What spare part wouldn't you leave home without?
Submitted: Thursday, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:29
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Frequently there are questions in the
forum about what one should take on a trip; what type of safety equipment and recovery equipment, camping gear and accessories, food and beverage, tools, and VEHICLE SPARE PARTS.
I want to focus your attention on VEHICLE SPARES for this exercise.
In reality I know you would never leave
home without numerous vehicle spare parts in your kit.
But I want you to FORCE RANK all the spare parts you might take and nominate the ONE that you would never leave
home without and perhaps give a comment as to why if you are inclined.
The concept of FORCE RANKING is we may have differing
views on the importance of various spares, perhaps based on vehicle type (see footnote!),
places travelled to, and access to spares along the way. But by coming up with the one item you would never leave
home without, collectively it provides guidance to others, especially those less familiar or new to travelling, on some of the more important items.
This follows on from a recent thread where I posed the question
"What tool wouldn't you leave home without?"
Footnote: Yes, I owned three Landrovers, and one might argue that I could have just taken two on any trip, one to travel in, one as a spare. But for the exercise, let’s keep it to a specific part!
Cheers, Baz – The Landy
Reply By: pop2jocem - Thursday, Feb 26, 2015 at 15:50
Thursday, Feb 26, 2015 at 15:50
So far it looks like fuel filter by a short half head closely followed by fan belt and hoses moving up on the inside.
So we take a fuel filter, great if we get a load of dirty fuel, not much help if the fan belt(s) go twang.
Maybe a fan belt, hmmm not going to help if one of the myriad of cooling system hoses decides it's time to split it's sides. Or gets it's sides split by an errant stick.
OK, gotta be hoses. Could we sort of wrap one of them around the pulleys to drive the water pump and whatever else? Difficult. Not likely to solve the problem. Probably not much use as a replacement for a plugged fuel filter either.
Bugger. If only these bloody cars would come with some sort of early warning system that notified us about an impending failure.
What I had in mind was a pre-failure deal . Like Landrovers come with...(;=))))))
Anyway, I still reckon my mobile phone is the favourite in this contest.
Other than that, I guess I would go with fuel filter.
After all, if you leave
home with dodgy belts or hoses then be it on your own head.
Cheers
Pop
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Reply By: Fab72 - Thursday, Feb 26, 2015 at 20:12
Thursday, Feb 26, 2015 at 20:12
Cash. No matter what goes wrong, and providing you have enough water, food and shelter to sit tight for a few days, sooner or later someone will come along.
Cash will buy you a tow, a recovery or at least a ride into town. I carry hoses, belts, tyre repair kits, fuses, filter, sealants, tools etc. But I can guarantee you that it will be something else that lets go.....it always seems to be that way.
On the flip side, I've used my box of tricks to help others out and the first thing that is offered is cash (or beer).
Fab.
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