- This suit doesn't stand a chance.
(dramatic music)
We bought the worst-reviewed safety products
that we could find and today we're gonna test them out
to see if they're as dangerous as the reviews say.
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- Before we go any further,
I just wanna make it clear
that Jobe and I are not scientists.
We don't have a professional testing facility.
But we do encourage you to spend a little bit more money
on safety equipment.
You only get one life, and some of this stuff could save it.
First up we have the Baizhuhua, Baizihucua?
- Buzzy wah wah?
- [James] Yeah, one-piece safety hammer,
vehicle emergency escape tools, car window breaker,
emergency escape tools, vehicle accident survival tools,
for emergency survival and rescue operations, so--
- One star!
- One star.
Harold James says,
"It does not cut seat belts as advertised."
- Ooh. - Ow, that's sharp!
(laughing)
- Definitely no seatbelt cutter.
- Yeah, I don't see how this would be expected
to cut a seat belt.
- Oh, that kind of smashed in now.
- Yeah.
- All right, so the brakes just gave out on this Jetta
and James is about to drive into a lake
where he has two options. (screaming)
Either save himself with the hammer
by busting out this window, or drown to death.
(shouting) (tires squealing)
He's got 30 seconds to try to save his life.
(imitates car crash) (tires squealing)
Timer starts now!
(grunting)
Oh no, James!
- Keep your head!
- Don't drown!
He's gonna live!
- Oh no, my seat belt, I can't cut it!
- [Zach] Oh, he's gonna die!
- It got everywhere.
So it works, it works really easy, first shot, sploosh.
- Yeah, but now you gotta climb out.
- No!
(laughing)
- It seems like a smashing success.
- I mean, this thing works.
Get one for your car, if you live in a wet place.
- [Zach] Yeah.
Maybe go for one with the seat belt cutter.
- [James] Yeah, why not?
- Ooh. - Our next product
is a very important one.
It protects your noggin.
Of course I'm talking about the most important hat
you'll ever wear, a helmet.
So we went with a $60 helmet, which is very inexpensive.
- That is cheap.
- [James] This is the triple H--
- [Zach] Ah!
- Stands for Hard Head Helmets.
SmartDealsNow DOT adult full face helmet
for motorcycle, ATV, motocross.
So this is certified to meet DOT's standard,
heavily cushioned and comfortable interior,
which can be removed for washing and cleaning,
which is good.
- Mmhmm.
No, I mean, I gotta say, you know, when I was young
and getting into motorcycles and dirt bikes
for the first time, a helmet was kind of a barrier to entry
because they're so expensive to get a nice one.
And so I could see like 16-year-old me
buying this $55 helmet-- - For sure.
- And using it.
So I bet there's a lot of people actually out there
with this on their noggin.
- PMcCoy, one star.
"There's nothing redeeming about this helmet.
"I bought this and used it temporarily
"until I finished painting my regular helmet,
"but it's already bugging me.
"Helmet seems too short and my lips press against--"
Oh that's sexy.
(wolf whistle) "And my lips press
"against the front of the helmet.
"And the D-ring is very hard to thread."
- [Zach] Ooh.
- This is the box it came in.
- Hm!
- We didn't rip it.
- Well, at least you know it got tested along the way.
- I normally wear a large and this feels loose on me.
And it really, I mean, it feels like a lack of padding.
My lips don't touch though.
- That guy must have big old lips.
Sexy.
So what happens if a car hits you
going about 23 miles per hour?
- Can't feel good.
(shrieks) - I doubt it.
We're gonna drop a series of melons from about 15 feet
onto the Jetta to simulate what it would look like
if your head got hit by a car.
This is just a straight up watermelon, no helmet, just hair.
This is if you weren't wearing a helmet at all.
(laughing) - Ooh!
- That's a lot of brain!
(slow-motion laughing)
Not good, wear a helmet.
- That looks like a good watermelon though.
Anybody wanna save me a piece?
So here we've got the triple H one-star helmet
being worn by our boy and Nolan
and we're gonna drop it straight on its dome
and see how it fares.
That melon's intact!
- Yeah, that's an intact melon.
Now let's see how a melon does with a Snell-approved helmet.
Right on the bend.
- That guy rolled.
I think he's going to be okay though.
- Yeah, head still seems to be in one piece.
Let's go inspect the damage.
