What do you store in your engine compartment? On the passenger side where it looks as a battery should be there. I just bought this car, and i am planning to store some tools and stuff and emergency stuff in it but what do you persoannly store in thie area?

What do you store in your engine compartment? On the passenger side where it looks as a battery should be there. I just bought this car, and i am planning to store some tools and stuff and emergency stuff in it but what do you persoannly store in thie area?


air :devillook

your maxima looks pretty good, gonna have to show that to my fiance, she's wanting to upgrade from her 95 altima...

... I always try to keep a kilo or two on hand, just in case of emergencies.

A kilo of twenties, that is.:cool

lol, just the other day i found a random water bottle in there. apparently my friend put it in there and forgot about it. it was there for a couple of weeks until i noticed. haha.

air :devillook

your maxima looks pretty good, gonna have to show that to my fiance, she's wanting to upgrade from her 95 altima...

i love my max......it is a great car. Only bad thing is the chassis sucks and when you drop it, no matter what you use it rides real harsh. If she want to upgrade go with the 02+ modles. Bigger motor, very quick, and good improvment over the older models.

What do you store in your engine compartment? On the passenger side where it looks as a battery should be there. I just bought this car, and i am planning to store some tools and stuff and emergency stuff in it but what do you persoannly store in thie area?

I guess you could fill it with ice for a cooler, might not do so well next to the exhaust, If it were bigger my train horn compressor would be in there.:evil2

i love my max......it is a great car. Only bad thing is the chassis sucks and when you drop it, no matter what you use it rides real harsh. If she want to upgrade go with the 02+ modles. Bigger motor, very quick, and good improvment over the older models.

Lol, but yours is lighter. Not a fan of the vq35 models, even the newer ones. I've heard wonders with just the MEVI, Y pipe, b pipe and muffler.

grilled cheese

There is a compartment in your trunk that hold tools to change tires and that. I also store some jumper cables, just incase

There is a compartment in your trunk that hold tools to change tires and that. I also store some jumper cables, just incase

i don't need jumper cables, i got feet, and a clutch :alright

i don't need jumper cables, i got feet, and a clutch :alright

Me too, but in case in winter, or some where i can't roll it. I got them.

Expect the unexpected.

Me too, but in case in winter, or some where i can't roll it. I got them.

Expect the unexpected.

texas doesn't have much winter :alright and i always park in a place i can roll, though not intentionally, my driveway is on a slope and i always back in, and at work the parking lot is slightly sloped... plus, if you can push it backwards or forwards, you can push start it, if you do it backwards you just use reverse instead of first :redspot

Well, I LOVE WINTER!

snowboarding FTW!

my driveway i sloped also. But you never know

So, what actually goes in that compartment from the factory? I've seen some photos of engine compartments with something in there, but I couldn't tell what it was.

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abs controller??? I store a fresh bottle of scotch, If I need to open the hood for anything its ussually followed by a wallet numbing couple of pulls from the bottle...makes the spending less painfull

abs controller??? I store a fresh bottle of scotch, If I need to open the hood for anything its ussually followed by a wallet numbing couple of pulls from the bottle...makes the spending less painfull

hahaha......good idea, I acually keep a bottle in my spare tirè storeage tray.I think I am going to but an emergency kit, and oil etc in there

OIL and Power Steering (ATF) fluid..... Hopefully fixing the infamous hose clamps will eliminate one of these frequently needed supplies...

DSC module, I don't have the drug box :(

abs controller???

er.. no.... nor is it the stability control (DSC). Both of those controllers are about the size of a hand held multimeter, far too small for that large opening. I have to assume it's where the battery was once stored and the location has since changed but the area under hood has not. I have to check the pictures of the 335i that I had as a loaner and see if the space still exists in the newer body style.

Just a shot in the dark here but I think it is there to fit all the equipment needed for the right hand version as the box is there on both sides or maybe just for tea and crumpit!:69

That area was for the DSC/ASC modules prior to the introduction of the Continental Teves Mk60 system.

I don't store anything there, but the owner of one car I looked at had a jug of coolant in there. He seemed rather alarmed when he noticed it had been left it in there...not a good thing for a prospective buyer to see, and very telling about the car :nono

I dont' think anything should be stored in the engine compartment except an engine :devillook

I dont' think anything should be stored in the engine compartment except an engine :devillook

+1

i dont want stuff moving around inside my engine compartment when i take my baby out for a good drive.

Just a shot in the dark here but I think it is there to fit all the equipment needed for the right hand version as the box is there on both sides or maybe just for tea and crumpit!:69

That is correct.

I personally store nothing but air in there... But, I did see someone put a speaker in there...?

Lol, I dont know either... I guess if you have done everything possible to your car, and you are sleeping on money, and wipe your aiss with it, then I guess it's something u could do...

Storing tools in there sounds like a reasonable idea, though... I guess.

Tools are probably better off in the trunk. I like the jumper cable idea, though.