Testing Weird Car Accessories with Gus Johnson

The Memorial Day Weekend is Coming Up: A Review of the Weirdest Car Accessories on Amazon

As we approach the Memorial Day weekend, law enforcement will be cracking down on traffic infractions, making it essential to have a reliable system in place for dealing with parking tickets and other infractions. This is where Off The Record comes in – an app that boasts a 97% success rate in having their clients' tickets dismissed or reduced, thanks to its network of lawyers and support services.

We decided to put this technology to the test by reviewing some of the weirdest car accessories available on Amazon, including gadgets that claim to save fuel, purify the air, and even make your vehicle smell better. So, let's dive in and take a closer look at these products.

First up is the Saucemoto Dip Clip, which promises to keep your car smelling fresh for longer. Unfortunately, we found this gadget to be a total disappointment, as it seems to do more harm than good. When used, it releases an overpowering scent of ranch dressing into the air, making our mouths water in all the wrong ways.

Next, we tried out the Car Fragrance Diffuser from PATEA, which claims to use solar power to create a pleasant aroma for your vehicle. While this device does seem to work, its hefty price tag and lack of effectiveness make it hard to recommend. We also had trouble getting it to produce any scent at all, despite the promise of "all-natural" ingredients.

Another product we tested was the Acouto Fuel Saver, which boasts impressive claims about reducing emissions and improving fuel efficiency. However, our experience with this gadget left us underwhelmed. While it does seem to make a difference in startup time, its effectiveness is largely due to its small size and simple design – not because it's doing anything particularly remarkable.

But perhaps the most bizarre product we encountered was the Car Perfume Seat from PATEA. This little device uses a combination of magnets and air circulation to create a rotating perfume dispenser that's supposed to leave your vehicle smelling like fresh flowers. Unfortunately, this gadget is more gimmick than genuine innovation – its poor performance and lack of effectiveness make it hard to recommend.

In conclusion, while some of these products may seem interesting or innovative at first glance, they ultimately fall short in terms of performance and value for money. If you're looking for a reliable system for dealing with parking tickets and other infractions, Off The Record is the way to go – but if you're just looking for a quirky car accessory to impress your friends, these products may be worth considering.

