What do you keep in your car?

[Clark Gilbert]

Originally Posted by Eugenia Gabrielov

Just wierd stuff. Like this:
That computer stays in my car at all times. Why? I don't know. It's like a good friend. Keeps me company.

Traction!! It increases traction! . In my trunk I normally keep a set of jumper cables, a few trash bags, an extra pair of shoes, and a pair of gloves. I'll try to get a picture later.

In the front:
1.) Lots of change (Parking meter emergency fund)
2.) Tire pressure gauge
3.) Indiana Map & other relevant car documents
4.) Cobra Radar detector
5.) A pair of winter gloves
6.) 2 pens
7.) A couple custom music CDs
8.) Winter deicer spray & ice scraper (soon to be removed!)

[Jeff Rodriguez]

I have the normal roadside emergency kit plus: my lacrosse stick and a ball, a whiffle ball and bat, a PC power cord, my safety glasses, a TJ^2 headband, and a RS-232 gender changer.
Everything to keep you entertained in any situation.

[Billfred]

Last I saw the car when I dropped it off at the Coliseum tonight, there were (among other things)...

1) Griffin RoadTrip for my iPod. Does wonders.
2) Jumper cables
3) Repair paperwork going back as long as I've owned it
4) A table (Did you know that first-gen CR-Vs had them standard? Look under the back floor, where you'd expect a spare tire.)
5) More empty cups/bottles/cans than I should have anywhere, let alone in my car.

[Bcahn836]

1. Enough tools to take apart and fix just about everything on my jeep.
2. Air compressor
3. Jumper cables
4. Hitch and receiver
5. Tow straps
6. Jeep Bible
7. Car Jack
8. Flashlights
9. Cd's
10. Tire Deflators

[Andy Baker]

In my Chevy Colorado Crew Cab:

1. Licence Plate renewal bill... overdue tomorrow
2. Paper plate from my salami sandwich lunch
3. 2-3 squares of bubble wrap
4. 2 booster seats in the back seat
5. McMaster-Carr catalog
6. cable ties
7. Coupon for Great Clips... probably expired (heh... haircuts are a waste of money)
8. Band aids
9. A few random CDs (Sinatra Greatest Hits, Weezer, Click Five, Neal Young Decade, Gorillaz Demon Days)
10. Some jelly from this morning's English muffin
11. A red ice scraper
12. A list of good kereoke songs to do (XM Radio is a great resource)
13. Mattel Football - in the glovebox... yes the LED-lighted, white plastic one from the late 70's.
14. Some temporary TechnoKat tattoos
15. Coupons for Rally's Hamburgers
16. and some bungee cords in the truck bed

(edit... cannot forget this good stuff

17. Strawberry Shortcake plastic figurine... from Burger King, I think.
18. 2-3 of Lucy's bracelets she stashes in my back seat, then claims that her sister stole them.

AB

[KTorak]

In my Grand Cherokee I have...
Road side triangles
Boat & Camper Keys + the Plug for our boat.
Trailer hitches for our Boat & Camper + Light adapters for them
Socket set
Jumper cables
Tow strap
Spare tire
Straps for our trailer
Empty Gatorade bottles
Lug nut wrench
Jack
Ice scraper/snow brush
Random mix cds I have (ranging from Kenny Chesney to Fallout Boy to Incubus)
Can of Fix-a-Flat
My Mag-Lite (4 D-cell)
Bungee Cords
Cargo Net for the back
Tape Measure
Pens & Paper
My Nikon Digital Camera
Insurance/Registration Information
My Road Test Completion Certificate

As of now, I also have a DeWalt, The Operator Board, and about 6 pairs of saftey glasses for GLR next week (I figure if I put it in now, I wont forget to bring it at 6:30 am when I leave to go uncrate with my dad and another student).

*I'll add anything else I forgot later.

[Jay H 237]

Is that an old IBM XT? I remember when they came out!


