- You don't want it to catch on fire.
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(suspenseful music)
(loud explosion)
- You guys have practically been begging us
to test out more TikTok hacks
to help you out in your life.
And I never want to let you down.
Today I'm raising the bar.
I have enlisted TikTok expert,
Griffin Johnson, to help me out.
We're gonna look at some pretty sweet
automotive TikTok hacks, and then test them out.
And then we're going to have a real scientist, I swear,
tell us why these TikTok hacks work or don't work.
This is Griffin.
I'm James, and this is The D-List.
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(laughter in background)
(relaxing music)
Why yam's?
- What is your experience with life hacks on TikTok?
- I love life hacks. Like if they work it's dope.
So I'm here to learn.
- Cool. So let's jump into our first hack.
- [Tik Tok] How to get any scratch off your car.
- He scratched his car.
- [Tik Tok] All you're going to need is a tennis ball.
As you can see, there is actually a scratch right here.
- There is actually scratch right there.
- [Tik Tok] After scrubbing for a while,
it should start disappearing.
- That's just the most cap thing I've ever seen in my life.
- (laughing) You think so?
- Y'all, I'm going to scratch it all the way down
to the primer.
Oh, tennis ball.
- Yeah. This dude says any scratch though.
- I don't know about that, but maybe like a clear coat,
like I said, like a small scratch.
I could see it.
- All right. So apparently,
all you need for this hack is a tennis ball,
and a scratch, which we have.
Because like I said, the Jetta is a race car
and rubbing is racing.
(race car engine noises)
We have a couple right here that are, like.
- Oh yeah, I think that's the culprit right there.
- Yeah, pretty superficial. Like you said, just clear coat.
You wanna try it?
- This is the most cap thing I've ever seen in my life.
- Is it clearing? - Wait.
- No way (laughing)
Dude, no way - Hold on, hold on.
- Dude. That's crazy.
But right here, I don't think it worked.
Cause we got rid of the paint.
- But it definitely does help.
- Yeah. Like if you get like just a little
shopping cart hit.
- Holy Sh$%
(laughing in disbelief)
Like, it looks better even now without that.
- Oh my God. All right, so the tennis ball scratch hack,
- Better than I thought.
- Yeah definitely works on superficial scratches.
So if you have a tiny scratch on your car,
get yourself a tennis ball and you know, try it out.
(cheerful music)
If you want to know exactly why this works.
Let's hear what our expert scientist has to say.
- Oh, Hey, it's me, Joe Fist, the scientist.
Look, I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm not a real scientist,
but I'm the closest we could get on such short notice. Okay?
Now how this hack works,
the fibers of the tennis ball act as a scrub pad,
which can pick up contaminants on the surface of the paint.
Now this is good for leveling out white scratches,
but it ain't going to restore any missing paint,
because it's a tennis ball.
Not at all.
Back to you James.
- Okay. So what is one of the most annoying things
about changing your oil?
You got to find a funnel.
- My dad does it without it, and it always freaks me out.
He's like precision. But yeah.
- What if I told you there was a way to pour oil
without a funnel,
that wouldn't freak you out?
- I would say, please show me,
because I hate having to get a funnel.
(laughter)
- Dude, your in luck, bro.
- What? What the.
- So she took the dipstick
and then put it in the oil fill hole.
And is just pouring it down like a waterfall.
- I feel like it's going to work,
but to see if it's efficient or not.
- Right, cause. - That's the real key.
- If it takes too long,
then I might as well go find a funnel.
- Exactly.
- What we're going to need for this hack,
is a quart of oil and no funnel.
So right now we're testing not only if it works,
but if it's worth it.
- Yes, if it's worth it. If it's time efficient. All right.
- So I'm opening up the oil fill hole,
and I guess I stick this in there.
- Yeah. Is it supposed to be straight up and down?
- I think. I think so, I think she like held it.
- Straight up and down, and then like
she held it like this, and then just poured it
literally like slowly straight down.
Yeah. It was like very precision.
(intense music)
(suspenseful music ends in fart noise)
- Okay, so. It does work,
but it's super, super. - It's super slow.
- Tedious.
- And like I, my hand shook a little bit
and I dumped way more oil than I would if
I would've just turned this over inside of it.
Okay. We're going pretty quick right now.
- It's actually not bad at all.
- But look, check this out.
I can just do this.
- The hardest part about pouring the oil
is whenever you're at the top.
Because, you know, you can't tip it over very far
without it coming out.
So I think the key is you start with the dipstick,
slowly get enough out to where you can just
take the jug and.
