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Another Prius Car Camping Set Up Video - Refinements

Discussion in 'Gen 4 Prius Main Forum' started by JimmyPri, Sep 4, 2017.

  1. JimmyPri

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    I just posted another Prius car camping video about impoving the experience.

     
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    I love your videos. Very informative for someone who wants to soak up everything about Prius. Thank you.


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    Cool video. I wish I could manage this with my dog but she's an "in your face dog." An added plus is she vomits every time we go anywhere. I put a U shaped thingy in the back and lots of towels. When she does her deed, I roll up the towel and stick it in a plastic bag. If she ever gets used to car travel, she can sit up front which will give me more traveling options.
     
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    Thank you for the comment Ferrarilover and thanks for watching. I have other types of car, camping, nature, and garden videos on my youtube channel. But I don't post them here since they don't involve the Prius. My channel is Wonderful Wandering Topics.
     
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    Thanks for the comment MichelleStone and thanks for watching. Sorry to hear you can't camp with your dog in the car.
     
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    Really enjoy your videos. So far you're the only person I've come across to car camp in a gen 4 on youtube. Hope to get one myself eventually and try some camping myself. Recall you mentioning about having to keep the windows ajar because the battery gives off fumes?
     
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    Thanks for your comment and for watcing my videos. I feel safer with a window cracked open, actually two windows. I don't know for sure if there always fumes being given off maybe someone on this chat knows. But even if not unusual things once in a while happen. I feel it is better to be safe accidents sometimes happen in situations that weren't supposed work that way.
     
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    I have an oversize teardrop camper that I am not entirely happy with, because I don't like parking next to semi trucks in rest stops at night. Had I known about Prius camping, when I owned my Gen 2, I might have tried car camping.
    A harborfreight.com, small size ATV cargo carrier, item #69858, would allow a person to have a rear storage trunk-
    the rack weights 26 lbs.
     
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    Maybe, but not with a Gen 4 Prius as they're not cleared for towing in USA
     
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    The rear cargo carrier, attaches to a regular frame hitch= the same kind used for a bike rack. I made several trips to get gasoline for my generator this past week ( Hurricane Irma's aftermath) and I commented to the wife how I needed just such a rack. I didn't like putting a 5 gallon can of gasoline in the back of our Dodge minivan or my Chevy HHR- I even bagged it in a garbage bag.
    My Chevrolet HHR is rated for a 1000 lb trailer- and I exceeded that load by about 50% with my camper and gear- never once saw hot water temps and I got 16-18 mpg.
     
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    Yeah, well.......... then there is this. Just returned from a 6300 mile trip towing my small camper. It tows nicely tyvm. All those states since thanksgiving, in a Prius towing a trailer, go figure. This trip I towed it to the top of pikes peak. Transmission fluid temps never got above 180. The gen4 is rated to tow in Europe.


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    Sweet! I gotta love a camping trip like yours.:)
     
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    Thanks for your information. The Prius isn't set up to tow in the US