Get Out Of Jail (GOOJ) kit

[spitsfire]

After an interesting variety of breakdowns down the years, I've accumulated a bag of bits and pieces I keep in the boot. The idea is that they should give me the basic tools to make a 30+ year old car keep moving in the event of a breakdown.

My kit includes:
- All the fluids (brake, ATF, oil, coolant, power steering).
- basic tool set, jack, tow rope.
- 2 cans of emergency tire inflator.
- instant gasket.
- radiator weld.
- Ezy Start (known by another name in Australia - see here)
- WD 40.
- Cable ties, jubilee clips, duct tape, string.
- Set of bulbs, fuses, couple of relays, set of plugs.
- Fuel filter.
- Torch / Jump pack.

Does anybody else do this, or is it just my mix of apocalypse planning / habit of driving knackered old cars? If you do, what's in your kit?

[Turbobanana]

Be careful, OP. I commented along similar lines on another thread once, about a similar list of essential spares and equipment I carry, and was ridiculed. Most people seem content to rely on a breakdown service theses days.

[Riley Blue]

Over half my Riley's boot is filled with boxes of spares, a tool box, jack, 10 litre can of petrol, oil, water/anti-freeze, tow rope, jump starter etc., etc. Every winter I get them all out, bring them to the house, check everything over then put them all back.

At the moment they're spread all over the conservatory floor and as it's unheated that's where they can stay until the weather changes.

On the two occasions the Riley has failed to proceed this year, one was due to hitting a pothole damaging the front suspension and the other to running out of fuel (unfortunately after I'd used the reserve supply) so none of the boot's contents were any use.