What are some must haves in your toolbox?

This should probably be in the sticky.

>slide hammer
>puller kit

Nice service tier-stuff
>digital caliper
>micrometer
>soldering kit
>heat gun

I keep one standard medium-size wrench around and use it for doubling. No broken ratchet wrenches yet.

I always use nails and sheet metal screws when I am working on my car. You always need to have these around.

Zip ties if you really get into a bind.

60+ piece metric/imp socket set
Ratchet spanners
Screwdrivers
Pliers, cutters
Blades
Random assortment of bolts, screws and hose clamps

Dynamite.
Could be useful.

Torx bits
>I always need T27 and most of the time I cant find it.
Socket set. 1/4 3/8 1/2, Metric and SAE
Torque Wrenches 3/8 and 1/2
Those worthless plastic trim pullers
>Basically useless for releasing door panel clips
>Going to try a metal one
Full set of box end spanners

tools

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More importantly, what tools should you carry in your car all the time?

a cell phone to call a tow truck

Only if you work on chevys tho

A window breaker/belt cutter, preferably in the center console. Jumper cables. A small socket/ratchet set, metric. Screwdrivers.

wrenches
rubber hammer
penetrating oil

>>battery powered impact

Has changed my life.

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Air tools save my life
My father constantly requests help with his industrial cars and taking off the tires is a real bitch without a high impact wrench
also blowing compressed air onto the brakes to clean them is great, easy as fuck
when welding on some real /diy/ shit an air sander is fucking amazing to clean a rusty spot prior to welding
>tl;dr get an air compressor with some tools to go with it, its useful as fuck

Ratcheting wrenches. Seriously someone should give the guy who invented those 72 virgins

Boring, I enjoy smashing my knuckles off metal, that's how my daddy did it and his daddy

take a lot of tires off, do you?

Jumper cables, road flares, window breaker in the glovebox, a tire iron and a 10mm ratchet because most of the bolts on my car are 10mm, also a phillips head and some channel locks

if youre doing it professionally or for fun?
if professionally literally almost every tool will come in handy at least once

>bushings

You have a mobile press?

>hurt you can just press them in with a straight board and 2 buddies

You are better off just driving on the wrecked bushing. Trust me you can do that for thousands of miles.

if you don't have one of these, you probably shouldn't be on Veeky Forums

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Multiple 10mm sockets. Cause you will lose that fucker.

The really strange part is I find other techs tools sitting on underbody covers, under seats, in dashes, etc. but I've never found a 10mm socket. Where do they go? This is not a "haha yep man all techs know about this" joke, it's a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Are they rolling down storm drains into the ocean?

gremlins

WHY IS THIS SO TRUE?

The great beyond. That's where they go. But then as soon as you get another one, the one that was lost suddenly appears in your toolbox.

Same concept as this

Flare nut wrenches for brake lines

No, I just live in the midrust.