In September 2020, Su Min, a 57-year-old from Henan, decided to escape her repressed marriage, and she drove a small car across the country, which aroused great concern among netizens and caused a sensation, but due to limited financial ability, she could only live in a simple roof tent.
A few days ago, Su Min, who finally realized her RV dream, choked up several times in front of the camera; many of her fans also said: This is the best news to hear on Women's Day. "Although my house is small, my yard is huge, and everywhere I park is a view..."
Motorhomes have become more and more popular in the past two years, if you often brush short videos, you will find that many Internet celebrities are selling this leisure life to another extreme: buying a car, not renting a house - usually parking near the unit, reducing commuting time; when you have leisure, you can take a ride.
Ms. Su Min is just an extreme case, in reality, is this kind of good life of "having a house and a car" really feasible? The mouth is unfounded, the experiment is evidenced, Curiosity Lab rented a motorhome, lived in the car for two days, and gave everyone an experience report.
The cheapest Type B motorhome
Hangzhou off-season rent 500 yuan / day
Curious Junxuan's B-type motorhome, the length of the car is 5.7 meters, the height of the car is 2.8 meters; in 2019, the factory, 2.5T diesel engine, the hand is integrated, the blue card, C can be opened. The price is also the cheapest, the off-season rent is 500 yuan / day; the C type is about 1000 yuan / day.
If you buy it, this B-type RV new car is priced at about 300,000 yuan, based on the Chase chassis transformation, with a bathroom, induction cooker and shower, which can meet the basic needs of life; the new C-type RV is generally priced at more than 350,000 yuan; if you want to buy a caravan of more than 100,000 yuan, you either do not have a bathroom or a second-hand.
The driving experience is not good
It is not difficult to get started, and it feels not too different from the large SUV, that is, the seat is particularly high, and some are not used to it.
But when encountering a red light, the problem immediately came - when stepping on the brakes, there was a sudden throttle roar, and I thought that I had stepped on the wrong pedal, immediately loosened the brakes and changed lanes to slow down, and found that I did not step on the wrong one; afterwards, the leasing party said "This is very common, this kind of car will automatically hit the throttle at low speed."
This caravan in the caravan size is not very large, curious Jun two days down, the overall feeling is: in the city to drive a lot of difficulties, especially in the crowded morning and evening rush hour; there is no driving pleasure to speak of, just "can drive"; parking is very inconvenient; as a city commuting tool is certainly not appropriate, the specific situation is as follows -
First, the steering wheel is very heavy, and girls will struggle.
Second, the jitter is severe at low speed, and it is very uncomfortable to drive in a crowded urban area; the speed of the car is more than 80 km / h, and the direction will "drift". The lessee also advises not to get on the highway as much as possible.
Third, the braking distance is far beyond the family car, and the car must maintain a long distance, which leads to continuous congestion.
Fourth, the captain's car is high and troublesome. The turning radius is large, and the narrow road is frightening, but the most troublesome thing is the height of the car -
The first time was under the Middle River Viaduct, the height of the bridge hole was 2.5 meters, and it was impossible to cross, and it could only be reversed from the opposite lane.
The second time is in the parking lot under the bridge, the parking fee is cheap, but the height limit is 2.2 meters, or can not enter, can only park in the more expensive parking space on the ground.
The maximum height of the car park under the bridge is 2.2 metres
The third time was on Lone Mountain Road by the West Lake. An enthusiastic uncle stopped the car and reminded him that the branches in front of him had scraped the roofs of several RVs. At first glance, the height limit of the branches is 2 meters, and it can only pass in the opposite lane again.
The height limit of the trees on Lone mountain road is 2 meters
Two nights in the city center and by the West Lake
The first day of parking overnight, is in the Hangzhou city center near the Wulin Square near the unit under the ground parking lot - the car is 30 steps away from the unit gate, the convenience of commuting can be said to be the ultimate.
First of all, the beautiful: running back to the car at noon and sleeping on the bed, much more comfortable than lying on the desk; playing a field ball on the unit basketball court after work, taking a shower in the car, no longer having to squeeze the subway home, refreshing; three meals are all solved in the unit canteen, saving money and saving trouble; entertainment at night is also convenient, first playing computers in the office, and then lying back to the car to play mobile phones, because the distance is too close, and even can be connected to the wi-Fi of the unit; although the side is elevated, the sound insulation of the caravan is unexpectedly good. In addition, maybe the environment is too familiar, there is no sense of insecurity, sleep until dawn, wake up to find that the punch card software actually automatically punched the card.
