Member Since: 22 Dec 2017
Location: Perthshire
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Extensive Car First Aid Kit, eBay
Been on the hunt for a decent extensive first aid kit to keep in the car during expeditions abroad and off the beaten track. Found this on eBay tonight:
For £23 I think it seems very thorough, well priced, and well packaged. Have ordered one and I suspect it will live under the third row seats with the recovery gear.
Hopefully of use to others too.
14th Jan 2019 10:36 pm
Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 06 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
Posts: 4195
Excellent spot.... can’t recommend highly enough having something like this in your boot...
I make sure that every car/lorry we own has a large first aid kit in the boot... you never know when you will need it!
15th Jan 2019 6:26 am
Ceekay
Member Since: 17 May 2009
Location: Bury
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Ordered D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
D3 HSE MY06 missing her still…
15th Jan 2019 10:00 am
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
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Excellent idea, have a bog standard kit in all my cars but may upgrade to this..
Also suggest that everyone carry a fire extinguisher, hi-vis vest, warning triangle and break glass hammer... why are these items not a legal requirement ?
Even if you can't (or don't want to) use them yourself there will be someone around who can and will!I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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I have a first aid kit in each car, and consider them essential.
In addition to the fire extinguisher, hi-vis vest, warning triangle & break glass hammer, recommended by NigelTheCat I would suggest that you also carry, as I do in every car:-
I won't recommend a particular one, there are plenty of threads here expressing different views.
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15th Jan 2019 10:59 am
Ceekay
Member Since: 17 May 2009
Location: Bury
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i must be a real boy scout because I have all those items you both mention in the Disco. Already had a first aid kit too but this one looks much better.
Not to mention the mobile workshop I drag around with me
It is a LR afterall D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
D3 HSE MY06 missing her still…
15th Jan 2019 11:03 am
FISHBOY
Member Since: 06 Sep 2010
Location: Kent
Posts: 754
Ha ha me too...
+ a tow strap, tyre inflator, jump leads, waterproof coat and a pack of micro fuses...
Cant wait to get my upper XBB to put it all in.... Last of the D4 HSE...
15th Jan 2019 11:20 am
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
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And we wonder why we all need cars the size of a Discovery ! I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
Corris Grey D4 Commercial SE 2016
Zermatt Sliver 2007 D3 SE manual (gone)
Indus Silver D4 HSE 2015 (gone)
Bonatti Grey D3 HSE 2006 (gone)
White D3 S (LHD) 2007 (gone)
Firenze Red D4 HSE 2014 (gone)
Black RRS 3.6TDV8 2008 (gone)
Rusty Green Defender 110 1997 (gone)
Black FL2 HSE 2013 (gone)
15th Jan 2019 11:29 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
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Just ordered a warning beacon from RS, with some other stuff I need for work! Richard
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15th Jan 2019 11:31 am
Nick H
Member Since: 25 Feb 2013
Location: Southampton
Posts: 659
LED flares are great bits of kit. Used 3 for a RTC last year and the police and fire brigade were very impressed when they turned up
The FAK is full of cheap dressings and 120 pieces of it are plasters but better than nothing
The tourniquet in the trauma option looks useless and you may be better off improvising if you really need something.
Better to buy a proper bit of kit and be trained to use it.
But as others have said a proper FAK should be a must for every motorist.
16th Jan 2019 2:18 pm
Sea Raider
Member Since: 01 Nov 2016
Location: None
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I usually carry a fog horn - in the passenger seat
16th Jan 2019 2:23 pm
Nick H
Member Since: 25 Feb 2013
Location: Southampton
Posts: 659
^^
Me too, plus 2 smaller ones in the 2nd row
16th Jan 2019 2:25 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6754
The LED beacons look really useful
Winter time I’ve got extra gloves and jacket in the vehicle. Glass hammers and belt cutters also. Dry fruit/nut bars but in the the winter they’re like concrete if you need to eat them
Summer time extra water bottles.
I pack a larger trauma kit with oropharyngeal airways in both vehicles. The one you referred to looks nice for almost all “normal” use. All of the “sterile” gauze and pads are fine even after expiry since you’re not anyway in a sterile environment and the primary objective is ABC(DE). Not sure if quickclot is sold in U.K.? It can be quite useful sometimes. It does have an expiration date, though.
In the disco I’ve also got a toolkit, two brake light switches, one of each of most bulbs. High visibility vests for 7 persons.
Drive safely y’all.
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16th Jan 2019 3:30 pm
Ceekay
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but better than nothing