However, please keep in mind that some of these gadgets might have been tested wrong by the authors or might not work properly.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- You can buy some pretty weird crapfor your car on Amazon.We've done it before on this channel.And today we are backwith some of the downright weirdest crapthat Max could find.I'm joined with one of thefunniest dudes on the tube,Gus Johnson.- Hey mom, I'm on the tube.(men laughing)- And together we're gonna findout if any of these productsare worth buying.- I'm James and this is- The D-List.- A big thanks to Off The Recordfor sponsoring today's video.The Memorial Day weekend is coming up,and cops are gonna be ready to give outall kinds of tickets.That's why you need the Off The Record appdownloaded on your phone.With a 97% success rate,they have a whole networkof lawyers to help youget your tickets taking care of,and they even offer a full refundif they can't reduce,or keep it off your record.So go register today, use code DONUTand offtherecord.com/donut to save 10%off your first ticket.Happy Memorial Day!- We're really big fans of Gus,like actually in real life.He does a lot of really,really funny videos.I don't want to set you upfor failure in this video.- Yeah. Don't over hype me.- Check out his channel on YouTube,if you like funny stuff.- Please, if you guys don'tcome sub to my channelthen this whole day will be a bust.This is not, I don't care aboutthe professional relationshipswith any of these people.I'm just here for you.- And if you guys wantto win any of this stuff,we're gonna give them all the waybecause we don't haveany room to store them.Sit around to the end ofthe video to find out how!So let's get into the first product.This is the Sumerlly, 1 Pieces,Car Anti-static, Rubber Strap Eliminator,Grounding, Safe For Vehicle Driving.I don't know what it is.- That's good brand recognition though.- Yeah. Prevent shockby static electricity.Positive.Easy to install in your car.- Aint bad.- Nice.Eliminates static electricityto prevent spontaneous combustion.- Oh, thank God.- Five stars.It keeps the dust from clinging to my car,has been quite the conversation piece.- AKA. I work here.Huh, that's weird.- I don't knowif it does anything, but it looks cool.- Why they buying it then?(man laughing)- Ooh, Conduct Electricity The Rubber.- So this is a piece of rubberthat just drags the entire time?- Yeah, man.Then there's a littlebit of copper wire in it.- Oh my God.- I mean, it is a conversation piece.- Like what the hell is wrong?Why would you put that on there?- I don't know if it does anything,but it sure does look cool.- You know, this is gonnarub off after like 10 miles.(man laughing)Dude, it's scratched. You just put it on!Can you see this? Thisis scratched right now.You placed it against the ground.- Well, are you on fire?- I mean, no.- It works.Okay. So I think true to the reviews.The Earth Belt looks cool.- Yeah.- You can't deny that.- I wouldn't.- Neither of us are on fire.- Not yet, no.- The car hasn't spontaneouslycombusted either.- I think it works.- Yeah. Earth Belt works.All right. Next up, we gotthe Saucemoto Dip Clip.- Whoa, dude!(men laughing)- An in-car sauce holderfor ketchup and dipping sauces.- Okay.- As seen on Shark Tank.- Why did they need toseparate ketchup from the restof the other sauces?That's got a lot of ratings on it.- Yeah, a lot.- I'm surprisedthat even 500 people bought this.- 85% of them are five-star.This is the best invention ever.I am a sauce queenand this allows me to have sauce in my carwithout wasting any of it.Whoever invented thisknows my live language.- Live language?If that's your bar for happinessis eating ketchup in your car,what a joyous life you lead.Alrighty.- I like the packaging.- Okay, well I guess I get it now.It's shaped like the sauce packet stuff.- Okay.- You just push it in?- Yeah.- Oh, I get it.- In yours,we'll put,- Some ketchup.- Some ketchup.It's working so far.- That's pretty good.Here's a huge threat thatI'm seeing right away.This **** is like, spring loaded(men laughing)What the hell?You're just going to dip a little nugget,this stuff is going on the windshield.You know too,like you're trying toput the air on like this.- Oh, yeah!- Face full of ranchthe entire time.- Even if it doesn't blow itout, it's just gonna stink.- I know, dude. This is awful.That's a ripe ketchup, dude.(man laughing)On a hot day, just breath in that.- I mean, like ranch or like, mayonnaise.(men laughing)- Worst **** ever.- Fish sauce.Saucemoto Dip Clip technically works.- I guess.- Pretty embarrassing.- Yeah. Don't be caught dead with these.- This will come in handymaybe to, for our sauce?- To eradicate your stanky ketchup.- Car Fragrance DiffuserPATEA Car Solar Rotating Perfumeslash Car Perfume Seat For Aluminum AlloyBuild Aroma Therapy DiffuserReusable in-Vehicle Do Not Fade,Remove Smoke and Odors Air Force.- I think that was the alternate titlefor Borat: Subsequent Move Film.(man laughing)The fan is not working.I use it without fanand return is not easy toprint out a label these days.It sounds like a you problem.(man laughing)I'm not even doing a bit.I don't know what this thing does.I just do not have any clue what this is.- Okay. So here it is.- Solar horse drivenSansei air purification.- Wait?(man laughing)All right, so it's basicallylike a scent fan thing?It's just like, a little beanie.- I mean,- It's going away, dude!- Who says this doesn'tturn, is a freaking liar.- That is fuel efficient.- That is actually likea cool little desk piece.- I like that. I'd put that on my desk.- Oh, it's heavy too. Feel it.- Are these the scent pads?Oh, that is heavy.- I think that's tape.- Oh, this is adhesive?- This is the scent pad.- Smells like 3M.- All right, so where should we put it?Just like,- Yeah, right there.(men sniffing)- Oh, it's.- I'm just smelling ketchup.(men laughing)- It is still very,very saucy in here.(man sniffing)Well, apparently if youopen it a little bit.- Oh, do that.Dude, I do smell it.It's kind of like ricochetingoff the windshield here.Like, would I purchase this ever?Absolutely not.- Never.- But does it kind of work?Yeah, sure I guess.- So the car fragrance diffuser,PATEA car solar, rotating perfume.Better than expected, I would say.- Yeah.- Is it worth 16 bucks?- Hard no for me.