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Re: What do you keep in your car?
Originally Posted by Bill D
My Cadillac is a pain too due to the battery having side posts and there not being much clearance to get at them.
You know the problem.lol.
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Re: What do you keep in your car?
Originally Posted by Bill D
My Cadillac is a pain too due to the battery having side posts and there not being much clearance to get at them.
My wife had one of those PITA side terminal batteries in her Yukon.
I added a longer bolt and put a homemade jumper tang on the positive post.
You can catch a ground from anywhere, so no need to add one to the negative post.
It is no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk.
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What do you keep in your car?
Originally Posted by oneheadlite
Talk about a singing praise from the employee for those durlast batteries... That's one step down from the guy just leading with - "Alright, so these things are terrible..."
Hopefully that was just their core pallet, not the warranty returns!
No way I'd wanna deal with a battery that much. Though they're not the cheapest option (And yes, I also know that theoretically there are only so many actual producers of batteries), I go genuine for batteries. In my experience they just seem to last longer. Disclaimer - I'm only seeing two brands on a regular basis (Audi and BMW tech), but it's not uncommon for the OE battery to last 6-9 years.
From now on I’m going to buy the top of the line battery if/when the time comes... Back in the days I used to buy Die Hard batteries for my Cadillacs. Main reason I settled on Autozone/Duralast was because of the free installation/check/warranty. I never expected them to be so weak.
Originally Posted by PaulMys
My wife had one of those PITA side terminal batteries in her Yukon.
I added a longer bolt and put a homemade jumper tang on the positive post.
You can catch a ground from anywhere, so no need to add one to the negative post.
Catch a a ground from anywhere my arse. For me it’s always more of a hazard trying to find a place to connect to while trying not get caught on a fan or a belt. Then just making sure it’s actually metal? Fugetaboutit... I hook up to the negative post everytime. Ain’t no fumes coming out these modern day batteries.
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Re: What do you keep in your car?
Originally Posted by Eldorado2k
Catch a a ground from anywhere my arse. For me it’s always more of a hazard trying to find a place to connect to while trying not get caught on a fan or a belt. Then just making sure it’s actually metal? Fugetaboutit... I hook up to the negative post everytime. Ain’t no fumes coming out these modern day batteries.
You have absolutely NO sense of adventure, Ric...................
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Re: What do you keep in your car?
My current crap:
Duty Bag
- hand sanitizer in pocket facing me
- small hanging file folder with copies of all needed forms, very slick
- citation clipboard, with fine schedule, cheat book, dirtbag pens, "sign here" stickies
- general use clipboard w/fingerprint pad
- blood draw kit
- urine test kit
- spare PBT and Intoxilyzer mouth pieces, just in case
- spare batteries
- misc office supplies, pens, tape, envelopes
- evidence bags
- Advil, Tylenol, bandaids
- Delorme map book of area
- PBA contract, laminated
- frequently used info folder, laminated
- gloves
- glass scraper to remove inspection stickers
- Voice recorder, records to MP3, transfers via USB
- business cards
- notepad
- Leatherman
- traffic vest, rain cover for hat, traffic gloves
- Metal-tec metal detector
- Hobble restraint
- search gloves
- Spit hoods
- 3D Maglite with LED upgrade
- Glass breaker/seatbelt cutter
Standoff Bag
- bug dope
- sun dope
- XL pocket warmers
- 2 GMRS radios, with VOX headsets, spare batteries
- Chemlights
- Change of clothes
- Goretex rain coat, pants, hat
- poncho and liner
- 50' paracord
- binoculars
- Watch cap and gloves
- Alkaline battery pack for duty radio
- Alkaline cell phone charger
- powerbars, water
- eye and ear protection
- boo boo kit
Rifle Bag -- lives in outer pocket of bag above
- 3 rifle mags
- 3 pistol mags
- search mirror
- small pry bar
- GSW kit
- knife
- Otis gun kit
- spare batteries
- Fenix LED light
- Chemlights
- Door wedges
- Rat Trap pocket spike device
Cars have AED's, EMS bags with O2, computers, onboard video cams, rifles, cordless chainsaw (for cases when tree block the road) digital cameras, fire extinguishers, water rescue ropes, crash investigation supplies, barricade tape, spike strips, etc...
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Re: What do you keep in your car?
Originally Posted by Shower
My current crap:
Duty Bag
- hand sanitizer in pocket facing me
- small hanging file folder with copies of all needed forms, very slick
- citation clipboard, with fine schedule, cheat book, dirtbag pens, "sign here" stickies
- general use clipboard w/fingerprint pad
- blood draw kit
- urine test kit
- spare PBT and Intoxilyzer mouth pieces, just in case
- spare batteries
- misc office supplies, pens, tape, envelopes
- evidence bags
- Advil, Tylenol, bandaids
- Delorme map book of area
- PBA contract, laminated
- frequently used info folder, laminated
- gloves
- glass scraper to remove inspection stickers
- Voice recorder, records to MP3, transfers via USB
- business cards
- notepad
- Leatherman
- traffic vest, rain cover for hat, traffic gloves
- Metal-tec metal detector
- Hobble restraint
- search gloves
- Spit hoods
- 3D Maglite with LED upgrade
- Glass breaker/seatbelt cutter
Standoff Bag
- bug dope
- sun dope
- XL pocket warmers
- 2 GMRS radios, with VOX headsets, spare batteries
- Chemlights
- Change of clothes
- Goretex rain coat, pants, hat
- poncho and liner
- 50' paracord
- binoculars
- Watch cap and gloves
- Alkaline battery pack for duty radio
- Alkaline cell phone charger
- powerbars, water
- eye and ear protection
- boo boo kit
Rifle Bag -- lives in outer pocket of bag above
- 3 rifle mags
- 3 pistol mags
- search mirror
- small pry bar
- GSW kit
- knife
- Otis gun kit
- spare batteries
- Fenix LED light
- Chemlights
- Door wedges
- Rat Trap pocket spike device
Cars have AED's, EMS bags with O2, computers, onboard video cams, rifles, cordless chainsaw (for cases when tree block the road) digital cameras, fire extinguishers, water rescue ropes, crash investigation supplies, barricade tape, spike strips, etc...
Lol... damn. Doomsday prep much? Just kidding way to be prepared. Getting crazy out their...
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