What do keep in your vehicle and where?

[wurm]

Random thought as a follow up to my wheel lock question. I'm trying to keep things tidy in my new vehicle; at least more so than I did with the old. I have a glove compartment (with a gigantic Owners' Manual taking up room), a medium sized center console storage compartment, doorside pockets, and a small tray area in front of the console. I'm looking for a container of sorts (duffle bag?) to keep in the area around the spare tire (pic below). I'd love to hear suggestions for that. But again, I don't want to keep crap I don't really need.

Jumper cables? We have AAA.
Tire inflator? maybe, but I could be talked out of it.
Jug of washer fluid? Plan better and keep reservoir full before traveling.
Tool kit? Probably worth keeping handy.
A rag or two? Sure, I can stuff them anywhere.
Umbrella? can probably go in a door pocket.

So what do you keep handy in your vehicle that takes up room, but that you really wouldn't feel comfortable doing without?

[modelamac]

Golf clubs, iDevice charging cables, napkins, small accordion-type waste basket, small umbrella, sunglasses, owner's manual, maintenance receipts. When I had older vehicles, I would keep spare light bulbs in the glove compartment, jumper cables, and a quart of oil.

[jdc]

we kinda discussed before: https://forums.macresource.com/read.php?...sg-2556660

For me: portable jump charger, a few tie down straps, gloves, small socket set, multi-headed screwdriver, window breaker/seatbelt tool and a couple of space blankets. Easier to fit now that I stopped carrying jumper cables/

[NewtonMP2100]

.....contrary to what you have heard......no body in my trunk.....

[lost in space]

I gave up on jumper cables when I read that the car jumping from can incur damage to the charging system, some kind of sudden inductive load or something like that. So we got AAA too.

Bottles of water during warm months, refreshed weekly, in the big center console compartment.

Roll of paper towels, partial, back door pockets.

Pencils, pens, sticky notes, in the console.

Hand sanitizer, console, though it could be leaving soon.

[Lux Interior]

Blankets, hachet, NOCO jump bank, cowbells.

[Markintosh]

Two of four our vehicles don't even have spares or jacks...

We keep a jump box in our truck as it's 20 years old and gets driven infrequently.

In the winter, we keep window scrapers and a shovel in each car, as well as gloves, a blanket, and a spare jacket.

Each car has a lightning cable or two. Since COVID, each car has some paper masks and sanitizing wipes. We try to keep a spare pair of sunglasses and reading glasses in each vehicle too.

[SDGuy]

car came with a cheerio spare tire with jack and lugnut wrench
Going from memory, I've added:
In the trunk:
- first aid kit
- valve tool & cores
- valve caps
- work gloves
- rope
- screwdrivers, socket set, pliers
- emergency rations and Life Straw filter
- jumpstarter/air compressor
- electrical tape
- jacket and spare set of clothes & underwear, shoes

In the passenger compartment:
- travel kleenex pack
- a few folded up paper towels
- garage door opener (with a spare battery)
- dynamo-powered flashlight
- maps covering the local and nearby areas (San Diego/Orange/Los Angeles Counties)
- owner's manual for the car
- small clipboard with pad of paper
- checklist on what to do in case of accident
- 2 to 3 writing implements
- film canister about halfway filled with quarters (leftover from when parking meters required them)
- small bottle of hand sanitizer
- ice scraper
- Element fire extinguisher
- Tide to Go Pen
- Trident mint gum (foil blister pack)
- collapsible umbrella

Thinking a bit, I should add a P-38 can opener as well, and a few utensils.

[sekker]

In MN, we keep a winter car kit. Used to include flashlight and batteries, but that's replaced by our iPhones.

We have jumper cables - to help others more than anything - and now a portable flash charger.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Flashlight, portable jump pack (flashlight semi-redundant), leather gloves, first aid, space blanket. Currently have run-flat tires with a factory goo-injector but considering a mini spare, jack, wrench, and flares. Car manual on phone.