How much clobber is in your car?

[Mactech]

I just helped my wife pack her car to go to work….with seven bags!

1. Large briefcase on wheels for laptop, papers and general office stuff
2. Large shopping bag with additional reams of work papers.
3. Shopping bag containing flask, lunch etc.
4. Padded bag of emergency supplies of coffee, biscuits etc for off site meetings.
5. Carrier bag of shoes (!)
6. Carrier bag of sale clothes to be returned if she has a moment…
7. Handbag (Don’t even ask!)

That doesn’t count the door pockets and glove box crammed with ‘stuff' and the under boot area with extra shopping bags, two umbrellas and more mysterious bags!
Perhaps its little wonder she ran out of room in the SLK!

I’ve checked my car, and apart from the 6 stack DVD being full of MP3’s there is a microfibre cloth in the door pocket and that’s it.

How much clobber do you travel with? Is your car an extension of your personal space or a dumping ground?

 

[gtvlusso]

My wife has an affinity with bottles of water - always bottles of water rolling about in the footwells. CD's left ouf of cases in the door bins, That and that fact that she never cleans the car out......

Ugh!

 

[lynall]

Ive got crap everywhere but always out of site includes
Overalls for work several pairs
Tow strop
Tools selection
Puncture repair kit
Latex gloves
Jump leads
Water
Extuingsher
Reflective vest
Reflective jacket saved my neck the other day when i had to dump car and walk 5 miles home.
Roll of blue paper
Towel in case i get wet
De icer
Scraper
All thats in the boot or in the spare wheel well

Extras at present are shovel, 3 bags of gravel for weight



Lynall

 

[Spin_bowler]

In the car
Sunglasses
Numerous empty water bottles
A pack of 6 full water bottles
Lip balm
Loose change
Business Cards
Chewing gum
Assorted pens
Alcoholic hand gel
iPod Classic
Assorted children's DVDs
Phone chargers

In the boot
Cricket bag
shovel (new addition)
"Emergency" coat

 

[219]

My boot is always pretty full

audio electronics - 2x CD changers/DSP unit/3x power amps
CD wallet
2x small socket sets
Jump leads
towropes
load straps/bungees
2x toolboxes
various spare parts
bulb kit
emergency fuel can
power inverter
trailer board
roof bars
blue light
fire kit/dayglo jacket
photo/video kit/laptop
tripods
hard hats
boots

usual state of boot as pictured

glovebox contains usual handbooks etc
tyre guage
tread depth guage
sunglasses
spare payg mobile with cig lighter power adaptor
IR remote for head unit

door pockets - various maps/notebooks etc

back seat -

child seat
toy steering wheel/dashboard
small selection of toys for Harris to play with

 

[st4]

Ipod
Road Angel
Garmin Sat nav
Sweets in door pocket
Cables for the above gadgtes
A cigar in the back
de-icer spray
overnight back with a change of clothes
A douvet
the cars old regi plates??
old work training notes-dunno why not chucked them
some cd's
sun glasses in the store box under the seat
mb bumph like handbook and service book
a roll of selotape
an old note pad when the old gf doodled on it

 

[wemorgan]

this morning but not always:

1 suitcase - work clothes for the week
1 rucksack -walking boots and clothes
sleeping bag & bottle of water - in case of bad weather
spare wiper blade
spare fuses
first aid kit
warning triangle

 

[Howard]

I keep my car empty.

In the boot ( spare wheel well ) :-

Pump
Little tool kit
Roll of gaffer tape
Spare headlight / brake / indicator bulbs
Tow rope
LED torch


In the boot ( RH well ) :-

Hand towel
Map book
Spare oil
Spare screenwash

In car :-

CD wallet
De-icer
Scraper

Thats about it .... i hate having loads of crap rattling about in the car ...

 

[whitenemesis]

In the Glove box -
Spare glasses
MB handbook wallet
Space Blanket
Multi-tool
Whistle
Compass
Mints
iPod
Microfibre colth

In LH rear cubby -
Umbrella
Tesco Bag for Life
MB Screen wash

Under the load floor -
Blanket

 

[CE230]

Boot full of crutches, gloves, hi-viz coat, pump, cleaning bits and bobs, carrier bags.
Inside; more gloves, sunglasses, mints, water, flash drive for music, CD case, pens, notebook in leather holder, scrapers and more I think.

 

[MangoMan]

USB Dongle (Music).
Umbrella.
Putter.

That's about it.....


Oh, tyre pressure guage.

 

[trando]

In the glove box - tissues, ipod, pen, paper

In the drivers door pocket - sunglasses

In armrest cubby - leatherman, loose change, mints, office security pass, phone charger

Boot - empty

That's it!

There isn't enough space to list the items in my wife's car...

