 Earl Glenn township Chevrolet shop form in here another addition of Tuck-tuck Today we're just gonna go over a quick winter time obviously we get storms and our weather's been real crazy over class a little bit here So just some tips and some information about you know that initial start after a big storm or just some Things you can do to help prevent some issues Happen to you in the future when you get a storm So one thing we get a lot of people coming in here and I know a lot of their shops do is after a snow storm You've done your you start your carry letting more up Well, you finish up in the driveway or you're getting ready to go out or you're gonna move in your apartment for the plow to come through You see it you know a liner or a bunch of drops of bright green or bright yellow Fluid on the ground or something underneath your car that looks like any freeze And that's what people associate it with they'll come in and say listen started my car this morning I think I got an antifreeze leak the green even check it. You can't find a leak anywhere and normally what the cause of that is They put zinc in a lot of the exhaust systems today. It's to help keep the pipe from rusting It's a rust inhibitor and when it gets hot it crystallizes And then of course from the salt and the water and the snow when it gets hot It runs off the exhaust and when it does it gathers these sink crystals and hits this bright white snow And it kind of looks green or really bright yellow and you usually can tell it's not any freeze Because you'll have a line of it Traveling in the direction of your exhaust. So if you see that that's what that is. It's not a big deal It's nothing to panic over obviously if you've got overheating issues or you've got a Warning light coming on saying that your overflow bottle is empty or there's antifreeze problem or coolant persistent problem That's another story all together, but if you see those little drops nothing else associated with it That's most likely what's going on there So we've got let's say we've gotten a storm you're going out you're getting you ready to clean your car Of course headlights tail lights Cleaning all that stuff off real important, especially nowadays a lot of the headlight bulbs and signal light bulbs and and And tail light bulbs are all LED LEDs tend not to produce as much heat as the old incandescent bulbs So they don't seem to melt themselves off as well So before a quick little brush and a little bit of remnants of snow on there if you drove after a little while You know it would melt itself off, but it doesn't want to do it anymore because of the temperature so another thing to keep in mind too is When you go to start your car you should always open the hood the car in front of the car is designed So that it's taking fresh air in while when the car is not moving there's wind blowing at it The fresh air is going to roll up underneath behind the grill in the bumper in around where your fan area is You get a bunch of snow in there all around your engine you start your car You move it you pull it back in that snow is now melted a bit Go back in the house now It's freezes up and some components of your vehicle could be frozen Which is hard on them obviously especially your fan your fans gonna have to be packed full of snow or potentially could be and You go to start your car It's idling out there and you're doing some shoveling or you waiting for it to warm up when you're out of start Fan goes to turn on and it can't and now you've got an overheating issue You could potentially blow a fuse for your fan overheat the engine or you can actually ruin your family or sometimes It'll the amperage draw enough before the fuses blow Especially an older fan will actually burn the fan out and those fan modules can be assemblies can be pretty expensive So that's another thing to kind of keep in mind Another common problem too after especially with our temperature fluctuating it has been over the last little while Temperature changes where we get a you know a lot of snow it melts and it freezes again Now you've got ice around your door rubbers ice in your door locks ice on your window rubbers You go through the drive-through and you're pressing that button repeatedly trying to get that window down And you know finally it breaks free and you get your order But what you're doing is you're taking life out of your motor and you're potentially damaging those seals and gaskets and stuff One thing to help prevent that is a silicone space spray We do put that on here It's something only takes a couple minutes You put that stuff on when it's dry and it helps the ups the ice and stuff from sticking to that So your windows will move a lot for yourself when you're coming on to winter time You're coming in for an all change or something or any other service And you want your windows or your door rubbers sprayed. It's a good thing to ask It could save you some money down the road could save you some wind noise issues Key lock same thing a lot of people now key fobs a lot of cars Don't even have a keyhole to use but some of the cars that still have keyholes You're using your key fob all the time to unlock and lock your doors You do that and now you've got a key that's sitting there not moving Could be two three years before you ever need your key and you come up to your car And you get a dead battery or something and you go to key fob and there's nothing or the key fob battery itself Is bad now you need to take your key out and actually put it in the car and unlock it or same thing as a trunk You always use your trunk button, but you got a trunk keyhole there You've never used before well in our climate. Of course, it's gonna rust It's gonna seize up and you go to put your your key in your trunk and you can't get in Or you go to get in your car and key fob doesn't work and you can't get in there So good idea just to spray some lubricant in there Anything at all like brush check. There is some Graphite for locks that'll help keep that stuff moved up So just something else to mention when you come in the garage and you're like, you know Coming on wintertime maybe like to get my my hinges and my door rubbers and seals and my door locks I'll lubricated for the winter to keep all the salt and the ice and corrosion. That's probably a good idea So anyway, a few quick tips there Over the wintertime the Atlantic Canada here to keep your car running good and keep yourself from having issues That's been another addition to the tech talk and can't wait to do this with you. Thanks