- I think it's pretty safe to say that not wearing a helmet
at all is a pretty bad idea.
- Yep.
So for the one-star helmet--
- [James] $60 one-star helmet.
- Well, the melon is broken in half.
Our force meter didn't trip,
meaning it didn't really hit 100 Gs of force,
but I think that's mostly because the force was absorbed
by the breaking of the melon.
If your head breaks inside of the helmet,
that's an automatic fail.
So I'm gonna call that a failure.
- 'Cause your head carries your brain.
- And you need that to live.
- Your brain is the boss.
All right, let's see how the more expensive
Snell-approved helmet did.
Got a little damage on the visor.
- Ooh, but the melon?
- The melon is intact.
We did reach 100 Gs,
meaning we do have a pretty nasty concussion, but--
- None of this.
- I'd much rather not be able to go to sleep
for a little while then go to sleep forever.
Our next product involves fire safety.
Fire is one of the most fear-inducing things
on the whole entire planet.
- Fire's a real scary burn.
- A lot of people use fire extinguishers,
it's good to have a fire extinguisher in your car
if it's modified.
A lot of race cars and race series
require fire suppression systems.
We have a product that claims to put out fires
in automotive use for a fraction of the price.
$20.99.
You can get a fire blanket fiberglass fire
emergency blanket, suppression blanket,
flame-retardant blanket, emergency survival safety cover
for home kitchen, camping, fireplace, car, RV, boat.
- Well, you can use 'em anywhere.
- Yeah, it's a four-pack.
It's a fiberglass blanket, it won't catch on fire,
it'll smother a fire.
- Yeah, I guess that's the idea.
Removes the ability for the fire
to get any more oxygen, right?
Just smothers it out.
But the problem with that that I see
is that if you've got a fire in your engine bay,
you throw a blanket on top of it--
- [James] A lot of air is still able to get in there.
- Yeah.
But I mean, if you cover the top, I don't know,
I could see it working I guess.
There's a one-star review from Mike F and he says,
"Dookie. (fart sound)
"Not good."
I think Mike is the only person who's used this.
And he's like, you know what?
- That sucked.
- My house burned down.
- I used to have a fricking cabin, bro,
and now I don't have anything.
- Oh, and how big are these things?
I mean--
- [James] 13 by eight.
- Okay so not quite a whole car, half a car.
- Inches.
- What?
- They're 13 by eight inches.
(laughing) - I don't know.
(dramatic music)
- Catastrophic rear engine fire!
- Oh no!
You're gonna have to put that out, James,
you're gonna have to put that out quick
or the whole thing's gonna burn down!
Get a fire blanket. - Here, take care
of your tools!
(dramatic orchestral music)
Fire brigade, fire brigade, fire brigade!
- Well he's got a blanket.
You missed a little! (laughing)
- It stinks.
- Yeah, we're melting fiberglass.
But I don't see anymore flames.
- [James] It's extinguished, baby!
- You saved the truck!
You saved the day!
- Fire blanket works.
As long as the fire is smaller than this blanket,
it seems to work, so I would say
you should still have an extinguisher.
This next product isn't really about your safety,
it's about your car's safety.
So we got the Xotic, just an X, Tech car front rear bumper
corner protector guards two-piece carbon fiber pattern.
So this is two pieces that go on the front bumper
around the corner, and supposedly it protects your car
from a little fender bendery
situation-- - Yeah, you know,
parking by feel, that type of thing.
A lot of cars used to come with, you know,
strips on the bumper that were basically there for that.
Edwin G. Bourne.
"Should have listened to recent reviews.
"The adhesive is horrible, it fell off 15 minutes
"after putting it on.
"I put the heater blower on them for 15 minutes
"and they fell off again.
"I need a refund.
"Very disappointed."
That adhesive did not work.
"Loved the idea, but they fell off the first day."
"Cheaply made, does not stick."
"Doesn't stick to the bumper."
Okay, guys, listen to your customers.
Make the bumper stickers better!
You can tell it's always good quality
when they misspell quality on the package.
- Good coolity.
- No mention of the brand name Xotic Tech though.
- Uh-uh.
- I think we've been bait and switched.
- Like, I mean, these are cheap and dumb.
Which would you rather have,
potentially a couple of scratches on your bumper
from someone running into you, or definitely these, always?
We are now installing our bumper protector strips
in carbon fiber look.
