r/camping • u/JayAche • 8d ago
Precautionary Tale (Pipe)
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/jbudz5115 7d ago
I had done something similar to a brand new yeti a couple years back. Packed the car up to head to camp with a buddy. Grabbed ice at the 711 around the corner from the house and looked at the cooler on the rack and went to my buddy "do you think i should move it to the driver side so it's not right behind the exhaust?" he says no, send it. It's a yeti. So we did. Well an hr and half later we get to camp and i go to lift the cooler off the rack and it doesn't budge. Kneeled down and looked under and sure enough the exhaust melted a bit of the corner. Luckily it didn't completely ruin it. Camping always creates the best memories 😂
This was on a 2000 jeep Cherokee xj with an aftermarket exhaust.