Top Car Tools and Gadgets of 2022 (Christmas Gift Ideas)

[00:03] annual top five Christmas gift ideas for car guys and car girls like you check it now this year just like all the other years I've done this I've come up with anybody who likes to work on their own

[00:18] they're unique they're different there's stuff here that you don't already have all these gift ideas down in the description and in the pin comment so done this for the past six years I want to make this as easy and fun as possible

[00:33] because I know how the holiday seasons are and that's the whole point of the really cool gift ideas they're not sponsored they're all things I think this year and I'm super excited I'm like a kid on Christmas I can't wait to show

[00:47] you so let's get to opening these gifts now before we open all the main gifts special I've been working on for over a year that I think will be helpful for this up [Music]

[01:07] me yes I published a book it is on Amazon it's fully published it's ready don't want to spoil the surprise we'll just flip to a random page but uh it is all about how to change a flat tire and it also teaches kids that they could

[01:21] help others with a positive attitude and anybody could be a hero now this book is under if they can't read don't worry I came up with a cool idea I have a QR video of me reading the book with some sound effects and this doesn't break the

[01:35] bank it's 9.99 I'll be completely transparent with you guys I make a little over a dollar a book I need to sell over 4 000 just to break even and getting the younger generation into cars and also teaching them the basics of

[01:48] to show you that real quick I've been working on this for so long I hope gift idea for the young ones and now it's actually get started opening up our it's actually get started opening up our first gift all right the first gift idea

[02:02] I wonder what it could be [Music] [Music] okay a ratcheting flare nut wrench set and check it out this is really nice but wait there's more

[02:15] okay so it's got crispix on the box and check this out an extendable ratchet set oh man would you look at that this looks so nice so let's start out with our ratcheting flare nut wrench set and this I like a

[02:29] lot because most people aren't gonna have these in their toolbox this is more of a specialty tool what most people are gonna have are these this is a typical have the double-sided flare nut wrenches very useful but they don't work in every

[02:43] situation and these right here these could save you a lot of time and a lot of grief so real quick if we take a look under the hood right over here is our distribution block and on the distribution block are some brake lines

[02:56] and you can see there are flare nuts and those are really difficult to get to let's just say we want to remove this flare nut right here to replace this brakes whatever it is what you do is you get your flare nut wrench put it over

[03:09] flare nut now we need to loosen this and you can see as we're loosening it hits this sensor right here there's no way we could loosen it so if we try to find the next spot we can't because now it hits the master cylinder there's brake lines

[03:23] in the way if we come on this side we got a spot right here but again we're hitting the master cylinder when we try to loosen it so this isn't going to work swiveling flare nut wrenches we could get it on here and there we go and look

[03:37] it ratchets so we have plenty of room for a swing here I could actually probably loosen this there we go you can see I could loosen it and that is all the way because I don't want to get a ton of air in here

[03:51] but again tightening is just as easy slide it on and since it ratchets look at how simple that is now you might be wondering how do you get this off the brake line when it's completely ratcheted like that it's

[04:03] spin that ratcheting mechanism and now it comes right off and that's the perfect example of where this tool comes in handy now are you going to use this every day probably not but when you do need it it's Gonna Save you and it's

[04:16] be glad you had it trust me and that's exactly why this set made the list now every day this is something I'm super excited about this is the three piece chrisfix extendable ratchet set we have a half inch 3 8 inch and quarter inch

[04:31] extendable ratchet and what that means is sure you could use a regular ratchet like this but if you need more leverage to loosen up a bolt this extends out and it locks in place that way you can loosen up those hard to remove Fasteners

[04:43] now this is the half inch just to show you the 3 8 extends out that far and then the quarter inch extends out that far another really nice feature about this tool set is something I like a lot and that is foam tool trays and this is

[04:58] you're missing a tool it's very easy to identify real quick and it stores it here out with the old in with the new and you can put it in your toolbox horizontally or vertically like that so you just throw it right in your toolbox

