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What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
And I thought the 10C currently around here was still cold for nearly spring!
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
Ice scraper, pair of sunglasses, bulb kit, towrope & and old wiper blade. Partly as I'd lose it if it's all indoors & most of it is under the boot floor so I never see it.
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
My jump pack and tow pole has helped get some strangers out of sticky situations. I'm the type that can't see someone stranded in a dangerous place and if I can help I will. Even if it's just to drag their car off a junction around the corner. Last one I helped was a Mazda mx5 parked on a wall by a middle aged woman in tansley. Tow pole on back of her car and front of my van and just lifted the clutch.
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
These are the things I have to carry by law when driving:
2 warning triangles (being phased out)
Emergency roof mounted light (being phased in)
Fire extinguisher (when towing)
5 hi-viz waistcoats (for when I have 4 passengers)
Set of spare bulbs.
Things I carry out of choice:
Jump pack
Gerber multitool
Wind up torch
Windproof jacket
Not much use carrying anything else, seeing as you cannot do your own repairs (or even change a wheel) at the roadside. 99% of motor insurance has recovery included, and it there are so many breakdown wagons on the road, you don't have to wait long.
2 warning triangles (being phased out)
Emergency roof mounted light (being phased in)
Fire extinguisher (when towing)
5 hi-viz waistcoats (for when I have 4 passengers)
Set of spare bulbs.
Things I carry out of choice:
Jump pack
Gerber multitool
Wind up torch
Windproof jacket
Not much use carrying anything else, seeing as you cannot do your own repairs (or even change a wheel) at the roadside. 99% of motor insurance has recovery included, and it there are so many breakdown wagons on the road, you don't have to wait long.
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
Water
Oil
Grease
WD40
Easy start
Spare points
Entire toolbox of tools
Compressor
Jack
Squeegee
Jump leads
Zip ties
Couple pieces of wood
Rubber gloves
All of which have been useful at some point
Fire extinguisher, which thankfully hasn't
Oil
Grease
WD40
Easy start
Spare points
Entire toolbox of tools
Compressor
Jack
Squeegee
Jump leads
Zip ties
Couple pieces of wood
Rubber gloves
All of which have been useful at some point
Fire extinguisher, which thankfully hasn't
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
In the Merc I have a spare wheel (spacesaver though) a jack and wheel brace, tyre inflator, battery jump pack, jump leads, a bag full of tennis balls, bottle of water and a bowl for dogs to drink from, a bag full of cloths, polish, touch up pens, rubber lube (Gummi Pflege) polish for the inside, polish for the outside (times 3) a code reader (generic) and a load of other crap. No idea why, but the back of the Merc was where all the cleaning stuff got stored and it's stayed there.
In the Jag, there is a full size spare, jack, wheelbrace etc and a dedicated Jaguar Icarsoft code reader. All of that is under the floor the actual boot has never had anything in it and still has the stripes that were hoovered into it by the selling dealer... 2 years ago! The back seat has three covers on it (all waterproof and fitted) and on the rear floor is another bag full of tennis balls.
Other than that, mobile phone and an AA card which is proving to be an expensive, useless waste of space.
In the Jag, there is a full size spare, jack, wheelbrace etc and a dedicated Jaguar Icarsoft code reader. All of that is under the floor the actual boot has never had anything in it and still has the stripes that were hoovered into it by the selling dealer... 2 years ago! The back seat has three covers on it (all waterproof and fitted) and on the rear floor is another bag full of tennis balls.
Other than that, mobile phone and an AA card which is proving to be an expensive, useless waste of space.
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
I carry fuck all in my cars or vans although the van has everything anyway. Apart from a jack. It never came with one. Or a wheel brace for that matter.
The vespa has my mini socket set in the glove box and until recently, due to the fucked battery, my jump pack.
The vespa has my mini socket set in the glove box and until recently, due to the fucked battery, my jump pack.
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Re: What do you keep in your car "just in case "?
Tyre Weld as it's easier than changing a tyre with a punter on board. Offset needle nose pliers that served me well over 25 years. I love hot food so I keep a Jif Lemon squeezer full of Carolina Reaper psycho hot chilli juice in my door bin.
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