Roadside Repair Kit?

[Hipster]

Not much tools just a few things that were required if you were on the beach and DNR inspected you. A 2x6 2 foot long , jack, tow strap, a camp or similar shovel, a decent first aid kit, jumper cables. There's usually a hoodie and tie down floating around.

No too big on roadside repairs with cars going by at 70 mph although I've done some ridiculous scrounge up macgyver type crap to get my ass home on a couple occasions.

 

[Hipster]

This is when I found out that my friend Pat always kept cans of emergency Spam and beans under the front seat of his Nissan truck.
We had Spam and beans for breakfast and it was awesome.
R.I.P. Pat

Brought back a memory for me here. My father used to transfer this tool box from vehicle to vehicle for the longest time when I was young. Never thought much of it because I was messing with his tools in the garage. I came across it one day in the garage I don't know how many years later and opened it. It contained 2 cans of spaghetti o's, a military can opener, a spoon, a pair of underwear, and a 3 pack of new and unopened handkerchiefs.

Idk, I was thinking why spaghetti o's if they don't agree with you. lol

My grandmother was always with the "better have clean underwear on if you end up at the hospital." She may have packed it.

 

[thinger2]

Brought back a memory for me here. My father used to transfer this tool box from vehicle to vehicle for the longest time when I was young. Never thought much of it because I was messing with his tools in the garage. I came across it one day in the garage I don't know how many years later and opened it. It contained 2 cans of spaghetti o's, a military can opener, a spoon, a pair of underwear, and a 3 pack of new and unopened handkerchiefs.

Idk, I was thinking why spaghetti o's if they don't agree with you. lol

My grandmother was always with the "better have clean underwear on if you end up at the hospital." She may have packed it.

That is awesome. Years ago I flew back to Seattle from Phoenix to go skiing.
I borrowed my brothers 79 Bronco.
Before I moved to Arizona, I loaded up his truck with a bunch of tools
( Hes not mechanically inclined at all)
When I was driving it down a pretty remote forrest service road, the left hub unlocked and spun the truck into a snowbank that pretty much avalanched onto the roof of the truck.
Had to go out the back window.
No problem right? got a bunch of tools and a folding shovel..
I opened the box..
He had cleaned it out and left a garden trowel and an INXS cd.
I dug that thing out with a friggen garden trowel
It only took most of my youth to do it

 

[Hipster]

That is awesome. Years ago I flew back to Seattle from Phoenix to go skiing.
I borrowed my brothers 79 Bronco.
Before I moved to Arizona, I loaded up his truck with a bunch of tools
( Hes not mechanically inclined at all)
When I was driving it down a pretty remote forrest service road, the left hub unlocked and spun the truck into a snowbank that pretty much avalanched onto the roof of the truck.
Had to go out the back window.
No problem right? got a bunch of tools and a folding shovel..
I opened the box..
He had cleaned it out and left a garden trowel and an INXS cd.
I dug that thing out with a friggen garden trowel
It only took most of my youth to do it

LOL

 

[Schurkey]

I like living in the south and not having to deal with this kind of stuff! But y'all northern folks are used to it I guess....

Every winter, we gotta read about folks who got frozen to death in their cars, or worse--frozen to death trying to walk to the nearest farmhouse.

There was a time that I carried an in-car "survival kit", the main item being an 8x10 foil pan filled with wax and wicks, essentially a huge candle with a dozen flames. I've probably still got one or two of them...somewhere. As I recall, they didn't come with matches to light them. How silly. The "candle" would also work for melting snow to get drinking water. Last thing you want to do is to eat snow--using body heat to melt it dramatically drops your core temperature.

In my youth, I drove a '69 Impala through storms that they close the highway for, today. Getting stranded in a ditch was just an accepted risk, which I tried to mitigate with FOUR studded snow tires and some in-car supplies.

Now I just stay home. My emergency supplies consist of firewood and canned food. Which reminds me--I gotta figure out why the Generator engine won't run. And stock-up on gasoline.

 

[thinger2]

Yep, it happens. I remember a case in Northern Arizona where two girls drove down a forrest road and got stuck.
The plow came down the highway and piled up the snow so deep nobody even realized that a road was there.
They didnt make it.
In another case, a couple and their kids drove out into the Superstitions and got stuck
They tried to walk out with half a bottle of Mountain Dew and a Snickers bar.
They didnt make it either.
On the other hand, when I bought my house in Denver, my ex decided to clean the bathtub in our rental by coating it with a layer of Mcguires super glaze.
I slipped in the tub and damn near died and spent several months in a neck brace and had to relearn how to walk.
Bullshit.
If you have the choice between safety and adventure pick the adventure every damn time.
We all gotta go sooner or later.
We just dont have to go out friggen boring as hell

 