[05:13] in an open spot now you have your extendable ratchet set nicely organized in your toolbox now just to be clear this isn't some junky rebranded tool set that some YouTubers trying to Pedal to you you guys know I'm not like that and

[05:26] everything I do and I won't put my name on just anything it has to be really purchased a bunch of different extendable ratchets from different manufacturers and tested them out for the last three years while this might

[05:40] is completely different it's from a different manufacturer look at how much play there is in this head that drove me crazy as I was testing it out I'll be just there's a lot of play in here even when it's fully opened look at how much

[05:55] play there is in here that is just too much and I didn't like how it felt now compare that to my ratchet you can see there is very little play in the head when it's closed and when you fully extend it again very little play it is

[06:09] fully extended it's very solid and it just feels way better so here's another ratchet you can see the play in the head that is just it just doesn't feel good it feels cheap so again I paid close attention to the tolerances here you can

[06:21] doesn't move around ends with the collar here when you open it it's solid it snaps into place you get that solid snap that way you know it won't come loose so you would never use a regular ratchet to

[06:36] try to loosen up lug nuts because if you tried oh man they aren't you don't have any leverage it's just super tight on here and that's not the only one that's tight they're all really tight but with the

[06:50] extendable ratchet what you could do is once you get it on there you can extend the ratchet and with the ratchet extended and locked in now you have a lot more leverage and it's a lot easier to remove those lug nuts every single

[07:02] watch this one hand boom not bad at all and that's the power bolt back there normally you wouldn't try this with a regular ratchet you'd go I'm gonna I'm gonna try to push down ah there's

[07:19] just not enough leverage now we can get our extendable ratchet on here and then extend this out and this should give you the leverage you need yep there you go to break that loose no problem so I think you get the

[07:33] idea this is something that you guys could actually use it's high quality it's a very nice set and it comes with a limited lifetime warranty as well as first edition etched into the first couple so I hope you guys like it and

[07:46] with that said let's move on to the next gift ideas all right right now while gift ideas I do like to include something called stocking stuffers which are just smaller typically less expensive gifts that kind of go with the

[08:00] first major gift and it's just something extra for you guys so we use Cooper's stocking to open up the gifts and you could see Cooper knows that's his stocking and we have our first stocking stuffer so Cooper's gonna do the honors

[08:12] and open it up okay Cooper this is all you brake bleeder nice so normal brake bleeding does work but

[08:25] sometimes you just can't get all the air out which is where this comes in handy going to push down on the brakes you're going to crack that bleeder valve open you're going to close it and then tell that person to let off the brake and

[08:38] over and over until all the air is out of the system now normal brake bleeding definitely works but sometimes it's hard to get a solid pedal you have all these loops with brake lines in the ABS that sometimes the air just gets stuck and

[08:51] normal brake bleeding just doesn't do the trick and that's where the reverse you how this works so first get the hose that sucks up the new brake fluid into our brake fluid container just like that next we want to get all the air out of

[09:04] going to pump it a couple of times so that all the air gets forced out and is straight brake fluid now we could take the cap off the bleeder valve then we could attach the reverse bleeder onto the bleeder valve

[09:17] and finally crack that bleeder valve open like so now all we need to do is just pump that fresh brake fluid into the caliper and that pushes the air up and out of the master cylinder so that's all it takes to get a firm pedal now

[09:29] just tighten the bleeder valve down remove the hose and reinstall the dust reverse brake blear you could use it by yourself you don't need an extra person and it gets that trapped air out of your brake system giving you a firm pedal and

[09:42] that's exactly why it makes the list this year all right gift idea number two let's see what we have here it's a pretty big box okay now this is a great idea an extractor vacuum now extractor vacuums

[09:56] are game changing these are no regular vacuums they work amazing let me show you now a normal vacuum sucks all the loose dirt and dust out of your seats or clean but realistically it's not there's still dirt stuck in those fibers and

[10:10] there's only one way to get it out and that's to extract them and to do that you would use something like this this is a water injection carpet vacuum this works amazing I love these things so how this works is on this side we have a

