The capstone on a series of bad events camping this weekend:
I had been very frustrated by rain almost weekend in/around the St. Louis region this spring. I don’t mind a little rain while camping, but for months, any time I could take a Friday off, we had or had forecast for heavy thunderstorms. Not this past Friday, just 90 degrees Friday, 95 Saturday. I figured, “how bad could it be for one night? I had gear. All left over from my MDX.
Roadies rear seat window cover/ screen for both sides and cross ventilation. Worked fine. Front passenger (cheap Amazon) screens were too small for the front windows, fail. SportCove rear hatch cover (leaves the whole rear hatch open and converts area into a awning with tent style zippered screen and closure) which I loved, also was too small. So, down to only rear seat windows open with a screen. I sleep on a Hele bed platform in the cargo area, works fine, I like the firm and flat platform as well as the easy setup/takedown.
So with my jackery powering two usb fans, one aimed to drive cross ventilation through passenger windows and the other aimed at my head, I figured it would be ok. Guessing temp was in the low-mid 80s at 11pm when I crashed. By 1:30am, I was sweating bullets, and decided “the engine is quiet, it’s off 60% (?) of the time just idling and I would put on the AC. No one in the campsites directly on either side of me.
I climb into the drivers seat, push the brake pedal, then the start button, and you would have thought the B2s we’re targeting the Ozark Outdoors campground. The horn started honking, the headlights which I had turned to off started flashing, and sirens started wailing. I woke way the @&#$ up fast! I am not even sure how I got it to stop. I pushed the power button on and off, grabbed the remote and pushed all the buttons, and something made the madness stop, I am not sure what did it. Maybe it went on for 20-30 seconds, but still, at a campground, at 1:30am. Finally settled in for a cool sleep after my adrenaline dropped an hour later when no mob torched my LC like Tesla and no security came.
In the morning, I vaguely remembered, or thought I did, something about “if you lock the vehicle from inside with the fob, you can’t do xyz (start) before doing something else. I used the fob to lock the doors once I climbed into bed. Searched here and online can’t find any answer in the manual.
Any ideas?
Also, to minimize the visibility of my LC running, I turned off the main display via settings, and spread a tshirt over the display behind the steering wheel. Caught a few hours sleep and left early, this event being a capstone of failed fishing, no longer fitting window/hatch gear, etc. NY strip however, turned out great.
I had been very frustrated by rain almost weekend in/around the St. Louis region this spring. I don’t mind a little rain while camping, but for months, any time I could take a Friday off, we had or had forecast for heavy thunderstorms. Not this past Friday, just 90 degrees Friday, 95 Saturday. I figured, “how bad could it be for one night? I had gear. All left over from my MDX.
Roadies rear seat window cover/ screen for both sides and cross ventilation. Worked fine. Front passenger (cheap Amazon) screens were too small for the front windows, fail. SportCove rear hatch cover (leaves the whole rear hatch open and converts area into a awning with tent style zippered screen and closure) which I loved, also was too small. So, down to only rear seat windows open with a screen. I sleep on a Hele bed platform in the cargo area, works fine, I like the firm and flat platform as well as the easy setup/takedown.
So with my jackery powering two usb fans, one aimed to drive cross ventilation through passenger windows and the other aimed at my head, I figured it would be ok. Guessing temp was in the low-mid 80s at 11pm when I crashed. By 1:30am, I was sweating bullets, and decided “the engine is quiet, it’s off 60% (?) of the time just idling and I would put on the AC. No one in the campsites directly on either side of me.
I climb into the drivers seat, push the brake pedal, then the start button, and you would have thought the B2s we’re targeting the Ozark Outdoors campground. The horn started honking, the headlights which I had turned to off started flashing, and sirens started wailing. I woke way the @&#$ up fast! I am not even sure how I got it to stop. I pushed the power button on and off, grabbed the remote and pushed all the buttons, and something made the madness stop, I am not sure what did it. Maybe it went on for 20-30 seconds, but still, at a campground, at 1:30am. Finally settled in for a cool sleep after my adrenaline dropped an hour later when no mob torched my LC like Tesla and no security came.
In the morning, I vaguely remembered, or thought I did, something about “if you lock the vehicle from inside with the fob, you can’t do xyz (start) before doing something else. I used the fob to lock the doors once I climbed into bed. Searched here and online can’t find any answer in the manual.
Any ideas?
Also, to minimize the visibility of my LC running, I turned off the main display via settings, and spread a tshirt over the display behind the steering wheel. Caught a few hours sleep and left early, this event being a capstone of failed fishing, no longer fitting window/hatch gear, etc. NY strip however, turned out great.
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