What's 1 grit,the tip of a knife ?

@@karvast5726 you don’t know the power of 1 grit. It’s a rock

A trabant would be a nice nugget for garbage time, but I doubt they made some right steered ones

Oh my god, this is gonna blow up

Looks like Dank is a Soviet nugget connoisseur too!

Green tea mochi color

I thought the green was algae residue from being in a rainy country for decades.

green.

off-green perhaps?

Its an off-white: Its called Papyrus-white. My first trabant had that color. 😉

Is this a cussy comment, have I gone full circle?

"Impregnated with a heat activated resin" The ceramic coating must be the happy ending! 😂

Giggity.

She/It even put on makeup.

@@captainevenslower4400 There you go, making assumptions again! Did you even ask how Trabant identifies????

I knew that was coming, worn out joke fora worn out car

I was not ready for that one, loved it though.

Sounds like your pants could use a ceramic coating too.

"both are extremely underpowered, and not very user friendly."

Communist East German Car

best quote

Come for the car videos, stay for the dad jokes

ITS EAST GERMAN, THE GDR IS A SEPARATE COUNTRY, THIS IS YELLING (but only because my GDR passport is actually still valid)😂🤡

I mean they're both alcohol

and look at this bottle it's so shiny🤣

thanks!

Back and forth is fine as long as you're careful to not move side to side

Also alternate perpendicular directions when changing grits. That way you know when you have worked enough which each grit. You simple sand until the previous direction marks are gone.

So basically do the same thing I do with a file?

@@jwalster9412 nah you can file back and forth to go twice as fast, the file is by design an omnidirectional tool

Good one on the brakes. And please upgrade it to 12V. The difference is really worth it. :)

@@LWTUA120609 mine never has been 6V, it's one from '88. 🙂

Are you posting the restoration on KZfaq? I love everything Trabant related.

@@robinwells8879 I hardly have space enough for myself in the shed, let alone a camera. 😉 So no KZfaq vids. 🙂

Why are you incapable of spelling the word color

🎉"She rubs the lotion on the skin or else she gets the hose again" 😳

LOL

use his fingers and a tooth brush🤣

yeah it was so epic loved it

Had to watch it on repeat it had me laughing so hard😂

I was thinking that as well, usually start with 2000 or 3000 grit for car paint, always do the least coarse options first.

@@Morinaka25 yep definitely always start with 4-6k grit for automotive paint.

I was thinking that too... "What?? 400 grit??"

As he mentioned, "I don't know what I'm doing"...as a long time hobby detailer, this was painful to watch!

Yea I cringed when I saw 400 lol. 1000 at the lowest lol

Yeah, the magnitude of the facepalm... I was actually thinking about subbing up until that point...

@@nikovbn839 you should still sub. him not knowing what he's doing is the point.

That's when I realized he did zero research on the matter

@@nikovbn839 your loss lol

The paint was never that good from the factory anyway so it really can’t be any worse.

I suppose you could do it in areas like the licence plate, where it's hidden, but not hidden well enough to actually protect the paint much.

That's literally his job. He gets paid for it.... It only counts if you take a moment to appreciate everyone you encounter who has a job....

@@deepakmenon7733 and? Are you implying it's wrong to appreciate people who do good things if they're getting paid for it?

@@deepakmenon7733 Yup. I think its a great idea to show appreciation to anyone who does their job well - especially if it benefits and improves my life in some way - regardless of how much they get paid for it. (And if they depend on tips, a good tip should be part of that appreciation.)

@@lifterguy Exactly. You understand me. I highly doubt this guy actually meant it. He probably wanted a heart from aging wheels....

yes mr genius inventor that does not use a comment bot, yes i do

Yeah 400 is kind of brutal but I bet that got those factory runs out of the paint.

I don't watch all the videos on this channel, but I make sure I watch EVERY one featuring the Trabi.

