What's in your glovebox?

[scaryoldcortina]

Just nipped out to the car to rummage through the glovebox - contents were as follows

 

several old petrol receipts

18 month old gas bill

2 MoT certificates, neither for this car, both expired

set of medium gauge acoustic guitar strings

half an interior light bulb

a harmonica (C maj diatonic)

and a packet of green Rizla papers (phew.... hunt over, lol)

 

what do you keep in there?

[autofive]

bulbs ( mostly broken)

petrol receipts

dead spider

dead lighter

silver rizlas

[Mat.T]

My radio headunit

[Pillock]

Halfords bulb kit (cheaper than buying two of the bulbs it contained!)

The green slip and previous MoTs from when I bought the car

Five tie-wraps

Roll of gaffer tape

What appears to be the connection between the top hose and block, new

Multimeter

Stereo removal prongs

2mm fat screwdriver

PH3 screwdriver

Two O-rings, different sizes

Box of matches

Touch up pen

Lacquer pen

Various trim screws

 

What's worrying is I can do that from memory....

[GJR 11L]

Triumph glove hole: Satnav, petrol book (yes, I really am that anal, OK), torch, pen, pack of three and some mints.

 

Volvo glove hole: Two packs of cable ties, a tube of that two-pack bodge/glue stuff that you squeeze out, mix together and hey presto! No more leaking fuel/coolant/oil/air etc, another pack of three, though driving a Volvo isn't likely to give me cause to use one now, is it, more mints, a dried out Zippo, ¼ of something that appeared interesting at first but is probably a chewed toffee, parking clock disc thing and a hard-boiled egg in a little plastic tube.

[warren t claim]

Windows7 and XP discs, Empty cigarette packets, leaflets for some tourist attractions, stick up interior light (x2), cigarette lighter, roll of sellotape, tachograph discs.

[MrDuke]

Mini-screwdriver set

Electrical tape

Handbook (with MOT etc stuffed inside)

Pen

Sponge/chamois for windscreen

Couple of old parking tickets

Spare sunglasses

Spare woolly hat

Some random receipts & shit.

 

 

BTW SOC - wanna flog those strings?

[Pillock]

and a hard-boiled egg in a little plastic tube

.....?

 

[seth]

I know the Herald's got a torch, a multitool, a cig lighter socket with croc clips on the end of the wires and some parking permits. The ignition ecu is screwed to it underneath.

[Parky]

Old iPod with no charge in it

Emergency mobile phone with no charge in it

Charger for phone I dont own anymore

List of useful numbers (insurance/breakdown cover, etc)

Daughters hair tie

Two scratched up cd's called CAR 1 and CAR 2. No idea whats on them

[pogweasel]

Pencils.

Employer's liability certificate.

Public Liability certificate.

Insurance certificate

A head torch.

Several out-of-date tax discs.

 

& A pay slip for someone I haven't seen in six months.

 

Thats in my Van.

 

Don't even know what's in the one in the car. I suspect it's an OEM torch, and a load of 'Er Indoors BOLLOCKS cd's.

[whitevanman]

2 torches, tape messure, salt and pepper (don't ask) sat nav, binoculuars MP3 player, chargers for MP3 and phone, 2 pens, magnifying glass, road atlas, anadin, pills to stopm the runs

[j-j]

great thread idea,

 

I just checked:

 

Insurance cert.

MOT

emergency packet of fags

emergency back up pair of aviators

ipod (the connection is in here)

CX owner manual thing

assorted scattered fuses (some the wrong type for this car)

a single 'losenge' bulb (guess for interior light)

screw driver

dash wipe things I nicked out my dad's car last summer

wind up torch from Lidl

window inside chamois/sponge thingy

 

 

no sign of any rats or pigeons or anything

[Minimad5]

Mine contain boring things ..

 

Mk1 Fiesta -

£8 pair of wing mirrors (For the Rebel)

Pair of spare bulbs

Sandpaper (Wet & Dry)

Dust and a Cobweb

 

Mk3 Fiesta-

Screws

Pen

Bean bag thing (It was there when i brought it ?)

Seeds

 

Rebel-

Well nothing, as everything falls out the bottom ... yeah i should fix that.

 

Great Thred.