- And then do the switch. - Yep.
Definitely though, funnel's better.
(laughing)
But if you're in a pinch, this works.
- Yeah. All right. So the dipstick oil trick.
- Pretty good.
It's not the best. I would rather have a funnel,
but if you're like in a pinch, or a car that burns oil
and you're like at the gas station, throwing in a quart.
It's definitely enough to get you by.
We're gonna call it 'in a pinch'.
- This one's good in a pinch.
(relaxing music)
Now let's find out why it works
from our seriously real educated scientist.
- Okay. So here's how this hack works.
It's the same principle as when the water sticks
to the side of the glass when you pour it slowly.
The molecules are attracted to the surface of the dipstick.
But listen, you got to do it slowly, okay?
Or else the molecules won't have
enough time to bond to the dipstick.
It's kind of like a Jersey Mike sub, (water pouring)
you get juices all over it,
but you can't pour it too quickly.
Or else your sub gets too wet.
And nobody likes too much Mike's juice.
Back to you, James.
- What is worse than not having to shift knob?
Literally nothing.
And I challenge you to find one thing
on this earth that is worse than
not having a shift knob on your car. All right.
But luckily, TikTok's here to help.
- [Tik Tok] Did you ever get into your car
and the knob of gear stick has gone missing?
it's just gone missing somewhere.
- He sounds huge.
- (laughing) he sounds huge.
- [Tik Tok] Glove compartment and their handbag
around their sports bag.
So simply put a hole in the potato,
place it on top of the gear stick.
And this will temporarily act as a gear stick.
- I don't even like this. Like, even if it works.
It's just like, dude, it's a potato.
(laughing)
- He said, everybody has a potato lying around
in their glove compartment,
or their handbag, or their sports bag.
- Wait since when?
- (Laughing) Where is this dude from?
- Oh.
His shift knob fell off while he's driving.
You're like, oh.
- I'll get a thing. I'll just use my potato.
- Right.
- I was gonna eat this after my workout, but.
All right, for this hack,
you need a drill and a potato from your handbag
or your glove compartment or your sports bag.
You want to drill the hole?
- I mean, sure.
I don't want to go too deep.
- No, and don't mess up your hand.
- Yeah. No. That's what I'm like.
(drill whining in bursts)
- And look, you save these,
you got yourself a little bit of hash brown.
(Laughing)
- Dude, this is the perfect hack.
- And it's like, multi-layer hacked.
It's like got to shift knob and breakfast.
Take our other custom, badass shift knob off.
(laughing)
- We got to remember to take this out man.
I know you like leaving all the garbage from this show
in the car. You got to take this out.
'Cause this is going to stink.
All right.
(suspenseful music)
(achievement music)
- Dude, wait.
(laughing)
Oh yeah, I love it.
- It's perfect dude.
(laughing)
- Row them gears, baby.
- I don't like the noise it makes though.
It's like (mimmicks wet squishing noise)
- Eww. See, I don't know about that.
- And it's juicing onto the-
- Yeah there is some juice.
Yeah, You want to row some gears, bro?
- Yeah. I mean, if you want me to bang some gears, I will.
I'm not even going to lie.
I think with this potato shifter
you don't even need a clutch.
(Laughing)
You just hear it.
It's like whenever it goes, (mimmicks potato noise)
that's when you know.
Honestly though,
not as bad as I thought it would be.
- There's so much potato juice already.
Like, look at that.
That's disgusting, dude.
(laughing ewws)
(hits potato) (more laughing)
- Oh look at this.
- Is it coming out the top.
- Yeah.
But now it's a short shifter.
(laughing)
Adjustable. - It works.
- Potato shift knob.
- Works.
It does work. They didn't lie.
There was no cap detected,
but not exactly practical.
- Yeah, not ideal.
We were in there for, I don't know, 2 minutes.
We already getting potato leakage.
The sound is not ideal.
- Not ideal.
- Let's hear somehow what our expert has to say about this.
- The extremely scientific way this hack works
is that potatoes are roughly the same size as a shift knob.
And everybody got a potato lying around at home.
Look, I'm not a scientist. I told you already.
Back to you, James.
- One of the most popular, sometimes cool,
sometimes annoying mods you can do to your car
is anti-lag.
(car exhaust popping)
But what if you don't have the money
to install real anti-lag in your car?
But you still want the appearance
and the prestige of making loud noises with your car.
Luckily there's a hack for that.
- [Tik Tok] When you turn it on,
you got to turn it back to the second click
and then right back, you know,
to the starting position.