The three W adhesive didn't quite work
so we're hitting it with a heat gun.
- Boy oh boy!
- [James] It sticks, looks stock, dude.
- Hell yeah. - It's OEM.
- Get some new carbon fiber accents.
- All right, Zach!
(engine revs) (dramatic music)
You're good.
- Should I--
- Yeah, just goose it.
- [Zach] Oops!
- You hit it way harder than I thought you would.
All right, let's see. - You said goose it!
- Yeah, this was here, but definitely didn't get any better.
I think this crack got worse.
Lots of spidering, and some paint transfer.
There's white on the truck.
- [James] You hit it so much harder than I thought.
- You wanna see if I can hit it even harder?
- Yeah.
- All right. (laughing)
- Goose it.
Ooh!
You got a nice little crack right there.
Again, some spidering, a lot of spidering.
- So you can see above and below the bumper guard,
everything just bent and this still made contact
with the truck and rubbed the paint off.
So I guess this sort of protected this specific area,
but so what?
- All in all I would say the bumper guards
are one of the best-looking and most tasteful modifications
you can make to a car.
I mean, they're carbon fiber look.
But didn't really do anything.
- Now sure, I was running into the truck a little hard,
(laughs) I suppose a light tap,
this might save you, but--
- [James] I think the best thing to do is be careful.
- [Zach] Learn how to drive!
Parking especially.
- We have one last product to test
and it is one of the worst things
that you can possibly cheat on.
If you are in a position where you have to use
one of these things, you want a good one.
- You want it to work.
It's literally meant to save your skin.
- Yeah, so you might not want to go to wish.com,
like we did, and found this $65 new Sparco racing suit.
John says, "The item is way too small and does not have any
"compliance tags that make it suitable for motor racing.
"It is possible that this item is not genuine."
We don't jump to conclusions on this show, all right?
This is a serious consumer review program.
We went directly to Sparco, showed 'em our suit,
and this is what they had to say.
Hey, Warren, what's going on, man?
- Hey, what's happening?
Hey! - Good to see ya.
- Good to see you, man.
So I got this wish.com Sparco suit.
- This is completely counterfeit, I mean, you can tell.
There's no certification on it.
Yeah, this is not even close to being a fire suit.
(laughing)
I would say the only wish would be
you wish you weren't wearing this if you caught on fire.
(evil laughter)
- Our mannequin here doesn't really have any skin,
so to speak, so to add a level of realism,
we added some meat to the equation, just like a human.
So we're gonna torch this thing and see if this suit
saves his bacon or just lets it cook.
And if you're wondering why the chest of our dummy
is censored, we made a community post
on Donut Underground.
We said the most-liked comment we'll get written
on the race suit and you guys voted--
- Definitely voted.
- And it was a little inappropriate.
(crowd gasps)
So to find out what it said,
you're gonna have to join the Donut Underground,
hit the join button down below to find out more about that.
Should we test the suit?
- Let's see if this thing burns!
So you're driving a race car and all of a sudden
some gasoline leaks into the footwell onto your feet
and your feet catch on fire at the ankles.
Let's see what happens.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- [Warren] You wish you weren't wearing this
if you caught on fire.
- Oh god, you're getting hit right in the chest
with a fireball coming right out of the steering--
Oh my God, that is not holding up.
That's like a plastic bag melted onto that man's skin!
Well that suit's just on fire!
It just went up immediately, I didn't do anything.
- Yeah, immediately just gone.
- But that mannequin's doing pretty well.
- [James] Mannequin's doing okay
and the Donut beanie's doing pretty good.
- [Zach] Just kinda looks cool, it's a little charred.
(James laughs)
- And we're not using the fire blanket for this one, sorry.
- Well, the bacon's on the ground.
I don't know if it got fully cooked,
but it definitely didn't fare well.
- That guy's dead.
(laughing)
I mean, you guys saw, that thing went up like that,
immediately, like faster than normal clothes.
- Yeah, it was like a flammable suit!
(laughing) - Yeah!
The opposite of what you're looking for.
There's actual clothing from our store on there
that didn't burn.
I'm not saying that Donut merch is flame retardant,
but it might save your life.
- It might.
- [James] Dude, that was insane.
- [Zach] I'd say this was our most egregious loser
of the day.
This thing is not worth buying.
- Not good.
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