The YouTuber, a teen named Orion Dajnowicz, informed viewers that all they had to do was comment on the video for a chance to win the car. Dajnowicz was offering up a Mazda RX 7, and his subscribers couldn’t wait to hear the announcement. Winning that car was bound to change someone’s life.
The YouTuber has built up quite a following on his channel, “Life OD,” and currently has 770,000 subs. One look through the content will show you that using WD-40 as engine oil is far from being the only stunt like this that he’s pulled.
The Ringleader
While there may have been quite a few teens involved in the experiment, there was one in particular who can take a lot of credit for it all, from its inception until the very end. Meet the face behind the camera who filmed the majority of the excitement.
This entire thing began with him having a conversation with his friends that went something like this: Camera kid: “Dude.” Other guy: “Yeah, man?” Camera kid holds up a can of WD-40 that he randomly picked up off a table. “Do you think this stuff can like…power a car?” Some questioning glances were exchanged and then the rest was history. Especially the test subject.
Pranks and Philanthropy
While this entire thing may seem like some pointless (and dangerous) teenage fun, there was actually a method to this influencer’s madness. Of course, him being a pretty successful YouTuber is the reason why they were able to get their hands on a test car in the first place. And that wasn’t the only one he bought while he was at it.
Viewers were thrilled when they learned he was doing a major giveaway on his channel. He revealed he had a brand-new car for them up for grabs. But what did they have to do to win it?
Smoke and Rear-View Mirrors
You don’t get to have nearly 800,000 subscribers with so many views by putting out boring videos, that’s for sure. For many teens, it’s hard to resist the kind of content Orion puts out. But when you’re an influencer, there are always naysayers and people who will pick your videos apart and try to correct you.
In this case, however, the naysayers in the comment’s section of his YouTube channel had a fair point. Orion believed it was the WD-40 experiment that ultimately failed and led to the demise of the vehicle. Commenters, however, had a different take on things. Some said that the different oil had nothing to do with what happened and that it was simply putting the metal pipe on the pedal and leaving it that caused the overheating and explosions. But who was right?
Uncovering the Truth
If you didn’t already know this, the “WD” in WD-40 stands for “water displacement.” And, although it may have said engines on the bottle, it’s because it’s a penetrating oil, which is used to unfreeze parts that have become stuck. Oil that goes in a car’s engine needs to be able to withstand high temperatures, which WD-40 cannot. Does that mean it was the oil’s fault that the car exploded? Maybe.
It’s also possible that the reason it burst into flames is because they left it running with the pedal pushed all the way down. “It would have exploded under that abuse with any oil,” one person wrote in a comment under the video.