Cars and Flashlights

[DaFABRICATA]

I'm sure most people on here drive an automibile of some sort whether it be car, truck, motorcycle, semi truck, whetever....

Do you keep a spare flashlight in your automobile?
If so is there a location it lives in?

I have not had a license for like 8-9 years now and am considering getting it back.
While working on getting the car back in top notch condition, I decided I needed a dedicated flashlight for the car.
I used the good 'ol Uni-bit and made a hole in the plastic A-pillar cover. The other holes were for LEDs for audio equipment.
Now I will always have one at arms reach (as if there won't be at least 1-3 more in my pockets)



Anyway, I thought I'd ask what others are doing and if possible post some pics...

 

[ElectronGuru]

9 Years, thats amazing. In most US cities, especially newer western cities, its flat out impossible to function without private transport.

To your question. My favorite is a set of these:
http://www.opticsplanet.net/mag-asx...kets-for-maglite-c-cell-flashlight-2-pkg.html

mounted to the left side of the drivers seat, near the carpet. But this only works when the seat it high enough to offer a plate of some kind to mount to. This is usually in trucks (in which the mod looks best anyway).


Then there's Moddoo's latest creation
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=237214


But sadly for me, the best spot is a locked glove box for all but the cheapest of lights.

 

[RobertM]

I'll admit, I don't have a specific light that I keep in the car. I always have at least one EDC light on me and I have a keychain light as well (SL Microstream). The car can't go anywhere without the keys!

How did you manage for 8-9 years without your car?

-Robert

 

[ypsifly]

3D mag w/led drop in and a 2D Husky in the door of my truck. Pelican Mity Lite clipped to the visor and an ROV 1xAA headlamp behind the seat. Nothing over $30 stays in my truck. I live in an area that has a lot of cars broken into. The expensive stuff stays on me or goes back inside the house at night.

 

[Skyeye]

I keep a Smith&Wesson tri color in the center console and have a Brinkman 6volt spotlight on the rear seat floorboard. I also have a big rubber 3D Garrity in the trunk in my bug out bag. I also carry a 12 volt sealed beam and a megaphone.

 

[kelmo]

I keep a soft sided insulated bag filled with bottled water in my truck. In the bag are a 6PDL w/BOG Cree drop in and a Streamlight head lamp. The water acts as a heat sink so the lights don't get over 100 degrees F.

I have a Nuwai 3W in the glove box and a 3D Mag stored in the jack compartment.

kelmo

 

[supasizefries]

I used to keep a cheap 3 AAA Dorcy LED light in the glove box until I gave it to my 5 yr old niece to light up her GITD stars on her ceiling at night. Now I have a lightly modded Dorcy Super 1 Watt that I'm thinking of sticking in the glove box.

 

[alpg88]

i have 4d mag with tle 300 under front seat, between the tunnel and seat slide, photon2 on the key. that is it.

 

[gswitter]

• Surefire L1 Cree with an F04 diffuser and an SC1 of spare cells in the center console (general purpose)
• Coast Auto LED in the accessory port (map light)
• Pak-Lite in the glove box (long-running emergency light)

 

[computernut]

I keep 2 Energizer 2xAA Swivels in my Jeep. One in each door as it's hard to reach over the console to grab a light on the opposite door in a hurry. I also have one of those small aluminum Spotlights that go in the cigarette lighter socket. I use AA Energizer Lithiums in the swivels as they don't get much use and the temperature can get really cold or really hot depending on the season. The swivels have a white Cree LED with a high and a low controlled by one switch and other switch that toggles the green and red LEDs.

 

[NonSenCe]

now thats cool way to put a flashlight on a car! and no casual onlooker can identify it as a flashlight.. unless they are flashaholics.

best of my recollection.. i have in my car:

4 fauxtons in different locations. (dash, rear hatch, back door, tool box top cover)

glovebox: multimode 1 cr123 ultrafire flashlight, solarforce L2, and uk 4aa incan. (3*cr123s, 4*AAs spares)

passanger headrest: old cheap multi led headlamp. (fauxton is brighter than these 3 leds)

12V search light that can also run from cigarettelighter plug.

trunk tool box: either uk4aa incan or the mag 2d with terralux dropin. (not sure which is there at the moment.)

in future i will refine them a bit:
*i will add probably romisen n3 if i ever get around getting one.
*and/or get an akoray 106 or romisen g2 (single AA light) there too.
*i will get slightly better led headlamp.

will ditch a uk 4aa.


--i think i need to start thinking about somekind of mount for one of my lights now that i saw your idea. maybe get the solarforce into somewhere convinient location.

 

[tabetha]

In my cossie, I have a LED LENSER ciggy lighter one in the lighter socket 24/7, surprisingly useful when pitch black, and if the g/f's astra also a led lenser.
Mainly there in case of breakdown etc, always searched for and never found a useful rechargeable light with amber flasher/torch etc that just charges when inserted into it's bracket.
tabetha

 

[nyyankeefen]

I do have several flashlights in my car G2 & Pelican 7640 in drivers side door, inova in glove box.
Your post reminded me of what I do at work....wile riding in the truck I hate sitting on my keys which have a Nitcore 10 on them, so i stick the D10 in the cigarette lighter which does a great job of holding them in place.

 

[Niconical]

Surefire G2, spare batts and lamp, driver side door.
All in one of those Surefire hard nylon cases, got it from Sgt.LED

 

[FrogmanM]

I have a SF A2 green + SC3 in the glove compartment of my VW.

-Mayo

 

[greenLED]

Gladius on driver side door
...oh, and an Inova 24/7 on the console.

 

[nfetterly]

Several
Between the seat & center console is 3C MAG with Malkoff drop in (& stainless bezel & glass breaker tip & Mag ring with lanyard)

Glove box - Pelican Super Sabre light (3C)

Trunk - 9P with Malkoff M60 & s extra sets of batteries
Trunk - G2 with M60LL

Trunk also has lots of C duracells.

 

[Art]

I have a MTE P7 on the door.
Only because Li-ion last longer left alone then nimh. I used to have there a NDI and with nimh it would have not much light and with liion it seems like it "eats" more voltage then the MTE.. strange.

 

[lctorana]

The car is the place for serious, full-size, torches and lanterns.

This is the realm of F cells, 100-hour runtime, sealed beams, HIDs and floating torches.

 

[LG&M]

never mind