The baseline kit every car should carry: handle a dead battery, low tire, minor injury, or an unplanned hour on the shoulder.
Scenario: Your car won’t start in a grocery store parking lot, or you’re pulled over on the highway shoulder at dusk with a tire warning light. Help is coming, but you need light, warmth, and basic tools now.
Cold-season additions that turn a basic car kit into one that can keep you warm and mobile through a snowstorm or overnight strand.
Scenario: A whiteout closes the interstate and traffic stops for four hours, or you slide into a snowbank on a rural road at night. The car may be your shelter until morning.
