NOTE⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ Since filming this video we've had two issues with the Roof Top Tent. 1. The glue used to hold the insulation and carpet lining on the roof is of poor quality and didn't take long to fall down. 2. We've had water leak through on two occasions when driving Into rain, but only from the front.
Making Tracks 4x4 alot of other owners are also having the same problem. I was waiting for reviews and all that Jazz prior to buying one. Thanks for the review/warning
Mine was from the late December batch and has leaked in a number of places also came out of the box with the roof 30 to 40mm out of alignment with the base. It is a fantastic design but shit execution. Hopefully they can get it right in the months or years to come. Im getting a refund and will wait till they iron out all these issues
@@TM-fd3fs yeah that's pretty spot on, has the potential to be a great product but it seems they've just rushed it through the production line to get it out into the world, and now it's got a number of issues. It looks like a on updated version of the tent has come out, May be fixing a few of these issues but now they've jacked the price up by another $300. Let's hope it's worth it!
Thank you for your walk-through video and for replying to comments. I was super keen to get this set up on my n80 Lux, but after reading some of the comments regarding leaks and poor glue holding some of the linings, I might opt to go with another roof top tent.
No troubles mate happy to help. Its definitely not what you want having those issues in a new tent which is pretty unfortunate. I have heard that they paused production and have changed the glue, so I'll be having a look at that, I'm not sure if they've done anything about the water however.
The problem I have with them is the 88.5kg weight. That doesn't leave much real estate given most roofs are rated at 100kg max. I was thinking of buying one to upgrade from the Kings Tourer as a friend recently bought one of these clam shell tents. First camping trip, strong winds didn't give him a good night sleep and the zippers rattled all night. He cut off the tabs on the zips and put cable tie loops there instead. Have you tried it in wind yet?
Hey mate, yeah we had it down on a week long trip in Esperance recently and got a good feel of how things go with the tent. I actually found that the tent held up well in the wind (but not the shade awning). I Think we did a few things to combat the effect of the wind, like pointing the hardshell to the wind to shelter the canvas. We also had the windows open a fair bit which allowed the canvas to rest close to the zippers, which probably stopped them from rattling. Overall I was actually pretty stoked with how it all went over that trip.
@@makingtracks4x468 great to hear mate! I've been looking at the quickpitch version, which has the clamshell as the roof rack, (so no need to fit both). Gotta say they're so similar to the Kings one, (even same accessory mounting railes), that if they were supermarkets, you'd do them for price fixing. The kings one can't be beat for price.
@@Amandaandglenn2023 yeah there's definitely a lot of similarity between products in the industry! The grand tourer is definitely a much more affordable option for clamshell rtt's, gladly!
Hi mate, How do you find the weight on the roof of the troopy in terms of offroad and fuel consumption on the highway? DO you leave it up there all the time? I've got one similar model to yours, and currently weighing up RTTs. Cheers.
Cheers Jono for the review. waiting on my grand tourer, should be here soon. I actually went through the same experience as you with owning two kwiky roof top tents previously.
No problems mate! Yeah it was a bit of a shame, it was a pretty good tent but it's a shame the roof didn't hold up for too long. In saying that I'm glad there's now this one, it's a lot more spacious and even more convenient to setup and packaway!
Great review thanks. We have the Kwiky which has broken twice now in 6 months and are looking to upgrade as a result. They have said they will refund us original purchase price but we have to smash the tent up and send them photos lol. Did you have any issues with the refund process? Did they offer and upgrade or did you have to get refund and pay difference for the new tent?
Not a worry glad it helped out in some way👍 We bought our kwiky from a supacentre distributor in Perth, so the warranty process was really easy because they changed it over then and there when they saw the cracks. I've heard it's a lot harder online though. We basically got our money back on the price of the kwiky tent and put that straight into this grand tourer.
