Top 12 Car Accessories for Summer 2023
Trips to the beach. Road trip adventures. Long drives to nowhere in particular. Your car sees a lot of miles in the summertime — and when you take care of your vehicle, it can take you farther. Discover our top picks for your vehicle’s interior and exterior to help make this summer one to remember!
Best Interior Car Accessories
Floor protection is a must-have, especially in the summer. Dirt and sand love to make their way into your car’s carpets — never to be vacuumed out! Really, you could spend hours trying to get it all, but there’s always just a little bit left. Save yourself the headache with full coverage defense against a sandy, dirt invasion.
Interior Detailing Wipes
Sunscreen smears on the steering wheel, footprints on the dash and melted ice cream in the cup holders — all caused by summertime fun. Don’t let the stress of messes ruin the mood. Detailing wipes make cleanup quick and easy, so you can get back to having fun in the sun.
Warm weather is road trip weather. Filling the trunk up to the brim with camping gear can quickly turn into, "The cooler leaked everywhere!" or "Ugh, the tent got everything all muddy." Mishaps are inevitable; stop them from ruining your car and your trip with custom-fit protection.
Summer adventures to new places can be exciting. Unless you miss a turn and get lost. An adjustable phone holder for easy, hands-free viewing of your GPS is a must-have when traveling to new parks, beaches or campgrounds.
Car Seat Gap Filler
We’ve all done it — dropped our phone into that black hole between our seat and the center console. It’s awful. Especially when you were playing DJ on the road trip and the music stops — or worse — plays a song you hate. A car seat gap filler easily makes this terrifying scenario a thing of the past by helping make sure your phone is never out of reach.
Summertime backyard barbeques often require you to bring a little something to the get-together, whether it’s a cooler full of ice, your homemade casserole, just a bag of chips or all of the above! Stop your precious cargo from sliding around in the backseat — at risk of tipping over or breaking — with CargoTech.
Best Exterior Car Accessories
There’s nothing worse than a hot car while it’s raining out. You don’t want to open the windows (you’d get wet) or turn on the air conditioner (you’d get too cold!) Side Window Deflectors make it so you don’t have to choose between being too cold or being too wet. They allow you to crack your windows to cool off in the summer heat, even when it’s raining.
Portable Tire Pump
The last thing you need is to run out of air – air in your tires that is! Having a portable tire pump on hand is a great way to keep your tire pressure at the perfect level on the go. Plus, it’s great to have on hand to quickly blow up bike tires, basketballs or soccer balls that got flat over the winter!
Taking a camping trip to a national park can often lead you off the beaten path. Custom-fit MudFlaps protect your car’s fender and rocker panel against dings and dents from gravel or dirt roads. The scenic route is always a lot prettier when you know it’s not scratching up your paint job.
Roof Rails
Camping gear. Road trip gear. Summer vacation gear. It all needs to come with you, but where on earth do you put it when your cargo area is already full? Roof rails help to expand your vehicle’s carrying capacity, so you don’t have to leave any essentials behind. Plus, it makes bringing your kayak or canoe to the river a lot easier (instead of just sticking it out of your car’s window and hoping for the best)!
If you go off into the wilderness this summer, make sure to pack safety essentials. The Kinetic Recovery Rope System makes a great addition to your emergency bag. This tow rope serves as a shock absorber for a smooth and safe recovery when your vehicle has met its match in the mud. Adding it to your safety checklist means you won’t be left saying, "If only we had the Kinetic Recovery Rope System right now!"
Hitch
Here’s a list of things that won’t fit in your car: boats, campers, trailers, bikes, jet skis, canoes, more than one kayak (probably). The list can go on, but these are the things you can haul up to the lake house or campground when you have a hitch. Summer trips are better when you have a hitch to help you bring everything you need to make it a memorable one.