I'm tired of reaching for a ball point pen from the glove compartment of my car and finding it all dried out. I do keep pencils, too, just in case. In fact, I had to ditch a dried pen and use the pencil just a few months ago to take down some info when someone bumped me from behind in my car. I'd really like to find a pen that can tolerate the high temps inside a car for long periods of time. Has anyone found a pen that can take the heat of being a car pen in a sunny climate?

Practically speaking, it's probably the most cost effective to just get into the habit of replacing the disposable pen every X months. They're so cheap. But I'm curious if there's a good pen out there that works for people.

I use these pilot razor points for that. They are a fine hard felt tip instead of a ball point so there is no ball for the ink to leak around. Sort of like a sharpie but with regular ink.
Another option is to just edc a pen, I do that because I hate to write with the cheapies the office provides which usually leave spotty lines.

A Sharpie ultra fine tip doesn't dry out unless you take the lid off and leave it off. I've had one in my pickup now for two years and it still works for me just fine. I don't do ball points when duration is a factor.

Fisher Space pen, "writes from -30F to +250F" hot enough for ya?
http://www.spacepen.com/Public/Technology/index.cfm

Sharpies or other felt tips, huh? That never really occurred to me. I guess I always felt like a "felt" type pen would dry out easier than a ball point pen, but I hadn't really thought of the cap being air tight enough to prevent that from happening. I'll give that one a try.

yes, the cap on the sharpie and felt tip pens is air tight and the felt tip is air tight as well, liquid has to flow though it by capiliary action. A regular ball point pen the cap isn't air tight (check the very top, usually there are air holes)

+1 on the Fisher Space pen.

Check out the Uni-ball Power Tanks. Power Tanks at Office Depot They are similar to the Fisher space pens in that they are pressure fed. It writes wet, cold & upside down. Cost is about $3 each. I use them for taking notes at work & in class & keep at least a three pack in the armrest or glovebox of the car. The retractable version is comfortable enough to get me through 4 1/2 hours of class notes or longer.

I can also vouch for the fisher space pen, I know for a fact they will write upside down,underwater and in space and I have left them in my car for sometime and they always wrote. I had went down to office depo and bought a cross pen and put a fisher space pen refill in it of med black and that was what I used at work. Our company put a strong emphasis on these pens and that's how I got into them. Also we had a Sharpie got left in one of the shuttles years back and when it came home, it still wrote. Totally blew my mind with the Temperatures in the back plus the vacuum back there you would think it would dry it out. Anyhow if you take that pen and fill up a glass of water and put some cardboard at the bottom, try writing on the paper. It doesn't skip a beat. I would definitely recommend there cartage's whether you buy the whole pen or a different pen and use there cartage.

Hi Arney,

The Fisher Space Pen has to be what you are looking for. After $12 million dollars development costs for the space race in the 1960s, it should be your patriotic duty to use one of these writing implements. Simply the most reliable and heat tolerant pen out there. A great American invention. Even I've got one.