What is the Most important tool to have in Your VW?

68AutoBug · 2003-09-05T04:05:29+00:00

IMHO- One of the best tools to have in Your VW toolbox is- small pointed nose "Vise Grips" . these can be used to clamp off a brake hose when You have a leaking brake cylinder etc, or if You have an engine fire fed from fuel from the fuel tank, use these little beauties to clamp off the fuel line under the fuel tank.. stops the fire and hopefully will save Your VW. I have used them on brake hoses over the years and they work great, just put a cable tie around them so they don't fall off... naturally not on My cars... Worth their weight in gold, or for Dave, in Crownies.... Lee 😀

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1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 7 Sep 2003, 1:24 am

#83194

hmmm my NRMA membership card

Jon

Spook Driving the 64 wheeler

1,168 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 7 Sep 2003, 7:39 am

#83212

A pair of shoes!

I carry most of the tools I need, but I tend to drive bare foot.

As I said to Chris yesterday, at least he broke down close to a city & in convoy.
When I break down it is always between nowhere & the black stump, with no mobile coverage.

Hitch-hiking is out, ordinary citizens wont pick up someone that looks like me, so I have done a bit of walking to civilisation & a phone over the years.
I once had to walk from Draytons Junction to Muswellbrook in pair of thongs in summer.
Lee will know where that is. 15-20 kms, something like that.

I keep a pair of beat up joggers under my seat.............😎

Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 7 Sep 2003, 1:57 pm

#83270

I doubt if I could walk that far in the winter.... but in the HOT summer....!!! Never.... too Hot & too old!!.... and too far
😀😀😀
to keep weight down, I always only carry the spanners needed such as 10mm 13mm 17mm, VW spark plug-wheel bolt-anternator nut tool, flat & phillips screw drivers, large shifting spanner & Pliers.
Lee

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

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4,316 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 7 Sep 2003, 6:38 pm

#83350

ME!😉

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16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 7 Sep 2003, 7:54 pm

#83411

U dont need any tools just a box of beer n a Esky full of Ice....

Now all U mechanices out there should be doing your regular maintanence thing and you wouldnt need to carry tools like me.

I recon the one between yr legs is very useful...

Hey Lee try buying the proper tool for the brake hoses its a plastic thinginging that has a built in clamps they work great n dont cut into you rubber lines luine the vice grips.

now where did i hide that bong... OH dear

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