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What important supplies do you always keep in your vehicle?
I have 20-foot, 4-gauge jumper cables, a first aid kit, and a roadside kit, which mostly consists of a shorter and smaller jumper cable and a smaller first aid kit, but also:
Cable ties A reflective triangle (on the case) Knit gloves Emergency poncho A roadside assistance phone number Flashlight, with batteries and signal cone S.O.S. banner Car blanket Is any of that actually important? Would you say that anything is missing? I would rather replace the inferior jumper cables and first aid kit with something I might actually use. Okay fine! I will use Google! Family Handyman only lists five things and the only one that other sites did not list is a battery bank, which makes sense, if your car dies, you cannot charge your phone, but make sure the bank is charged! https://www.familyhandyman.com/stuff...r-emergencies/ Mashable:
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Then he said he only kept a cell phone mount and Cholula, but that would have been boring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PUirmfOs9c Thillist:
Buzzfeed asked their readers what they recommended and came up with a silly list like Mashable's:
Cars.com:
This Old House lists twenty-four must-haves, but all are listed in other lists: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/ideas/2...-keep-your-car The Simple Dollar says a towel is about the most massively useful thing a driver can have. https://www.thesimpledollar.com/25-t...e-in-your-car/ Some place called Money Talk News wants sunscreen and bug spray exploding all over your stuff. https://www.thesimpledollar.com/25-t...e-in-your-car/ LifeHacker:
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I am not reading this one. The previous lists were 5 - 37 things. This one is 100. One hundred. I doubt that if you combine what I already have, the useful things on the list, and the silly ones, it would come anywhere near 100: https://agirlsguidetocars.com/100-th...ways-keep-car/ |
You heard we like lists so you put up a list of lists so we can list while we're listing? Got it.
I have a black sports bag with a collapsible handle and wheels that is full, but I shan't catalog it. I know there's a reflective triangle and tow strap, jumper cables, etc. There's also a leather shaving kit with small items, tire pressure gauge, etc. Maybe that's where my cigar lighter volt meter is. |
It to some extent depend where and what you drive. Cell phones and credit cards have eliminate a lot of need.
In the 70d's in my Triumph I had points, condenser and fan belt,plus tools and oil. Also 100 bill under the floor mat. Because car parts were not readily available every were at that time. Now just have what you need overnighted. My grandfather had: Blanket First aid kit Compas Collapsible drinking cup Mints and spare tire, jack and tools. My car has First aid kit Space blanket Knife Flashlight Jumper cables Spare bulbs (hate having bulbs out) Spare, jack and lug wrench. Trip additional items. Small tool kit |
My intelligence, cell phone, pocket knife, altoids, napkins, probably a few bottles of water....
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How many of you keep mints in your emergency supply?
Or at least know people who did? :)
I preferred cinnamon Tic-Tacs. When I felt sleepy I chewed one, which kept me awake for less than a minute. The problem was that after several I did not want any more, and was on my own. |
Um, sunglasses, baseball hat, iPod, phone charger... Not much else. I have a phone and I can walk.
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My eyes aren't that good. A baseball bat sounded like a good idea.
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- spare tire, jack, and lug wrench
- wrenches, screwdrivers, socket set - multimeter - portable battery charger/jumpstarter - extra jumper cables in case my portable jumpstarter is dead - tire pressure gauge - hand sanitizer - tissues - any halogen bulbs that I replaced with LEDs - rear wiper (in case I need it; haven't needed it yet) - loose change - ice scraper (only in winter) On me I always carry a small Leatherman multitool in case I need to cut any zip ties (grille block, underbody paneling, etc). |
Depends on if it's blizzard season or not.
Usually just a tire gauge and some napkins. In winter the steering wheel gets a fuzzy cover and the door pocket gets a scraper. In the ones where the gas gauge isn't completely trustworthy, a small gas can with gas in it, wedged in the trunk somehow so it won't tip. |
Plug kit
Pliers/multi-tool (to remove the nail) Inflator Jumper cables Tow strap Little need for a spare tire when you have a plug kit. 90% of leaks can be repaired in 3 minutes without taking the wheel off. |
Mom keeps saying that it is supposed to snow tomorrow (we had a dusting yesterday), but weather.com only shows rain\snow showers at 05.