[10:22] reservoir for soapy water plain water whatever water you want and then we have a specialized hose that shoots the liquid out that we have in this container and then sucks it up with this special nozzle and puts it in here let

[10:35] trigger water shoots out like so and all you need to do is press that trigger and slowly drag the nozzle along the carpet with a medium downward pressure and what's happening is the water is getting injected into the carpet it's dissolving

[10:48] then we're sucking it back out and you can see the dirty water getting pulled out of the carpet and leaving behind a nice clean carpet and I don't know about you guys but for whatever reason this is super satisfying you get such a deep

[11:01] clean and you can see it's actually working and after you let that dry look at this carpet it literally looks brand new but even better take a look at the extracted from the carpet and that's going to remove the smells and make the

[11:15] carpet look that much cleaner now you can use this extractor on other parts of always touching your body so they get disgusting even if they don't look that bad trust me they're dirty I mean look at all the dirt that just came out of

[11:27] floor mats I like to power wash my floor mats to get them extra clean and then you just extract all that water out so it doesn't get all moldy and it's dry this is how you get rid of them using air fresheners just cover the smells the

[11:41] extractor vacuum Works deep into those fibers and you can just see look at all carpets and finally I don't know if you guys remember these dirty seats from Susan well they look that good because I use the extractor vacuum so the proof is

[11:54] in the pudding these extractor vacuums work great at deep cleaning and they carpets on your rugs stuff like that and that's exactly why they made the list this year okay Cooper our second stocking stuffer let's see what we get

[12:08] good boy coops okay we have an extractor attachment that's a good idea but wait attachment that's a good idea but wait there's more now this vacuum attachment is the perfect stocking stuffer it's small and

[12:23] it turns something that you might already have a wet dry shop vac into one of those extractor vacuums plus I really like this nozzle it's clear so you can see everything getting extracted out let me show you so first spray down the base

[12:35] of the seat with soapy water or whatever cleaner you want to use then I like to brush the cleaner into the seat and agitate all that dirt stuck in there and attachment with the shop vac to suck all that dirty water out of the seat and

[12:48] just look at how great this works the good thing about this is we're able shop vac which is a lot more powerful than one of those smaller extractor could really get in there and get all that dirt sucked out of the seat and the

[13:02] because it's clear you're able to see all that dirty water getting sucked out so this attachment really allows you to get your seats or your carpets or whatever you're working on super clean and the proof is in the pudding check

[13:14] this out this was clean before I used it you can see all that dirty water we out awesome that was a quick and easy thing to do and this attachment is great and that's exactly why this made the stocking stuffer list this year now a

[13:28] steam cleaner is also a great tool for those who like to detail their car let me show you just add plain water to the steam cleaner and screw on the top and and after a minute or so she's ready with some very hot steam now

[13:42] cleaner there's this rubber liner here with grimy melted candy and it's disgusting so let's clean it so all you do is use the pressure and heat from the steam to melt the sugars and blow it off the rubber remember this is boiling

[13:55] water so be careful because it's very hot but you can see how well it works to not only are we cleaning the crud off but we're also sanitizing the Rubber and just like that all that caked on and melted chocolate and candy was steam

[14:09] cleaned right off and that's exactly why a steamer made the list this year all right gift idea number three let's see what we get here okay a cordless tire is [Music]

[14:28] makes sense that tire inflator's bigger brother and finally one last one a reason why I have three of them let me show you now you used to have to pull out the giant air compressor dragging the extension cord and then firing this

[14:43] thing up would wake up the neighborhood just to inflate a flat tire pump up your tires using these small cordless units and I have three

[14:55] different price points we have the most expensive but also a professional tool this is the M18 Milwaukee and it is great it's probably the best one here but then we have at one third of the price the Ryobi 18 volt which is also a

[15:09] doing stuff at home and then we have that middle ground this is a 12 volt M12 Milwaukee so it all depends on what your budget is let me show you how these work so first I'm deflating my 32 inch truck tire down to 10 psi to test each tire

