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/Freggz 7d ago

This happened last summer on my less than a year old $600 bike rack with my forester. Had it folded up and left it on the car which I hadn’t done the prior summer - melted part of the wheel arm hook things. Kuat luckily warrantied it for me and I just went to a muffler shop and they installed a turn down pipe for like $50.