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A curry hook
www.curryhook.co.uk/hooks.htm
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Always wanted a decent wastepaper basket to stop the door bins filling up with bits of paper and other garbage. Never seen a car with one, never seen one for sale anywhere. Design would pose some challenges.
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Always wanted a decent wastepaper basket to stop the door bins filling up with bits of paper and other garbage. Never seen a car with one, never seen one for sale anywhere. Design would pose some challenges.
It's called the "rear passenger footwells". A feature provided by Nissan in SWMBO's Almera. Peugeot fitted the same thing in her old 205. You would not believe the amount of carp which ends up in there....
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>> It's called the "rear passenger footwells". A feature provided by Nissan in SWMBO's Almera. Peugeot fitted the same thing in her old 205. You would not believe the amount of carp which ends up in there.... CM
Of course I would. In my car it overflows into the front footwells from the door bins. Too many bottles rolling about down there and they can get under the brake pedal.
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I cleaned my car last weekend and found the following in the rear footwells (I swear I'm not making it up!);
* 9 - yes NINE empty Lucozade bottles
* 5 quid in pound coins
* A Level 42 CD I've been looking for for ages
* The "missing" assignment for before Christmas
* A notepad?!?
* Lip gloss - I have absolutely no idea
I'm eager to clean Mum and Dad's cars now - could make a fortune before getting paid!!!
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>>* A Level 42 CD I've been looking for for ages
I've always suspected that you've had good taste. Which one was it? "World Machine", "A Physical Presence"? Another?
ATB
CM
P.S. Jury is out on the Lip Gloss...
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Level Best! Superb album.
>.P.S. Jury is out on the Lip Gloss...<<
Believe me - I was as puzzled as you.
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Looking at the piccy from the BR meet, He must be a size 18 at least!
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Looking at the piccy from the BR meet, He must be a size 18 at least!
Although I wouldn't know him from Adam if I saw him, I'd always imagined he was Littler!
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Boooo!!!
Get your coat Snaily. Go on!
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And I'll tell you. Having met Adam, I'm simply stunned. Did she have a white stick and a labrador????
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Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
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I knew I shouldn't have said anything!
There's a perfectly logical explanation - just give me 10 minutes.
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I've met several labradors but none that ever wore lip gloss. Must be a Northen thing.
Anyway useful things...I checked out the ash tray thingy before trading in the car and it contained a partially used pack of chewy Rennies, an UV marker pen neither of which I have ever used.
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And I'll tell you. Having met Adam, I'm simply stunned. Did she have a white stick and a labrador???? -- Espada III - well if you have a family and need a Lamborghini, what else do you drive?
Lol! :-)
As for me, a selection of assorted bottles, McDonalds bags, a scarf that will probably lie there until July and a Hamburger style CD holder.
What I should be carrying which I've never got around to replacing is a disposable camera. I used it once after I was hit by a taxi, it undoubtedly saved me a lot of aggro from the guy but I still haven't got around to buying a new one, will make that a job for this week.
Blue
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"A Physical Presence" is a must - shame they cut it to shreds on the CD version. One reason to keep a turntable handy.
"Level Best" is not a bad thing either. For the unitiated (spelling?) it's a good opener to Mr King, his band and his songs. My claim to fame is that I bought a bass guitar from Monkey Business in Romford and got to try it out on the Trace Elliot stack he used in the Ferry Aid video!
Ah, those were the days. I've since been told that I'm too old to get back into the local band scene by SWMBO. As Unlucky Alf would say "Bug*er"
ATB,
CM
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I think you're the first person I've ever "met" who's liked Level 42!
Level Best is one of the rare albums (of any artist) where I like more than 70% of the songs.
We actually have the Level Best cassette (wow - remember them! ;-) when we bought it when it hadn't long been out!
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A great band if ever there was one!
To prevent this thread being pulled through a lack of motoring relevance, I do remember walking down Euston Road towards Kings Cross on my way home from Uni wearing a '42 tour t-shirt. When I headed towards my usual Evening Standard seller, he shouted out "Come in number 42 - your time is up!". Bearing in mind that he was usually three sheets to the wind, I was impressed.
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Must be something in the air. Gave the classic" 3 series a long awaited clean today. Found under the front seat a Level 42 casette "running in the Family" Despite being there for at least 14 years plays perfectly. Copy it over onto an MP3, burn a CD and copy some over onto an ipod - who would have thought ?
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Item 2
A car waste bin
www.care4car.com/productdisplay/productid/6/Car_Wa...l
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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>> Item 2A car waste bin www.care4car.com/productdisplay/productid/6/Car_Wa...l ------------------------------ TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
Thank you TVM, I thought there must be one somewhere. Don't like the look of it though, a bit feminine-hygiene looking for my taste. Never satisfied, are they?
