**Give It the Beans**

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**Faded Black Plastic Trim**

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 isn't as fun as a blowtorch.

**Blowtorch Hack**

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 magic. Like pressure washer level of satisfaction. Yeah, for sure.

**Faded Plastic Restoration**

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.

**Blowtorch Application**

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) Yeah. See, that just ain't it, Chief.

**Blowtorch Hack Results**

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.

**Plastic Deterioration**

You see, trim becomes faded when UVs, 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 look nice and shiny again. But look, this isn't great for the plastic long-term and it's really easy to overhear the plastic and other parts of your car.

**Conclusion**

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.

**Griffin's Merchandise**

Griffin, thank you so much for coming on the show and joining us in this automotive, scientific journey. Where can people find you? Yeah, just I'm good from Johnson, on everything. We got a whole bunch of new merch coming out. I'm super excited about it. So make sure you don't miss out on any of that. Go to donutmedia.com. Join our mailing list. Again, hit that like button. Thank you so much for watching this and everything else on donut media. Subscribe if you like it, I love you.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- You don't want it to catch on fire.(flame gas whirring)(suspenseful music)(loud explosion)- You guys havepractically been begging usto test out more TikTok hacksto 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 sweetautomotive TikTok hacks,and then test them out.And then we're going to havea real scientist, I swear,tell us why these TikTokhacks work or don't work.This is Griffin.I'm James, and this is The D-List.- Big thanks to Keeps forsponsoring today's video.Feel the burn Dave, feel the burn.Oh, hello there.My doctor said I wouldn't last very long,if I didn't start takinghealthy vitamins. What kind?I don't know, I wasn't listening.But Dave told me I could get Vitamin Dfrom the sun for free.So here I am soaking up my free vitaminsand taking care of my health.(penguin squawking)Yeah, I know Dave.Everything changed whenI became one of thetwo outta three guys to experiencesome form of male patternbaldness by the time I was 35.Where was Keeps when I needed ''''em.Now Keeps makes hair loss prevention easy,by giving you accessto real doctors online.Plus,Keeps will ship your hair loss medicationdirectly to your door every three months.So take care of those folliclesand start your hair lossprevention from home today.Go to keeps.com/dlist or clickthe link in the descriptionto receive 50% off your first order.- Uh, Dave?I think I got too many vitamins.Ooh.I smell like yams.(laughter in background)(relaxing music)Why yam's?- What is your experiencewith life hacks on TikTok?- I love life hacks. Likeif they work it's dope.So I'm here to learn.- Cool. So let's jump into our first hack.- How to getany scratch off your car.- He scratched his car.- All you're goingto need is a tennis ball.As you can see, there isactually a scratch right here.- There is actually scratch right there.- After scrubbing for a while,it should start disappearing.- That's just the most capthing I've ever seen in my life.- (laughing) You think so?- Y'all, I'm going toscratch it all the way downto 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 thishack is a tennis ball,and a scratch, which we have.Because like I said,the Jetta is a race carand rubbing is racing.(race car engine noises)We have a couple righthere that are, like.- Oh yeah, I think that'sthe culprit right there.- Yeah, pretty superficial.Like you said, just clear coat.You wanna try it?- This is the most cap thingI'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 littleshopping cart hit.- Holy Sh$%(laughing in disbelief)Like, it looks bettereven now without that.- Oh my God. All right, sothe tennis ball scratch hack,- Better than I thought.- Yeah definitely workson superficial scratches.So if you have a tiny scratch on your car,get yourself a tennis balland you know, try it out.(cheerful music)If you want to knowexactly why this works.Let's hear what our expertscientist has to say.- Oh, Hey, it's me, JoeFist, the scientist.Look, I'm going to be honest with you.I'm not a real scientist,but I'm the closest we couldget on such short notice. Okay?Now how this hack works,the fibers of the tennisball act as a scrub pad,which can pick up contaminantson the surface of the paint.Now this is good forleveling out white scratches,but it ain't going torestore any missing paint,because it's a tennis ball.Not at all.Back to you James.- Okay. So what is one ofthe most annoying thingsabout 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 therewas a way to pour oilwithout 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 dipstickand then put it in the oil fill hole.And is just pouring itdown 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 testingnot only if it works,but if it's worth it.- Yes, if it's worth it. Ifit'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 tobe straight up and down?- I think. I think so, Ithink she like held it.- Straight up and down, and then likeshe held it like this,and then just poured itliterally 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 bitand I dumped way more oil than I would ifI would've just turnedthis 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 oilis whenever you're at the top.Because, you know, youcan't tip it over very farwithout it coming out.So I think the key is youstart with the dipstick,slowly get enough outto where you can justtake 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. Sothe dipstick oil trick.- Pretty good.It's not the best. I wouldrather have a funnel,but if you're like in apinch, or a car that burns oiland you're like at the gasstation, 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 worksfrom our seriously realeducated scientist.- Okay. So here's how this hack works.It's the same principleas when the water sticksto the side of the glasswhen you pour it slowly.The molecules are attracted tothe surface of the dipstick.But listen, you got to do it slowly, okay?Or else the molecules won't haveenough time to bond to the dipstick.It's kind of like a JerseyMike 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 nothaving to shift knob?Literally nothing.And I challenge you to find one thingon this earth that is worse thannot having a shift knobon your car. All right.But luckily, TikTok's here to help.