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- [Man] Oohh!
- It is the beautiful, beautiful season of summer.
For us up here in Wisconsin,
we got like 65 days of pure bliss,
which means that there's going to be
car cruises happening now.
Now unfortunately,
if you live in the cool Southern states
that have Summer for more than two months,
you actually probably end up going on
more car cruises than I have in the past five years.
But nevertheless, people that go on car cruises
end up making a ton of mistakes
that result in accidents,
(beep) poor decisions and just overall
just some really common mistakes.
And you know, we're here to educate people
on the super technical
and we're also here to also talk about
some of the super simple stuff
and today is one of the super simple things
that I think often gets overlooked.
And these are the do's,
and these are the don'ts
of car cruises.
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Let's get into number one.
Don't do anything on a cruise
that you haven't done by yourself.
So, one of the biggest tips that I ever learned is that
when I wanted to learn how my car was going to behave
I went to a parking lot,
where the only person I could humiliate
was myself, and I'd go and I'd do a burnout
or I'd go try to figure out how my car behaved
when I started to whip some cyclones
or whatever it is that you want to call 'em
if you want to be a technical person.
And it just helped me understand my car,
and it also, a lot of other people do the same thing.
You take it to a drag strip
so you can learn how to actually run it.
You take it to an autocrosser
you can actually learn how it turns
and everything in between.
But if you're going on a car cruise
and you just recently picked up a Corvette,
you're not gonna want to go
try to brag or show off to your friends
because if you haven't done it by yourself,
more than likely when you do it
surrounded by 20 people
and you're filled with testosterone
and you're blaring some Korn or something like that,
you're gonna make a mistake,
and you're gonna look like a dumb(beep).
Most importantly than not,
a lot of times, it doesn't have to really do with you
more than it has to do with the people around you.
Because when you make a mistake by yourself,
the only person that you have to
somehow feel, you know,
sorry for is you!
But if you're surrounded by other people,
then you make some mistakes,
now all of a sudden,
now you're that guy!
You're the guy that got in the accident
on the accident, you're the guy
on the club page getting made fun of.
You're the guy that has the one GoPro video
of you just doing a burnout,
running into a tree.
You're that guy.
And you can avoid being that guy,
by just not doing it
until you actually understand how your car behaves.
Tip number two.
Cruises usually end somewhere,
so don't be a d-bag in the end lot
and do burnouts or run around in the restaurant
or make a bunch of noise
or overall just be some tween
that's trying to make a whole bunch of noise
because it's rude.
A lot of times those end locations
are a restaurant, they're a mall,
they're a parking lot.
Nevertheless, they are a place that is
usually trying to conduct some form of business.
Most of the cruises that I go on
end at lunch,
because I just like to eat.
All the time.
Now, we get it, you get into the end lot
and everything in between,
that's great, you go eat
and then when you go to leave,
that's when you go do the burnout
out onto the street or maybe you rev it a ton
and everybody's staring at you.
Just don't.
Just wait until you get out on the highway
or wait 'til you get onto the on ramp
to do that sort of stuff.
Just keep it away from people
and keep it away from places.
Mostly because a lot of car enthusiasts
already have a bad stigma by
the normal world.
Because you're that person that's loud and rambunctious
and makes a lot of noise
and does a lot of damage to stuff.
Now whether you want to admit that or not
is completely up to us,
but if we can prevent that,
you can usually prevent it by just not
not being a bag.
The other tip that if you want to be disappointed
in a cruise before you go,
research who organized it
and how much experience they have
in actually hosting a car cruise.
This happens a lot because we all want to go on cruises.
We all want to go around town
or go out on the countryside
or maybe go around the lake for a cruise.
And that's great and all,
but if we don't know where we're going,
and we don't know who organized it,
you may have a pretty terrible experience
because they have no experience.
A lot of times what we would recommend is
research who is going to be organizing this event
and how often they've done it in the past.
See if they actually have
talked to the restaurant that they're ending at
because if 40 people show up to a restaurant
with no reservation or no idea,
they're gonna want to kill you too.
Those cruises can be difficult because they are
a lot of work to put on,
especially considering they
don't know who's going to attend,
which comes down to whether you want to go
towards an open invite cruise
or a closed invitation cruise.
Now, open invitation cruises are kind of like
they're kind of like the club when you're 21,
they're a lot of fun,
there's a lot of people,
things smell, you're paying a lot of money
for things that you're not entirely sure
that the value is there,
but you get that experience,
and the experience is what the most fun is.
Those open invite cruises are the experience,
but they don't often have a lot of
all the other good stuff.