[Frank Enstein]

Jumper cables, High lift jack, Folding emergency shovel, factory tire change kit, Starting fluid, 1 gal coolant, 2 qts. oil, Rolled up cargo mat from a random Suburban, a sweatshirt, a bath towel, 2 blankets, Tow chain, recovery strap, the old serpentine belt (and the length printed on the core support), Stripper/crimpers, Ratchet straps, electrical tool box with fuses, wire, test light, crimp connectors, cheap DVOM, electrical tape, heat shrink tubing, 2 lighters, and a tool box with ratchets, sockets, extensions, various pliers, large hammer, large prybar, 4 way screwdriver, a bunch of torx and nut driver bits, tire plugging kit, cheap air compressor, fix-a-flat, duct tape, silicone emergency tape, a handful of bungie cords, several pair of gloves, and anything else I can pound in there.

 

[thinger2]

Yep, it happens. I remember a case in Northern Arizona where two girls drove down a forrest road and got stuck.
The plow came down the highway and piled up the snow so deep nobody even realized that a road was there.
They didnt make it.
In another case, a couple and their kids drove out into the Superstitions and got stuck
They tried to walk out with half a bottle of Mountain Dew and a Snickers bar.
They didnt make it either.
On the other hand, when I bought my house in Denver, my ex decided to clean the bathtub in our rental by coating it with a layer of Mcguires super glaze.
I slipped in the tub and damn near died and spent several months in a neck brace and had to relearn how to walk.
Bullshit.
If you have the choice between safety and adventure pick the adventure every damn time.
We all gotta go sooner or later.
We just dont have to go out friggen boring as hell

 

[Hipster]

That is awesome. Years ago I flew back to Seattle from Phoenix to go skiing.
I borrowed my brothers 79 Bronco.
Before I moved to Arizona, I loaded up his truck with a bunch of tools
( Hes not mechanically inclined at all)
When I was driving it down a pretty remote forrest service road, the left hub unlocked and spun the truck into a snowbank that pretty much avalanched onto the roof of the truck.
Had to go out the back window.
No problem right? got a bunch of tools and a folding shovel..
I opened the box..
He had cleaned it out and left a garden trowel and an INXS cd.
I dug that thing out with a friggen garden trowel
It only took most of my youth to do it

Christmas eve 1988 17 y/o in my Dad's hand me down 77 Dodge van I decide to go to my Aunt's for dinner 1.5 hours away and stayed to shortly after midnight so I could be home in the Am with the other side of the family. 30 minutes or so into the return trip a vibration starts. I slow from highway speeds to 30 or so and get a few more miles before the driveshaft drops. So I'm sitting on the Garden State Parkway in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve. I haven't seen a single car since I left my aunt's house. I'm in the middle of the Jersey pine barrens with the next exit umpteen miles away, and I'm not all high tech with a CB to call out a mayday. I sat for a bit and then climbed under the van. The u joint was on the diff , shaft on the ground, and the caps awol. Decide to root through the van. There was always crap in it from running back and forth to the marina and there was. I was digging. I found a hose clamp, and another hose clamp somewhere else, a partial set of some kmart type socket set in a case, and a roll of duct tape with about 3 wraps left on it that was hiding behind the spare tire. Stuck the truck in neutral worked the driveshaft back on, tapped in 2 sockets for caps with some random iron piece I came up with, a few wraps of duct tape, crisscrossed the 2 hose clamps over the top of this moose knuckle of a mess, and drove 2mph shaking and vibrating like hell the rest of the way home. It was well after daybreak by time I got home.

 

[HotWheelsBurban]

Every winter, we gotta read about folks who got frozen to death in their cars, or worse--frozen to death trying to walk to the nearest farmhouse.

There was a time that I carried an in-car "survival kit", the main item being an 8x10 foil pan filled with wax and wicks, essentially a huge candle with a dozen flames. I've probably still got one or two of them...somewhere. As I recall, they didn't come with matches to light them. How silly. The "candle" would also work for melting snow to get drinking water. Last thing you want to do is to eat snow--using body heat to melt it dramatically drops your core temperature.

In my youth, I drove a '69 Impala through storms that they close the highway for, today. Getting stranded in a ditch was just an accepted risk, which I tried to mitigate with FOUR studded snow tires and some in-car supplies.

Now I just stay home. My emergency supplies consist of firewood and canned food. Which reminds me--I gotta figure out why the Generator engine won't run. And stock-up on gasoline.

Yep, that's like every time we have a bunch of rain here in greater Houston and it floods. There's always somebody who goes into water not realizing how deep it is and how little water will float your car. They're found when the water goes down...too late to do any good. Lots of underpasses here have flood gates, but not all of them. I've had to explain why the local media harps on this so much to out of town friends.