Another Prius Car Camping Set Up Video - Refinements

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.

 

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?

 

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.

 

Maybe, but not with a Gen 4 Prius as they're not cleared for towing in USA

 

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.

 

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.

 

Sweet! I gotta love a camping trip like yours.