[15:23] inflator first up we have the M18 and we'll set the pressure on the pump to 35 PSI and see how long it takes the noise level is 83 decibels and it completely inflate the tire this battery was freshly charged and now it's down 25

[15:40] percent that's pretty good next Let's test the Ryobi inflator the noise level is 10 decibels less at 73 decibels which is a big difference but this pump took three times as long to inflate the tire which is also a big

[15:55] difference and this battery which was fully charged is now down 50 and finally Let's test the M12 inflator the noise level is at 76 decibels and it takes a total of seven minutes to fully inflate the tire the M12 batteries don't

[16:10] have an indicator on it but the inflator does and it says it's at 50 charge so all three of these are great choices but the M18 is definitely the quickest at power tool companies make these inflators and these are great they're

[16:24] quick they're cordless and they're tiny and that's exactly why they make the list this year all right Coop what do we have for our third stocking stuffer

[16:37] all right a lug torque wrench now this is a pretty cool stocking stuffer what it is is an old school lug wrench like this and a torque wrench combined into one tool to make removing and installing wheels that much quicker so if you're

[16:51] still using one of these old school lug wrenches it might be time to upgrade so with the lug torque wrench you could slide the handle all the way out and it leverage you need to break loose any lug nuts on your wheels

[17:05] slide the handle to the middle position and now you can spin the lug nuts right bearings in it which allows the tool to spin freely and unscrew those lug nuts the lug nuts are removed you can remove the wheel and do whatever work you need

[17:20] later with everything all fixed you could get that wheel back on and now and easy also because you could let the tool spin freely in the other direction so tighten down all the lug nuts by spinning that wrench and now let's

[17:34] torque them down to spec now to set your torquey look in this window and then you this until you get to the desired torque now these wheels get torqued to 100 foot pounds so we're going to spin this all the way until this reaches the zero at

[17:47] 100 just like that and now our torque is set so if you work on your car at home and you're still using the old school lug

[18:01] wrench like this it might be time to upgrade to a lug torque wrench like this you saw how easy it was to remove the wheel and then put it back on and torque it all in one tool and that's exactly why this tool makes the stocking stuffer

[18:13] list this year okay gift number four only one more after this oh nice a knife and Tool sharpener now this knife sharpener is an awesome gift idea because of how versatile it is so everybody has kitchen knives it sharpens

[18:27] sharpens scissors if you have multi-tools or pocket knives or hunting lopers or gardening tools that could use sharpening or an ax it'll sharpen those you know how important it is to have a super sharp fillet knife it'll sharpen

[18:42] so one of the first things I learned in culinary school is dull knives are more dangerous than sharp knives they cause a lot of injuries and this knife is very this lemon it doesn't cut look at how much pressure

[18:57] I'm putting on here you have to really push hard for this to cut through that thick Ryan of that lemon so let's sharpen this blade to sharpen start with Sandpaper then you want to pull the trigger and turn that sharpener on and

[19:10] pull the knife back slowly to sharpen the blade try to pull it at a constant once you get near the end of the blade keep the tip against the Sandpaper and shut the tool and that'll ensure that you maintain that sharp tip now we could

[19:23] do the same thing on the other side and depending on how dull your knife is you might have to repeat this process a couple times working back and forth for this five times each side and that's exactly what I'm doing now you might be

[19:36] last I haven't worn through any yet but the instruction manual says it'll take about 75 knives to sharpen before you need to replace the belt and it comes with extra belts in the kit so you should be good for a long time so let's

[19:49] finish up this side good and now let's see if the knife is actually sharp and if that's not proof right there I don't know what is that is super sharp now you scissors and that gets done right here so place the blade down here and follow

[20:04] then we can flip the scissors around and sharpen the other blade as well and just take a look at that nice fresh Edge this gives the scissors and finally then push the button here and rotate the tool until it snaps into place like that

[20:19] and now you can sharpen larger blades like this Loper or a lawnmower blade or even a hatchet and after a real quick sharpen this blade has a fresh Edge and looks good to go and as you can see it sharpens a bunch of different Knives and

