur and toes. The police thought id be dickign around until his front tyre hit the ice. 🤣

Trash cans crash course: green is compostable, Blue is plastics and containers, grey is recycling and last but not least - black is garbage. This is most likely Canada. In EU you can find yellow for cardboards, light blue for glass and dark green for metal

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

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

Angelina has me watching these for no reason

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.

Ackshully, they use salt in the "rust belt" because those areas experience repeated freeze thaw cycles and salt is a good choice for repeated freeze thaw cycles. Out West where snow actually melts it's not necessary to use salt so we just put gravel down.