rev up your engines, welcome to mechanic Monday where I check out products and
when I find a good one, I make a video about it and at the end of the video I
give it away to one of the fans here, and today's product is in my trunk it's a
great little bag that has stuff you can use in case of an emergency, now the
first thing I noticed was it's got a nice canvas case it's not some cheap
piece of plastic that's gonna rip and tear apart
it's got regular zippers on it, velcro on the handle so you can carry it like in a
hotel if you got a small valise and it has velcro on the bottom too, so if you
stick it on a rug or something it'll stay in place and won't rattle around they had some
a pretty good thinking when they made this thing, let's unzip it and see what's
inside, okay first of all there's three electric safety flares, so if you get
stuck turn them on and they'll flash, lets see how it works at night, they have the
batteries already in them, all you gotta do is pull the little plastic piece out
and turn them on so people can see you at night if you're stuck somewhere and
here's the cool thing, there's nothing worse than a safety flare that's been
sitting for five years in your trunk when you need it it doesn't work, so as
you can see here there is a little Tang the battery isn't connected until you
pull this little Tang out, like a hand grenade, now the thing is going to work
but it wouldn't have worked before if it had been sitting there for years, now when
you push the button once for flashlight 2 for red and 3 for flashing red which
is best to warn people at night they know there's something's going on when
they see a flashing red light, you know it's going to work because the battery
hasn't been connected until you pull that off
so you don't pull off till you need it, so if you needed five six years so now
the things are gonna work and not be drained cuz the battery's been connected
now number two is jumper cables, you get stuck somewhere you can't jump your car
without jumper cables, a lot of people say, oh I'll help you out but I don't
have cables well you got the cables you can do it and they're decent cables
they're eight gauge and when you look inside they're not that cheap aluminum
crap, they're made out of copper and then if you're stranded in the dark it's got
a three LED flashlight including the batteries you can see at night it's a
decent flashlight and when I turn the flashlight on in my dark garage, you can
see it works pretty good it's got plenty of power it's got three LEDs on it good
for night use, and what else is in here, they call it a tow strap but I call it a
release strap, if bad things happen, you slide you get stuck somewhere you can't
get your car out, you can pull it out with another car now in a kit they
called it a towing strap but it's not really good enough for towing long
distances, this thing is for releasing and pulling you out of something you
can buy a better one if you're gonna tow but this is perfectly fine for pulling
you out of situations and here's how it works, you go under cars they all have some
kind of a towing strap, this one's pretty strong, get the strap you push it through
the hole and then feed it through this way, pull the whole thing up you got a
great connection, then you put the other one on the other car and pull it out
gradually, I've had times in the past when I was younger went off the road, I didn't
have one of these people would come by and say, oh well we can't help you
there's no way to pull it out, you got this you can get it out and of course if
you're stuck in the back, Hey they got them in the back both sides so you can
pull out wherever you're stuck from all vehicles have tow straps on them
somewhere, just learn on your vehicle where it is, so you'll know beforehand
where you gotta hook it up to pull it out and in case you get small cuts it's got
a first-aid kit, it's got band-aids, it's got alcohol pads, it's even got little
bitty towelettes that have antibacterial stuff in them, benzalkonium chloride
whatever that is obviously it's to get the bad stuff out of your cuffs and even
if you do do some minor messing around, say you're going to a party you don't
get your hands dirty, it comes with these nice cloth gloves they fit quite
well, their actually quite comfortable, and speaking of comfort, something bad happens
you or someone else gets in an accident and is really injured, it's got a nice little
blanket you can at least try to heat them up with a while and if you slide
off in the rain and it's pouring like mad hey it's even got a little rain poncho
you can wear, hey it can also come in handy if you're hiking or something and you
don't have anything, you can just take it out of the kit and wear it, now course there's a
million different safety kit you can buy, but after trying a bunch of them out
this just in case one, I bought it at an autozone it cost me 29 bucks and for
29 bucks you got a pretty good piece mind, and speaking of a piece of mind, I
added one thing to my safety case cuz there's plenty of room for other stuff
and here it is, things really go bad, well haha have a
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