Tool Kit

[mike.perry]

Band-aids are a useful thing for when the car bites.

True - but that comes under First Aid Box

[StaffsMoggie]

Its well worth carrying a small trolley jack, make a wooden box to carry it in and fix it in the boot. All the usual tools everyones listed and a few spares, plugs, points, cap, leads, rotor arm, condenser and a spare fuel pump is a good idea..

[britab1967]

Don't forget some strong string, very handy for when the wipers give up in heavy rain on the way to the national , or when the fool putting things back together puts the wires on back to front on the wiper motor and you blow the fuse in heavy rain - without a spare

So, there's another - Fuses, although thats a spare not a tool.

Brian

[paulk]

Baby wipes are a nice cheap thing to clean your hands after an unscheduled stop.

[aupickup]

for everyday use i dont really carry anything except spare fuses, spare bulbs and a couple of screwdrivers

on the mot i took some spanners and a coil

but allways carry the rac card

[d_harris]

Theres always a tool behind the wheel in my car

Seriously though, I have a few lengths of wire, a snipe nose mole grip, a few screwdrivers, jack & wheelbrace and RAC card

[David53]

All good suggestions I'm sure once I've had a few really long trips I'll start to relax! I have ordered my tool roll and will put a good little tool kit together, plus a selection of vital spares and bits and pieces.

I remember many years ago when I had my first Morrie (I was 17) she died on a motorway and would not start at all. it was only after much head scratching I realised that I had neglected to tighten the distributor bolts enough, and the whole thing had spun around and was now totally out of whack. Lesson being, that if anything is going to go wrong it will probably be something I've done!

[d_harris]

Oh yeah, forgot to add, I have a small socket set in the car too...

[ani]

and, of course, something really nice to put it all in


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