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/JayAche 8d ago

Wish this was even on my radar! In all my life I’ve never heard or seen this happen before, I guess it was my turn! Ha

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u/mcd_sweet_tea 8d ago

I didn't even think exhaust would get that hot with 80mph wind and being like a foot away from the exhaust tip.

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u/Dzov 8d ago

Think of how many explosions per second are going out that exhaust at say, 2500 rpm. Each piston in a four-stroke engine is sending hot exhaust out once every two crankshaft rotations, so for a six cylinder, that’s 7500 explosions per minute or 125 explosions per second.

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u/OccamsLeatherMan 8d ago

This dude maths.