10 Essential Items for Every Car's Glovebox

I thought this was a neat article...

Mike

Glovebox Essentials - Gear Patrol

 

Interesting, but the CRKT Zilla tool is a piece of junk. Bought one years ago for ~15 bucks. Someone's just trying to get a few bucks from amazon referral codes.

 

I'm not sure those 'exact' items would be best, but quality items that do the same thing, I think, would be a great idea.

Mike

 

I agree.

still, I have something similar to 8 of those items in my car. so not a bad list

 

Every time I've tried to use a flashlight from my glove box, the batteries were dead.
So now I carry a LED flashlight with a built-in hand crank to charge it.

I'm glad to see that someone thought of putting ... gloves ... in a glovebox.

 

Pretty good, how about #11, the addition of a little pepper spray?

 

Latex gloves. You know... just in case.

 

Uro? Is that you?

 

Never know when you'll need to do an unexpected proctological exam...

Just sayin'



Mike

 

No condoms?
No panties?

 

Obviously either a gross oversight, or the list is actually for either a station wagon or Subaru glovebox.

Mike

 

My car didn't come with a glovebox.

 

is your boxster a 986? my 996 has no glovebox, I always found that an odd design choice by Porsche.

 

The glovebox in my 458 is so small that it won't even hold the manual. This stuff just isn't going to fit.

 

I'm not sure it would all fit in the glovebox of most 1/2-ton pickups.

 

Yup.

 

Once I got to belkin car charger I realized its for sponsors of some kind. If it weren't then it would just say car charger.

 

First time I got a 986, I tried to open airbag lol.

 

Were you successful?

 

Viagra? For the vintage cars.

 

No Fortunately it was secured pretty well. But once, driven by gut feeling, I ripped off a plate on the back of Mercedes seat thinking that it is a drawer lol

 

Another option to consider is a "flashlight app" for your iPhone or Android phone.
Most a free apps and use the camera flash feature on the phone as a flashlight.
Eats up the battery charge on the phone but it does make a nice flashlight when you only need on for a few minutes.

Here's some info on one for the iPhone:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flashlight-o/id381471023?mt=8

Also, I used to carry a small point-and-shoot digital camera in the glovebox before I started using my iPhone camera instead.
A camera of some type is very helpful if you get into an accident or need to capture some evidence for any other purpose.
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You need a dash cam if you are worried about documenting a potential accident. The article for this thread had one good tip for a smartphone, though: take photos of the insurance/registration documents on your phone and keep them there, just in case.

 

Priorities do change..................here are ten things that the average kid has in his glove box these days
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+ Definitely

Anything could happen at anytime. Take a pic. I believe the USA adopt the Russian culture of on-board DVR cameras.