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Rev up your engines!
It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going to give some warnings, I'm going to talk about bad things that you shouldn't
do to your cars, the first thing is, don't steam clean your engine, it's alright to
clean the outside of your car with one of these cleaners,
but don't clean the engine, there's too many electronic parts you can destroy,
some people have this cleanliness thing, where they want everything to be
clean, but hey, you don't live under the hood, and you don't eat your lunch there,
so just leave the grease alone, I've had quite a few customers do thousands of
dollars of damage to all the sensitive electronics, spraying them with steam, so
just leave it, it doesn't hurt anything being a little dirty, and if you have
some really dirty spots, use some brake cleaner and just hose it off with that,
it evaporates, and all the oil will be gone, just keep water far away from your
engine and electronics, the next bad thing not to do is electronic too, never
remove one of the battery cables while the car is running, years ago guys use to
do that to see if the alternator was charging, if they took a cable off and
the car ran, they knew the alternator was working, but modern electronic
fuel-injected cars have computers in them, and if you do that, you can burn the
computer out, so never take it off while it's running, if you're worried about the
charging system, have somebody with one of these checkers, check it, most stores like
Autozone do it for free in a parking lot anyway, the next bad thing not to do is,
never drive a car when a temperature gauge gets to the H, I've seen more
people blow engines driving a car when it gets to the H until it stops running,
and then the engine's gone, now if you notice that your temperature gauge
starts to rise, you can quick turn the heat on, because when you do that, that
can start dissipating heat through the heater, and if the gauge starts to drop,
then you could drive it to a safe place and get it fixed, but never drive it with
the temperature all the way to the H, because even a hundred and fifty dollar
tow job beats a four thousand dollar engine job, the next bad thing not to do
is, don't waste your money on gimmicks that say you're going to get better gas
mileage if you stick them on your car, this particular one claimed that it made
the air go like a vortex in a tornado, and give you a better gas mileage, it
doesn't do anything except waste your money, another bad thing not to do is, not
to pay any attention to your tires, checking air pressure is simple and easy, and
a lot of people say well nobody has air pumps
gas stations anymore, but hey get your own, I stick them in all the trunks in
my cars, I bought this husky at a Lowes, it cost $8, it just plugs in the cigarette
lighter, and then just screws onto the tire, and one push and it's on, they come with built-in gauges, so
when it gets to whatever pressure you want, you just turn it off,
and they come with really long extension cords, so you can do all four
tires, no more excuses, and it's really better to fill your tires at home anyway,
because you always want to put tire pressure in when the tires are ice-cold, once you
drive it, they get hot and the pressures will be different, and the last bad thing
not to do, as dumb as it sounds, is don't put the wrong fluids in the wrong
containers, over the years I've seen everything, from power steering and
radiators, to engine oil and brake fluid containers, don't do it,
I've seen people put power steering fluid in a brake system, it can do
thousands of dollars of damage if you have an anti-lock brake systems, it
will destroy the whole system, and in many modern cars, it's even more
complicated than that, they'll often use a special power steering fluid or a
special transmission fluid, so look up your car to make sure you're using the
right fluid for it, so now you've learned from other people's mistakes, and you
won't have to pay dearly like they did, and remember if you have any car questions just visit
Scotty Kilmer.com