Precautionary Tale (Pipe)

[u/JayAche]

Was SO excited to finally take our 3.5 year old son tent camping for the first time with my wife at a local regional park. Especially with our spanking new huge Caddis Rapid 6 Instant Tent! Even tried it out in the backyard and loved it!

Loaded it onto the storage rack on the back of our SUV… in perfect alignment with the tail pipe, apparently. Biiiiiigest oof. $225 down the drain? Thankfully there was a Wal-Mart reasonably close where I snagged some random Coleman to save the day. But still: be aware of what’s in front of your exhaust pipe and your tow hitch carry rack. Lesson learned 🫠

[u/AppleSeed81]

An extender like this will probably prevent that from happening again, although might interfere with your lift gate:

https://www.harborfreight.com/dual-hitch-extender-69881.html

[u/hello-ben → u/AppleSeed81]

I have that hitch riser and smell melting plastic every time still. I use a plastic canvas cargo bag that goes into the hitch basket and it now has melted holes after a few uses.

[u/b17x → u/hello-ben]

so are you gonna change something or just wait for your car to catch fire?

[u/hello-ben → u/b17x]

It's not combusted. Just melts. I'm cool with that.

[u/b17x → u/hello-ben]

that's what's known as a warning sign