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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: jtypecav on 12 July 2012, 10:36:27
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I have to fly abroad on Sunday night - so for Billing I've been looking at not doing a tent and jus-t kipping in the car for a night!
I'm only 5'8 and a bit - has anyone ever put the rear seats down, put something behind that nasty metal ledge and slept there? Or can the rather firm FL MV6 cloth really recline suitably for a night's kip?
Opinions sought!
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Slide legs through the centre arm rest with body in boot blanket over legs and no one will know your in the car asleep ...job done ;)
Not for claustrophobics :(
Take phone with you in case you get stuck in the boot ;D :y
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I'm guessing saloon?
Just about enough room on the back seat if you can sleep curled up.
Plenty of room in an estate for a blow-up airbed. :y
In the front, the leather seats in an MV6 aren't suitable for me to sleep in - not so much because of the firmness,
but simply because they aren't big enough (for me) to find a comfortable position.
The last time I was forced to sleep in the front seat (boot was full) - I ended up *under* the car.
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It's a saloon. I'll give these ideas a 'try'! :)
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Ill be doing EMD's preferable option!
It's actually pretty comfy, and will be more so with a decent amount of padding!
The saloons boot never fails to amaze me (I know it's no estate, but I'ts taken all my gear and two gazeebos, leaving the cabin untouched!
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Slept in my old carltons front seats yrs ago , they were leather and too firm for me to get comfy on as well . At least if your in the boot area you can lay reasonably flat and stretch legs out .. mind you the back seat does look roomy on the saloon but my knees would lock up if i had to sleep with them bent up :(
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I'm guessing saloon?
Just about enough room on the back seat if you can sleep curled up.
Plenty of room in an estate for a blow-up airbed. :y
This may be a longer term plan!
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Coming back from France about 8yrs ago, unable to find a hotel, we slept in the MV6. Stuff on back seat, so slept in front seats. MV6 sports leather.
Never again. Ever.
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Coming back from France about 8yrs ago, unable to find a hotel, we slept in the MV6. Stuff on back seat, so slept in front seats. MV6 sports leather.
Never again. Ever.
;D
I wonder if the cloth seats are more acceptable for bedding :-\
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I was forced to by circumstances .. not the best nights sleep I've had !! ... Drivers seat fully forward then max recline with headrest removed, it gets nearly horizontal but you bang knees on the steering wheel :( seat back to miss the wheel and you can't recline it as far .. so sleep at a funny angle... :(
Bob Dent spent a very comfortable (he said) night in the back of his estate when his tent leaked at The Lakes a few years back ... :)
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Bob Dent spent a very comfortable (he said) night in the back of his estate when his tent leaked at The Lakes a few years back ... :)
But he was in a mucking fuddle
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-10C, Polish Ukrainian border. It was an estate but could only use the front seats due to
the amount of cr*p swmbo's essential travel items on board. ::)
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6'2" and no real complaints :y wouldn't want to live in one though ::)
If you've a flat fold front passenger seat kip in the back with your feet up :y back seat well comfy :y
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I've frequently slept in mine, although mainly catnaps... As Entwood suggests was the best option for me but I didn't recline the seat all the way, then slept using my arm/elbow as a pillow on the rear door (old trucker's trick ;)) :y
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Coming back from France about 8yrs ago, unable to find a hotel, we slept in the MV6. Stuff on back seat, so slept in front seats. MV6 sports leather.
Never again. Ever.
I should help, my sleep was not helped by the fact we'd parked next to a refrigerated unit, and that the (French Autoroute) layby only had a hole in the ground, making me concerned about 'morning rituals'
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Coming back from France about 8yrs ago, unable to find a hotel, we slept in the MV6. Stuff on back seat, so slept in front seats. MV6 sports leather.
Never again. Ever.
I should help, my sleep was not helped by the fact we'd parked next to a refrigerated unit, and that the (French Autoroute) layby only had a hole in the ground, making me concerned about 'morning rituals'
Ooher dont like the sound of that especially if a shared one :(
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Coming back from France about 8yrs ago, unable to find a hotel, we slept in the MV6. Stuff on back seat, so slept in front seats. MV6 sports leather.
Never again. Ever.
