What do you carry in your VX?

[VX KAT]

Good lord! Do you people get like 10 miles per gallon with all that junk in the trunk? Seems like many of you are ready for the zombie appocolypse right now.

Wow Kat! You gots alots of stuff

No, No, No boyz, I combined everybody's lists, I'm not trying to be like Ted Kaczynski living in a cabin ! And Mark I WAS going to make that EXACT joke (very weird!) but then everybody usually takes me too seriously if I mention MPG, and gawd knows what would happen if I mentioned "junk in the trunk".... so I decided to skip it Glad you said it though!

[Triathlete]

Good lord! Do you people get like 10 miles per gallon with all that junk in the trunk?

Nope, I get 16-17 in town and 19-21 on the highway WITH lift and big heavy tires!

[Marlin]

Nope, I get 16-17 in town and 19-21 on the highway WITH lift and big heavy tires!

Damn, thats pretty good. I get 12 around town and 15-17 on hwy. I am running rich for some reason though, no smoke, but I can smell it. I have noticed no difference from the light weight AT2s to the HEAVY kevlar mudders. I think the roof rack is killing me a bit.

[Triathlete]

Roof rack will kill gas mileage for sure...more so on the highway than in town...to keep on topic,thats why you keep all the junk in the trunk Heavier tires will heart more in town than on the open highway...once you get them up to speed they maintain it better.

[Marlin]

I have considered taking it off, but cosmetically, I think its awesome, and then where would I mount my CB antenna?!!!

[alanbradley]

I always have a fire extinguisher and tools to change the wheel (proper ones rather than the mickey mouse wheel wrench that comes with that VX). There's also some spare oil, paper towel, headlight bulbs, a cheap but comprehensive socket set/tool kit, an ice scraper, spare fuses and a head torch.

When i go off-roading the tool kit gets stepped up and the "big green box" gets added. It contains tow straps of various lengths, a "bungee"-type tow strap, a work lamp and miscellaneous other useful stuff as well as itself - its strong enough to act as a 1 1/2 foot step to help get stuff on and off the roof.

I try and carry a fully-size spare when I'm off-roading too.

I'm sure I've missed stuff too.

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[pbkid]

i too, like alan, carry different things depending on what im doing. i have 3 different boxes that get switched around...

one for summer/general road trip stuff...(which stays in all the time)
one for winter which contains cold survival stuff and tow straps.
and the last for camping/wheeling which contains outdoor survival/wheeling comprehensive stuff....