🏕The Best Roof Top Tent & Review 2020🏕 Trustmade Hard Shell Roof Top Tent
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This Trustmade hardshell roof top tent camper works with all cars, trucks, vehicles as long as it has a rack system. It is easy to mount and is very similar to a Yakima rocketbox or rooftop carrier. The van build goes on! Spring is here and it's time to get going on converting my RAM promaster van in to a camper...again. This is part 7 in the series. We were originally going to hire Rocky Mountain Campervans to do a popup tent conversion on our van...to the tune of $13,000😬. We decided to go with this $1,400 pop up unit instead. Think of all of the extra things that we can do with an extra $11,000! This is a full install, setup, unboxing, installation and review of this rooftop tent. This is the best value for the money on this rooftop tent and can be used on any vehicle with a roof rack. Setup is quick and easy in a matter of minutes. Take down only takes 4-5 minutes. Join me through the conversion of our promaster from start to finish and our #vanlife weekend warrior van. - Jak na to + styl
the 4 wire with the curved ends holds out the flaps on the windows so the side windows has a cover that sticks out. the curved in goes in the flap corners and there is a hole in the metal just under the side windows.
A lot of people don't know this but the entire fabric side can unzip. If you make 2 support bars to stabilize the top half of the tent than you can unzip the side fabric to have a 360 view while having a roof and having a bed to lay down on. It helps during the summer when you want a good breeze. I did it at the beach. The zipper for the side fabric has zippers that are covered by a skirt at the top half of the tent.
Just ordered mine. Reviews seem mostly positive. Price is lower than most (not the cheapest, currently) and I've not seen enough from other brands to warrant an extra $1000-$1500+ for minor upgrades. Thanks for putting your review out here.
Thanks for doing this video! I am interested in doing this tent on top of my truck
Here is my suggestion. Add some extra foam for a mattress. Happy camping!
Such a great idea! I was wondering where I would put the kids inside the van. The would love this!!!
That tent is a pretty cool design with some great value added features. Looks like a great deal for the money !
Do you think it would be possible to remove the bottom of the tent (like cut it out) what I want to do is put it on top of a little 4x6 trailer and make a tiny camper with it so that I can use the pop-up tent as like a pop top.
Dude sweet build!
Thanks, this is helpful…
Great video. And very few ones. Seems that all campers have no kids. I can only see cool camper with 2 seat jajaja. Sinse nobody travels with kids. Would like to see famely campers seating four with bike garage and roof tents.
My biggest concern if my vw crafter is a high roof. My be to high for the kids. But its defenetly the best solution for Sleeping 4 by a long way
Hey there .. let me start off by saying great informative video. Im currently looking at his tent and i had some consider about the weight. A few websites say that "package weight" is 205 pound but I want to say that include the packaging the tent comes with. You mentioned that weight is about 120-150 pounds and the manufacturer says its a hundreds pounds. Where did you find those specs.
Thanks for the video. Now that you have had it for awhile, what do you think about it? Are you still impressed with it?
Great review do you know if they come as a single unit for one person?
great video. do feel it can with stand moderate wind?
Flash light is probably part of a "gift/thank you" of purchase! And to save "trees" as their outdoors love, is why they do not have paper instructions when everyone has access to internet since all these satellites came out. Is what I am assuming... You can find ANYTHING on net!
is there some kind of liner for this tent yoou can get for winter camping?
Great video, how has it handled high wind situations? 40+mph?
Does it have rails that run down the bottom so you can just bolt it to the cross bars at any point or?
Hey bud, I'm looking to fit something really similar, but its to a much higher van, there will be a fixed ladder going to the roof but with solar panels in front and behind, the tent will only be accessible from one side.
I'm wondering how I can secure it, one idea is having 2 permanent ratchet straps around the entire thing (looping under frame and on top of shell), that are accessible from the ladder side. then I can just tighten the ratchet straps to close the tent. Another idea is only clipping/unclipping the 2 clips that are on the ladder side, and maybe 1 clip from the front and the back if I can reach around to them, but it might be a bit unsecure. What do you think of those ideas? have you got any better ideas from experience?
How about heating air inside the tent?How have you resolved the issue?
Thanks for the vid, all of the sudden I'm seeing these Trustmade units as were I've not seen them previously. Do the internal springs take up sleeping room? Thanks
The springs do take up room. They are pretty well placed though.
Why not put the solar panel on the top of the roof tent ,there you will have full power with no problems . Solar panels loose a lot of power due to shadow, which you will have if mounted beside the tent. I think I would spend a few hundred more buying a thicker mattress, maybe give that one you have to the kids to play on. I enjoyed watching this thanks very much for posting this.
i thought about the panels mounted on there. I just don't know if the plastic can support the resistance that highway travel will cause
Could this be permanently installed on the roof without a rack?
Did you have any issues with shipping from camping world ?
This links to TMB.. are they now trustmade?