Closed invitation cruises, on the other hand,
are kinda like the nice Outback Steakhouse
dinner you go to on a Thursday night.
It's gonna be good,
you're not gonna be that disappointed in the quality,
it's gonna be a little bit quieter,
a little bit calmer,
but you're okay with that
'cause you've grown up, you've had your experiences
and now you just want to enjoy dinner
without being,
having your ears blown off
by some dude without an exhaust
that's just straight at redline for 30 seconds.
Closed in cruises are gonna have
some benefits that you can be a part of,
and if you know who those people are,
my recommendation would be to shoot 'em a message
on Facebook and see if they can invite you
to the next one.
But research who's organizing these events
and how much experience they have
so that you can set your own level of expectation
on the cruise,
wherever you feel like it is most relevant.
That way you'll never be disappointed.
That goes into the next thing, though,
with open invite cruises,
the bigger the cruise,
the slower they go.
You're gonna want to worry about others
more than you're gonna want to worry about yourself.
But if you have any sort of pro tip here,
it would be either,
be in the front of the cruise,
or be in the complete back of the cruise.
Being in the middle is a little like
being in the middle of a roller coaster
where your head gets whipped around super hard
and you're not having any fun
but everybody in the front's having a blast,
everybody in the back is having a blast,
but you're stuck in the middle,
like the peanut butter in a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich
but it's not tasteful and it's not delicious,
it's actually terrible
and it makes you not want to have any fun,
because you're stuck playing an ebb and flow game
of break and gas,
because there's 55 people on this cruise.
The bigger the cruise the slower it goes,
because you're gonna be running into things like
stop signs and lights and
all sorts of other issues.
You're gonna run into pedestrian things
that you're gonna have to take into account
and other people that
are on one lane roads and you can't pass
'cause of a double yellow.
So if you want to go on a faster cruise,
it takes us back to point three of
going on those closed invitation cruises
or just cruise with a couple buddies
versus cruising with a big group.
However, the bigger the cruise,
often the more fun it can be because
you just got like this mob goin' down the highway
and that is a lot of fun.
You can make some really good pictures,
take some good rollers, it's not bad.
Tip number five is really easy.
If you don't show up with gas in your tank,
everyone's going to hate you.
That's it, there's no,
there's no explanation on that one.
Another tip here for you is that
cruising is fun,
but if you can't talk to others,
it's pretty much really lame!
You're gonna want to get a radio,
like a little walkie talkie.
If you remember 2002, walkie talkies are still relevant
to some of us, or Zello.
There's a couple apps that you can get
through your app store that allows you,
it's kinda like a walkie talkie,
you can set up channels and talk to each other,
it's an absolute blast.
A lot of people host it for road rallies
and things like that
so that you can talk to other teams
in different cars,
and you can also get real time updates
to driving and directions
and addresses and things like that
if you need to,
because a lot of times once you start a cruise,
things do change.
And if you can talk to another person
that's leading the cruise,
or somebody that's right behind the person
leading the cruise,
it helps a ton with you having a good experience,
which brings us into the last cruise do or don't,
don't turn left.
Only rights.
Left turn signals don't exist when you're on a cruise,
only rights and straight aways.
That's it.
Stop blaring through yellows as well.
If you are in the front of the cruise,
and you see a yellow light,
just stop!
Because if it's turning yellow,
not everybody's gonna make
I don't understand the difficulty in that part,
but don't,
just stop.
And always remember that you've got 30 people behind you.
That especially goes for people that are organizing
these cruises is that your start points,
your end points and your drive routes,
you're gonna want to make sure that
it has two, three lanes if you have 20 cars.
You're gonna want to make sure that
you're starting at a park and ending at a park.
If you end at a small restaurant,
they may not have the parking available to you,
whereas a park almost always will.
If you're going into a park,
we're gonna want to make sure that we're being safe
in the park because if you're going on a cruise
on a Sunday which most people do,
there's children and playgrounds.
And you're gonna wanna be careful around that.
If you're cruisin' in a large group,
probably be careful as to where you're ending
if you're ending on a hillside,
you're not gonna want to roll into another person.
You're not gonna want to do a burnout into a tree.
There's a lot of just really basic stuff
but the most important thing is
show up on time, have a full tank of gas,
have a walkie talkie ready,
know where you're going,
don't turn left, only rights,
be safe and have fun.
And those are our car cruises' tips.
But if you have one, drop one below.
Let me know what your best tip for a car cruise is,
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So, I'm Alex from Fitment Industries.
We will see you later.
Peace.