Hello people.  At this time of year me and the mrs like to take off in the wagon on a road trip for a good few weeks, all over the central and north of the country.  Obviously we stay in hotels every night but a big part of the fun for us is kipping in the back of the wagon in between places if we are nackered, pulling in at a nice big PTT.  We fold all the back seats down flat and  have like a roll out mattress with duvet and pillows, keep the engine running to power the air con, stick a movie on the laptop, its a good crack believe it or not, although it probably sounds realy naff!

 

I just found out that this can kill you though!  A mate of mine warned mne on carbon monoxide poisoning through leaving the engine running and google turned up lots of hits warning about the dangers.  It seems if your exhaust has a fault/leak and also the car has some form of 'hole' or crack - the CM can leak in and kill you.  This is a proper bummer as its a right fun part of our road trips, jumping in the back there, maybe having a quick roll around and kicking back with a bit of Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones after, you known the score.

 

Does anyone else kip in there motor like this?  Is it only a worry in older cars?  Would a CM alarm that you use at home do the job inside the car?

 

Many thanks

 

TLS

Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hope your shockers are up to it!!!!!!!!!

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Do you read the news?  

 

I'd be more worried that a gang of scooter delinquents filling up would notice, and be knocking on the windows wanting their turn.  And not taking no for an answer.

 

Or at the very least, being on the front page of the news some day with a half dozen cops pointing at my blurred out junk in the back of the car.

Edited November 30, 20169 yr by impulse

Just buy one of those CO-alarms

Don't come a knockin' when the wagon is a rockin'

We do this often but we don't use a service area we tend to find a very quite spot off road slightly. And we don't sleep in car with engine running recipe for death I'm afraid. if we sleep in car we use a small 12v fan run on a spare battery we carry. normally we sleep in the back of the pick up fold down mattress we have high greedy bars on the back so we throw a make shift mozzie net over and tuck it under mattress. it works very well.

Edited November 30, 20169 yr by Deepinthailand

This is one of the most bizarre topics I've seen in a long time.

I can understand sleeping in your own vehicle in countries like the US where even basic motels are 80 or 90 dollars per night and cheap hotels are confined to crime infested urban jungles.

But Thailand???

Here you are spoiled for choice when it comes to affordable accommodation.

That has been one of the good things about this country that hasn't changed in the 30+ years since I first came here.

8 hours ago, MisterTee said:

This is one of the most bizarre topics I've seen in a long time.

I can understand sleeping in your own vehicle in countries like the US where even basic motels are 80 or 90 dollars per night and cheap hotels are confined to crime infested urban jungles.

But Thailand???

Here you are spoiled for choice when it comes to affordable accommodation.

That has been one of the good things about this country that hasn't changed in the 30+ years since I first came here.

Different strokes for different folks - but for some suspect affordable is not the same price point as for others.  Free is still cheaper than a couple hundred baht - but it may be a poor choice; especially if keeping a vehicle running is involved.  We are not Ice Road Truckers.  

9 hours ago, MisterTee said:

This is one of the most bizarre topics I've seen in a long time.

I can understand sleeping in your own vehicle in countries like the US where even basic motels are 80 or 90 dollars per night and cheap hotels are confined to crime infested urban jungles.

But Thailand???

Here you are spoiled for choice when it comes to affordable accommodation.

That has been one of the good things about this country that hasn't changed in the 30+ years since I first came here.

There are times whilst out and about driving the roads when sometimes making it to the next hotel isn't possible.

We never plan when we go out and about exploring the vast country side. so there are days when finding a hotel is not possible. Or a bit of wild camping as such ticks our boxes. 

In one of our SUVs the seats basically fold down flat from front to rear.....Recently we went to look at the sunflowers.....They wanted to camp out but not bring the good tent or the Coleman stuff....

We gave the girls the tent made for the car.....

About 3 in the morning the girls were in with us as the heavy fog had sopped through the cheap tent....

In the US sometimes I'd nap between games in a car with the A/C on in the hot states like NV, AZ,UT,CA.....Never had any problems - but felt uneasy about it even though I Knew their exhausts were 100%......There's always those sporatic news stories about people that didn't wake up.....

 

There's so many good places to stay for minimal cost everywhere that it makes RV, car, tent camping more trouble than it's worth unless for the adventure - or a driving rest stop when too tired to drive....

Edited December 1, 20169 yr by pgrahmm