How much crap do you carry about in your car?

[PhatVR6 0]

Bought a washing machine today. the poor lads from the store had to wait for me whilst I cleared all this rubbish out of the back of the car before I could fit it in, and it dawned on me, "what IS all this rubbish doing in my car? why do I carry it around with me?"

 

Do it, go and look at all the crap in your car, and thorw it out! you don't need it.

 

1 pair of VW overalls, because you never know when you may need to stop and crawl about under the car

a pair of mechanics gloves

some "blue roll"

A bag of wheel bolts and 2 wheel spacers

A fridge, yes, a FRIDGE!! to keep my red bull cool.

6 cans of red bull

a 240v power inveter

a 12v air pump for blowing up tyres

a Tango umbrella (random!)

a manumission classics CD box

several VW Layerthorpe receipts.

A copy of fast bikes mag

last months PVW

loads of receipts

a print out of a drawing of the internals of a quaife 02a dog box

a tie with some penguins on it

a fleece

a golf dash air vent

several car phone chargers

2 pairs of gloves

a wooly hat

a spare brake/indicator bulb (and an empty packet for some other bulbs)

 

how much crap have you got!!!?

[Andy665 0]

Fire extinguisher

Umbrella x2

Tow rope

Bottle of water

Can of oil

Collapsible bucket

Box of disposable gloves

[g60greeny 0]

a pair of footy boots,shin pads,footy,about 12 cans of sweetcorn from the last fishin match i went to,nothin of any mechanical use :lol:

[Mave 0]

5 towels, 2 spray cans, 1 empty bottle of oil, 1 small oil bottle filled with wee (I was desperate OK!, AND LOST!) bike wheel, spare wheel, CD's, gloves, jumper and a sub woofer box.

 

all i can think of

[billinjah 0]

one fire extiguisher one can of holts tyre repair foam one microfibre cloth one snap on phillips one snap on flat blade thats me lot.

[ZippyVR6 0]

Flexible screwdriver with random atachments, 4 litres of pre-mixed coolant and water. pack of Chuddy, dried up magic tree, ice scraper, brolly, damp chammois, spare fuses, spare pants. spare contact lenses.

[Guest]

Oooooh, this is a good game :D

 

 

VW Umbrella

Litre bottle of water (emergency coolant top ups)

MDF (half an enclosure I am building)

small tool kit (I only use it as a blunt object to open the exansion tank)

Wooly YSL Jumper

Leather Jacket

Battery Charger

50m entension lead

Pair of shoes

Road Atlas

Selection of screwdrivers

Alloy Pedals (need fitting)

Pens x 4

Ray Bans

Chewing Gum

Cold Cathodes (need to be installed)

Emergency packet of Marlboro

Various CDs

 

 

seems quite tidy, but looking at that list it needs a sort out

[Yandards 0]

As little as possible but my boot is currently home to the following:

 

A valeting bag

A broken VW solar panel

Spare bulb kit

Electric pump

Top adjuster widget for my Konis.

3 x pairs of socks (Don't ask)

1 x large pink flag..

 

More weight = less MPG = less fun.

[Dubby 0]

Errr

 

numberplates

a coat

a sheet incase i have to carry anything grubby

loads of cuddly toys

plastic seat covers

some vwm mags

a plastic gorilla

spare ht leads

a few vw badges

a map of essex

printed directions of everywhere ive ever been in it

loads of paper

oh and apparently since yesterday, theres also a malteser rolling about somewhere :lol:

[dinkus 10]

Generally I try and keep my car free of any clutter at all, but as I'm driving about all over the place and am in the middle of god knows how many jobs on the car at the moment, it's a little cluttered...

