This is what happens when you fill the engine with washer fluid

[BMWTurboDzl]

Stop… Seriously that is foolishness.

Fact is there are MANY people with supposedly “ advanced “ college degrees that are functionally dumb as a box of rocks about many everyday things… About basic things like vehicle care, cooking, and cleaning, etc.

I know this from my own professional experience. Bachelor degrees, Masters degrees, and they are dumb about things that are not hard to think about or pay attention to…

I respect their drive and abilities to earn those advanced degrees.

I just wonder if one has the ability to understand why certain elements are so important to maintain a balance of in one’s body and how to properly manage that… And what negative effects happen if potassium or sodium or magnesium get way out of balance then why can’t they understand the importance of knowing to check the air in their frigging tires. Or why it’s important to know where to find what oil their vehicle takes in an owners manual. Because those same people have the ability and knowledge to look up in a pharmacy book which medications to use to lower edema, and blood pressure and yet at the same time maintain proper electrolyte balances too.

Those thinking processes are not really all that. Whether it be about cars or about peoples bodies. Nor is it atypical if you don’t know the answer then you know where to go to find it. Or that it is imperative to pay attention to certain things.

I have worked with many of them. And I’m the one who tries to help them understand why certain things are very important to get done or pay attention to.

On more than one occasion I have had to tell my coworkers to get their tires replaced and a good alignment done because they had tires worn and showing cords and you could clearly see their vehicle was way, way, way out of alignment.

IJS. Car care is a right of passage where knowledge is typically passed down from father/grandfather to son/daughter. Learning the importance of basic maintenance doesn't take all that much time regardless of whether one knows how to perform said maintenance.

 

[Foxtrot08]

We make it at work, it's methanol, water, dye and soap. I forget the blend, but it's high enough in meth to need HAZMAT paperwork and endorsement on my CDL.
That's for -60*, no idea on summer blends, we don't use it.

Some shops use straight methanol.

We make it as well. Depending on who’s methanol we are using it’s like ~32-37% for -25F.

-60f I want to say is essentially 50%. We sell that as “concentrate”.


“Summer” flavor is blue water… we do not make that. Nor sell it.