We Tried Car Products from Kickstarter

Kickstarter is home to good and bad ideas, so we tested car products to find out if they're as life-changing as they say.

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[timb]

It's called "Boosted Safe" because it clips in where a booster seat would normally clip in. (Trust me. I'm a dad.)

[nicholasbentley]

As a mechanic with 2 herniated discs, the versatire hanger definitely would bring the most benefit to my life. I hope it goes into production in the future, or ill just make my own lol

[TimBass]

That autowit box is actually a lot cooler than a normal battery box. It's a capacitor so it charges from your mostly dead battery then uses that power to give you a jump start.

[Lumberjack_NCR]

I would say that the VersaTire holder, these items are a damn life saver working at a dealership and constantly pulling wheels off of cars, since I do a lot of oil change and tire rotates, it sucks having to bend over to pick up the wheels, like the small wheels aren’t bad at all, it’s the big truck tires and shit that hurt

[Boxer]

I love that they showed the Coolest Cooler as an example of good things that come from kickstarter. It ended up being one of the largest failures

[TrackSol]

Man James Golf is pretty sweet. Y'all should do a series where each of you do a single mod/upgrade to your personal cars.

[KL-ltrc]

Problem with the safe is that the burglar has to break into your car before they know they can't steal it. So you still end up needing a new window.

[BigBear--]

Boosted Safe apparently now offers an actual "booster seat disguise" to cover the safe in the backseat. Now it just looks like a children's car seat. Pretty awesome!

[canadianblizzard]

I actually have one of those hudways and I've found that it's a great idea which in practice is a little inconvenient. For example, in my SUV the seating position is quite high and so I end up looking down at it and taking my eyes off the road anyways. Another thing is that you need at least a foot of space ideally on top of your instrument cluster to stick the thing, so if you have a low clearance windshield or an instrument cluster that slopes down in behind, it won't fit. Also I've found the projected display is a little fuzzy, but if you can mount it in a place where it's actually in front of your view while driving, it's a solid little thing.

[eric]

I'd like to see the Lockpicking Lawyer go at the Boosted Safe. It looks like the sort of thin sheet metal safe that can be popped open with any number of improvised tools, and like it has a combination lock that can be decoded by hand as fast as it would take to put in the combination normally.

[rengonzalez]

"Kickstarter is the birthplace of some really good..."

(Shows the Coolest Cooler, doesn't get released to most backers, considered a failure)

[FrancoDFernando]

Got straight up scammed the first and only time I tried buying anything from a kickstarter campaign....never again. I don't care if it looks like a great product, and it seems like the campaign and company has a good track record. I'll pay full price and wait till it comes to a regular store front.

[Mcowling]

1:11 irony is that - 40 in Celsius and Fahrenheit are actually equal.

[toolbaggers]

FYI - negative 40 degrees is the same for all temperature scales. -40 celsius = -40 Fahrenheit and there are no negative numbers in absolute scales like kelvin and Rankin.

[christofermusic]

i remember when Justin started at Donut. he's come so far in his confidence in front of the camera!

[carwerks]

The tire hanger is actually awesome, most dealers run these but they bolt onto the lifts, we have 20 lifts and I had our dealer purchase 4 for each rack, def a back saver

[BoneStack]

To the editor that is inserting Captain Falcon "Yes!" SFX into the videos lately, I see you and I love you

[renchesandsords]

for the tyre magnet, it's likely a switchable magnet, similar to the ones used for welding

[tonyjolley]

I hope that dust free thing is anti static, because I can imagine pulling it out of its storage, having static attract all the dust on the ground to the inside of the bag, and then dragging all that grit across your paint as you pull the bag over your car.

[rallywagon]

LPL would have that booster safe open in 2 seconds. Those dial style locks can generally be popped open sliding a shim in through one of the dial and pressing the internal mechanism to release the latch.