I wanna see him grab groceries, and see how much the 0-60 time changes

I bounced right off

Duroplast can easily take that kind of punishment. It's not like metal that would dent from this. Not to mention, it already came out of shape from the factory.

Yeah. I was concerned he would damage the car. Imagine if he had broken the windshield…

Why research how to do something when you could just wing it and make mistakes?

@@agingwheels are you sure you're not Australian by any chance?

buy yourself a new one problem solved🤣

Sorry for that! We've adjusted our mailing a bit at the beginning of the year. We are honestly just trying to stay in touch with our customers as we continue to grow. At least you know we are there for you if you need it!

and C a good mailing list has an easy opt out option. Ideally with a single link.

butbutbut you could buy more for your family and friends! And then detail their cars to show them how great the coating is! Slacker.

@@AvalonKing a bit late but may I recommend a dynamic mailing list so that people can choose what emails they like (marketing, review, follow-up, tips and tricks, notices etc.) And maybe even let them say how often they'd prefer to be mailed, this should improve post purchase satisfaction

oooo shinny🤣

And then it would stop it's stroke near vertical leaving you blind to the left. Plus the right hand blade would have just a tiny overlap with the stroke of the left, way down by the dash. Maybe the wiper motor needs a longer arm?

If you have a pre-1997 Jeep Wrangler or CJ, the wipers sit at a 45 degree angle on the windshield. You don't even see them while you're driving. They're not thick enough to really block vision anyway.

They were available in the color puke-green. LOL

Personally I time it when the wipers are down, then turn it off. That will leave the wipers down

So the deal with the windshield wipers and why they’re so easy to remove is that a really common thing in the 80s was to steal anything cosmetic like that from parked cars so people would remove their wipers, then when it rained they would all stop in traffic and run outside to reattach them

I'd probably throw Cold War Motors and possibly Mustie1 into the mix, as well.

Yes, but it is a Trabant..he already spent double it's value on the sand paper and ceramic coat.

it already looks better than factory

That would mean dropping in a VW engine and upgrading the instrumentation cluster. You’d get a decent car out of it. Would it be worth it to upgrade a Trabant?

You're absolutely insane and I am 100% supportive of this

Don't die please

@Greeniac it has more in commen with my old Vespas then a modern car, its a blast

@Greeniac It's not very different from a "normal" stick shifter. If you can drive these you can drive a Trabant too with just a small learning curve.

But then the wheels would no longer be ageing!

It's a export plate which makes it unique

@@Kevin75668 Sadly I kinda bastardized the pads I got due to the fact I didn't realize they were motorized sanding pads at the time, and simply the fact I didn't have anything to fit them. But I can DEFINITELY see them being phenomenal for the job in the hands of somebody more competent hahaha They kinda break the traditional rules of touching up paint. When he said he used 400 or 600 grit (I can't remember) sand paper on his paint, I legit cringed, like: "Jesus Christ, why??" I've been spoiled by having cheap access to 3M's magnificent professional paint restoration system (pinky swear, not sponsored, it just works different.)

That's how my grandmother always "washes" her car. Kinda ticks me off!

Ah, my favorite kind of joke; one where people that get it mistake age for education ;).

Yeah, like Hubnut's Fiat.

Nyet! Car is fine!

How humiliating for the toilet seats knowing that they are made from the same material as a Trabi.

@@Dave_Sisson I laughed way too much at that comment.. I was thinking of it completely the wrong way around!

Neighborhood kids throwing stuff

Bottle kids

surely, for a German car, it should have been a Pilsner

I wouldn't say they didn't care, Trabant is just a result of making a car in what used to be three different factories on different ends of town and then trying to squeeze out of them 10 times more cars than they ever produced before the war. It's more of that they just couldn't.

It went through rigorous quality checks. You know how the Germans are. I think the few rejects never made it to the market.

B-but this is east German Community Russian ladas are made from two mile thick stalinium missile silo metal

That’s why the Lada Niva is still the best off road 4x4 since it was introduced in 1977 and its still being made.