Regardless, each of my Thursday clients is down a paved road. I am infinitely more concerned with the new way that we are supposed to write notes. For four years, each of my supervisors has passed off on notes like the following: Subjective: Tommy was in a good mood and cooperated with minimal prompting. Objective: Tommy independently identified 15/75 common objects. Tommy identified another 55/60 common objects, correctly articulated 43/50 words starting with /r/ at the word level, and followed 8/10 three-step manipulative directions, each with minimal prompting. Plan: Continue as planned. If I need to modify an activity, it goes under plan. I might write "Tommy met the standard for the current flash cards; start using a new set of flash cards." Arizona is trying to make providers prove that our services are necessary. It sounds like they are going to start auditing our paperwork and I hate to think what would happen if they decide that someone's session notes are inadequate. Our agency hired a therapist just to review all of our notes, which sounds excruciatingly tedious. Worse, this seems like all of the lame things that I needed to write for school, where the single most important factor was how long it was. There were probably earlier examples, but the first that I remember was our eleventh-grade chemistry teacher sharing a twenty-page lab report a student in another class wrote. One sentence was something along the lines of "I made sure to clean up my test tubes and put them away so the next student did not find them in the sink and need to take care of them." Why is that worth including in a report? The sample notes are four full paragraphs, each with a number of sentences that seem completely unnecessary. It is like writing half a quarterly progress report every single week, with random information instead of the useful data that we usually report. We are supposed to be able to write notes in five minutes. If we have twenty or thirty clients this is a lot of extra time each week. |
Is Tommy kept in your trunk?
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I forgot about the ice scraper. That isn't gear, it's a part of the car and stays in the passenger footwell year round. I throw a full size shovel in the back in winter.
I don't carry a bat. I depend on my rapier-like wit. |
Small tool bag
Mechanic's gloves Wire Duct tape Snowbrush/scraper in winter Tissues/napkins/paper towels Solar flashlight |
Jack, tire iron, spare, inflator, Philips and flat screwdrivers, 10mm wrench, paper towels, some spare blubs.
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Of course, it depends on what you're doing and what time of year it is. I suppose I don't keep a saw in my car, but if I might be encountering down trees then I'll bring a bow saw (tow strap is always in the car). If I'll certainly encounter down trees, I'll bring a chainsaw.
If it might show, chains and a shovel. |
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Yeah, but my gas caps aren't that trustworthy. They have to be pointed up.
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I wouldn't trust most any cap unless it was on top, only keeping fumes and some splash in. I wonder if VW guy ever used those cans like that.
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"VW guy" went to Bonneville Salt Flats and back on clear premium by mapping out vendors in advance and having a 650 mile range.
Typically (the vehicle isn't really on the road that much) the driver side can is only fumes, and the shotgun side is filled to balance the weight side to side. I know the seals are the weak part, but they're designed to be so they could be thrown off the top of tanks and not leak. |
Mom is selling her car to her brother in California
She originally talked about me driving to Palm Springs and my cousin meeting me at the airport.
My wife verified we could take Amtrak back, but my uncle hasn't seen Mom (or any of us) for over a decade, and hasn't met my wife, so they want to fly all of the way down next Monday, visit, and drive 700 miles home. I'm not worried about Mom's car, I would drive it myself if I had the time, but he is 70 years old and 350 pounds, and there is a great deal of desert between Chandler and the San Francisco Bay Area. My aunt kept asking for pictures and Mom kept promising to take them, but Mom has a habit of falling down, and of course driveways are concrete, so I planned on taking pictures as soon as I caught up with grad school. My sister flew all of the way from California just to take pictures. Sure. She took the least-flattering pictures possible. She got the damaged door that I have always said that I would replace, scrapes in the back bumper from the garage door, and allegedly more. My snobby sister acted like she wanted our aunt and uncle to see the extensive damage, but there really isn't much, the car is in great shape for a 2006. As I mentioned elsewhere, allegedly I had some deadline Monday or Tuesday, but I am still trying to meet the deadline from December. I would have already, but my advisor refuses to say much outside of appointments, her schedule is pretty full long in advance, and I can't get much useful out of her during appointments, so I might not be able to graduate for a year [most recently] because I can't get useful information from her easily. All of the information I have from the website: Quote:
