I ask this question, since I have just remembered that the tin-opener, which I have been looking for, off and on, for some weeks, has just turned up in the car's cubby hole. It was accompanied by a pair of opera-glasses, some ears of wheat, a few car-park tickets, some old moorland sheep's bones, and some things that really shouldn'tve been there.
So, what's in yours?
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Cubby plugs. Made for the job.
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Had a recent tidy up - Glove boxes - Insurance certificate as the Skoda didn't appear on the MID database when we went away. Manual minus service book and audio manual encased in a BMW Service book holder. Odd looking cup type ash tray, small change for car-park machines (not so small change for the expensive Cumbrian ones). A little chamois pad for clearing windscreen when in a hurry. A used Double Decker wrapper in door pocket and a SIM card for an US network (!). A SIG bottle full of water in the net between the seats (for the dogs). Rear cubbies:- A small rucksack for doggy clear ups, youngster was prone to car sickness when we first had him. Robert Winstone's Story of God - for boring afternoons in Court. Boot area cubbies :- Spare dog leash, drinking bowl for the dog - adaptors for the electrical multiplug - a de-commissioned Police Hi Viz jacket (gift from a Cop) and a BMW Warning Triangle. Front Passenger seat cubby - A very comprehensive First Aid Kit from my last BMW......
Edited by Pugugly on 19/09/2008 at 00:36
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Service book
Glasses case
Millions of different cables that all end in a cigarette lighter socket. Had to buy a 4-way extension to accommodate them all and that's also in there. Phone cable x 2, ipod cable, satnav cable, dvd player cable.
The original cigarette lighter.
Bits of things that have broken off the car over the years. (A funny shaped piece of plastic, a round rubbery thing etc...)
Couple of pens.
A selection of "invitations" for the company of various local ladies which always get left under the wipers when I park in Warsaw. Can't bear to throw them away. Just in case.
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As per the above or variations of but to include fishing lures (with hook protectors on them!) and tinyurl.com/4vtpl3 Checked and verified by the police as legal to carry and use but strictly for self defence reasons only.
These (two in each car) went in after a 'incident' some months ago that was aimed towards my partner when she was travelling on her own.
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An emergency wire coat hanger the solution to many a motoring problem.
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This gave me something to do while waiting to collect son. Working round the car from the passenger door:
Handbook folder;
First aid kit. small tool kit, bits from roof where the roof rack is now fitted;
Leads, towel, poo bags, training treats, water bowl and bottle of water, some dog toys, ball and ball launcher all tucked around the dog cage:
Collection of bags for shopping.
Hi-Viz top, spare reading glasses, emery board, pen and sticky notes;
Sunglasses, gym key and card, asthma inhaler, £1 for trolley/locker or phone if needed;
Various car phone chargers, window chamois;
Mint Imperials, nice lemon travel sweets from Lidl, prescription repeat forms, disposable camera, Radar loo key, tissues and travel wipes, some lip gloss, sellotape, knife and whistle for when safety boat crew - not usually left there, reel of cord for running repairs to rigging;
Locking nuts and sat nav discs
Finally, in the ashtray there is a pin (for re-directing window squirters), a St Christopher medal given by a garage many moons ago and, no idea how or why, a small fish filled with soy sauce, a spare key for the padlock on the dog cage.
Seems a lot, written down, but all useful to us.
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Reminded me:-
3 jute bags from a well known supermarket.
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Reminders are good ;-)
Just realised the torch appears to have gone walkabout .... again. As have the jump leads I had in there (public minded, huh?).
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New addition - A parking disc for use in Yarm and other pettifogging places where they can't read an A4 sized sheet of paper with 2" high felt pen writing on it placed on the dash top saying "Parked at 10.21AM" and where they give you a £50 ticket instead...........carphounds.
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It's a place near Middlesborough where they can't read.
Edited by Humph Backbridge on 19/09/2008 at 21:36
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It's the long bit that's joined to yer hand.
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No - A Y'arm (for its correct spelling) is Y'arm going... in Yorkshire!
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Glovebox
A pair of latex gloves, small map of Calais, instruction book for a walkman, tire tread depth gauge. Paracetamol.
Door pockets,
packet of tissues
Tyre well,
Several pairs of latex gloves along with full size spare and jack.
Under seats,
Electric tyre pump, high visibility jackets.
Behind seats - against load bay wall
Maps of UK and France
Secret` compartment,
spare clutch slave cylinder, repair kit for wiper linkages, spare bulbs, code reader, latex gloves.
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Did I mention latex gloves? Bet you can`t guess why the car is saturated with them ;)
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Vaguely on topic; I was amused to read that Ford originally designed a second "glovebox" into the new Fiesta just below the radio,etc., controls, but it turned out to be so long and shallow that only small hands could retrieve things from inside it. Now has a blanking plate.
Would have been ideal for Backroomers with latex gloves!
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>...a small fish filled with soy sauce...
I can help with this one. If you buy one of those disappointing sushi-for-one pre-packs from a supermarket in the hope that it will make a change from a sandwich, part of the kit is a small plastic fish filled with soy sauce. I have yet to find an alternative use - motoring-related or otherwise - for it. Even the recycling people don't want it.
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