 

[Satch]

In car:

Satnav stuff
A few CD's
Mints
Loose change
Torch
Tissues
Pen
Compact Map book

In loadspace side net:
De-icer
Ice scraper

Under boot floor

Footpump
Small toolkit
HiVis jacket
Towrope

Depending where I am off to and in what (i.e not Waitrose car park....) an old Bergen containing

Bottled Water
Choccy muchies
3x RatPacks
Hexi stove
Firesteel
Folding shovel
Leatherman
Waterproofs
All seasons sleeping bag
Bivvi bag
Tarp
Paracord
Glowsticks
Wind up torch
LED beacon/strobe
Compass
Battery booster for phone

Mrs S. used to snigger at that lot until the happy day when thanks to a landslip we spent 36 hours stranded in a very cold and isolated spot. Another few hours and it could have turned very ugly indeed: the chocolate had nearly gone.....

 

[KillerHERTZ]

In car:

-1st Gen iPod Nano
-High Vis Jacket
-Sockett Set
-1ltr bottle of Mobil1
-LED Clockwork torch
-Insurance details card
-Pen
-Car Shampoo

The most ive had in the car:
-Front and Rear W202 bumpers + 2x sideskirts

And another time:

Double bed mattress - both not bad considering I dont have fold down rear seats

 

[gina2201]

My car is empty except of the usual standard equipment, partly due to me cleaning it out yesterday! Oh it's so nice having clean mats and empty door cards! I need to travel as light as possible in order to get the best mpg I can!

Previous to this it tends to accumulate wellies, scarves, jumpers, gloves coats, rubbish, letters, keys, small change.....
And last week it had a snow shovel, tow rope, buckets, tools!

Just need to clean the outside now, but is there much point?!

 

[Mactech]

I wonder if the amount of stuff we carry refects our motoring experience or the fact that we are tidy/untidy people?
I tend not to carry any more than I would carry on the motorbike if I'm on my own. But then in 30 years and over half a million miles I have never got stuck or broken down. Odd delays in traffic, the injectors on the Vito have given a few worrying moments and a puncture in 1999 but other than that I tend to travel light. Maybe it just reflects my experience.

 

[st13phil]

It never fails to amaze me how much clutter many people carry in their car, often "just in case". Regarding tools & emergency equipment, the reality is that there is a very limited amount that you can do to "fix" a modern car at the roadside, so I carry only what I could reasonably expect to benefit from. As far as carrying other stuff goes, I have the bare minimum. Contents of my W204 today:

RH Door Card:

Glasses
Sunglasses
Clean Duster

LH Door Card:

Owner's Manual

Centre storage bin:

Ice scraper / Squeegy
Tyre Pressure Guage

Glovebox:

Torch
Mobile Phone Charger
Glovebox Atlas

Boot:

Standard toolkit, incl Spare Wheel
Locking Wheelbolt Key
Standard First-Aid Kit
About a dozen Polythene Gloves knicked from the local petrol station on the one day they had any at the pumps
Shovel (snow conditions only)
Wellies (snow conditions only)

 

[st4]

I wonder if the amount of stuff we carry refects our motoring experience or the fact that we are tidy/untidy people?
I tend not to carry any more than I would carry on the motorbike if I'm on my own. But then in 30 years and over half a million miles I have never got stuck or broken down. Odd delays in traffic, the injectors on the Vito have given a few worrying moments and a puncture in 1999 but other than that I tend to travel light. Maybe it just reflects my experience.

I'm just messy, and its a big car and just me in it, stuff just finds its way into it

 

[Mr E]

Nothing at the mo as it's currently sitting in the paint bay (due back Wednesday)....

Up front:

Glovebox - manual, tissues.

Glasses cubby thing - pens, pencils,

Door pockets - CDs, sunglasses

Centre Pocket - security pass, sunglasses, mints, receipts to claim

Centre cubby - more receipts, more mints

Seat pockets - all kinds of rubbish from the kids


Boot area - depends on who's driving and what's happening....but always a holdall under the floor with spare bulbs, second first-aid kit, etc.

Gigging - if more than 1 gig in the week then the combo and 4u rack stay in, plus mike stand, music stand and holdall with foot pedals, cables, etc.

On call for first-response - blue lights to clip onto the bars, de-frib, med-pack.

Mrs E - shopping bags

 

[219]

A lot of the stuff I carry is for work as I do have to tote around a fair amount of equipment/PPE . As far as tools/emergency equipment : I can do quite a lot to my car if it were to break down - which it hasn't as I maintain it myself . I do quite often stop and help people if I see them in trouble by the roadside - I have towed people to safety if broken down in a dangerous spot , given petrol to those who have run out , extinguished an underbonnet fire in an Audi with the helpless young man looking on , then disconnected his battery , changed wheels for lone women/elderly motorists who were incapable of doing it themselves - I seem to find myself helping someone out two or three times a year .