[20:31] Tools it makes them really sharp which is exactly why it made the list this year okay Cooper stocking stuffer number four let's see what we got Cooper hey hoop no no we gotta do this one first okay so Cooper wants to do this first so

[20:45] what do we have nice a metric nut and bolt gauge that's going to be useful and how about this one awesome so this one is an SAE nut and bolt gauge okay and how about the one I wanted to open up first before Cooper took charge

[20:59] all right a Leatherman Multi-Tool I love these now I've used tons of multi-tools this one right here is my favorite one made in America 25 year warranty and I wear this all the time now full disclaimer this is not new I've used

[21:13] every single day it's been used in salt water all the time for when I'm fishing and boating and I actually got a second one because I like it so much and this one I got my name engraved on the blade now this tool is 21 Tools in one it has

[21:25] wear it but if you want to be more secure you could use the sheath and this tool is primarily a needle nose pliers you can see it locks in place it's not spring-loaded so you have to open and close it this tip is well designed so it

[21:38] tight and the middle part here is designed to grab onto nuts and bolts so don't have your socket set next you can see the replaceable Cutters in there and example I use stainless steel fishing wire for shark fishing and it cuts it no

[21:52] little Gap so you could strip wire let me show you so get the end of the wire in here clamp down and then spin the multi tool back and forth to cut the wire insulation and the insulation pops right off so not a bad tool to have just

[22:05] your wire strippers so I think you get the idea it has a nice pliers let's the tools on the side here so we'll start off on this side and you can see every single tool that you open up locks into place what you have to do to unlock

[22:19] it is press down this little button here and now it unlocks and collapses back in so the first tool we have here is a saw and as you can see the saw works pretty cabin with it but you could cut firewood or cut things on the fly when you don't

[22:32] have a big saw with you so we have a pick with a little hole in it we have a ruler both centimeter and inch and a flat head end as well as a wire strippers right there we have a file and this file actually works and I find

[22:46] thought I would it's really good at removing corrosion from metal and as you can see it works pretty well and finally we have our serrated blade and I use right through the meat and it'll even cut right through the bone because it's

[23:00] serrated and that is the first side now the second side so on this side we have a scissors and this is great it's spring-loaded and it's awesome at the end of a zip tie make sure it's flush

[23:12] and it makes it so it's not sharp at all now we have a Phillips head and flathead little can opener piece right there and really sharp again locks in place anybody who gets this as a gift is gonna

[23:26] absolutely love it and that's exactly why it makes my list this year now the next stocking stuffer is a great tool to have in your garage we all have that bag full of bolts or maybe two or I could probably just keep going and sometimes

[23:40] you have for example this one right here so this is really simple I'm going to find the hole that the bolt will thread into you can see the 12 millimeter is too big so we'll go down to 10 and this is 10 millimeter extra fine and you can

[23:54] see how it gets stuck it doesn't turn so it's not extra fine now if we try to 10 millimeter 1.25 and a little bit better it's still too tight so we'll go to the last one it's going to be 10 millimeter 1.5 course and you can see this screws

[24:07] in no problem and now we know exactly what diameter and thread pitch we have you can see we have an old castle nut maybe you need a new one okay that's too if we go here that might fit no that's way too tight so it's not a

[24:22] millimeter fine perfect and that's exactly what we have so that's how you use this tool it saves you so much time and it makes it so easy to find the ready to go you could write it down you know exactly what you need to get either

[24:36] exactly why these made the list as a stocking stuffer this year and the last gift idea what do we have to finish it all off

[24:49] [Music] scope camera now this is a really nice borescope camera it comes with its own screen connect it to your cell phone or to a laptop sometimes they're Wireless and

[25:01] they never connect this takes video and pictures it shoots at 720p it has a light at the end of the camera and this camera is auto focus let me show you how look inside your frame rail and see the condition of the metal inside that is a