- Did you ever get into your carand the knob of gearstick has gone missing?it's just gone missing somewhere.- He sounds huge.- (laughing) he sounds huge.- Glovecompartment and their handbagaround their sports bag.So simply put a hole in the potato,place it on top of the gear stick.And this will temporarilyact 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 hasa potato lying aroundin their glove compartment,or their handbag, or their sports bag.- Wait since when?- (Laughing) Where is this dude from?- Oh.His shift knob felloff while he's driving.You're like, oh.- I'll get a thing.I'll just use my potato.- Right.- I was gonna eat thisafter my workout, but.All right, for this hack,you need a drill and apotato from your handbagor your glove compartmentor 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 alittle 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 allthe garbage from this showin 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 wantme to bang some gears, I will.I'm not even going to lie.I think with this potato shifteryou 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, Idon't know, 2 minutes.We already getting potato leakage.The sound is not ideal.- Not ideal.- Let's hear somehow what ourexpert has to say about this.- The extremely scientificway this hack worksis that potatoes are roughlythe same size as a shift knob.And everybody got a potatolying 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 modsyou can do to your caris anti-lag.(car exhaust popping)But what if you don't have the moneyto install real anti-lag in your car?But you still want the appearanceand the prestige of makingloud noises with your car.Luckily there's a hack for that.- When you turn it on,you got to turn it backto the second clickand then right back, you know,to the starting position.Now I put it in neutral anddo 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 thenhe's turning the ignition off.- I mean, I would never like,I wouldn't recommendjust doing this for fun.- (laughing) No,- But if you have a carthat you don't care aboutor something, and you'rejust messing around,like, this is kind of cool.If you want to pull up tolike Walmart parking lot,and, like rev it up or something.- Dude, I think this onlyworks in a Walmart parking lot.- Yeah, like you got topull up next to the homieslike (mimmicks engine pop hack)- For this hack,all you need is a Walmartparking lot and some homies.(laughing)- Right. So it's secondposition 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 withaudible knock and grind)- Wow. Yeah I'm not gonna lie,plenty of coolant lost.No crackles, no pops.- I think we have too much liquidgoing through our exhaust pipeto 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 aheadand say cap becausethere is a lot of liquid goingthrough our exhaust pipe.- That is true.- That would probably keepan explosion from happening.I think technically thiswill work in a healthier car.- It might not stay healthy for longif you keep doing it though.- Right. Yeah.So this is not good for yourcar. 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 tobe pushed out of the cylinder.Like my mom pushed me outof my house when I was 32.I pay rent, Ma.Now this unburned fuel combustswhen you turn the engine back on.Real two-step systemsfunction kind of the same way,but it helps if your exhaustisn't filled with juiceand bean residue.All in all,I would not recommend this hack.Back to you, James.- New shirt alert.(laughing)That's stupid.♪ Give it the Beans, at Beans, Beans ♪- You guys can't getenough of our catchphraseand we can't get enough designing clothes.That's why we came out with our third'Give it the Beans' shirt.This one's with a can.On the front, you got yourGive it the Beans can.And on the rear you've gota gaggle of cans on the backin all different modern styles.That's a little art history joke for you.Very sleek, very street, very, very hip.Get your 'Give it the Bean' can shirt ondonutmedia.com only $29.98.Give it the Beans and get one today.- One of the things thatplagues the cars that I likeis faded black plastictrim that gets all gray.- Ah, the worst.- Looks ugly.There's a million products you can buy,there's a milliondifferent hacks you can useincluding peanut butter, supposedly.But peanut butter is notas fun as a blowtorch.(upbeat music)- Okay. I like it.The only thing that I don'tlike about this one is,if you hold it somewhere too long,you're done for likeyou can't get it back.- For sure,it's definitely like a riskversus reward situation.- But it looks really good on here.- I mean, it's like.- It looks brand new,- It looks like magic.- Like pressure washerlevel of satisfaction.- Yeah, for sure.Dude. That's a great analogy.We have some fadedplastic 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 oflike roasting a marshmallow.You don't want to get ittoo 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 gonnasee 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 bethe right kind of plastic.Okay. So I think number 1lesson learned from this test,is make sure it's theright 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 videois like the perfect plastic,like the fenders.- Yeah.- I think he just has theperfect plastic for it.- Again, risk versus a reward.- If it works, it works.If it doesn't then justgonna to replace it really.(laughing)It's definitely a crapshoot.- Okay. So trim becomes faded when UV's,and other contaminantsdegrade the plastic over time.The heat from the torch pullswhat I'll call 'oils' upfrom beneath the surface of the plastic,which makes it looks nice and shiny again.But look, this isn't greatfor the plastic long-termand it's really easyto overheat the plasticand 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 toyou, James and Griffin.- Griffin, thank you somuch for coming on the showand joining us in thisautomotive, scientific journey.Where can people find you?- Yeah, just I'm good fromJohnson, on everything.- We got a whole bunchof new merch coming out.I'm super excited about it.So make sure you don'tmiss out on any of that.Go to donutmedia.com.Join our mailing list.Again, hit that like button.Thank you so much for watching thisand everything else on donut media.Subscribe if you like it, I love you.