What do you keep in your boot?

[Dafuq]

Interesting question.

I have an emergency outback incident survival kit, no really. Includes defibrillator, needles, wound stiching kit, loads of bandages, UHF radio and loads of other gear I need to get my head around. Guess I could with going on a first aid course to make it useful.

Also hold plenty of water, dried meal packs and energy bars. But then the car itself is unlike the majority of company vehicles I have had in the past, had optioned, under body bash plates, stainless steel front end bull-bars (massive) and a Roo Shoo!

Just moved up in to a new role overseeing a large part of rural New South Wales not just Sydney so logical I guess, can't wait to put it to use for it primary purpose, me going trail bashing at the weekends! ))))))))

[bobbo89]

92 Corrado - Not a thing, no spare wheel and even the boot carpet is missing

65 Beetle - The original jack (now useless) and a bag of charcoal left over from a festival a couple of weeks back

[quoteunquote_sir_]

[redacted]

[brrapp]

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[PetrolAholic]

Socket Set
Air Compressor
Hi Vis Jacket
Spare Engine Oil
Mixed Screenwash
Water
Jack
4 Ton Elastic Tow Rope
Some cheap throwaway plastic snow chain things (never opened)
Phone Charger
First Aid Kit
My Spare Watch
Mobile Phone (PAYG Cheapy)
Lucozade
OBD Fault Reader

And that's all in my spare tyre well.....

[Max5476]

I'm like a lot of people before, and don't like having stuff rolling around the boot, so all it has is a golf umbrella, which fits in a groove to stop it moving, a warning triangle stuck to the side, and the standard spare wheel (full size).

However through out the rest of the car I have antifreeze, rear window blinds, Haynes manual, atlas, sat nav, CDs, pound coin for trolleys, first aid kit, hi vis, microfibre cloths, handbook, spare bulbs, sunglasses, GB sticker and probably more. But everything has its place.

[sparkysp]

grayze said:

Dave Hedgehog said:

Tarpaulin
Rope
Duct Tape
Axe
Shovel

....quicklime, ether, hacksaw?

gotta know what your doing with quick lime it can preserve the body ,also axe is quicker at chopping the bones up if going for the joints than a hacksaw

[sparkysp]

Rawwr said:

Dildos, a dead crow and six identical Jim Davidson DVDs.

why the jim davidson DVDs ????lol

[Spannerski]

Mate down pub:
Spare gearbox, axle stands, jack and tools.

Me
Car 1
Pushchair, buggy board, kids clothes for the re-cycling I always forget to take, walking shoes brolly and a frisbee

Car2
Blanket, fire extingusiher, jump leads, alternator and cam belt, small scooter.

[layercake]

bloody hell guys, so much stuff think of the fuel your wasting, carrying all that weight, all u need is a tire pump and a AA card that's it or just the AA card

[SuperchargedVR6]

JakeT said:

davidcharles said:

SuperchargedVR6 said:

Nothing. I hate things rattling around in the car when hooning, plus it's unnecessary weight!

snap....nothing at all in my boots ever... i am sure it makes me faster

What about the cubbies and under the boot floor? That is where I keep my car detritus.

Literally nothing, not even in the glove box or door pockets etc.

I must admit, I don't get the carrying oil in the boot thing. I keep it in the shed and check it once a month, and top up if need be.

[STiG911]

ELUSIVEJIM said:

I owned a E30 BMW 318is back in the day I always had a huge bag of sand in the boot to give the car more traction.

In a 318?! Crikey, you were trying!

[quoteunquote_sir_]

brrapp said:

Mine too , got down to less than 300miles per litre by the time I sold it at 130000 miles. The boot always had at least a couple of gallons of oil in. At least at that rate of use, I could use cheap oil and not bother about changing it.

So this isn't particularly specific to the mileage the engine has covered? I will check mine again as I lapsed from doing it every week as it just never used any and started doing it every month or so like a modern. Maybe I got lucky? But at that rate of loss it's got to be either burning it or dropping it, either should be obvious.

[brrapp]

quoteunquote_sir_ said:

brrapp said:

Mine too , got down to less than 300miles per litre by the time I sold it at 130000 miles. The boot always had at least a couple of gallons of oil in. At least at that rate of use, I could use cheap oil and not bother about changing it.

So this isn't particularly specific to the mileage the engine has covered? I will check mine again as I lapsed from doing it every week as it just never used any and started doing it every month or so like a modern. Maybe I got lucky? But at that rate of loss it's got to be either burning it or dropping it, either should be obvious.

I really don't know where it went, no sign of a leak and nothing nasty out the exhaust. I even took it to a BMW main dealer (unheard of for me) to try to trace it. They just said 'some of them do that,don't know why'.
I bought it from my brother in law who'd had it from New and used to top up a litre per month (1200 miles). At 80000 miles it was on a litre for 1000 miles, at 100000 it was on a litre for 500 miles then at 130000 it was on a litre for 300 miles. Maybe they morph into an RX8 by 150000 miles?

[Neil-b3l6l]

Umm...

[jeremy996]

When you have projects, there is always something!

Repaired and painted bulkhead for my LR90 languishing in the back of my LR110CSW

[jm28]

Has anyone said "your mum" yet? TLDR.

[sjabrown]

Small bottle of oil, bottle of water, Halon fire extinguisher, waterproof jacket, disposable gloves, headtorch, BASICS emergency docs bag, cable ties, strong boots.

[donteatpeople]

Empty boot but tucked under the boot floor in the well where a wheel would be if my car came with one is:

Bottle of screen wash
Can of de-icer
High vis vest
warm hat
Coupe of emergency blanckets
Packet of tisues
UK map
large egg carton to take up space and stop the above rolling about
(+ the compressor, tyre gunk towing eye etc that came with the car)

[Revisitph]

Dafuq said:

Interesting question.

I have an emergency outback incident survival kit, no really. Includes defibrillator, needles, wound stiching kit, loads of bandages, UHF radio and loads of other gear I need to get my head around. Guess I could with going on a first aid course to make it useful.

Also hold plenty of water, dried meal packs and energy bars. But then the car itself is unlike the majority of company vehicles I have had in the past, had optioned, under body bash plates, stainless steel front end bull-bars (massive) and a Roo Shoo!

Just moved up in to a new role overseeing a large part of rural New South Wales not just Sydney so logical I guess, can't wait to put it to use for it primary purpose, me going trail bashing at the weekends! ))))))))

A different world down under - a former colleague went to work in rural Australia. One of his tasks was doing autopsies for the Coroner (or their Aus equivalent), a few of which were people who had crashed their light aircraft. The way he got there? By light aircraft...

On reflection, I suppose it's not that surprising, just a reflection of the scale of the country - most of us drive to work here but, famously (and subject of some controversy) Lang Hancock was said to have discovered the immense Pilbara iron ore deposits - out of which our cars may well have been made - when flying.