Volvo V50 as an camper, a review of sorts.
As one do, we decided to take a road trip during the weekend to a national park in the south of Sweden, a short round trip of about 1250 kilometers (about 776 miles) but we had a small problem, due to #coronavirus we really didn’t want to sleep at a hotel or even meet anyone if possible and both our tents are kind of out of order due to, well stupidity actually (Not cleaned before stored = mold 🤢). So the logical solution would be to take the rv that we live in full time, but we like to experiment so of course we decided that the Volvo would be an excellent bedroom for a couple of nights, so we packed our light sleeping bags, threw in a madras and hit the road. News to probably no one: The two nights we slept in the car was actually the worst of sleeps ever had by anyone 😅
First of, a V50 is small, a mean, it looks doable but in reality, when sleeping beside some one who don’t move exactly the same as yourself while sleeping you’ll be in a world of discomfort while trying to find some sort of rest on a 45 cm (17,7 inch) narrow patch. Also, I think we actually froze to death during the first night so on Saturday we bought a carbon monoxide detector so we at least could safely run the diesel heater a couple of times during the following night, awesome right? We set the timer on the heater to 2 and 4 am and woke up at 2:30 actually thinking we fallen asleep in a sauna, the heat was insane, hot as a motherf*xxer and soaking wet we tried to go back to sleep knowing that we’d probably be coocked again in a couple of hours but surprise surprise, the heater didn’t start at 4 so instead we woke at 5 freezing the bejesus of us 😂 I kind of had the feeling that this would backfire but somehow I only have good memories from the last time we slept in the car but hey, we’ll probably do this again anyway 😂
We give the Volvo a strong 2 stars out of 5, maybe it’ll be better later this summer? 🤔
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