Cut a slice in the RV at night when you stop the newspaper
The next day, I parked the car by the West Lake, at the entrance of Zhongshan Park on Gushan Road - inside was the ruins of the palace in the south of the Qianlong River, and the small caravan instantly became an invincible lake view big bed room.
Originally planned to get up early to see a West Lake sunrise, but at night it rained lightly, raindrops hit the roof of the car super sleep, directly in the lake to sleep until the natural awakening, open the car door to see the West Lake, fresh air after the rain, feel rhinitis seems to be alleviated.
Let's not talk about the beautiful - those Internet celebrities seem to have consciously or unconsciously avoided the problem of parking difficulties in big cities when they were drying the good life of the caravan.
The first is that it is difficult to park, the car is too large, the rear window is blocked, and every time it stops, someone must direct it, which takes more than 20 minutes.
Then the parking fee is too expensive: the unit parking space is tight, foreign vehicles can not enter, the first hour of the downstairs road parking space is 10 yuan, after 12 yuan / hour, parking a day a mouth price of 142 yuan; West Lake 10 yuan / hour, 120 yuan a day, but this is a working day. Colleagues said that the maximum cost of 30 yuan / hour by the West Lake on holidays is not necessarily found.
Newspaper side parking charge table
Asked the monthly package, the underground garage can not go in, excluded; there are toilets, parking lots that can pull electricity and water have not been found; residential parking spaces do not think, some municipal parking spaces need to provide nearby rental certificates or even real estate certificates, obviously not OK.
Curious Jun returned the car before, found a cheap parking lot in the north of the city, 15 yuan / day, but no water, no electricity, no toilet, commuting time of more than 1 hour.
Other problems with motorhomes
◆ Electricity
The electricity of the caravan is divided into two parts: one is charged through the vehicle, which can provide mobile phone charging, roof lights and other electrical appliances, the problem is not big; the other part needs to be used through the inverter, to the induction cooker, air conditioning power supply, which is very troublesome, even if it is full, it will not take long, you need to connect the DIRECT CURRENT to use, think about which parking lot in the city can let you pull electricity? Curious Jun wanted to cook a bubble noodle at night, and as a result, the 800-watt induction cooker was turned on for 5 minutes before the power bottomed out, and the water was not yet opened, which was useless.
◆ Water
This caravan water tank can be connected to 150 liters, but to connect the water pipe to the tap, so curious Jun filled with water on the first day, and then saved to use it; but the caravan rental party said that this operation is not always working, the water tank is under the car, it is easy to freeze in winter, you need to empty the water before going to bed every day, and then add water the next day.
◆ Toilet
The RV toilet can take a bath, but it is extremely small, and the water pressure and water temperature are not stable, just "can wash", it is unlikely to be comfortable.
Cramped bathroom
The toilet can be convenient, but you have to pour the black water tank yourself, the black water tank is a toilet, there is a pipe, not too thick, you have to drag yourself to the public toilet. The leaser reminds the curious jun to try not to be "large", because the pipe is too thin and not good to pour.
RV black water tank, back to the daily flush toilet
The caravan also has a gray water tank, which stores the sewage after bathing, brushing teeth and washing the face, and needs to find a place with a drainage ditch, and park the discharge. In reality, because the caravan randomly discharges wastewater, quarrels with the parking lot have also occurred frequently.
◆ Space
It's really too small, looking at there are several cabinets, but it is difficult to put a down jacket, and the boys put a few pairs of sneakers and some essential daily necessities, which are piled up at once. Curious Jun only lived for two days, it is completely where to use to move where - for example, to use the table, to move the things on the bed, to use the bed, and then to move the things back to the table, unless the "break away" is done to the extreme.
In addition, although the motorhome is 2.8 meters high, the height of the car is about 2 meters, and the camera is filmed in the car, and he can be heard screaming almost every half hour.
◆ License plate
This is not much to say, Hangzhou limited license, shake less than 30,000 yuan or so a piece, Beijing, Shanghai is more expensive. If it is a foreign license, the morning and evening peaks cannot be opened.
Finally, to give you a calculation of the cost of two days of use of curiosity: not counting car rental, parking fees total 262 yuan, the total distance of driving is about 50 kilometers, using 10 liters of diesel fuel for about 70 yuan, a total of 332 yuan, 4980 yuan a month.
Obviously, this price is much better to rent in Hangzhou.
In the end, playing with RVs is the icing on the cake after a comfortable day; those Internet celebrities who sell RVs instead of renting a house either really don't mind "pouring the toilet" in the city every day, or they are eyeballs to engage in traffic, or they are actually selling cars.
(Note: The results of this experiment are only applicable to the rental car and the current situation in Hangzhou.) ）
Source: Orange Persimmon Interactive City Express reporter Tian Ye Xiaokuan