What Essentials Do you Keep In Your Car
 

Inspired by the ECD (Every Day Carry) thread, figured this would bring some interesting results or possibly informative ones that people can pick from to use on their car. Aside from, if applicable, spare tire and lift kit, what essentials do you keep on your car all the time? I'll begin, feel free to post links for the items you have.

1. Quick Detailer
2. Microfiber Towel
3. Oil Rag

3. Sunglasses
4. 12 V adapter for multiple USB connections.

5. OFT Tablet (In case of CEL)
6. Tire shine

7. First Aid Kit

8. Small Mechanics Tool Set (Jumper Cables, Small Wrenches, Tow Straps, Hazard Triangle, Flashlight, etc)
9. 1QT of Engine Oil.

1. tissues for nose blowing
2. sunglasses
3. umbrella
4. sun shade
5. oil rag

Don't have any tools or spare tire. Work is pretty close (18 km) so when I got a flat rear tire, my wife brought me 2 of my summer tires and tools and I just swapped the rears in the work parking lot and when I came home, swapped the other two. Granted it was spring and time to switch to summers anyway.

Same here, is a short 20 min drive from home to work, I keep most of the things I have mostly out of habit from military, we couldn't go anywhere without having a lifting kit, first aid, and extra additives. So it just stuck.

first aid kit might definitely be a good idea though.

1. Sunglasses
2. Sunshade
3. Microfiber towel
4. Detailer spray (for the bugs)
5. IFAK (trauma/first aid kit)

I keep 2-5 in my car too. :cheers:
Reading about you guys keeping a few light tools in the car reminds me I put together an amazon list of tire changing goodies I need to order including a(nother) torque wrench. :)

Me (still)

Anyone else get the feeling theres only 10 of us on this site?

Only 10 that matter!
Let's not forget the multiple bots everyday and the crowd that never, ever, ever ventures beyond the second gen is the bestest threads.

I don't keep anything in my car :iono:

Everyday? Sunshade and a USB cord?

My wife has like emergency raisins in her glove box, different shoes, a blanket, enough recyclables to purchase an emergency gallon of gas, a dog bowl, and maybe some spare stuff for art activities?

Right now I've got
- Bottle of ONR detailer
- Microfiber towels
- foldable lawn chair
- Hand sanitizer
- Mini battery pack for charging phone.

-USB stick (need muh tunes!)
-lighter > USB charger adapter to plug my iphone cable in since theres only 1 USB slot in the car.
-Pen
-extra masks (not needed so much anymore with our province reopened)
-sunshade
-sunglasses
-box of tissues (doesnt fit in any of the storage areas so this so it sits in the back seat...will probably switch to those smaller travel sized ones when i run out)
-blanket (also doubles as a sort of towel, its to prevent the dirty stuff from muddying up the seats)
-hand sanitizer

Chicken and rice. You just never know.

Well if you ever get an engine failure or accident, you can leave the car on rice overnight and it will be fixed the next day.

Beyond the spare/jumpers.
Tire pump
Shop Towels
Sunglasses

I have the rare Zojirushi Edition.

Oyakodon is essential for any twin owner.

two MF towels.
**small flashlight (cr123 or 18650 powered)
*morakniv basic
*small tool kit
trauma/first aid kit/CAT
12v mini compressor
small 4way lug wrench
partial roll of shop towels
windshield sun shade
**Bluetooth OBD adapter
**phone charging cable

** glove box
* small cordura zipper bag in trunk

1. Sunshade
2. Microfiber towel
3. Detail spray
4. Jump cables(used ~5 times helping others jump their car)
5. Bug out bag/IFAK
6. Travel size umbrella
7. Tool kit
8. Zip ties (have a lot of 240sx friends lol)

Some items may be switched out due to season/weather.
I sometimes carry an emergency spork in case my to-go lunches forget to supply one.

So true... lol

Besides what came with the car,
Sunglasses
Reading Glasses (lousy 62- year-old eyeballs)
Covid Mask (force of habit from the last 16 months)
Hand Sanitizer (ditto)
Phone Cable (with tan leather outer jacket to match seats!)
Tire Gauge (pencil-type, I keep the good one in the garage)
Various papers required by law (proof of insurance, registration)
Coin holder/dispenser that fills one cupholder
A couple of plastic trays with carpet-gripping bottoms that I use to haul groceries in the trunk without them spilling out and sliding around.
edited to add: garage door opener!

