Essential Car Kit

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Briggs
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Essential Car Kit

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I won't elaborate on what I do for a living, except to say I deal with motor incidents. I've had two incidents in the past fortnight where people could not get out of vehicles due to seat belt releases being restricted post-incident and doors being jammed. Please make sure you and your loved ones have a tool close to hand to break glass and cut belts. Screwfix sell an all in one hammer and cutter for £3 and there's a multitude of key ring sized cutters out there.

I know I sound like your mother, but it makes sense.

Briggs.
I recently experienced Plymouth City centre so that's why I prep.
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Recommended by Arzosah, I bought a ResQme:


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I have a lease car (through OH work) at the moment and it can equipped with a seat belt/window hammer tool, as well as safety triangle, reflective waistcoat, small camera, notebook and tape measure for recording details of any accidents.
I replicated the contents and put it into OHs car too.
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have have one of these in the headlining between the 2 front seats
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glows in the dark too for most of the night too
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Yorkshire Andy wrote:have have one of these in the headlining between the 2 front seats
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glows in the dark too for most of the night too
Where did you buy this from please?

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£5 from Screwfix.
I recently experienced Plymouth City centre so that's why I prep.
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Briggs wrote:£5 from Screwfix.
Thanks, I didn't realize they were all from the same website. :D

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Quercus-robur wrote:
Yorkshire Andy wrote:have have one of these in the headlining between the 2 front seats
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glows in the dark too for most of the night too
Where did you buy this from please?

Qr

Mine came from the Bay of E a few years ago.. it is a genuine life hammer the ones in screw fix are just orange... but cant go wrong for that price in screw fix .

if you must have yellow :twisted:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Safety-Sta ... d_sxp_f_pt


the fixing idea is clever with the uber sharp ((MIND YOUR FINGERS)) push out spikes that grip the carpet.. i carefully bent the pins and found that the curved back plate fitted my car fantastic
If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine
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Yorkshire Andy wrote:
Quercus-robur wrote:
Yorkshire Andy wrote:have have one of these in the headlining between the 2 front seats
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glows in the dark too for most of the night too
Where did you buy this from please?

Qr

Mine came from the Bay of E a few years ago.. it is a genuine life hammer the ones in screw fix are just orange... but cant go wrong for that price in screw fix .

if you must have yellow :twisted:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Safety-Sta ... d_sxp_f_pt


the fixing idea is clever with the uber sharp ((MIND YOUR FINGERS)) push out spikes that grip the carpet.. i carefully bent the pins and found that the curved back plate fitted my car fantastic
Thanks. This is one of those things that you don't want to buy cheap.

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Quercus-robur wrote:
Thanks. This is one of those things that you don't want to buy cheap.

Qr

the screwfix one looks genuine TBH...

but you have to buy 10 to get them at £3.99

this is how mine is mounted (crap camera phone)

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If your roughing it, Your doing it wrong ;)

Lack of planning on your part doesn't make it an emergency on mine