If each professor is assigned 5-10 students, they need to give the same instructions 5-10 times. Sure, there will be differences, but if they wrote the directions for the first student, they could modify it for everyone else. Once I finally found enough people to participate in my study, she told me to learn how to create pivot tables. Then I made pivot tables for each of my 20 questions. You use pivot tables to make graphs, right? I made 20 graphs and submitted it to her. She perseverated about me talking to her in January (when I had 10 participants) and finally sold me to segregate the boys from the girls, so I made 40 pivot tables, 40 charts, and submitted it to her. She perseverated about me talking to her in January and finally sold me that I followed Assignment APA, not Journal APA (although I can't find anything telling me how to publish to a journal). She keeps saying she doesn't believe that I can put everything together in-time. I can if she would just tell me what to do! I don't know what I will be able to do with Mom's car, hopefully at least take it to an independent mechanic for an inspection, and to a place in North Phoenix with a Groupon for a $96 detailing (inside and out!). Google says that it would take 37 minutes to drive there at 0027, so I could definitely wash, dry, and vacuum the car faster, but it would be nice to see the car properly clean for once. I would also like to put together some stuff in case (Heaven forbid) anything happen between here and their home. If nothing else, I could order a few things, and buy a bag from Marshall's. I tracked down when I polished her headlights, a bit over 3 years ago, and they look as bad as before. I tried several things, but toothpaste worked the best. I bought a few kits, but of course, all of them are in Show Low. I bought some 3m clear coat wipes, but of course, they are in Show Low, and it doesn't look like anyone wants to sell just a few. Meguir's sells a 4-ounce can of headlight clear coat for $15. Google says that Amazon would charge $6 to ship, but Amazon says it would be free, but wouldn't arrive until Friday. I can walk into Home Depot tomorrow and buy this 12-ounce can for $6. Anyway, I made many changes to my paper since finally meeting with my professor, with no idea when I will be able to schedule another appointment. Apparently, I can't trust her schedule. Twice, I have seen an opening, requested an appointment, and had her send me an angry e-mail that she wasn't available. Did she wait for someone else to request an appointment? So, APA format doesn't have us sharing all of our data, we pick themes, themes within themes, and examples for each sub-theme. I am allegedly almost halfway through redoing my Results section, and I just keep getting lost among two pages of data. If I can't figure out where I am this time, I will move onto the next theme, and return afterward. Edit! I tried to figure out where I was with my project and I have been relying on Google Gemini to help organize everything. At one point, my project was 40 pages. Well, before I found this thread, I searched Project Farm, thinking that he made a video about it. Not quite. He tested toolkits here and at the end said Quote:
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Mom sold her Camry.
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My aunt and uncle deducted plane tickets from what they had offered to pay her, but that was about all they had.
I replaced the battery, replaced the tires, got the oil changed, got the car inspected, bought yet another jack and jack stands, as well as a pressure washer, removed the splash shield, and didn't figure out the pressure washer, but as far as could tell, I removed all of the grease from under the oil and transmission pan as well as the surface grime on the transmission it self. I wanted to use a brush attachment for my cordless screwdriver which would have reached into the crevices, but I forgot, and after spending Saturday and Sunday trying to track down parts--the torque arm is cracked, the steering arm boots are ripped, and the PCV valve may be bad--I didn't have the time to drive 30-60 minutes each way for parts, but my uncle is a Toyota master mechanic, and said that he would take care of all of it when he got home. One of the screws for her glovebox came out back in Show Low, I took apart her dash to fix it, and two days later the screw came out again. Mom said she would just live with it and I felt that it should be fixed properly, but how? I added filling the hole with epoxy and tapping a new hole to my to-do list recently, but of course, I ran out of time. My uncle said that he would loop a zip tie through the hole and then run the screw. That sounds good to me! :) I only really chatted with them while driving them from the airport to the MVD and then to the house. While they visited and ate lunch, I hosed off the soapy water under the car, reattached the splash guards, replaced the license plate lights, bought new marker lights (one is out), topped off the tank, got a car wash, and spent several minutes vacuuming quickly. Todd from Project Farm recommended a Kobalt 268-piece tool kit in a hard case, which they stopped producing, and I couldn't find details on it, but they currently sell a 267-piece one in a soft case for $150. I had it delivered and the box was 5 times as big as the tool kit. All of the tools were in a box in the bag and about half of the bag was empty. There was a hammer and level and almost everything else fit in pockets with pockets left over, so 267 pieces are especially few, particularly when you consider:https://ecomodder.com/forum/attachme...1&d=1744697720 I also bought the best Kobalt jumper cables Lowe's sold, 2-gauge. I hope they arrive safely and the car serves them well. |
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