Now I put it in neutral and do that while I rev, lets see.
(car engine revving)
At 4,000 RPMs, she'll pop.
(car engine revving with pop)
- Okay. Yeah.
He's turning the car on then he's turning the ignition off.
- I mean, I would never like,
I wouldn't recommend just doing this for fun.
- (laughing) No,
- But if you have a car that you don't care about
or something, and you're just messing around,
like, this is kind of cool.
If you want to pull up to like Walmart parking lot,
and, like rev it up or something.
- Dude, I think this only works in a Walmart parking lot.
- Yeah, like you got to pull up next to the homies
like (mimmicks engine pop hack)
- For this hack,
all you need is a Walmart parking lot and some homies.
(laughing)
- Right. So it's second position then back on,
after you rev it to 4,000.
- Got it.
(intense music)
(heart beating and car engine revving)
Check engine light just came on.
(car engine revving with audible knock and grind)
- Wow. Yeah I'm not gonna lie,
plenty of coolant lost.
No crackles, no pops.
- I think we have too much liquid
going through our exhaust pipe
to make any sort of explosion happen.
I think it would work in another car.
This car's trying to kill itself.
I don't want to go ahead and say cap because
there is a lot of liquid going through our exhaust pipe.
- That is true.
- That would probably keep an explosion from happening.
I think technically this will work in a healthier car.
- It might not stay healthy for long
if you keep doing it though.
- Right. Yeah.
So this is not good for your car. This is not a hack.
(loud shatter noise)
- Okay. So just like James explained,
turning off the key kills the ignition,
which allows unburnt fuel to be pushed out of the cylinder.
Like my mom pushed me out of my house when I was 32.
I pay rent, Ma.
Now this unburned fuel combusts
when you turn the engine back on.
Real two-step systems function kind of the same way,
but it helps if your exhaust isn't filled with juice
and bean residue.
All in all,
I would not recommend this hack.
Back to you, James.
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- One of the things that plagues the cars that I like
is faded black plastic trim that gets all gray.
- Ah, the worst.
- Looks ugly.
There's a million products you can buy,
there's a million different hacks you can use
including peanut butter, supposedly.
But peanut butter is not as fun as a blowtorch.
(upbeat music)
- Okay. I like it.
The only thing that I don't like about this one is,
if you hold it somewhere too long,
you're done for like you can't get it back.
- For sure,
it's definitely like a risk versus reward situation.
- But it looks really good on here.
- I mean, it's like. - It looks brand new,
- It looks like magic.
- Like pressure washer level of satisfaction.
- Yeah, for sure.
Dude. That's a great analogy.
We have some faded plastic on the race car.
All we need for this hack is blowtorch.
- Blowtorch- check.
- As you can see here, we've got some faded trim
- Gonna bring it back to life.
- That's all that's wrong with it.
So I think it's like kind of like roasting a marshmallow.
You don't want to get it too close to the flame,
You just want to like kiss it.
- Right,
You don't want it to catch on fire
- Right.
- Okay.
(blowtorch gas roars) (action music)
You don't want it to catch on fire.
- It caught on fire. That's melty.
All right, maybe I'm too close.
(laughing)
- All right, we're gonna see if I got the finesse.
(blowtorch gas roars) (action music)
(music stops suddenly)
(laughing)
Yeah. See, that just ain't it, Chief.
(blow torch gas blaring)
- That's working.
- Yeah. It's actually,
I think it might be onto something.
- Yeah, I think it's just gotta be
the right kind of plastic.
Okay. So I think number 1 lesson learned from this test,
is make sure it's the right kind of plastic.
- Yeah
- Because as we saw with the front lip,
it worked and it made it darker.
- It was definitely better on that.
I think that also this video is like the perfect plastic,
like the fenders.
- Yeah.
- I think he just has the perfect plastic for it.
- Again, risk versus a reward.
- If it works, it works.
If it doesn't then just gonna to replace it really.
(laughing)
It's definitely a crapshoot.
- Okay. So trim becomes faded when UV's,
and other contaminants degrade the plastic over time.
The heat from the torch pulls what I'll call 'oils' up
from beneath the surface of the plastic,
which makes it looks nice and shiny again.
But look, this isn't great for the plastic long-term
and it's really easy to overheat the plastic
and other parts of your car.
All in all. I would not recommend at all.
Not at all.
I have been Joe Fist, the scientist.
And again, I'm not a real scientist.
Until next time, back to you, James and Griffin.
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