What do you keep in your car?

Bill D said:
My Cadillac is a pain too due to the battery having side posts and there not being much clearance to get at them.
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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.
 
oneheadlite said:
Talk about a singing praise from the employee for those durlast batteries... :eek: :eek: :eek: That's one step down from the guy just leading with - "Alright, so these things are terrible..." :laughing:

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.
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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.

PaulMys said:
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.
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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.
 
Eldorado2k said:
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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You have absolutely NO sense of adventure, Ric................... :laughing::laughing::laughing:
 
PaulMys said:
You have absolutely NO sense of adventure, Ric................... :laughing::laughing::laughing:
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I once detailed a Kia Optima of some girl I was dating... It was a hybrid and she had mentioned that the battery had been showing signs of needing to be replaced soon. Well just my luck it ended up completely dying while I had the doors open during the detail.

I didn’t find out the battery had died until I was completely done detailing the car. Knowing it was a hybrid I decided to play it safe and check out the owners manual for any special warnings and there was a TON of warnings pertaining to the battery in that car. My head was spinning and all I could think was got damn I better not screw up jumpstarting this hybrid or it could be disastrous.lol.

So I played it safe and did my best to connect the black cable to a “metal” part of the vehicle... Except that stupid car had the battery in the trunk and all I could connect to was a dang metal screw inside the trunk... I had the cables on for over 15min. and got absolutely no crank out of the car. Such an epic fail that she had to resort to calling her dad to come and help her.

Her dad shows up with a battery.. Sets the battery on the ground, opens her cars trunk, connects all 4 cables onto both batteries posts, tells her to try and start the car.... And I’m standing there looking like a damn fool as her car starts right up from just this battery that wasn’t even connected to a damn car!lol.

I immediately began my excuses telling her dad “that’s what I would’ve done but this stupid car seemed to have a million warnings in manual about taking special precautions with the damn hybrid battery”!

Moral of the story: Connect the freakin cables to all 4 posts! If I would’ve just done that in the 1st place I would’ve saved a bunch of time and not looked like a damn fool! Lol.
 
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...
 
Shower said:
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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Lol... damn. Doomsday prep much? Just kidding way to be prepared. Getting crazy out their...


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