GuliblGuy
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Wife and I stayed in the back of the car this weekend out in Ocotillo Wells, CA in the desert. Put the car into a manual "camp mode" since there is no official one out yet (hopefully one day).
Pushed front seats all the way forward and tilted all the way forward, put these behind the front seats to fill the void:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0953QG2MQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Used this mattress:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MYDXD43/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Started the car, turned off auto off 30 min timer, turned off headlights, set temp to 66 degrees on auto 2, put screen in calm mode, and went to sleep. The void fillers come with sleep masks which worked great once the sun was coming up, so that allowed us to sleep in.
Overall, it was the best sleep we have had out there since the climate control was WAY better than a tent. Just a little cramped left to right, but more than enough room for us both to stretch out top to bottom. We used 5% of the battery overnight each night. Lows were in the mid 50s so it wasn't having to work too hard in the middle of the night, but gets hot quick when the sun comes up.
14-50 plug I installed a couple weeks before the car arrived also worked great so we had no problem charging out there!
--3/9/23 edit - some additional thoughts I've had since I wrote this.
We turned off the interior lights automatically turning on when a door is open, as the lights being on when we were getting in at night was attracting bugs.
You might want to turn profiles off during this, as if you are walking around with the key and come back to the car the seat might go back to your preferred position messing up the mattress/void fillers.
We keep a microfiber towel that we use to clean the touchscreen in the car; we put that over the IPC to block some of the light. An extra one to drape over the main screen would help with some light pollution as well in the car. Also some people can't stand the little blue lights by the map lights button, people have used webcam covers to cover those up.
Pushed front seats all the way forward and tilted all the way forward, put these behind the front seats to fill the void:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0953QG2MQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Used this mattress:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MYDXD43/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Started the car, turned off auto off 30 min timer, turned off headlights, set temp to 66 degrees on auto 2, put screen in calm mode, and went to sleep. The void fillers come with sleep masks which worked great once the sun was coming up, so that allowed us to sleep in.
Overall, it was the best sleep we have had out there since the climate control was WAY better than a tent. Just a little cramped left to right, but more than enough room for us both to stretch out top to bottom. We used 5% of the battery overnight each night. Lows were in the mid 50s so it wasn't having to work too hard in the middle of the night, but gets hot quick when the sun comes up.
14-50 plug I installed a couple weeks before the car arrived also worked great so we had no problem charging out there!
--3/9/23 edit - some additional thoughts I've had since I wrote this.
We turned off the interior lights automatically turning on when a door is open, as the lights being on when we were getting in at night was attracting bugs.
You might want to turn profiles off during this, as if you are walking around with the key and come back to the car the seat might go back to your preferred position messing up the mattress/void fillers.
We keep a microfiber towel that we use to clean the touchscreen in the car; we put that over the IPC to block some of the light. An extra one to drape over the main screen would help with some light pollution as well in the car. Also some people can't stand the little blue lights by the map lights button, people have used webcam covers to cover those up.
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