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Waste bin: I use the oddments bin between the front seats. Line it with a freezer bag and it soon fills up with used tissues, chewing gum, apple cores, etc. Easy to chuck out the bag at the end of the trip and stick in a fresh one. I think the bin was actually intended for CDs and stuff like that but it is perfect for a waste bin.
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Item 2 A car waste bin www.care4car.com/productdisplay/productid/6/Car_Wa...l ------------------------------ TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
Or...
a plastic carrier bag, handles around the gear lever. Very cheap (free in fact) and very easy to dispose of.
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I recall my father buying a vinyl bin,with cardboard stiffeners,must have been the 60s.It had suckers to attach it to the vinyl seats.Of course these did not work.
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SWMBO already has one as standard equipment in her Almera!
It's a very good idea though. I wonder whether one would support six bottles of vino from the local Sainburys?
ATB,
CM
P.S. Another handy thing to have in your car is a boot liner. I had a bottle of wine smash (poor packing!) and it saved my sat nav. Best £70 I've ever spent.
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The wife told me that her mother used to keep a large pair of sharp scissors in the glove box in case they had an accident and she needed to cut herself out her seatbelt,until it was pointed out to her that upside down she probably would not be able to reach the glovebox and in the event of a multiple rollover,if the glovebox flew open then they would interesting companions in rather a distressing and exciting event.
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A lifehammer, Less then £10 & you can cut seatbelts & smash windows with it.
Its bright orange with a fluorescent markings & clips in its holder that is attached under my seat within easy reach.
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A lifehammer, Less then £10 & you can cut seatbelts & smash windows with it. Its bright orange with a fluorescent markings & clips in its holder that is attached under my seat within easy reach.
thought you would have had a still saw lee :)
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P.S. Another handy thing to have in your car is a boot liner.
I got one in the £ shop.
I had a bottle of wine smash (poor packing!)
Sainsbury & Waitrose do very cheap padded bags for wine bottles.
and it saved my sat nav.
I now have a image of someone in the boot, soaked in wine calling out directions from a Sat Nav.
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I got one in the £ shop.
This one is fitted and made from sturdy plastic. It has 1" or so high edges going upwards, so it saved the day nicely.
Sainsbury & Waitrose do very cheap padded bags for wine bottles.
They go in the passenger footwell now - once bitten and all that!
>>I now have a image of someone in the boot, soaked in wine calling out directions from a Sat Nav.
From some of the directions she gives me sometimes, I do wonder whether some got in after all...!!
ATB,
CM
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Disposable camera (with a flash).
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Disposable camera (with a flash).
at £1 at a shop with a similar name i bought a load last week just to keep in vehicles i use,someone posted on here a few weeks ago about them and it stuck in my mind.
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Seconded, along with Life Hammer.
ATB,
CM
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Torch.
CRV has curry hooks as standard.
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Roll of tinfoil to wrap around my head and stop Galileo satellites reading my thoughts.
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Lol.
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Three bigger, badder step-brothers
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I have torches, camera, laser tape measure (doesn't really count does it?) and a AA and AAA in car battery charger. Very useful that is.
Also, air compressor.
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.>> Roll of tinfoil to wrap around my head and stop Galileosatellites reading my thoughts.
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cant top that said the executioner
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OC defence spray (Oleoresin Capsicum) - not a section 5 firearm as not a noxious substance.
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Pepper Spray. Whoever told you that you might not get locked up for carrying it let alone using it may have spun ou a line.
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4D cell maglite. Usefull in the event of night breakdowns and has come in handy on several ocasions as a club when I have been confronted(once by drunk man in multi story and several times when folowed by road rage types)
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Florescent vest (£1 in shop of name) and torch in door; first aid kit, fire extinguisher, tow rope, triangle warning sign, tyre pressure do-dah, gloves in boot tucked in with spare wheel; chargers for phones (why do we each have different ones?), baby wipes (for birdpoo on paintwork) and chammy in arm rest; Camera, glucose tablets (and chocolate if I am honest)in glove box.
May seem to be overdoing it, but do lots of long journeys far from home often late at night and have used all these things at one time or other.
When driving jalopys in the past, also carried plastic bottle for emergency water.
Husbands contribution? Telescopic fishing rod. Whatever makes him happy!!!
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A fully legal and licensed sawn-off double-barrelled 10-bore loaded with blue whistlers. Just in case I mean.
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Anti bird flu mask for use when driving close to estuaries etc.
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IanS
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Try a spray can of really cheap, really nasty "perfume" instead. Would have a very similar effect if used, and entirely legal to be in posession of.
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White LED Torch
Car charger
Bluetooth headset
Pens and paper
Pro Plus/Ginseng and Bilboa tablets
Rennies
Water
Maps
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Agree with many of above. Also
sunglasses (obviously, but no one has mentioned them, so...)
polo mints
asprins (or paracetamol if you are so inclined)
dental floss
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Forgot what else I have!
