My glove box lid jammed the other week. No fault of the design, simply a function of the amount of stuuf crammed into it. Having lightened the load it works perfectly again. On the basis that at some point I must have decided that it was vital to store all this stuff in the car I tried to figure out why some of it was there in the first place. Less justifiable items included the following.......
Quite a lot of nicotine chewing gum ( hasn't worked yet :-( )
A bicycle puncture repair kit ( must have been there since last Summers holiday )
A pack of business cards (for a company I did some temporary work for three years ago)
Some old fuel receipts ( my goodness it used to be cheap ! )
A remote control for my Tom Tom ( hadn't remembered it had one )
Some replacement bulbs ( for my old car )
A tyre depth gauge ( why would I feel the urgent need to stop and check that mid-journey? )
A glove ( so where's the other one ?)
House keys ( old house )
Mobile phone charger cord ( old phone )
Some strimmer cable ( eh ?)
A torch ( flat battery which had leaked )
Security pass for a French campsite circa 2006
A broken bungee and some string
Curious to know what items others feel obliged to transport for no logical reason.
Edited by Shoespy on 19/06/2008 at 10:36
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A glove ( so where's the other one ?)
well it is a 'GLOVE' box not a pair of gloves box
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Abroad, used to have a 9mm Browning automatic but the British police don't much care for that.
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Tape player (it is a Mondeo, so to play old tapes have to connect via aux jack in glove box),
Tapes and cases all mixed
A first aid kit
stuff the wife has put in there and forgot about.
Couple of CDs.
Cheap sunglasses now scratched due to all stuff in glovebox.
Birthday cards I bought and forgot to take out of car.
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Mine must be due a clearout - I can't see the light coming on for all the Cds in there.
Contents : cds, a 'lifehammer', ice scraper, torch, cereal bar and lots of maps printed from Multimap for journeys long since completed!
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This has prompted me to empty mine. Here goes:
A corkscrew,
Garden twine,
Several screws,
5 empty disposable lighters,
McDonalds straws,
A tyre depth gauge (you're not alone Shoespy),
8p in coppers,
A spoon,
Hair scrunchies (not mine)
If anyone can suggest any possible motoring related uses for this bric-a-brac........
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Oh yes, and a catalogue and price list for the Alfa 159 Sportwagon. ( Well I can dream )
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Oh yes and a catalogue and price list for the Alfa 159 Sportwagon. ( Well I can dream )
You'll definitely have to clear out your glove box if you get an Alfa - they're tiny!
In my 156 glove box I have:
40GB USB hard-drive which is connected to the stereo
Two 'car share' parking permits
charger cable for phone
charger cable for Tom Tom
traffic aerial for Tom Tom
Windscreen mount for Tom Tom
That's about it, and it's full to the brim.
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36p in change
a pair of sunglasses
the facia from my stereo and my MP3 player (oops)
various pay and display tickets
an old air freshener
some assorted crumbs and dust
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sadly only the nut thing they ask me for everytime i go to the garage. dont know what its called.....
.... has that shown my complete lack of knowledge?
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A rather dim 'ever ready' torch.
A biro pen to write my milege on my petrol reciepts.
1 condensation pad which doesn't get used at all now.
My ipod when im on the go, which obviously is taken out when im not.
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Glove box:
Gloves
Key bolt for locking wheels
Tyre pressure guage with tyre depth guage
Phone charger, and USB adapter for cigarette lighter.
Small pocket umbrella.
Torch.
Cubby holes
2 Hi Viz jackets in bins under door armrests (bought one, then got one free from Renault)
Sunglasses, 2-3 pairs that use (depending on light/ mood) and some older ones that need to be sorted.
Passanger side various bits of paper, wrappers and rubbish wife has finished with and left for me to clean up.
Rear Child on Board/ Baby on board sign (only use them on long distance trips with the kids in the car), various stick on sun blinds.
Parcel shelf.
Golf umbrella
Road Map
Reflective sun blind for windscreen.
Not going to bother with my wifes car, as is a dumping ground for her and the kids. Clean it out every couple of months, but within a week there are various toys, socks, shoes etc strewn in cubby holes, dash, floor.
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In door pockets, ash tray, armrest and glove box:
Two lip salve sticks
box of tissues
spare house keys
plastic cup
four hotel group guides
2008 Michelin guide
phone charger cord
two pens
one parking disc for towns with free timed parking
one small digital camera
one fold-up shopping bag
collection of parking tickets from all over Europe (in ash tray...)
prescription sunglasses
string-back gloves
little purse with 'Blue Elephant' car wash tokens (sad, sad, sad)
paint touch-up stick
tube of superglue
paperclip(?)
On back seat:
Readers' Digest road atlas
Blue Guide to France
Small umbrella
In boot: car handbook and documents (have to be carried in the car in France)
Selection of plastic shopping bags (you don't get them in supermarkets any more here)
Miniature multi-meter
Golf umbrella
duster
In spare wheel well:
jump leads
bulb kit
reflective jacket
two warning triangles
toolkit
holder for front of cd player
click luggage straps
small bottle of coolant fluid.
The amazing thing is, it's all stowed neatly so almost none of it is visible, none of it is junk, except the memento parking tickets - and the car still does 33mpg...
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im dissapointed with the cubby space on my new mitsuibushi colt with the handbook (which resembles War and Peace in size) in the glove compartment theres no space for anything else and the car has no other storage areas other then the boot which disappears rapidly and becomes next to inaccessible with the roof down......but that said it does make me keep the car tidier then any other car i have ever owned
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I keep the glove box tidy (tidier than the rest of the car) as its quite small and I hate it when you try and remove something and 10 other things fall out.
For this reason the TomTom charging lead lives in the passenger seat back pocket. Sunglasses go in the arm rest. Car handbook folder sits on my desk in the office.
Unnecessary items - in a rear door pocket I have a key ring made from a piece of stag antler with no keys on it (was my grandads, theres not really anywhere else to put it). 3 or 4 redundant A-Zs in one of the seat back pockets.
Back seat currently has a book on Peak District Aircraft Wrecks, under several jumpers and a coat.
As with Saltrampen the dashboard has a tape player in it which in 3.5 years has had about 10 seconds of music played on it, "to try it out".
Edited by Rich 9-3 on 20/06/2008 at 14:24
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We Berlingo drivers don't respond to such threads because
a) we don't have the time to check all the various boxes and cubbies, let alone write down the contents, and
b) you wouldn't have the time to read the volumes that we would write.
;-)
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James May says ........... tinyurl.com/5j6p5s
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pack of 10 disposable razors
anti motion sickness wrist bands
ipod thing that sends a signal to radio
torch
upholstery cleaner
dashboard cleaner
cloth
A-Z
Old sunglasses
old collection notes from warehouse
empty bag of sweets
selotape
electircal taps
8 tapes
handsfree
remote for my tomtom
pencil pressure gauge
electric tyre pump
spare bulbs
fire extinguisher
oil
water
window scraper
few pencils and pens
and also found a chip and a grape but they have been removed.
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Forgot to mention:
tube of hand cream
mini French-English dictionary
selection of little sweeties taken from hotel reception counters in case of sugar deficiency around 5pm
empty key ring with blood group on it
mini tape measure.
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Draper wiper arm removal tool.
Allen key for adjusting headlights.
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