A variety of car accessories will greatly help you with your journeys, and make your dear friend – your vehicle – the perfect travelling companion in summer. Roof racks are an important addition to your car accessories that lets you move your bulky luggage easily with your car. All-weather car mats are another essential car accessory you must have, keeping your car clean all the time.
Roof racks are great for toting oversized sports equipment, like kayaks and bikes around. Keep recovery straps in your vehicle to help pull or tow out vehicles when stuck.
Roof Racks and Cargo Carriers
If you need to stow heavier gear out of sight and secure, roof racks or cargo carriers are great ways to increase that space – without sacrificing aerodynamics. Sold at most sporting goods or auto parts stores, these carriers come in numerous sizes and styles – from plastic hoop racks that function like portable bicycle racks to heavy-duty sheet metal platforms that you suspend from your roof-rack cross bars – and they are easily affixed with ratchet straps, bungee cords or cargo nets.
They are both quiet and sturdy, but some of their models (like Yakima SkyBox 12 Carbonite or Thule Force XT Sport) are very narrow, meaning fewer storage spaces can fit in each of them.
GPS Navigation Systems
Modern GPS technology have unlocked more opportunities for adventurous experiences in the outdoors. Since it has emerged, GPS has made it easier and more accurate to locate ourselves and track where we are in wilderness environments and discover new things compared with using just paper maps, compasses or landmarks.
Modern Global Positioning System (GPS) devices allows you to personalise it to your taste including travel types or preferences as to never take a highway or to use the toll road for safety and convenience. Personalisation enhances safety so as comfort.
While GPS devices let users send their location via messaging apps, travellers, preppers and survivalists exploring outside the limited range of the cellular network can still utilise them to connect to people and meeting points in case an emergency arises on their path during group outings or search and rescue operations.
Vehicle Trackers
Vehicle trackers make outdoor expeditions more enjoyable by improving navigation and safety. The real-time location tracking capabilities of the trackers, let the adventurers to explore the unfamiliar territory easily.
With a GPS device, additional adventure risks like getting lost can be reduced because routes can be planned ahead as well as after trips to help store memories. And most devices come with a SOS feature so that emergency services can be dialed up rapidly if anything goes wrong during your adventure.
Parents might take advantage of them to reach a compromise between free-range parenting and authoritarian parenting – mom and dad can keep tabs on the driving habits of their kids, and so their teens won’t speed or blow through red lights. Businesses might use them to track their fleets of vehicles and tools.
Jump Starters
And while a road trip can be an unforgettable adventure, the peace of mind that comes with being prepared for anything also allows you to reduce your ecological footprint along the way. A car jump starter makes sure the trip stays on track without the carbon footprint it otherwise would.
While they look like hand-held power banks, they are equipped with a 12-volt outlet. This is where special booster cables are plugged in, which enables them to jump-start a vehicle with a dead battery. Make sure that the peak current and cranking amp of the device you buy can match the power requirements of your vehicle.
With reverse polarity protection and spark-proof connections, you avoid both injury to yourself and damage of your engine. Features such as USB ports or power outlets come included on some devices, letting you use them as battery banks for any other electronic peripherals.
Awnings
Modern awnings can instantly provide shelter from heat or sudden rain, thus turning any vehicle into a home from home.
For car campers, road trippers or overland explorers, at least one of these versatile tent accessories should grab a place in your car camping set up to enable fast setup and easy use. Opt for designs with retractable or roll-out features to facilitate swift setup and easy use.
Your awning can become the epicentre of your tailgate party. Imagine attaching a projector to your awning and laying out under the stars for a moonlight nature cinema – combined with the ability to lie flat, cook, lounge, dine, etc – all the benefits in the 270 degree area of coverage.
First Aid Kits
Any car or vehicle when heading out for an outdoor adventure must have a first aid kit attached. These kits provide a certain set of items such as dressings and bandages, as well as more vital items such as a first aid kit or life jackets if an accident or emergency situation occurs.
The best first-aid kits are rugged with premium components such as heavy-duty medical tape rolls, Moleskin pads, three sizes of Band-Aids in three sizes (and three corresponding types of bandage shapes), tweezers and CPR masks. And they must be built to survive the backcountry use — clipped to a climbing harness and tossed around, stored when rafting and submerged on swims.
Some kits have items packaged with an inventory list so it’s easy to order refills and others, like Adventure Medical Kits Ultralight Watertight.7, come in rugged carrying cases with some of the strongest watertight zippers we’ve seen.