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Originally Posted by YogiPL
Realistically, what tools would you need these days to always have in your car? I thought about it and these are things that make most sense to me:
- a tire pump is always useful (should be a part of your "tire repair kit" that's in your trunk)
- matching security socket for your wheel nuts (if you have them it should be in your trunk)
- maybe a cheap bluetooth OBD scanner?
For everything else you'd need service anyway if it breaks down "on the road".
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From my experience this week, after hitting a pothole, the tyre repair kit would have been useless, and I wasn't going to sit in the car waiting for BMW Assist (who I have previously found to be excellent). My essential add-on was my complete spacesaver kit. 45 minutes or so and I was on my way home. Unfortunately I found that my tyre pump, which had done good service in regular tyre checking, wasn't up to the job of topping up the spare to 60 psi so I had to be extra gentle with only 52 psi on board. New tyre tomorrow and pump going back to Amazon.