The AAA 65-Piece Winter Severe Weather Road Assistance Kit is specially designed to deal with cold-weather emergencies. This economical kit has all the basics to keep you warm and assist you with fighting ice and snow. It comes with the following items: 1 AAA single-sided carrying bag, 1 AAA emergency care guide, 1 AAA membership brochure, 1 plastic flashlight with batteries, 1 three-piece fleece set (cap, gloves, and scarf), 1 folding shovel with sheath, 1 ice scraper, 1 LED safety strobe light
$ 28.86
Good starter kit, but NOT as described,
I ordered two of these kits in anticipation for another cold Minnesota winter. I received it within 2 days since I have Amazon Prime. I am pleased with the kit overall, but am disappointed as well.
The kit seems sufficient with plenty to get by if I were to be stranded somewhere in the middle of no where. There’s stuff to keep me warm, safe, and to signal others as well. Everything seems to be of mediocre quality, which is good enough for me.
However, it is different from what is described.
1) No Matches! The set of matches in both sets were replaced with another cheap candle due to shipping restrictions. What good are my 4 candles without matches?
2) The flashlight is NOT a hand-charged dual LED flashlight. Instead it is an ordinary cheap flashlight with two AA batteries.
The waterproof matches and the hand-charged flashlight were definitely selling points, and I’m not so sure I would have bought this particular set if it I knew these pitfalls ahead of time. Nonetheless, I’ll keep them to save myself the hassle since I’m still better with the kits than without them.
I am planning on adding a few items before I chuck it into my trunk. Some hard candy, extra socks, some baggies to keep my feet dry in case I need to trudge through some snow, a container to melt snow in, chapstick, a medium sized and durable container of cat litter, and finally my trusty jumper cables.
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|A good start for a heavy duty emergency kit (good gift, too),
If you are a driver who travels in rough winter weather (or if you know and like such a driver), this is a perfect starter kit to put in the trunk before the first leaves fall. The AAA Winter Travel kit has put together a bunch of survival items that could make the difference between freezing to death or waiting for help in relative comfort. The kit is not 100{660353129f8d892044c993645a1c75194301fec6786a7f617c15adde0b0011e9} complete, no kit could be, but if you add the items that pertain to your personal situation, you will feel a lot better when driving those backwoods roads.
The most useful item, by far, is the enclosed “Emergency Car Care Guide,” which has instructions and suggestions to get your car headed back to safety instead of being stranded at the side of a cold and stormy road. If the car cannot be started again easily, the Guide also contains suggestions on how to keep warm and safe while waiting for rescue. To help, there are emergency candles, a shovel to remove snow from around the car’s tailpipe (keeps away that carbon monoxide), a flashlight and an emergency blanket. The blanket is made of thin, reflective plastic and would be better supplemented with a heavy woolen blanket, or even layers of newspaper in an emergency.
Another thing that the kit does not contain is food and water necessary to stay warm, comfortable and not hungry while waiting. I suggest always having a case package of water bottles (you need a lot more water than food, and three candles won’t melt much snow) and some high calorie snack bars, which last a long time and will provide needed body heat in a winter emergency. Both items can be easily replaced and rotated as time passes, so that the items won’t be old and stale when a real emergency occurs.
As a thoughtful starting point for your kit, this is great, but don’t kid yourself – 46 pieces of the 63 piece kit are the “first aid supplies” (mostly bandages) and “quality vinyl cover.” You need more than this in a winter emergency. An hour’s online research will give you a complete list, to which you need only add something to kill time. A novel from Amazon, perhaps? 🙂
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|Don’t trust the picture or the description!,
As other reviewers have said, the description and pictures are misleading! Unfortunately for me, these reviews didn’t go up until after I put in my order! I am very upset. This is the first time I’ve ever bought something from Amazon and been so misled. And for those that may not have read the other reviews, there is no hand chargeable flashlight or waterproof matches. Matches were replaced by ONE candle due to alleged shipping restrictions. How am I supposed light any of the candles WITHOUT matches?! Also, it is now a 65-piece kit. I don’t know how it compares to the 63-piece kit, but I doubt the 2 extra pieces are anything more significant than bandages. One final thing is that there is a August 2010 expiration date listed on the front of the bag. I haven’t checked to see which item expires, but it probably refers to a minor first aid item.
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