What do you keep in your boot?

What do you keep in your boot?

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Rutter

2,070 posts

205 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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A bag for life.

tomcrowther

105 posts

132 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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All the standard Audi stuff (toolkit, widow maker jack, spare wheel blah blah)

1L of Oil

An Assortment of microfibers and a couple of bottles of quick detailer

I don't like stuff that I can hear flying about the boot in corners!

Dubmaster77

172 posts

192 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Basic plumbers tool kit (I'm not a plumber) polish, clay bar, associated cloths, a collection of AA batteries, some paper, a lidl reusable shopping bag, dog poo bags, dog ball throwing device ( no ball) a frisbee, hi Vis vest, one steel toe cap boot.

BobSaunders

3,028 posts

154 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Nothing. It routinely gets nicked otherwise.

However, once upon a time i used to carry a spare set of work clothes, going out clothes, wash kit, bed clothes etc. I was single once.

Longer journeys i have a box of bits which i pop in the car - tow rope, water, medical kit, power bars etc.

wibble cb

3,586 posts

206 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Emergency kit bag (includes a flag should we ever need to alert anyone we are stuck in a snow drift), but among the slightly less useful items my wife carries around are:

A sample piece of hardwood flooring ( job was done 2 yrs ago, she hasn't got round to removing it yet)
Various pieces of aerobics equipment, hand weights, etc
A box of 60 odd harvest chewy bars ( never made it to the house from Costco)
An old zip up top of mine, handy for emergency use
About eleventy billion re useable shopping bags, I think my wife has cornered the worldwide market for these

I suspect there are other thing in there, but I darent look

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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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.

Made a real difference to the car as it was terrible without it.

Knowing how rear wheel drive cars still struggle when the snow comes down perhaps this would still help.


I forgot to mention in the SNOW which hopefully now makes sense.

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Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 24th August 19:37

Revisitph

983 posts

186 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Camoradi said:
My sock, and in my sock, my foot
Why did it take to p5 for this to come up?!

Someone's been doing a clearout http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-3698...

Marcq

72 posts

96 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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5 curtains and a puddle of water banghead

Register1

2,131 posts

93 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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jimreed said:
3 ton trolley jack, still unopened.
Two litres of water.
Seven and a half litres of oil, an oil filter, eight spark plugs and an air filter.
A pair of wellies.
Tucked down around the spare wheel, wrapped in rags to stop any noise : a full Halfrauds professional socket set, 7-30 mm spanners and a lump hammer.
A big torch and several hundred marine shells.

I've just realised that I am turning into my Dad.
Must be driving a Land Rover ?

Register1

2,131 posts

93 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Yellow high viz coat
Towrope
Small air compressor

Lexus

Löyly

17,990 posts

158 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Just a few bits and pieces. Tyre goo, a jack and tyre iron, and an emergency blanket. Over winter or on long trips, I have a few more bits and pieces.

PinkRinse

365 posts

168 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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  • scrap of carpet nicked from a property I managed - comes in super useful for tip trips
  • blue tarp from B&Q - as above
  • Halfords Motorists tool kit
  • my "site visit bag" - has binoculars, one of those folding tools with pliers, knives, screw drivers etc., mini tape measure, all FB keys I might need
  • my ageing TomTom700
  • bottle of Redex

Mr.Fog

902 posts

141 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Being a Ford Puma owner the only thing in my boot of consequence is a large box to prop up the parcel shelf so the Jack Russell can assume his usual perch. Boot may sometimes contain parcel shelf and Jack Russell when this fails.

Also lots of short white hairs and sand.

Somewhere in there is the interior light which disappeared into the bodywork some years ago, probably in the direction of the wheel arch meaning that it's likely at some point to shine through the rust like a Halloween lantern.



giveablondeabone

5,478 posts

154 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Umbrella
Boost charger
Showerproof jacket
Assortment of supermarket 'bags for life' that I always forget to take in with me! banghead
Cheap fault code reader
Warning triangle
1 ltr engine oil
Spare bulbs
Hi viz jacket
Rope
Towel to unfold and protect top of rear valance/bumper when loading/unloading
Approximately 1 cubic metre of fresh air............ jester


epom

11,400 posts

160 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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4 Hurleys
An umbrella
A jacket
A bag for life
Camera bag

S0updr4g0n

146 posts

110 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Escort3500 said:
Jeez, a shovel? How bad is your golf course? biggrin
Once I've been on it, quite hilly. smile

Rawwr

22,722 posts

233 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Dildos, a dead crow and six identical Jim Davidson DVDs.

Mave

8,208 posts

214 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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I've got a pair of small fleece jackets, a litre of oil, a 5 pack of curly wurlys, a map of aircraft crash sites in the black mountains, a copy of "lorna doone", some star wars gaffer tape, a minecraft book, and an ice axe.

KM666

1,757 posts

182 months

Tuesday 23rd August 2016
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Work tools,
Work jacket,
Gloves,
Steelies,
Umbrella,
Fire extinguisher,
Breaker bar,
Spare coils,
A spare maf,
Litre of oil,
Litre of coolant,
5l of deionised water,
An eBay 'military' survival kit,
A can of tyre foam and other oe junk,
Quick detailer spray,
Mf cloths,
A set of dummy plates for nicking petrol and closing roads for horse racing.

MBBlat

1,602 posts

148 months

Wednesday 24th August 2016
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Peaugeot: 2xrudders, mainsheet & jibsheet for my boat plus a bag of sailing kit for me. In the summer the first three stay mostly in the car except when sailing.

Caterham: Shower cap, jump leads, top up oil, tyre sealant and a kite. The half hood is on top of the boot exept when its raining.