What do you EDC (Every Day in your Car); what light is in your car?

I understand that it is hard to draw a fine line between personal/individual EDC and what's in your car every day. (As even myself unload my EDC light in the car and pick it up when get out of the car and etc.)

But, what light do you ALWAYS keep in your car? (for work, hobby, camping, and etc. purposes)

Do you have a 'must have' light in your car/truck/SUV/van?

I used to keep a 3D Maglite in my car for emergency/mechanical purposes.

Now, I don't have one but maybe your story/light can give me some ideas.


Thank you

IMO, perhaps the most important light to have in a car is a traffic baton/wand.

It can be used to save the life of people in oncoming traffic, and anyone at the scene of a crash, or otherwise disabled vehicle, that is blocking a lane of traffic.

So in a vinyl bag attached to my ashtray, I keep a rayovac indestructible 2AA with a red traffic diffuser, immediately available. Also a couple cheap penlights. The 2AA is loaded with duracell NiMH (I have a 2 cell charger in the glove compartment) and a 4 pack of Lithium AAs for back-up.






And in my trunk, I keep a $10 Defiant 3C 850 lumen triple led, from The Home Depot.
I keep it loaded with a fully charged 18650, and a 80mm spacer, (a 1 inch diameter dowel drilled to accept a bolt cut to 80mm ( 3 3/16 inches)). The cell is wrapped in plastic taken from a water bottle, and some tape, to keep it centered and from rattling. I also have a spare cell, a digital volt meter, and two, one cell chargers. I also have three Alky C cells, that I can load it with if I decide to give the light away.

Also a 2D cell traffic baton... it is great in the daylight, even if it isn't lit!

And a Coast 3 aaa headlamp.






^^ charger I pulled out of a power bank. I modded it by soldering longer charging wires to it, and by soldering magnets to them.



My pocket EDC is a keychain light.
Currently (and it has been for the last year or so) it is the CooYoo Quantum.

In addition to my ordinary edcs I keep a yellow g2 Incan with extra set of batteries, a cheap energizer headlamp, and a fenix e12 in my truck. I have 8 l91 and 8 l92 primaries as well. They are in the center console of my truck. I have a lightbar with traffic director on the truck as a result of being a firefighter/emt so I have plenty of warning power. Have yet to actually use my car lights for anything. Edc lights normally take care of the job. Which is why I don't dedicate any to the mustang. I don't drive it often enough.

Millions of vehicles have Maglites rolling around the floorboard.

Me, I keep a backup light in all my vehicles in case I forget to carry one. They vary from car to car as in nothing special, just practical glove box sized lights that work when I need them.

Repsol600rr said:

In addition to my ordinary edcs I keep a yellow g2 Incan with extra set of batteries, a cheap energizer headlamp, and a fenix e12 in my truck. I have 8 l91 and 8 l92 primaries as well. They are in the center console of my truck. I have a lightbar with traffic director on the truck as a result of being a firefighter/emt so I have plenty of warning power. Have yet to actually use my car lights for anything. Edc lights normally take care of the job. Which is why I don't dedicate any to the mustang. I don't drive it often enough.

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I have a lightbar with traffic director on the truck

That's great! Just make sure that you position your truck so that it can be seen from sufficient distance.

Far too often I've seen Police cars with lights a flashing, pulled up directly behind a stopped vehicle, right at the end of a blind curve.
Oncoming traffic, cruising around that curve wouldn't get any warning that the lane was blocked, until it was too late to stop.

Repsol600rr said:

In addition to my ordinary edcs I keep a yellow g2 Incan with extra set of batteries, a cheap energizer headlamp, and a fenix e12 in my truck. I have 8 l91 and 8 l92 primaries as well. They are in the center console of my truck. I have a lightbar with traffic director on the truck as a result of being a firefighter/emt so I have plenty of warning power. Have yet to actually use my car lights for anything. Edc lights normally take care of the job. Which is why I don't dedicate any to the mustang. I don't drive it often enough.

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I hear ya on the rarely driven car. My sports car spends about 350 days a year under a car cover.
Dust never sleeps.

But I've never seen the need to put a light in it because it only goes out on cool, sunny days. My son had to show me how to turn on the headlights first year we did a pre-inspection inspection to ensure all of the bulbs lit.

3rd Gen 3 D ML300LX Mag with borofloat lens

I just switched out a 3AA Mag LED circa 2008 for a 2AA Energizer neutral triple in my daily driver. Within a week after, had to use it when I found I had a slow leak in one tire on the day I'd forgotten my EDC.

I keep a Nitecore MT26, an Olight T10 and Fenix E20 (with lithium AA primaries) in my car console. There's also an Olight S10-L2 in my Get Home Bag in the trunk. Ever since I've had trouble with accidental activation with the S10-L2 I've decided it's still a good light, but not for EDC (for me). So I've got plenty of lights in the car when needed or if I'd ever forget my EDC.

In our dedicated Truck bag, we [currently] have an Acebeam K60 and Fenix HL55 headlamp.

And in the glovebox of each vehicle there's a Fenix TK09 (450 lumen).

surefire 6p w/ malkoff dropin, lithium primaries only.

None yet. Thinking about placing the Olight S2A, with yellow sleeve, in the glove box.

I use my car flashlight almost never, so it's an older Fenix PD32UE I don't mind sacrificing. Running on 2xCR123 since I totally cooked an 18650 by leaving it in there for over a year.

Surefire P2X Fury, dual ouput, with CR123 primaries.

Currently have a Fenix TK41 and TK45 ina bag which gets switched between whichever vehicle I'm driving. I also have my regular edc bag with which goes with me everywhere and in it there is a Fenix CL25R, Fenix E21, and Fenix HL35. I also keep a small diffuser/traffic wand in my bag for the e21. In the near future I hope to add a dedicated Fenix CL20 and E20 to both vehicles so I know for certain there are always lights in each vehicle.

I have a Maglite ML25LT running 2 Eneloop AAs In c cell adapters dedicated to my center console of my car I check It and Inspect the batteries regularly

A 4D Mag with an old Terra-LUX LED drop-in,a 2D-cell Energizer with a 10MM LED drop-in and a 2AA Energizer Industrial with an old LUX 1 Dorcy LED drop-in.All lights using L91 lithium AAs(AA to D adapters in the D cells).Also have a Mag traffic wand that will fit the Mag or D cell Energizer. Nothing overly impressive but reliable with decent run-time. Will probably add in the Energizer 6V lantern(U.S. version of the LED Dolphin). I have seen some very impressive car kits on here,the subject comes up from tome to time, but I don't like leaving expensive lights in my truck.

In addition to the lights I carry on my person every day, in a few weeks or less I plan to put a Little Larry 250-lumen light into my dashboard with 3 AA Lithium batteries since they will not fail me in the winter.

Given that Montana just experienced some very heavy snows a few days ago, this just can't happen too soon!

Currently there is a SF C3 with a Malkoff M91w on 3 primaries in my main vehicle. 2 boxes of SF primaries in the center console. A SF E1L Outdoorsman lives in the backpack that usually rides with me. A box of cells lives with the E1L.