- [Man] "It's been eighty-seven years!"
If you don't even know what social distancing is anymore,
the healthy mind doesn't mind wake up thinking
it's its last day stuck at home.
But I think that's a luxury, not a curse.
I've been playing way too much WarZone.
All right, as life is on the brink of you
that are going back to normal or spiraling out of control,
one thing remains constant.
That garage project is still not done.
You know it, I know it, we all know it,
and it's time to start getting some good old motivation
in the car project department,
and that's what I'm here to do.
I'm Alex, alex.fi on Instagram,
and today, ladies and gentlemen,
we're going to be talking about five easy, easy,
do it yourself car projects you can at home right now,
that you'll say, "Wow, those are five easy things to do
at home with my car."
And if you're just jumping into this video, "hola!"
That means "hello" in Spanish.
(speaking foreign language)
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And it allows you to kind of build your car up,
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so that you don't make the same mistakes
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Because you don't want poopy Fitment, all right?
That out of the way.
One of the biggest and easiest car projects
to do at home,
and is also incredibly satisfying,
is going into the kitchen,
grabbing your favorite Ziploc bags from the drawer,
don't tell your wife or husband.
Then, grabbing a permanent marker and just going out
and organizing everything in your garage.
It's kind of like a Spring cleaning,
for your car and your garage.
But for your car builds in general,
I did when I first moved into my house,
and it was the best feeling in the world.
Even getting down to cleaning up the old
dusty bottles and cleaners,
and then putting them away is a pretty good feeling
once it's all said and done.
You go through and organize bolts and parts and pieces,
you throw away those headlights that
you've had for three years.
Again, you know it, I know it, we know it,
it ain't happening, buddy.
If you haven't sold it or unboxed it in the last year,
it's just time to get rid of it.
Second easy car project that requires no money,
which is a very nice thing to remember,
especially in today's day and age,
is doing a very deep detail on your car.
People like you and people like me
have a tendency to buy products that we use for a couple,
two, three times and then we put away only
to never use again because it takes a good chunk of time
to disassemble and clean up the nuts and bolts
and all that sort of stuff that you're planning on cleaning.
All right, that's a thing.
So guess what, bet you got all the time
in the world to do that right now, right?
Micro-detailing is super satisfying
and is a lot of the reason why people love certain cars
at shows and meets. When you open up an engine bay and
you see that the washers are clean,
the bolts are all the same color,
or the bumper doesn't have leaves stuck behind the grill,
it's a satisfying thing,
but it takes a lot of time.
Spray cleaner does a good job at cleaning,
rust remover, where you put a concentrate in water,
then you put the nuts and bolts in there
to kind of get rid of the rust,
that's a fantastic little thing too.
Add on some high-temp corrosion resistant black paint
onto some bolts, and you're pretty much ready to set fire.
Okay, your project will look good
and the only thing it really takes is time.
"Whoa, Alex, these seem like all great projects,
but they're pretty meticulous,
and I don't know if you know me,
but I can do something for about thirty minutes
before I get bored."
(deep bass music) ♪ Okay I'm bored in the house ♪
♪ and I'm in the house bored ♪
♪ Bored in the house and I'm in the house bored ♪
By the way, don't say "meticulous", that's insulting.
You probably--
(stuttering)
It's okay, we all get a bit like that, which is fair.
So what's like, the Free-to-Play version
of a car project to do while you're stuck at home?
Well, throw the old car on jacks,
take off the wheels and tires
that you got from FitmentIndustries.com,
(explosion)
and get to inspecting.
Check the brake pads, rotors, oil, coolant,
windshield wiper fluid.
Mark it all down, okay?
Go and do a little street pickup from your
local AutoZone for whatever's needed for fluids,
rotors, breaks, cables, all that good stuff,
and spend a day just getting the car up to snuff
from things you know you ignored from the previous season.
Super satisfying when you're essentially giving your car
the bath-bomb treatment of maintenance items,
which includes that 17-year-old windshield wipers
and the McDonald's smell from inside the car
that desperately needs some Black Ice love
absolutely everywhere,
and an oil change that is a few thousand miles too old.
After that, you can take it out
for a drive of social distancing and all that stuff.
Just because you have a Miyota
doesn't mean you should ignore your oil changes.
And another project, which isn't much of a project,
is to go out to our driveway or garage,
get your car all cleaned up, do the old maintenance of it,
all that good good,
and then go do a photoshoot.
Take some pictures.
Now most people have that fancy-Nancy
iPhone or DSLR these days,
but what you can do is if you have Lightroom,
you can download it on your phone,
and even through your phone you can take raws
through Lightroom.
Androids already have it because you know, Android.
But this allows you to do your own mini photoshoot
that you've probably been neglecting for months
because, well, video games.
Even though it sounds kind of funky
to do a photoshoot with your phone
or just something that's easier,
it's actually a lot of fun,
and it can be a little bit like a DSLR.
Practice your light painter,
turn your garage into a set for photos.
Just going out there and taking pictures
of your pride and joy is really enjoyable.
And finally, one of the last do it yourself car projects
while you're stuck in quaran-poopy is
to go through the old modifications
that you've done to the car and fix them.
Most of the time, and pretty much all of the time,
we install bits and pieces
and get them to about eighty percent there,
and then stop because, boom, coil-overs are on,
job is done, baby, let's go.
You never end up going back to finish
the extra twenty percent of the project to make it proper.
Bet you there's something on your car right now
that meets one of these criteria.
If not, you can put an "F" in the comments below.
You installed it, dumped it, and that's okay.
But it's always good to go back in there and make sure
that you dial in your suspension.
Maybe you went in, and you got it all set up,
and then you bought a roller.
You bought a roller to make your wheels fit that you bought.
You bought a roller, that's it.
Or you wired a radio together,
but just quick-connected everything
because you wanted to make sure that it worked,
and you promised to go back later and
heat-wrap the cables once everything was good.
That was sixteen months ago.
There are pieces inside the car
that were painted with spray paint.
You were gonna clear them, but we "needed to get to cruise".
Now they're all gray.
Little sticky, there's some plastic stuff on it.
The little fuzzy bits come on and then they just never stop,
just collecting there.
Air was installed and it just looks baller,
but we strapped one-by-fours to the trunk
for the compressors to sit on,
and never actually finished the trunk.
We just prayed nobody asked us to open up the trunk.
Onnie, looking at you.
Needless to say, finishing touches
is what makes a car build so satisfying.
It makes the car reliable, looks good,
and not be a ticking time bomb.
If the only thing that you have right now is time,
it's time to do what you have to do to your car
and make it the best little (beep) box possible.
You know what I'm saying?
So what's a car project you're working on right now?
Drop a comment below, and of course if you're looking
or are on the market for wheels, tires, or suspension,
you can be sure to hit us up over at FitmentIndustries.com.
We also have a massive gallery where you can go see what
other people have done,
and if you do have an after-market car,
go add your car to our gallery,
because it's fun, and you can get shout-outs,
and it's cool, and you could like it,
and it would mean a lot.
I'm Alex from Fitment Industries, we will see you later.
Oh, god.
Peace.