- Depends on how muchhe likes spinny stuff.Next up we got the Acouto Fuel Saver,Universal Magnetic Fuel Gasoline Saver,Energy Saver, Car Assisting Tool.- Two! It's the sequel.(man laughing)- The first one was really good.- Dude, there's one rating on this.My hopes are rock bottom.- But it's five stars.- Oh, good!Fuel saver? So what does it do?- Emissions reduced by 50%.Better performance,quicker startup startup.Startup isn't really slow.- I don't,- I don't even thinkI ever go to start fast.- Yeah, no,what am I just chomping at the bit?Let's go, dude!- 100!- Oh, it's tiny!- It's very small!- I thought this was like,a life preserver size.- My hand did a double-take.(men laughing)So I guess you clip this on a fuel line,and then you got zip ties to keep it on.- Okay.- And the magnetsomehow,- Slows the gas down?- Well, they're alsosaying it makes it faster.(man laughing)- What the hell's this?Choose a lane.(man laughing)- Okay, so you just got to strap this onto, says save gas mileage.- Oh, shit.- And improve performance.- Yeah, those work.- It's magnets.- I have four of thoseon my car. They're good.- You imagine showing up to a dealershipand trying to straight face tell the guy,"So I installed this to,of course, get better MPG."- Yeah, that's for like a better MPG.A faster ignition, start-up is better.- Anyway, won't be needing an oil change.(man laughing)- The Acouto Fuel SaverI just don't think there's any waythat it could possibly work.- I don't see it.(man laughing)All right.(men laughing)This is a great one.- Gus, what is one celebritythat you've always wanted people to thinkis in your backseat?- Well, I mean the onlyone that comes to mindis obviously Prince Harry.- Well you are in luck, man!- No!- Yeah!Cause we have today, TheRide With Prince HarryPassenger Window Sticker.My family has gotten a big kick out ofthis headshot of Harry.It is a head turner whenwe drive down the street.Had a couple of folksstop and take selfies.- No, they didn't. Anyone that says thatit's just completely lying.- Maybe a couple!- That's such R/thathappenedcrap, you know?I put this in my Volvoand everyone claps for me.It's complex now, like wow.(man laughing)Alan says five stars.This is a fantastic attention getterand conversation starter.I guarantee Alan is initiatingall of those conversationsand no one wants to speak to him.- I mean, if you pairthis with the Earth Belt,the conversations are justgoing to start themselves.- Through the roof, dude.Oh man, one star?Was told that this is for theright side steering cars only.Really disappointed me,and two Prince Harry fans.- Two!- Collateral damage.What? That's tiny!It's so dim! Look at the print on that!- That is awful.Okay. So a lot of people want to beseen driving with Prince Harry.- Yeah.- But what if I wantpeople to think that I am Prince Harry.- Oh, and you're driving?- Yeah, so you put iton the driver's side.- I like that.(man laughing)Oh my God.Make it smooth. Don't get him all wrinkly.Who would that fool?(man laughing)- Hold on, wait a second.- Let's see the body in there.- Excuse me!(man laughing)- No, you're wrinkling the tie!- This is like,if anyone in my family had this,- Yeah?- It's like,we better have her overfor Christmas and stuffbecause she just,- It's a discussion.- Yeah.- It's sad. I feel like if you buy this,there is a hundred percent chancethat you got three to fivecopies of like National Enquirerin the backseat, The Sun, all that stuff.I just don't see who this benefits.- The Ride With Prince Harry,Famous Passenger Car, window stickeris heartbreaking.- It is.(man laughing)- It is very funny.- Dude, from a distance,it kinda shows up a little bit better.- Like, a double-take.- Yeah, that is so wonky.- What is this?- That's a little,- A free, bonus sticker.- Don't forget to smashthat MF'n like button.- Yeah, hit that like button,cause the algorithm saysit works good for us.- Prince Harry knows about the algorithm.- We have reached theend, the final product.We do this for every Amazon review video.We give all this stuff away,to Donut Underground members,to learn more about that,hit the join button down below,or I'll put a link inthe description for it.- There's also a link down below.You can join the RoyalFamily applications open.They're sick of Megan, you canjust slip right in, honestly.(man laughing)- All right.The final product.- Ooh!- Car Sign, oh! Another window.- I love it.- Car Signs WindowDisplay Auto Mood Emoji,Vehicle LED Human Car Talk Screen AP,Oh, app controlled, Siri Turn On.Dude, so this is like a thingthat you put in your back windowand it does emojis.- That's cool!I kind of like this.- I actually dig this quite a bit.One star.The idea is really good andthe product looks great.Interaction with Siri is not working,and driving using the phoneto interact with the device is risky.That's just a general note.- He says he's returningit. I will return it.That's a threat.It's tiny.I thought this is gonna be bigger.You gotta be like tailgatingsomebody to see this.This is great if you get kidnapped,and you find yourself in the trunk,and you're like, let mejust download the appand out a little SOS.(men laughing)- There's a lot of, oh,I can just do a QR code.- That's pretty cool.- Not secure.- Yeah, no duh.(man chuckling)(calm electronic music)- Oh, there it is!Yep. It's the thumbs up.- I think it's like this.- Oh, thumbs down.- Yeah.(man laughing)Dude, look.- Aw dude! Cop!(men laughing)- We got a little tint on this car,which I would removeto use this accessory.- Here we go.(man laughing)How's it look?- Amazing.Hey, watch out. There'sa pedestrian ahead.- Oh, I saw Po Po up ahead!- Cop!- Oh, there's a nice womanselling flowers at this next intersection.- Hey, in case you need one!So it took us a littletime to get it all set up,but the Car Signs WindowDisplay Auto Mood EmojiVehicle LED Human-car TalkScreen APP Controlled,Siri Turn On?- It's a turn on. I like it.(man laughing)- Gus, thank you so much for coming downand being on the show.- Thanks for having me.- Where can people find you?- Got to YouTube. You're already on it.Type in Gus Johnson.That's me. Just gosubscribe to me, dammit.I asked for so little.For the love of god.- Again. Check out the join buttonfor Donut Underground information.I love you.(upbeat electronic music)- Damn James, you're loco.