I should help, my sleep was not helped by the fact we'd parked next to a refrigerated unit, and that the (French Autoroute) layby only had a hole in the ground, making me concerned about 'morning rituals'
Ooher dont like the sound of that especially if a shared one :(
French Autoroutes have 2 types of 'services' - the type we see on our UK motorways, albeit a bit smaller - these are normally about every 30-50km. The other type, about every 10-15km, is usually just an area with picnic tables, a small carpark, and *IF* it has anything at all, a hut with a hole in the ground for squatting over, not dissimilar to some Arabic countries.
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Confirms my assertion that it is not a place which should ever be visited by civilised people. :)
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Confirms my assertion that it is not a place which should ever be visited by civilised people. :)
Why? Because they do it so much better than the UK ;)
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Nah,its full of French people. :-X...............Italy,thats the place to go in Europe. ;)
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Nah,its full of French people. :-X...............Italy,thats the place to go in Europe. ;)
Full of Italians. I hate Italians. Actually, thats a lie, I just hate one Italian. He goes by the name of TheDaddy on this forum :P
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i've slept in my omega with cloth seats. really comfortable compared to other cars ive kipped in :y
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i've slept in my omega with cloth seats. really comfortable compared to other cars ive kipped in :y
Seem to recall sleeping in a cortina on skeggy sea front ....boy was that a back breaker in the front cardboard seats ;D
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Having slept in an omega as the stand flooded I can say that heavy rain on the bootlid is a sleep-killer!
However, the results are in!
Head in boot with duvets, pillows etc. - Really comy, but with legs on the seat backs elevated slightly I was getting a weird feeling in my legs, poss from blood circ!
Other way around was OK but bit hard on back but you are viewable - the metal cutout behind the seats helped with a couple of long bolster pillow things.
Slept hostage style in duvet with legs almost entirely tucked up in boot in the end. And the handle was useful for popping up to see if we were underwater yet!!
My old cav CDi had amazingly dozable brown-velour seats in it back in the day!
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Having slept in an omega as the stand flooded I can say that heavy rain on the bootlid is a sleep-killer!
However, the results are in!
Head in boot with duvets, pillows etc. - Really comy, but with legs on the seat backs elevated slightly I was getting a weird feeling in my legs, poss from blood circ!
Other way around was OK but bit hard on back but you are viewable - the metal cutout behind the seats helped with a couple of long bolster pillow things.
Slept hostage style in duvet with legs almost entirely tucked up in boot in the end. And the handle was useful for popping up to see if we were underwater yet!!
My old cav CDi had amazingly dozable brown-velour seats in it back in the day!
;D
I dont think i would have heard it "heavy sleeper" :-X its good to know the omega is not a bad camper :y
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problem with the saloon is the back seats don't fold flat enough....
When I've wanted to nap, I've put the drivers seat back, almost flat in the CD spec, as back goes much further than than Leccy Elite seats.
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problem with the saloon is the back seats don't fold flat enough....
There's a man too young to have experienced an evening hour of passion in the back of a proper Mini.
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problem with the saloon is the back seats don't fold flat enough....
There's a man too young to have experienced an evening hour of passion in the back of a proper Mini.
One The only reason why having an Ital estate as your first car is so great. :D
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problem with the saloon is the back seats don't fold flat enough....
There's a man too young to have experienced an evening hour of passion in the back of a proper Mini.
Why use a car, plenty of cheap hotels about :-X
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problem with the saloon is the back seats don't fold flat enough....
There's a man too young to have experienced an evening hour of passion in the back of a proper Mini.
Why use a car, plenty of cheap hotels about :-X
But the car is a whole new experience ;)
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problem with the saloon is the back seats don't fold flat enough....
There's a man too young to have experienced an evening hour of passion in the back of a proper Mini.
Why use a car, plenty of cheap hotels about :-X
But the car is a whole new experience ;)
.. as is doing things on impulse and not booked up weeks in advance. ;)
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problem with the saloon is the back seats don't fold flat enough....
There's a man too young to have experienced an evening hour of passion in the back of a proper Mini.
Why use a car, plenty of cheap hotels about :-X
Can tell you were never hard up ;)
Plus, back in the Mini days, hotel rooms were not available by the hour ;)
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Fiat 500 ( old one ) - is none too comfortable ( and noisy when canvas roof and rains) - also not good for sexercising!!