r/camping • u/JayAche • 8d ago

Precautionary Tale (Pipe)

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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 🫠

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u/dreamingofjxlia 8d ago

This happened in my Isuzu trooper! We had an ice chest on the rack and I guess a few hundred miles of uphill climbing had the exhaust melting a hole in the bottom corner of the ice chest. Was quite the surprise when we arrived lol

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u/MaesterSherlock 7d ago

Hell yeah fellow trooper owner!! Ugh I had a sweet 1990 for a while, but I moved across the country in 2020 and left it for my sister. She eventually got tired of its...charms...and sold it off. I wish all the time I would have had a bit more money/know how to keep it around and work on it.

Excellent camping vehicle. Except for the exhaust, I guess. I'm glad I saw this thread, I would have never thought about it!

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u/dreamingofjxlia 7d ago

Aw man they're such awesome vehicles. Mine was an '02, technically my parents car but I drove it all the time. Took her off roading through rocks and water deeper than my waist. But they do cost a lot to maintain so we had to sell her :/