I always have a basic tool kit in the cars. Each of them also has a small Craftsman ratchet set in them, a 12v compressor and tire repair kits. This has come in handy on several occasions. I got a stuck thermostat on my Mustang and overheated. Once it cooled down I removed the upper radiator hose, goose neck, removed the thermostat, and put the goose neck and hose back on. I went into a supermarket and bought several gallons of spring water to refill the radiator. It worked to get me home.
I've also removed several nails/screws from my tires, plugged the tires and refilled them with air from the compressor.

So far I've never gotten outright stuck somewhere and needed AAA.

I'll have to really post pics of the stuff. I can't remember everything off the top of my head plus each vehicle has other stuff in it. Maybe I'll take some pics tomorrow.

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Is that an old IBM XT? I remember when they came out!

yup, about the time I was graduating college

Looks like a 5150 PC, though, from the name tag...the XT had another line at the bottom like this

IBM

Personal
Computer
XT

The monitor is the 5153 Color type.

I have a bunch of this stuff in my basement...

[Wetzel]

In my trunk I have
Blanket
Spare heavy coat
Metro Baltimore map book
Metro DC map book
Rugby ball
Rugby boots
Non-freezable beverages

Up front I have
Ice Scraper
Box of tissues
Random cds
Carputer - Still just sits on my passenger seat, waiting for warm weather and time to install it. Has Streets and Trips installed with working GPS and winamp for now. Gonna wait a bit before I get the OBDII software to monitor everything.
Spare change to the tune of ~$6
INOVA Fairfax Hospital Parking Tag
Warm hat
A few pens
A saline flush
A few alcohol prep pads
A few ATM deposit envelopes
FastToll transponder
Bottle of water

Wetzel

[Alex Cormier]

Let's see if i can remember.
I hava a 99 S10 regular cab so i can't fit much!
-Blanket
-Mag Light 4 cell
-Gloves
-Hat
-Ice Scraper, comes in handy every day!
-Winshield washer fluid, use it frquently since we use sand and salt up here
-Tie down strapes when i tow stuff
-lotsa lotsa lotsa bungee cords
-pool cue (got to bring that into the dorm soon)
-CD's
-some garbage
-map of NY
-metal object i will eventually get to making a shifter out of
-3 Bags of sand plus 2 cinder blocks so ~225 lbs in the back
-BIG ol' cup of change
-many more items but im tired to list.

My tanning lotions so i dont keep coming back in the house to get them, and the general car cleanng stuff. and my bank account savings book thing. Yeah thats basically it.

-Court-

[KenWittlief]

A clean towel (thanks to Doug Adams)
last years phone books (comes in very handy sometimes)
binoculars
Bungee cords
A 6" long, 1/2" diameter chrome steel pin where I can reach it in case I ever have to break a window (mine, to get out, or someone else's to get in)
Fire extinquisher (Im on my 4th one - put out 3 car fires so far, none of the cars were mine)

[Katie Reynolds]

Let's see ... in the 2002 Saturn VUE I keep:

1. Box of Kleenex
2. Hand sanitizer
3. Ice scraper/brush/squeegee
4. CD holder (on my visor)
5. Technokats (45) button
6. Paradigm Shift (1259) button
7. NEW Apple Corps (93) button
8. Superior Roboworks (857) button
9. My Petco apron/shirt (in case I was called into work on short notice, this summer)
10. Small garbage can
12. Spare gallon of washer fluid
13. Picnic blanket
14. Quilt
15. A laundry basket with some styrofoam coolers inside (what? It's not that weird - I have to get my fish home somehow).
16. Spare mittens
17. Spare hat
18. Spare scarf
19. Pen
20. Bank deposit slips
21. Rag
22. Jumper Cables
23. Small tool kit
24. Air pump
25. Safety glasses (2 pair!!)

[Courtneyb1023]

i would say that I have the normal things.

Gloves and a hat, first aid kit, road flares, clothes, tap shoes, CD's..stuff like that

oh and emerging from my truck into the back seat of my car is the arm from 1023's 2004 robot...because that's normal.

[Vince lau]

in my 05 wrx

- some FIRST stickers that i got made up to send to those who signed up for the x-mas card thingy

- air compressor

- a sword

- a sweater

and up until this past weekend when i cleaned out my trunk

- a tetra
- roller blades
- bowling ball