What's in your boot?

[jbuckl]

Usually tools and spares that end up being used on other chaps cars who have chairs & picnics
ukpooky… your list seems sensible.

[trunt]

Aside from the golf clubs I have a selection of bulbs, fuses and crimp connectors and a tool roll with basically a full set of tools including some araldite and epoxy putty. I like the tool roll as it’s compact you can jam it anywhere and it doesn’t rattle around. In 25 years of classic cars I have broken down twice, once a rotor arm cracked in half (araldite got me home ) and once a crank sensor bracket snapped(epoxy putty got me home) I still have a bit of room so a bottle of red and white sounds great!

[DMT]

Small hydraulic jack, spare Luminition, bottle of water, tool roll and spare fuel pump.

[MandM]

my wife's cases

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I get the holdall

[gbb483]

I always find the spare wheel thing fascinating. In 42 years of motoring I've had one case (on a hire car) where I had tyre damage due to a really exceptional situation, and then the tyre fitter arrived with a spare tyre and fitted it.

In my 50 years of motoring I have once needed the spare. A bus I was crawling past which had stopped at a village bus stop decided to pull out and forced me to kerb the offside front tyre on the opposite kerb. Wrecked the tyre. Now I always use DRLs - they look naff, but tyres are expensive ( I know, I should've stopped in front of the bus and taken his details, but I didn't).

[gbb483]

Spare wheel, wheel brace and jack. In my pocket, AA card and mobile phone.

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The insurers that advertise in the magazine (RH ? - I should know,I'm with them) include a breakdown service in the policy.

[trunt]

I always find the spare wheel thing fascinating. In 42 years of motoring I've had one case (on a hire car) where I had tyre damage due to a really exceptional situation, and then the tyre fitter arrived with a spare tyre and fitted it.

I have had a few strange ones.. remember those golf clubs? Yes a WOODEN tee right through the sidewall of the tyre! It must have fell and laid just right to pierce the tyre as I drove off.

On a similar note my wife’s car, a complete CO2 cylinder from a soda stream inside the tyre when they removed it… pretty sure some kid laid it up against the tyre so it pierced it as she drove off.. it was a run flat so I hope they were disappointed..

[ramjam2005]

Not everyday contents I know, but I recently emptied pair of axle stands, support timbers, engine ancillaries, spare wheel, rusty petrol tank, out of the boot of my stored rolling shell in preparation to restart the restoration. Look what I found ! and the date... June 1994 !!

Maybe...Emergency light reading during those times whilst waiting for AA breakdown recovery.

I spent a few moments with my son reading the classifieds , crying at the prices.

[Rubce]

I always carry two wine glasses, a cork screw and a bottle of white, and a bottle of red wine and a mobile phone.

If the car breaks down on a hot day I ring the AA and open the red wine and await recovery.
If the car breaks down on a cold day I ring the AA and open the white wine and await recovery.

Nothing else needed.

Alan

My wife wants to marry you

[barkerwilliams]

Obviously a lady of discernment.

Alan

[singapore stag]

I carry a spare fuel pump, spare leccy ignition, various cable ties and a Bikes inner tube. If you have a hose with a hole or any kind of fault so as to loose coolant, water , fuel or oil. Insert the inner tube into the hose then at each end fold the inner tube and fix on with the jubilee clips or cable ties. Fill up. This will take you home , then you can replace hose.