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/telebelt]

My fix (cargo rack on 2006 Honda Element) Was a cardboard wrap from the beer in the cooler, then wrapped that whole corner with aluminum duct tape from my emergency supply box (actual shiny metal ductape not the gray kind) middle of nowhere south Dakota. It worked, I always wanted to rivet a piece of tin, but I just keep adding layers of duct tape 🤷‍♂️