Hi there! First I would like to wish everybody a happy 2007.
Especially the Fire-fighters, Paramedics and LEO's who had to spend new-year on their rigs, instead of with their family's

This is a kit that I made for in my father's car. It's mostly made of stuff that I just had around,
therefor it isn't yet completely ready. It's a start.

You should note that there are more items in the car, but not in the kit:

- 1 fire-extinguisher
- large FAK
- wool-blankets
- traffic-vests
- seatbelt-cutter
- Life-hammer
- LED-flashlight
- Car-stuff: spare gasoline, jumper-cables, tool kit,etc.
- extra water

Car Emergency Kit:

1 Emergency kit bag
1 STOP-instruction sheet
1 tleece blanket
2 traffic vests orange
2 pairs of gloves
1 balaclava
3 lightsticks (red, orange and green, I think I need more)
1 flashlight incandestine (At father’s request, LED-flashlight is also in car)
1 set spare batteries
2 chemical hand warmers (need more of them)
12 fire-sticks with match-heads
2 Coghlan’s orange survival-bags

1 Small FAK (Back-up to regular FAK in car, includes no meds or antiseptic):
3- 5 x 5cm. Gauze pads
3- 7.5 x 5 Gauze Pads
5 adhesive bandages
1 pair nitrile gloves
1 Quick-dressing no.3
1 Quick-dressing no.2
2 bandages 4cm x 4m.
1 triangular bandage
1 pair of small scissors
1 pair of small tweezers

1 liter of water (2 x 0.5, more water in the trunk)
1 Datrex emergency Ration 2100 Kcal
1 pack biscuits 450 Kcal
2 bouillon packs
4 creamer packs
4 sugar packs
2 tea-bags
4 packs Oral Dehydration Salts

4 emergency poncho’s
1 roll Duct-tape 100 feet
1 roll toilet-paper
30 feet paracord
1 piece HD aluminium-foil 3ft x 3ft.
1 piece hacksaw-blade
1 Platypus water-bag 3 quarts
1 Ziplock gallon
3 Ziplocks quart
1 mess-tin: 1 Survival instructions from BCB PSK
4 candles
30 Wind / waterproof matches and striker-strip
1 BIC lighter
9 pieces of Emergency Tinder
6 Esbit solid-fuel tabs
1 Opinel no.9 (folding-knife)
1 multi-tool
1 flexible-saw
1 fishing-kit
2 whistles
10 feet of brass-wire
1 button-compass
1 neck-lanyard
1 pencil
5 pieces of waterproof note-paper
3 feet of clear plastic tubing
1 P-38

I would like to hears your comments please.

Hi Jim,

Happy New Year to you and yours as well.

It certainly looks like you've covered many of the items needed.

Have you considered a tire pressure guage, tire plug kit and several cans of "fix a flat" or related for helping to pump up tires that have been repaired?

A lightweight reflective vest would be good also (yours is listed as orange, I presume a high visibility or fluorescent type of orange, they also make them in the high visibility colors with the reflective material as well). They hardly take any room, but provide high visibility during low light conditions. I've had to use mine several times, it does make a difference, especially when you are changing a tire on the road side of the vehicle.


On the whole, it looks like you've gotten off to a very respectable start. Your father should be very impressed with your gift.

Regards,
Comanche7

What a great idea for your Dad. In addition to the earlier suggestions about carrying some things for tires, I would suggest you think about a recovery strap. I have had one in my vehicle kit for many years now, and although I haven't actually needed to be pulled with it, I have used it to help some folks who had gone slightly offroad. Because the recovery straps are designed to stretch, they actually work with your vehicle to help extricate the stuck one when they contract again. (Just make sure you drape a tarp or some jackets over the strap in case it snaps, the tarp might slow it down before it kills someone.) You have to be very careful that you attach it to a secure point on both vehicles. In my case, I have shackle attachment that fits into the tow hitch receiver on my Envoy.

I used it once to pull a friends car out of a large pile of snow at the end of our business parking lot. Apparently the car was cold, and was trying to make an emergency snow cave <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Happy New Year!

yes, certainly a tire gauge -- I discovered last week that I had been driving without one since I purchased my new car two years ago and forgot to put my tire gauge back in the new car from the old one. I needed one and didn't have one. But had plenty of survival gear, which did not fill the need I had for this basic item. Sometimes we need to review basics.

The traffic-vests in the car-kit are fluorescent orange, there are also 2 vests in the glove-compartement that are in fluorescent yellow.
Both styles have reflective stripes on them.

I forgot to list that recovery cables are in the car, 100 feet of paracord as well as a pump, but I do need to get a can of fix-a-flat.

Jim,

It is unclear from your post immediately above if you intend on using the paracord as a recovery strap or not (and the paracord is just a supplement to the overall kit which has a dedicated made for the purpose recovery strap).

FWIW, it would take a lot of doubling over of the paracord to make any kind of decent recovery strap for more than just moving a car on flat paved surfaces and knots / bends in cords tend to weaken / reduce the overall strength considerably. Not to mention the "snap back" injury potential from a breaking cable.

Still, when you're stuck and there are no other options, one will need to utilize whatever resources are available at the time and place. Just be careful...

Apologies if I've misinterepreted your post.

Regards,
Comanche7

Commanche7,

There is a recovery-strap and paracord in the car. You're right, using paracord for a recovery-strap wouldn't be a good choice.

you might also consider a small valve wrench and spare valve stems or two for the valve stems.

I returned from some field work to my car once several years back...all of the vehicles my team used had had every valve stem removed from every tire. We were in the middle of nowhere, no cell signal and this happy event took two hours to get contact and another 2-3 for us to all be on our way.