Pump
Blanket
Digital tyre gauge
Spare wired handsfree
Rigger gloves
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Glovebox - various CDs, camera, pen
Passenger door pocket - sweets
Drivers door pocket - lots of expired pay and display tickets
Arm rest - change, Swiss army knife, air freshner spray
Centre cupholder - small rechargeable torch (never charged!)
Rear footwell - road atlas
Tray in front of gearstick - sunglasses (his and hers, non matching!)
Cargo net under parcel shelf - Air compressor, de-icer, ice scraper, old Brains beer towel
Boot - oil, umbrella, various hats (all my wife's), six way bungee cord, pack of disposable medical gloves, 12 different beer towels stitched together to make a blanket (took me ages to 'acquire' all those!)
Under boot floor on spare wheel - old coat for site visits and in case of emergency.
So not much that is handy to have in the car!!
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petrol/diesel
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Number one priority - spare glasses...
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"Number one priority - spare glasses..."
My driving glasses only have one arm (wife sat on them cos I leave them on the passenger seat). I have to get them to stay on by wearing a woolly hat and pulling it over them.
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A spare set of batteries for the plip key - the laguna won't start unless the doors have been opend with the plip!! Oh and a screwdriver to change them with.
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A spare set of batteries for the plip key - the laguna won't start unless the doors have been opend with the plip!! Oh and a screwdriver to change them with.
If all these things are in the car how are you going to get them if the battery in the key is dead and the car is locked.
dont know if its handy to have but ive got a spare cambelt that i found in the footwell after the car had been in the garage
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If all these things are in the car how are you going to get them if the battery in the key is dead and the car is locked.
Put the key in the door.
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Jump leads - both our motors are auto...
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doh sorry i got confused didnt think the laguna key worked like that.
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Temporarily not a student, where did the time go???
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An old handbag (ex SWMBO) with various emergency tools in different zipped compartments - mole wrench, screwdrivers, long-nosed pliers, tyre pressure gauge, spare fuses, penknife , insulating tape and similar bits 'n bobs in it.
Chris Muriel, Manchester
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I think members of the back room should drive white vans, given the amount of gear we keep in our cars.
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Cleaned the vans out today:
Fire extinguisher
Note Pad
selection of OS maps ans street atlas
First aid kit
Maglite
Safety data sheets and stock list of chemicals caried
Respirater mask, less likely to get contaminted than if stored in back.
Chargeing cable for tomtom
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£1 for a supermarket trolley.
2 x £1 for Dartford Crossing tolls. You wouldn't want to be stranded down there now would you?
ATB,
CM
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Anyone remember the "Car John" , some sort of catheter / bag attachment ( or maybe the hose went out of the window). No more of those embarassing lay-by stops! IIRC a bloke in Bournemouth invented these and used to adverise in the paper / E&M or similar. There was a ladies version too....
Probably about 15 years ago, btw.
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was it really 15 years ago??????
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Anyone remember the "Car John" , some sort of catheter / bag attachment
Things have moved on in the last few years ;}
www.engadget.com/2005/05/28/indipod-in-car-toilet/
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well thats just made me laugh anyway,thanks.
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Yes, very good, But the "Car John" was more like £14.99, a substantail saving as long as you don't mind a bit of spillage.
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Things have moved on in the last few years ;} www.engadget.com/2005/05/28/indipod-in-car-toilet/
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or out-car-toilet
tinyurl.com/8nogo
See the bottom illustration for dual purpose use.
The hitch is the cost of the hitch.
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Anyone remember the "Car John" , some sort of catheter / bag attachment ( or maybe the hose went out of the window). No more of those embarassing lay-by stops! IIRC a bloke in Bournemouth invented these and used to adverise in the paper / E&M or similar. There was a ladies version too.... Probably about 15 years ago, btw.
Victorian device for trains without corridors, the Whybewet. Ladies' version never perfected.
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For long journeys at night in wet conditions in winter ~ an empty window cleaner spray bottle refilled with water plus a clean rag for cleaning headlamps.
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Thanks to this topic and my curiosity I now have a Lifehammer in the car.
Apart from that, spare bulbs,torch and batteries and a basic toolkit.
And in the winter, a hat and gloves, blanket and small spade!
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Life Hammers?
Hmmm.. Now then RF is in his goona. The Pre tensioners have fired off and clamped RF tight in his seat and He has very painful ribs and therefore limited upper body movement. So little in fact he couldnt undo his slightly jammed door.
Where is the life hammer going to be to be of any use to RF in this situation? Had it been placed anywhere near the "B" post or the headlining on the drivers door the life hammer would now be imbedded in RFs skull.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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I though the Lifehammers were an indie band from the 90s.
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No its a bunch of idiots who support an East London football team.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Any lingering effects from that nasty smash, by the way? Physical or psychological...
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Judging by his latest reply, he's just as he was.
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Just as loveable you mean?
IN truth, there have been some suprising seemingly unconnected side effects both physical and physcological.
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