The Junk In Your Trunk

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A lot can be told about a person by the contents of their trunk, (or boot, if you don’t live in the US). Well, it can be. Or it might not be.

The rules of this thread are very simple. Take a look in the trunk of your car. Now list the contents. You don’t have to specify what kind of spare tyre you have in the car, or you might. That too could be revealing.

The contents of the boot of my car:

  • 1 duffel bag containing a taekwondo shield, helmet, mouthguard, arm, shin and feet guards, the good ol’ box, and my grading booklet (which is relegated to the garage on non-class days, as it pongs somewhat ripe)
  • 1 pair of focus mitts
  • 1 set of swimming goggles
  • 1 pair of hiking boots
  • 1 pair of Dunlop Volleys
  • 1 tennis racquet, a Dunlop graphite from when carbon in racquets was a new thing (i.e. 2001)
  • 1 cricket bat, almost in a state of ruin (it was cheap and has thwacked many a cricket ball in the nets)
  • 1 equestrian helmet
  • 1 reflective windshield screen
  • 12 biohazard disposal bags
  • 1 flattened cardboard box
  • 1 miniature tyre jack and bolt kit
  • 1 laptop
  • 1 shoulder bag containing several papers, a few pens and highlighters and 1 stethoscope
  • 1 slightly used tank top (should probably put that in the laundry…)
  • 1 Sushi Cat plushie (which I should move back to the main cabin, it’s gonna pong a bit by now…)

I guess that tells you I use my car to go to work, and that I like sports. A lot. And that my girlfriend occasionally stores stuff in my car (the biohazard bags were hers. All unused, I might add).

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Here’s mine:
2 donut spare tires (just in case. The potholes here are vicious)
1 old coolant jug
1 old oil jug
1 old coolant overflow tank
6 reusable shopping bags which I always forget to use
1 Mitsubishi Galant repair manual
1 socket set
1 jack
1 snow brush/ice scraper

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Dude you are so not alone on this.

Except you’re one step better than me, my six reusable shopping bags are kept in the pantry :joy:

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I rarely buy large loads at one time, so I just carry everything out by hand (we have a 5 cent bag tax here. It’s not that much, but I’m cheap).

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A dead body.

Prostitute most likely.

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Only took ten minutes for the dead body in the trunk comments to start :joy:

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You have no idea how hard I had to fight the urge to put it there.

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  • Full-size spare
  • Jack
  • Tire iron
  • Chocks
  • Fire extinguisher
  • First aid kit
  • Motor oil
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In my W124:

A broken thermostat
2 broken coolant pipes
A broken oil pressure sensor
Estimated 200-300cc. of unused coolant
Hopes and dreams
Battery jumper cables
20 wheel bolts
A jack
A full size spare dating back from 1990’s
And a clean very tiny rag

I keep forgetting to take some of those out. Some is lost in there forever.

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I have been hit by the sudden urge to go out and get one. This here is a well-prepared individual.

This is where I wonder why I don’t put any of my first aid kits in my car. I should do that.

This is precisely the kind of thing I was hoping for, some people discovering really old shit they simply haven’t removed since forever.

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well. don’t have a car. but could a motorbike pass?
at least stuff i always brings

on the front gripper thingy
this thing

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  • a raincoat
  • a ‘kanebo’ cloth rip-off
    both in a black plastic bag, which i always get asked for what’s in the bag because it’s so big.

under the seat

  • standard factory toolkit
  • a spare headlamp lightbulb that is half dead (high beam is still usable. but the normal beam snapped)
  • PLENTY of nuts. because this thing has tendency to lose a couple of nuts every now and then

but i also almost always bring some plastic bag in my backpack. you know. just in case.

but seeing like i see accident or be in one relatively often. i really need to make a first aid kit. any suggestion where to start?

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  • hazard triangle
  • tire repair kit (one of those compact kits that are supposed to fix your tire for a few kilometers. never had to use one so far though)
  • a blanket

(yes, I don’t like keeping unneccessary stuff in my car)

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No car = no boot
No boot = no hopes and/or dreams

Should I kill myself?

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1989 Skyline
-Spare Tire
-Carpet
-A Wheat Bag
-2 Lemonade bottles filled with water (and the one time I found a guy with an overheated car he drove off without using any of the dang water…)

  • Some carpet
  • Between 1 and 20 receipts for spare parts that I haven’t fitted yet
  • The entire windscreen washer assembly that should be in the front of the car

And a plastic box containing:
WD-40
4 rolls of toilet paper
3 road map books (1977, 1988, 2005)
1 First Aid Kit
1 window breaking hammer (so if I ever get trapped in my car all I have to do is hop out and get it out of the boot so I can smash my way to freedom!)

I need to sort my stuff out…
Also my race car has a box full of used pistons and oil/water pumps in case I need to swap a piston or water pump on the fly (for some reason).

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Back seats down:

A mattress
Four pillows
A blanket
Way too much soda

It’s a bed. My car is a bed.

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well I am one of those people that puts something in the boot only to forget about it and 5 months later I open it up to put some shopping in to find out I have no space because I piled it up with crap :joy: Leon’s have big boots so it took me a lot of crap to fill it

I have a cheap Halfords tool kit for small jobs
A Lonsdale shoebox full of model trains
A Halfords trolley jack rated at 2 tonnes
My old college bag
A plastic bit that fell of my car
Windscreen washer fluid
An oil filter I was supposed to fit 4 months ago
Car polish
Oil funnel
Kitchen roll
Wheel polish
12mm spanner
Can of WD-40
De-icer
Plastic covers
Exhaust paste
Brake fluid
And the standard SEAT issue tools and jack thing

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LOL

just use your elbow!

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Umm, let me try to remember what’s in my 86 Mustang’s trunk…

1 top cover (for when the top is down)
1 original equipment spare tire (flat tho)
1 craftsman (28 piece?) tool set
1 jug of 50/50 antifreeze
1 jug of washer fluid
driver door map pocket
miscellaneous black plastic covers to go over the seat mounts (all broke off at some point)
a few miscellaneous screw drivers (philips and flat head)
possibly a spare fuel filter?

I think that’s everything.
Edit: Oh, and a couple of those red rags are in the car, with one in the trunk.

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Full size spare and associated tools, bottle of water for the washer and a boot liner.
Other than that it’s empty, this I’d not normal I must add, but since I’m on a short break it’s been emptied to get my suit cases in.
Usually there’s the obligatory reusable shopping bags, a coat and various receipts that have escaped from the shopping.

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A multitool, a forged wheel with a tire on it, a professional jack, a wrench to undo bolts and thats it. The trunk is stripped of all the padding, so it’s all metal