Finding Car Engine Fluids

Video Transcript

"Okay, now we're dealing with locating fluids in your vehicle. The first fluid that we're going to locate is the oil. In general, everybody should know where their oil is in the vehicle, so, generally you are looking for a dipstick. Most vehicles have your fluids like labeled out, maybe they're like everything has a different color, so you can like look at the chart and like find the different areas where it is at. Usually when you find the oil it has a dipstick to it, so you just kind of see where it's at, see what it looks like, and that is where the oil is. Generally it's going to be right up against the engine because it does go down into the engine block itself. The next one we are going to deal with is the power steering fluid. On some cars they have a remote reservoir for it, but sometimes it may be on the pump itself, but in this car it has a reservoir. So you find that, and this is where your power steering fluid is. And then the next one we're going to deal with the antifreeze. Once again, this is another one of those things to where you have a remote reservoir that sometimes you would have, depending on where your radiator was, you would have a cap, a radiator cap, so that's where you find your antifreeze. So in this car it has it in a reservoir, a remote reservoir. Then your next fluid, your windshield wiper fluid, it's generally in the corner of the fender. It could have a nozzle that comes out because sometimes, some cars, they make the reservoir down into the fender well itself. So when you're looking at that, the windshield washer fluid is usually a blue fluid. Sometimes these things can be confused with, they have the color coded caps. It's usually written on the container itself what it is. Then your other fluid that you could have is your brake fluid. So this is like a hydraulic fluid, and it has a reservoir for the brake fluid up on the fire wall. Then some cars have, like if you have a stick shift car, you have a reservoir for your clutch fluid. So it's kind of the same, some of them run the brake fluid and the clutch fluid together. So that, in general, is what you're dealing with when you're trying to locate your fluids."