What’s the most irritating part about working on your car? Is it the wild yoga poses you have to reach to get to those tricky to access bolts, or perhaps it’s the fiddly screws that wear away the skin on your fingers whenever you try to turn them. For some people, it’s something as simple as their dust caps rolling away whenever they top their tires with air. Thankfully, there’s an easy hack to prevent that from happening
Are you familiar with Crocs? They’re a kind of rubbery slipper/sandal hybrid that was big in the early 2000s and has made a huge comeback in recent years. They’re pretty comfy, can be endlessly personalized and come with neat little charms that you can pop in the holes that cover their surfaces.
It isn’t those charms and personalization opportunities that help with your runaway dust caps, however. Instead, it’s just the design of the shoes themselves.
It turns out that the holes that cover the surface of a Croc are perfectly sized to hold your dust cap whenever you take it off and top your tire up with air. Simply pop it into any of the 13 holes that cover each shoe and you’re away! No more rolling valve covers that can be lost into the ether whenever you lose site of them.
This handy little hack was brought to our attention by Instagram user OutsideBrenden, who has a reputation for nifty uses for the plastic shoes. In the past, he’s fashioned all kinds of accessories that can fasten onto Crocs, including cycling cleats, patch repair kits and even a laser-based anti-theft device. He’s a true pioneer in the Crocs world, I assure you.
But this can’t be the only handy hack that can save you from several minutes-worth of frustration. What top tips have you got for keeping track of those fiddly components you find on your car? Let us know in the comments section below.