[25:16] perfect use for this borescope camera the camera on this is so tiny it fits right into the vent hole in the frame rail and oh man check this out this is so cool okay so here's some actual footage from the camera going into the

[25:28] getting used to when trying to aim this camera and push it in here and you can see the condition inside the frame looks really good for a 1996 with a little bit of surface rust on the bottom of the frame but nothing crazy the top still

[25:41] has that factory paint and it's looking really good so that was really neat to see and that's just one use for this camera now the camera comes with a could try to retrieve stuff in hard to reach places and a 90 degree mirror that

[25:54] way you could see sideways and they all attach right to the end of the camera now the autofocus camera is great but it doesn't fit into those tight spark plug holes so they do sell a thinner one that you could attach and you can see it has

[26:07] front the side camera is good for looking at Valves and this will fit down into your spark plug Wells no problem let's look at how thin it is let me show you so let's extend the ratchet to break loose the spark plug

[26:19] good and now let's collapse this loosen the plug the rest of the way and let's remove the plug from the engine okay now we could insert the camera into the the sideways camera here and you can clearly see that valve which is really

[26:32] pretty clean I thought there'd be more carbon deposits on it but I don't see that much buildup at all not bad now how cool is that you get the seat into the engine see the valves and this borescope

[26:44] places no other camera could go and that's exactly why it makes the list this year okay Cooper our last stocking stuffer sounds like a paint can let's see what we get

[26:58] [Music] ah it's not a paint can we were tricked it's cavity wax which is actually a good idea okay and the last gift to unwrap idea okay and the last gift to unwrap Cooper so make it a good one

[27:15] the cavity wax so this is a great gift idea for anybody who likes to hold on to their vehicles for a long time and prevent rust and you could get these different lengths and they are awesome for getting behind body panels or deep

[27:28] into the frame of your car truck that way you could prevent rust let me show see how this is getting all rusty here eventually that'll rust to the outside of the rocker and that wouldn't be good now technically you're supposed to clean

[27:40] all this off if you're gonna do it on your car power wash this off that's all freezing so I'm not gonna do that I just want to show you how this works so we all you have to do is spray down the area get it coated you can see how it's

[27:54] an oily waxy material and it absorbs right into the metal now this isn't absorbs into the rust and prevents it from rusting further and that's why it's don't want to trap any moisture but I think that gives you a good example of

[28:07] show you how to use this when the frame is solid and there's only a little hole to stick the wand in to so my Hummer is the perfect candidate for this treatment so let's go under the car and check out the frame this frame rail is an enclosed

[28:20] could Sprite inside you have to spray inside this little hole that's our only access point so all you need to do is get the long spray wand and push it into the hole and get it in there as deep as you can then you just press the nozzle

[28:33] on the can slowly pull out and the inside of the frame is getting coated with that oily waxy anti-corrosion coating the frame that way you can see how it sprays you can see it's not perfect but

[28:49] entire inside of the frame and this isn't bad for how cold it is outside I bet you in warm weather this applies a lot better now let's real quickly spray and you can see the nozzle is at the bottom this time and it's working really

[29:03] well especially since most of the rust that we saw was at the bottom and after the spray settles look at how everything is coated that's really cool to see so now on the interior of this entire frame section right here all the way down we

[29:16] have a coating which will prevent rust that way it won't rust from the inside someone who likes to keep their car for a long time and they want to make sure they prevent rust and that's exactly why it made it as a stocking stuffer this

[29:29] year so there you go that's this year's top five Christmas gift ideas for car guys and car girls like you and I hope this video is helpful if you guys end up getting the ratchets please leave a review it helps me out a lot and also

[29:41] any other tool ideas for me to create put it down in the comments I want to hear about it and also if you end up getting this book let me know what you ideas of what other books to write I have how to super clean your car and how

[29:54] to change your oil coming up next as always I hope the video was helpful if if you're not a subscriber consider hitting that subscribe button and I hope you guys have a merry Christmas happy Hanukkah and if you don't celebrate

[30:06] either enjoy time with your friends and family and happy New Year