Camp Mode kit
What makes the boot a bedroom.
Night one needs nothing but a duvet and a sense of humour. Everything below is what turns night one into a habit. Nothing on this page is sponsored, and nothing gets listed that we wouldn't pack ourselves.
Model Y mattress
Purpose-cut for the flat boot floor. The single biggest comfort upgrade, because a folded duvet does not survive night two.
Window covers
Blackout and condensation control in one. The difference between a nap in a car park and an actual night's sleep.
Levelling ramps
Campsite pitches are never flat, and you notice a two-degree slope at 3 a.m. Two ramps and a spirit-level app.
Canopy
Hooks over the open tailgate and makes a porch: dry boots on, kettle out of the rain. Tesla's official one fits 2020–24 cars, which is exactly the used end of the market we shop in.
Camp furniture
The boot is the bedroom, so the furniture has to vanish when you do. Helinox chairs and tables pack down to loaf-of-bread size and still hold a person full of campsite dinner.
Trangia stove
Cooking happens outside the car, always, and the Trangia is the outside kitchen solved: a Swedish storm cooker that shrugs off coastal wind, with the pans and kettle nested inside. Buy the gas burner version: meths is a faff to find and slower to boil, and gas just works.
Gas bottle
The Trangia's gas burner takes a standard screw-thread canister, and one lasts a long weekend of brews and breakfasts. Buy it with the stove so the first morning starts with coffee, not a shop run.
Camp kettle
The first brew of the morning is the whole point of waking up at 30%. Eagle Products' Norwegian stainless kettle sits happily on the Trangia or a campsite fire bowl and pours like it means it.