@@tracycuper2489 yeah we took it back and they straight swapped it on the spot for another kwiky. Second time they just took it off and we got the grand tourer shortly after
Hi mate Thanks for the vid. How sturdy is the unit itself. Is the lid flimsy and likely to be affected by wind? Are the side and roof slide mounts made of steel? What's the mounting system like? Was It easy to mount? Thanks Mick
G'day mate, we had it up the other night while overnighting in Toodyay and it was pretty windy throughout the night, but it held up well, made less noise than the kwiky did. Pretty confident the side and roof railings are aluminium. When we mounted it the box was put on the roof and we took it home. We just unboxed it on the roof, rotated to face the right way, then one of us held a side up while the other slid the bolts in, which is held down at 4 points across the roof rack. I thought it was going to be a lot harder but turned out to be alright. Hope this helps 👍
@@makingtracks4x468 yeah thanks for that. I'm a little concerned the mounting rails on the sides won't be able to handle a heavy awning over corrugations though.
I have a 30 second awning and just used the cross rails underneath to mount it off so the tent is not loaded at all works pretty well and height is much the same. Top rails are ali and should be fine for lighter stuff I have mounted a solar panel on top and about to mount the max trax, I probably wouldn't put a whole lot more up there.
I'd be interested to know how the tent goes opening up with maxtrax on it as well, keep me posted if you can👍 how did you mount your solar panel up there?
We had a pretty heavy downpour recently and I was driving straight into it. I had a look the next day and noticed that there was water that had gone in and soaked a bit of the mattress in the front end. I'm not sure if it was because it was a heavy downpour and I was driving into it that it found it's way through, or if it will be a common thing in any condition, there's only been that one heavy occasion. But yes unfortunately it did get through
@@makingtracks4x468 thank you for letting me know, i havent had rain yet, i might use my garden hose and test it out on the seal but from a distance to see if water will get it. Could probably add another seal on the bottom so they push together, but from the front is interesting because that would had to go through the wall.
@@makingtracks4x468 Hey mate I have one of these on order and am now a little bit concerned after seeing some negative reviews on TH-cam regarding water getting in and the roof lining collapsing have you taken any measures to stop the water getting in?
@@TM-fd3fs hey mate, when the roof lining first came down, we went back and swapped it for another, but I've noticed it slowly sagging so I think we'll try and mend it ourselves when it does. Maybe silicone or some other adhesive. I'll let you know if we have any success with that. As for the water, we've only had one occasion with water getting in but maybe laying down another rubber lining.
@@makingtracks4x468 I was talking to a guy on Instagram who thought the water was getting in through the rivets on top and that's what was causing the roof lining to detach so he drilledand re riveted his whole tent with better sealing ones and silicone them.
It is a shame the product has issues for a lot of people whom have bought it, I think I would rather spend twice the price + a bit more on a bushranger rooftop/or other brands and not have any problems. Even for the price of $2k im sure u would agree that the product should be of better quality. Ive has a soft cover XTM rooftop for 3 years now and at under $1k and 2 min set up it has given me no issues in all weather. Winning i say, Happy Camping...
Yeah that's just it isn't it, even though it's a fair bit cheaper than others it should have been finished to a better quality than it is. Shouldn't have to spend more money fixing it after you buy it
@@ausipilot yeah I heard that as well, let's hope it's no longer a problem. I'm going to do a post trip review on the grand tourer but I'll wait and see if the newer ones have any issues before I do
NOTE⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
Since filming this video we've had two issues with the Roof Top Tent.
1. The glue used to hold the insulation and carpet lining on the roof is of poor quality and didn't take long to fall down.
2. We've had water leak through on two occasions when driving Into rain, but only from the front.
Making Tracks 4x4 alot of other owners are also having the same problem. I was waiting for reviews and all that Jazz prior to buying one. Thanks for the review/warning
No worries mate, happy to help👍
Mine was from the late December batch and has leaked in a number of places also came out of the box with the roof 30 to 40mm out of alignment with the base. It is a fantastic design but shit execution. Hopefully they can get it right in the months or years to come. Im getting a refund and will wait till they iron out all these issues
@@TM-fd3fs yeah that's pretty spot on, has the potential to be a great product but it seems they've just rushed it through the production line to get it out into the world, and now it's got a number of issues. It looks like a on updated version of the tent has come out, May be fixing a few of these issues but now they've jacked the price up by another $300. Let's hope it's worth it!
@@makingtracks4x468 thanks for the vid. i would say they copied the design of the Camp King Roof Tent. Did you have the chance of comparing the two?
Thank you for your walk-through video and for replying to comments. I was super keen to get this set up on my n80 Lux, but after reading some of the comments regarding leaks and poor glue holding some of the linings, I might opt to go with another roof top tent.
No troubles mate happy to help. Its definitely not what you want having those issues in a new tent which is pretty unfortunate. I have heard that they paused production and have changed the glue, so I'll be having a look at that, I'm not sure if they've done anything about the water however.
The problem I have with them is the 88.5kg weight. That doesn't leave much real estate given most roofs are rated at 100kg max. I was thinking of buying one to upgrade from the Kings Tourer as a friend recently bought one of these clam shell tents. First camping trip, strong winds didn't give him a good night sleep and the zippers rattled all night. He cut off the tabs on the zips and put cable tie loops there instead. Have you tried it in wind yet?
great review by the way 👍👍
Hey mate, yeah we had it down on a week long trip in Esperance recently and got a good feel of how things go with the tent. I actually found that the tent held up well in the wind (but not the shade awning). I Think we did a few things to combat the effect of the wind, like pointing the hardshell to the wind to shelter the canvas. We also had the windows open a fair bit which allowed the canvas to rest close to the zippers, which probably stopped them from rattling. Overall I was actually pretty stoked with how it all went over that trip.
@@makingtracks4x468 great to hear mate! I've been looking at the quickpitch version, which has the clamshell as the roof rack, (so no need to fit both). Gotta say they're so similar to the Kings one, (even same accessory mounting railes), that if they were supermarkets, you'd do them for price fixing. The kings one can't be beat for price.
@@Amandaandglenn2023 yeah there's definitely a lot of similarity between products in the industry! The grand tourer is definitely a much more affordable option for clamshell rtt's, gladly!
@@Amandaandglenn2023 hey mate how much are the quickpitch tents?
Hi mate, How do you find the weight on the roof of the troopy in terms of offroad and fuel consumption on the highway? DO you leave it up there all the time? I've got one similar model to yours, and currently weighing up RTTs. Cheers.
Cheers Jono for the review. waiting on my grand tourer, should be here soon. I actually went through the same experience as you with owning two kwiky roof top tents previously.
No problems mate! Yeah it was a bit of a shame, it was a pretty good tent but it's a shame the roof didn't hold up for too long. In saying that I'm glad there's now this one, it's a lot more spacious and even more convenient to setup and packaway!
Thanks for the video mate. Can you do a video when you knock up a rack for the lid? Keen to throw surfboards on top also.
Great review thanks. We have the Kwiky which has broken twice now in 6 months and are looking to upgrade as a result. They have said they will refund us original purchase price but we have to smash the tent up and send them photos lol. Did you have any issues with the refund process? Did they offer and upgrade or did you have to get refund and pay difference for the new tent?
Not a worry glad it helped out in some way👍
We bought our kwiky from a supacentre distributor in Perth, so the warranty process was really easy because they changed it over then and there when they saw the cracks. I've heard it's a lot harder online though. We basically got our money back on the price of the kwiky tent and put that straight into this grand tourer.
Making Tracks 4x4 ah thank you. Ours is a supplier also, did you need to drop it back off to them?
@@tracycuper2489 yeah we took it back and they straight swapped it on the spot for another kwiky. Second time they just took it off and we got the grand tourer shortly after
Hi mate
Thanks for the vid.
How sturdy is the unit itself. Is the lid flimsy and likely to be affected by wind?
Are the side and roof slide mounts made of steel?
What's the mounting system like? Was It easy to mount?
Thanks
Mick
G'day mate, we had it up the other night while overnighting in Toodyay and it was pretty windy throughout the night, but it held up well, made less noise than the kwiky did.
Pretty confident the side and roof railings are aluminium.
When we mounted it the box was put on the roof and we took it home. We just unboxed it on the roof, rotated to face the right way, then one of us held a side up while the other slid the bolts in, which is held down at 4 points across the roof rack. I thought it was going to be a lot harder but turned out to be alright.
Hope this helps 👍
@@makingtracks4x468 yeah thanks for that. I'm a little concerned the mounting rails on the sides won't be able to handle a heavy awning over corrugations though.
@@michaelnugara1 yeah that's a good point, the rails don't look like they have been bolted on so not sure how it'll hold up either
I have a 30 second awning and just used the cross rails underneath to mount it off so the tent is not loaded at all works pretty well and height is much the same.
Top rails are ali and should be fine for lighter stuff I have mounted a solar panel on top and about to mount the max trax, I probably wouldn't put a whole lot more up there.
I'd be interested to know how the tent goes opening up with maxtrax on it as well, keep me posted if you can👍 how did you mount your solar panel up there?
hi. i have been waiting for a review on this tent. finally its been delivered to WA. could u pls tell me if the top lid is a soft ?
thank you.
justin
Hey mate, not a worry, the top lid is a hard aluminium shell
@@makingtracks4x468 thank you. Off to 4WDshow this weekend then 😁
@@cheekstheusualsuspects1148 yeah bloody oath me too mate, get to see everyone in action and some pretty wicked gear!
Just so you know Kings don't sell any of their gear at the 4X4 adventure show.
Yeah I'd be surprised to see them there
Has everything stayed dry in your tent? Someone on youtube made a video on it, i really would love to know if it's common or if he was unlucky
We had a pretty heavy downpour recently and I was driving straight into it. I had a look the next day and noticed that there was water that had gone in and soaked a bit of the mattress in the front end. I'm not sure if it was because it was a heavy downpour and I was driving into it that it found it's way through, or if it will be a common thing in any condition, there's only been that one heavy occasion. But yes unfortunately it did get through
@@makingtracks4x468 thank you for letting me know, i havent had rain yet, i might use my garden hose and test it out on the seal but from a distance to see if water will get it. Could probably add another seal on the bottom so they push together, but from the front is interesting because that would had to go through the wall.
@@makingtracks4x468 Hey mate I have one of these on order and am now a little bit concerned after seeing some negative reviews on TH-cam regarding water getting in and the roof lining collapsing have you taken any measures to stop the water getting in?
@@TM-fd3fs hey mate, when the roof lining first came down, we went back and swapped it for another, but I've noticed it slowly sagging so I think we'll try and mend it ourselves when it does. Maybe silicone or some other adhesive. I'll let you know if we have any success with that. As for the water, we've only had one occasion with water getting in but maybe laying down another rubber lining.
@@makingtracks4x468 I was talking to a guy on Instagram who thought the water was getting in through the rivets on top and that's what was causing the roof lining to detach so he drilledand re riveted his whole tent with better sealing ones and silicone them.
nobody ever looks at the anaconda Dune 4wd i have one and theyre great no leaks and heaps of head roof
It is a shame the product has issues for a lot of people whom have bought it, I think I would rather spend twice the price + a bit more on a bushranger rooftop/or other brands and not have any problems. Even for the price of $2k im sure u would agree that the product should be of better quality. Ive has a soft cover XTM rooftop for 3 years now and at under $1k and 2 min set up it has given me no issues in all weather. Winning i say, Happy Camping...
Yeah that's just it isn't it, even though it's a fair bit cheaper than others it should have been finished to a better quality than it is. Shouldn't have to spend more money fixing it after you buy it
@@makingtracks4x468 i received a email back form kings saying that the issues have been fixed in the next batch, so i guess we wait and c..
@@ausipilot yeah I heard that as well, let's hope it's no longer a problem. I'm going to do a post trip review on the grand tourer but I'll wait and see if the newer ones have any issues before I do