 

Amp and rack waiting to be bolted in

Driver's side lower-dash panel

Fusebox cover

11 litres of Synta Silver

2 new numberplates

Oil fiter & O-ring

Copper washer for sump plug

1x empty 5 litre Synta bottle

a random 4mm mini spanner that I found under the carpet

a gauge pod front with DDI bezels

DDI gauges

Gauge pod LCD filters

Gauge pod surround

4000 spare trim screws

a bent screwdriver also found under the carpet

an off-cut of sound deadening

misc off-cuts of audio cabling

a VW carrier bag

a red cigarette lighter surround from an Audi that doesn't fit a Corrado

A selection of CDs and their cases

2x metal plug lead removal tools

1x old water pump

1x broken aux water pump

A complete set of new thermostat and housing parts (not assembled)

My leather jacket

Some Smints that went AWOL from the box

A huge book of every street in the south-east of England

 

And that doesn't include the touch-up paint, road map, owner's manual, sunglasses, phone charger, Koni adjuster and probably something else that's in the glovebox

[Trig 0]

OMG dinkus, you need to weigh all that! Must be severely affecting your power:weight ratio!

 

I'm keeping weight down with a few select items...

 

Jump leads

Jerry can of Super

Bin liners

Water

Josh Ritter CD

iPod (and iTrip)

Stainless Steel Cocktail spike (useful for sooo much)

My old headlight switch

Spare Caliper carrier bolt

 

That's it.

 

:)

[steve_16v 0]

Spindle of cd's

set of darts

oakleys

half a packet of polo mints

 

that is all, can't stand having things cluttering up the car

 

1 small oil bottle filled with wee (I was desperate OK!, AND LOST!)

 

Dude, that's minging!

[Mave 0]

:lol: you tellin me you never had to go somewhere embarrasing when you're desperate? :lol:

[Dr Forinor 0]

:lol: you tellin me you never had to go somewhere embarrasing when you're desperate? :lol:

 

Lol, the minging part is that you've still got it :-P

 

 

Mine;

 

Assorted set of cotton and micro fibre cloths

Babywipes (for when a flying rat drops its excrement)

Locking wheel nut and necessary tools to change a tyre

Torch

 

 

And that's about it, I don't travel far out of my city very often so dont really need many things

[Phil K 0]

Hydraulic jack

Axle Stand

Jump leads

Legal number plates

Black plastic bit of trim that damn near killed me - thats another story!

The ring bit from a BBS center cap

 

 

Think thats it :?

[veedub 0]

Im not as bad as I used to be! In the boot of old corsa there was:

 

Flymo lawnmower

 

Strimmer

 

Rake

 

Welly boots

 

Jump leads

 

Socket set

 

Screwdrivers

 

Hammer

 

Bucket

 

Car washing stuff

 

Light bulbs

 

And a KR head on the back seat!!

 

Needless to say it hardly moved!!

 

This is after a clearout!!

[billinjah 0]

oh yeah and some legal plates under the boot carpet

[Trig 0]

Why do you guys carry legal plates? Surely it's a bit late to whip them on once you've been stopped?

[VR6 0]

I think Graeme (XBones) started writing his list shortly after Phatty started the thread. Should hopefully be done shortly. Never known someone to carry round so much stuff!

 

Mine's pretty basic really:

 

Sunglasses

De-icer

Parking disc &

Probably the last CDR that was removed when I put a new one in

[Guest]

Errr

 

numberplates

a coat

a sheet incase i have to carry anything grubby

loads of cuddly toys

plastic seat covers

some vwm mags

a plastic gorilla

spare ht leads

a few vw badges

a map of essex

printed directions of everywhere ive ever been in it

loads of paper

oh and apparently since yesterday, theres also a malteser rolling about somewhere :lol:

 

that sounds like a fun night :lol:

 

dogging :lol:

[Supercharged 2]

Why do you guys carry legal plates? Surely it's a bit late to whip them on once you've been stopped?

 

"They fell off officer..."

[billinjah 0]

i just say ive been to a show and i forgot to change them back always works!

[Trig 0]

"They fell off officer..."

 

And german ones fell on?! :lol:

 

i just say ive been to a show and i forgot to change them back always works!

 

Ah ok, sounds like a good backup plan.

[Phil K 0]

Well mine aren't massively illegal but if I run into PC Promotion it's worth trying the 'I put them on for a show and can switch them back now' line - it's only velcro! :D

 

Have been done for tints before so am prepared for the next time...

[snotrag 0]

Ok...

 

Footpump

2 litres of water

A rocket

A powerkite

A frisbee

Overalls

Jump leads

Oil

Small tool kit

Inner tube

Allen Keys

Torch

Spare bulbs

Lots of random coinagE