In the winter I'll add a small snow shovel, a windshield scraper/snow brush and rubber floor mats

Currently carrying:

- 12v powered tire inflator/gauge and flashlight
- lug nut key
- sunscreen
- phone cable
- ear plugs (for longer drives)

I removed my spare a while back since it doesn’t fit my BBK.

I’ve also got a little white FRS toy that someone randomly gave me at the track. Thought that was a cool gesture so I keep it with the car.

1.Microfiber, paper tissues and quick detailer for bird poops (happens often near my house sadly)
2.Wheel lock key
3.Tire pressure gauge
4.Lightning cable
5.Ecutek Bluetooth dongle (plugged in)
6.Face mask and hand sanitizer (new trend from 2020 huh?)
7.Quart of oil (this actually might be off this list soon after I replaced my oil cooler fittings an lines and became less OCD about oil leakage)
8.First aid kit, fire extinguisher, emergency triangle (this ones are mandatory where I live)
Damn that's a lot of crap :bonk:

1. Face mask
2. Bottle of water
3. Spare chap stick
4. .45 ACP

lol, if i listed everything, it'd take an entire page!
so i'll summarize.

phone charging? covered
sun shade? covered
stuck? covered
broken? covered
hurt? covered

One could only dream here in California :(

Yep, back in the day, I just carried an ax handle in my car for self defense. Then, as I got older, I became afraid that someone would just take it away from me and beat me with it ...... so ......

Everyone in town besides me has guns in their cars. No point bringing a stick to a gunfight.


Stuff I do keep on the car:
Tire pressure gauge
T bar tire iron
Jumper cables
Mag lite d cell flashlight
CD sleeve for the CD player
Sunglasses
Windshield shade
Masks although no longer required
Hand sanitizer
Towel for wiping off sweat after exercise
Road atlas for US and southern Canada
Emergence road hazard lights and an emergency window breaker Subaru sent to me hope I never need to use that window breaker!

I guess that’s it.

I used to carry a small tool kit but stopped after I realized I wouldn’t know what to do with them

Basically the same things for me, but swap tire shine for a set of gloves and safety glasses.

In addition:

- Power bank/jump starter
- Air compressor than can be powered by the 12v in the car or by that power bank
- 50/50 premixed bottle of coolant from the local Subie dealer
- Spare bulbs for low beams, high beams, signals and reverse lights.
- ~half a roll of those blue paper shop towels

I hear that - :(

i started carrying tools when i was more responsible for the rest of the families aging fleet, so i would spontaneously run by pick-n-pull yards for replacement parts when i had time. we've all moved out, and generally upgraded vehicles to models new enough that haven't really dropped into pick-n-pull yards yet, so i need it a lot less than i used to.

Sunglasses, comb, air pump, pressure gauge, light, CD's, phone charger, zip ties (they're good for lots of things in a pinch), panel tools (haven't figured out where else to store them), probably more that I'm forgetting about.

Always in my car, in no particular order of importance:

Leatherman Raptor Shears (soon to be mounted in the door pocket so I can find them upside down)
Tire gauge
Bottled water
Caffeine mints
Invisible glass
Blue paper shop towels
Reading glasses
OBDII bluetooth adapter
Travel trash can (uses standard plastic grocery bags)
Insulated cooler bag (I never know when I'll need to buy boudin.)
Canvas pencil case (for receipts)
Northern Tool back scratcher
Lip balm
Capsaicin nose spray
Hand sanitizer
Alka Seltzer
Ryobi inflator
Ryobi automotive battery charger
Kobalt tool kit
Harbor Freight breaker bar
Spark plug socket (fits the keys to my spline drive lugs)
Trunk cargo net
Jumper cables

My next addition will likely be an Element fire extinguisher. I keep first aid supplies in my computer bag.

If you can't tell, I drive a lot, and I'm fucking serious about it.

What! No tent and sleeping bag?

:iono:

I recently bought a nice-looking tool-roll thing to put in the car.

But in hindsight I realized I don't know wtf I'd put in it, I already only have like one socket wrench and a couple sockets to my name..

Water bottle
Headlamp
USB stick for music
Owner's manual
Wheel lock key
Cusco 'smart cross' wrench
Detail spray and MF towel - mostly to clean windshield on longer trips
String, zip ties, multi-tool
Fire extinguisher, nomex gloves and nomex hood
Rain jacket
Reusable shopping bags
Trunk organizer

Being a Hilton Diamond Member usually takes care of that. It's only failed me one time, so I just napped for four hours in the car and hit the road again.

Bubba suggests all you need is a Mexican socket set - :thumbsup: