Camping with my Cyberbeast: sleeping in the front seat was a flop

[desertmarcy]

Just got back from a birding trip to Texas. Salineno is a dead zone for chargers but there are some really cool birds in that area so I booked an electric tent site at Falcon State Park. My week plus in the lower Rio Grande Valley had highs in the upper 80's to 90 and it was still too hot for me to sleep after sundown so I wanted climate control. This was my trial for sleeping in the front passenger seat. 2 nights. I moved the seat to the rear as far as it would go and the seat back also as far as it would go. I had a soft luggage bag I put on the floor with a long pillow on top of it to prop my legs/feet up. The first night, I found the dip between the seat and seat back to be uncomfortable, so I took my second pillow and stuffed it in there. That helped some but now I had no pillow for my head. The second night, I had a sleeping pad that folds up small, it was just the right size to stuff into that crack. Now my second pillow was freed up. I also took my sleeping bag and laid it out along the whole seat with a sheet on top. The first night, I had just used a sheet. The sleeping bag and filling the crevice made the set up somewhat comfortable. Climate control was great. What I hadn't anticipated was that sleeping with my legs and feet below my head caused my ankles to swell uncomfortably. I also headed for home after this second night, and drove 600 miles: my feet really needed to be elevated so I stopped at a motel so I could do that and with some ibuprofen, my ankles were more or less normal in the morning. I will add that I'm 73, some of you younger folks might not have this problem, but I do not think sleeping in the front seat is a good idea for me: darn! It was so easy to sleep in my Model X, plenty of room to stretch out and have climate control. But I sure like driving the Cybertruck better..

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[Friday]

Ouch, that sounds like flying to Australia and trying to sleep on a plane. Do you think some compression socks might have helped? I did a FSD 13 hour straight thru drive and next time I will be wearing some sort of compression for the lower legs and pre load with some low dose aspirin. Live and learn.

Have you ever been able to see the Elegant Trogon, around Portal?

 

[desertmarcy]

Ouch, that sounds like flying to Australia and trying to sleep on a plane. Do you think some compression socks might have helped? I did a FSD 13 hour straight thru drive and next time I will be wearing some sort of compression for the lower legs and pre load with some low dose aspirin. Live and learn.

Have you ever been able to see the Elegant Trogon, around Portal?

Compression socks might help, I've never tried them nor do I own any. I'm always hot, so loathe adding extra layers, my feet especially get hot. Yes on the Elegant Trogon: seen them in South Fork, also seen them in Madera Canyon several times. I think there's a male wintering in the Chiricahuas this year, it was seen recently.

I'd like to see FSD get to the point where I can lean the seat way back and prop my feet up on the dash while driving!

 

[dpoll995]

I have had DVT in my right leg in the past and we sometimes fly overseas. I always use a pair of JOBST compression socks. They are full length and pretty tight but worth it. The flight we take is about 17 hours and over 20 hours with lay overs. The socks work well. I don’t get any swelling if I’m wearing them. Here is a link to the sock I use. They are pricey for pair of socks but well worth it.
https://a.co/d/6U8wCn8

 

[SlegMD]

Could try a back seat mod to sleep back there?

 

[Friday]

I know a few hard core golfers that will golf in triple digits around here because of the cheap fees on great courses, they swear by these cooling compression socks.

I have not tried these, just testimonial.

 

[desertmarcy]

Could try a back seat mod to sleep back there?

I did get the back seat mattress, I think it was from Teslaunch. Tried it once, was very uncomfortable: I kept rolling backwards, even with extra pillows for support, but the biggest problem was I couldn't stretch my legs out all the way. The other issue is I travel with a pretty large Dometic refrigerator, which I put on the floor behind the driver's seat. I do not want to put it in the bed of the truck. Running out of options to use the built-in climate control for sleeping.

 

[Langestreet]

https://www.cybertruckownersclub.co...diy-sleep-platform.50329/page-2#post-30701037

 

[webspeedracer]

Just got back from a birding trip to Texas. Salineno is a dead zone for chargers but there are some really cool birds in that area so I booked an electric tent site at Falcon State Park. My week plus in the lower Rio Grande Valley had highs in the upper 80's to 90 and it was still too hot for me to sleep after sundown so I wanted climate control. This was my trial for sleeping in the front passenger seat. 2 nights. I moved the seat to the rear as far as it would go and the seat back also as far as it would go. I had a soft luggage bag I put on the floor with a long pillow on top of it to prop my legs/feet up. The first night, I found the dip between the seat and seat back to be uncomfortable, so I took my second pillow and stuffed it in there. That helped some but now I had no pillow for my head. The second night, I had a sleeping pad that folds up small, it was just the right size to stuff into that crack. Now my second pillow was freed up. I also took my sleeping bag and laid it out along the whole seat with a sheet on top. The first night, I had just used a sheet. The sleeping bag and filling the crevice made the set up somewhat comfortable. Climate control was great. What I hadn't anticipated was that sleeping with my legs and feet below my head caused my ankles to swell uncomfortably. I also headed for home after this second night, and drove 600 miles: my feet really needed to be elevated so I stopped at a motel so I could do that and with some ibuprofen, my ankles were more or less normal in the morning. I will add that I'm 73, some of you younger folks might not have this problem, but I do not think sleeping in the front seat is a good idea for me: darn! It was so easy to sleep in my Model X, plenty of room to stretch out and have climate control. But I sure like driving the Cybertruck better..

Yeah sleeping sideways in the back was a miserable experience for me despite several iterations, but on my Utah-Vermont-Utah trip last summer I used this guy’s brilliant method of removing front passenger seat, custom-cut plywood base bolted to the seat base, and a Hest mattress was pretty dreamy. My feet fit under the glovebox and head is up against the back seat (folded up). I’m 6’1”. If I removed the back seat (passenger side) I’d be able to stretch out, but this method as described was comfortable enough and I needed 5 seats at my destinations. Conversion takes ~20 minutes, but caveat the seat is heavy to move around the back cabin and it has little locator spikes on the bottom so perhaps concoct some little plastic sliders or a micro handtruck to make that part easier?

 

[TyPope]

Compression socks might help, I've never tried them nor do I own any. I'm always hot, so loathe adding extra layers, my feet especially get hot. Yes on the Elegant Trogon: seen them in South Fork, also seen them in Madera Canyon several times. I think there's a male wintering in the Chiricahuas this year, it was seen recently.

I'd like to see FSD get to the point where I can lean the seat way back and prop my feet up on the dash while driving!

oof... an airbag deployment would put your knee right through your eye socket.

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