[FredTransit]

Some of my glove boxes leak (they have water in them, often from the inner wing seam) so if they are 'wet' not much get kept in em. Luckily there is room for stuff in the dash and door pockets. If they are 'dry' it's likely to be

 

Bulbs

Ceramic fuses

Gaffer tape

Loading gloves

Chemical metal

Superglue

Hand cleaner wipes

Small first aid kit

Odd tools that should have been put away in the tool box

Cable ties

 

And any permutations of the above! Just don't make me list what's in the back of the main van. If you knew it would explain why I can't stand emptying it out! Let's just say it ranges from a full sized double bed through tools and number plates to a table and chairs and a flag pole!

[FredTransit]

We had mice once and nearly lost one of the Jack Russells behind the dash getting rid of them! Worked though.....

[HillmanImp]

In the VW i have loads of old tax discs, a signed photo of Michael Barrymore (really, its a kind of anti-present), fuses, bits of the old stereo and an assorted collection of spanners.

 

In the GT6, i have even more old tax discs, loads of lead replacement stuff, some of the wire from the electric fence i went through backwards a couple of months ago and an empty matchbox.

 

Strangely enough i think i listed all the stuff i found in the Scenic in another thread last month. Not all in the glove box but a bit random all the same.

[Slaighty]

Gloves

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

not really

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Tape marked "Radio cassette and compact disc player owner's guide: part no. DBC18881". 3A fuse, violet colour (blown). Interior light bulb capless 286 in green (blown). Small black stick on moustache in Regency style, now somewhat moth eaten. Ballpoint pen without lid, marked BIC medium, blue ink. Ballpoint pen with lid marked Pentel Ultra Fine S570, red ink. Medium sized post-it notes. Card "Saloon climate control system" Pt no. CCC7015.

[scaryoldcortina]

Good selection of shite then ;D I probably should carry more prophylactic equipment but choose not to cos it makes life more interesting.

 

and yeah, the guitar strings.. I don't even know what they are doing there.. I use heavies and these are medium. £3 posted sound ok?

 

also, I'm a little concerned for those of you that went out at half eleven to check the glovebox... I was only looking cos I'd run out of skins

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I felt lined my glovebox. Then all the felt fell off.

 

My glovebox is full of loose felt.

[meggersdog]

The Maestro is clean and empty.

The Discovery,however, has the owners books,service book etc complete in the folder,two old passport photoes,superglue and a pocket notebook but no pen.The tray between the front seats (some have an armrest) is overflowing with diesel reciepts, a can of dampstart,various bulbs,various screws,more reciepts,a can of deodorant and a dumpy philips screwdriver

and more often than not there is usually a set of tradeplates between the passenger seat and gearbox tunnel

[myglaren]

Tin of boiled sweets

Bulbs

Pens

MP3 player (French language course on it.

Flash dongle.

Coins for parking meters

Key for wheel bolts

Wetwipes (glass and leather)

Bulbs, fuses.

Cable ties

Pens. Wind up torch, Leatherman Wave.CDs.

Craft knife kit. Flashgun.

Daughter's satnav.

 

This from memory, probably piles of other rubbish too.

[michiel]

Sirion: nothing.

 

Florian: two tiny twigs - choke cable is broken and I use a twig to open the choke, get in, start, get out and close choke slowly by hand...

[Justin Case]

First aid kit - too small to cope with even the most minor cut or graze

Spare bulbs to fit everything but the front sidelight one which has recently blown

Set of screwdrivers, none of which will fit anything bigger than the screws on a wristwatch.

Field guide to the birds of Britain - glove box size edition

[Mr Lobster]

SEAT - flourescent yellow vests (need 'em for France y'see)

assorted bulbs

first aid kit (small)

locking wheel nut key

 

Sprinter - Cable ties

assorted show passes for shows long since done

touch up pen & kurust

 

R4 - Glovebox? What luxury!

[ashmicro]

Rover - Tesco £1 yellow torch (works!), tesco carrier bag, de-icer(!), oddball Philips MP3/4 player (dead), propelling pencil, £10 Tesco digital camera in case some tw@t crashes into me

 

S-Type - OEM Mercedes first aid kit in date, Massed Bands of the RAF CD, Blizzard of Oz CD.

 

X-Type - eleventy million Avon products (makeup, not tyres), DVD for the satnav, handbook for a Hyundai Matrix

[Station]

Astra:

 

Hayne's Manual

 

Whizzkid:

 

Car docs (logbook/MOT)

Phone charger

[dollywobbler]

Is that a sensible thing to admit to on a public forum?!

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

and a hard-boiled egg in a little plastic tube

.....?

 

X2?

 

Salt from KFC

 

Clean-up wet wipes

 

Ketchup (see above)

 

Werthers Originals (yeah, yeah )

 

Scruffy old map of Luxton.

 

There!