Hey Brian - how has this been for you 2 years later? I’m thinking of getting this…
Can you please explain how the tent attaches to the luggage rack? I just ordered one from Camping World but would like to get the correct luggage rack for my Econoline before the tent arrives. Thank you!
It will fit on just about any kind of rack. The tent shell has a track that runs front to back on passenger and driver side. Bolts hang down from the tracks and will slide forward and backwards to adapt. Two metal plates, one on top of your rack and one on bottom with a bolt at the end pinch together and hold the whole thing onto the rack. Hope this helps it's not easy to explain, but it is a simple system. I have traveled about 4000 miles since installing mine and it's done very well. No noise and no movement.
Thank you for the reply. So it is my understanding that I will need to mount the racks on top according to how the rails on the tent are spaced (width)... correct?
How long did it take to ship to you?
What are the dimensions of the interior sleeping area?
I live in the San Luis Valley out here, and currently employed with the Bureau of land management. Just purchased 10 acres near Del Norte. Haven't built my tiny home yet, but was wondering how sub zero temps would effect a tent like this. I have a '05 suburban, and have lived in the woods here for 4 years. Want a roof top tent so been watching many videos, trying to decide what would be best for my situation. Any thoughts? To many options out there, and only want to buy one. Thank you for your videos, and would like any feedback that you can give me.
Although I seen some sort of winterized big "blanket covers" you place along the entire tint as if you were under a blanket being in the "fort house" as a child. Lol! From the reviews and just the sense of it, it works good too! Based on how you put the blankets inside along the wall frames. (I am very knew about this too! And ran into that info.) Military has had these blankets for years to go around their bunks/tints.
I was thinking of getting the roofnest tent but to mount on the roof of a sienna minivan but cut the roof out of the van and the bottom out of the tent and have access to the tent from inside vehicle
most coversion companies that do a similar thing use a much bigger tent area. If it's just you using it, you could probably just use a small cover to cover up the cutout. I'd love to see it when you're done
Seeinya traveler I am thinking of doing the same with my Honda Odyssey.
Have you completed this project?
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@@live.life.simple.did you do what you were planning? I was thinking of the same thing but in a ford e350.
How did it hold up
Those hooks are for the awnings
I'm glad you mentioned this. I saw a picture of one recently and just figured that out myself a few days ago. I almost threw them away!
Yep
Absolutely right the depression of these hard shells are coming down I paid about 1300 from Amazon now you can get them for $800 people say that. Maybe cheap but they're still good. Do not be fooled by friend just because they're cheap doesn't make him c*** that better. This was good as the $4000 1 I'll never fall. I'll never pay $4000 for any 10%. I'm gonna cut down. I'm gonna cut the bottom of my mind and put mine on my camera trailer. Says? Remote function to be a high top and it will be a sleeping tent at the same time. So i'm d I y..
We’re you able to close it with clothes and bedding and pads still in it?
Yes
"One thing I can't stand is to spend half an hour to set up the campsite..." - cute
🚐 5 minutes tops😀
Thanks for the vid. Do you and your wife fit comfortably?
It would be loke sleepimg in a "full" or twin mattress
Is there an XL size? Like the soft shell pop ups?
Camper World in Fountain,CO?
Online store. They had a promo code
@@live.life.simple. Thanks!
Maybe opening it up on the ground would have made it easier for you lol. For so many people wanting to be “diy” they sure need a lot of help and directions. Lol
Best? No way! Cheapest? Sure. Helluva deal though.
Make / model?
2016 ram promaster 118" wheelbase
Do you still like this??? Any complaints or issues??
it's been great. I would put a better mattress in. it just comes with a small foam pad.
@@live.life.simple. What tent is this?
I don’t know man I was looking at the reviews for this product and a lot of people are saying it’s just cheap Chinese quality. Things like this are very expensive and I’d rather spend my money on a roof nest if I’m gonna invest however that’s $1000 more, Yeah it’s still cheap considering all the other brands but this is just so cheap it might be too cheap you know what I’m saying?
I guess i don't have another one to compare it too, but i don't find it cheap. In typical cheap chinese junk, you would find low quality zippers and material. Mine came through camping world and i would imagine they screen their products pretty thorough having to be a reputable company.
@@live.life.simple. : Thanks for the review. Question1: Did you find anything breaking down after these few months you've purchased? I'm really weighting out to go with this one vs. buying one from Roofnest.com (Sparrow). The price is like as you know, 2 of these vs. 1 of Roofnest Sparrow. I'm also spotting from your review & others' on Roofnest.com-seems as to me these comes with the sprint inside vs. the raise, strust bars at 4 corner inside Sparrows. Not sure in your opinion if that justify the price difference of the two. Please share your thought & thanks for any advice you may have on these.
@@williamc1689 i.have been very happy with ours. Throw a nice memory foam mattress in and you are good to go. The shell, canvas and zippers seem like good quality for the price.
They all the same quality tents just renamed, people always say China shit is cheap but quick to buy their electronics
I have to say that I am surprised that someone who doesn't know that the ladder and mattress is included in the roof top tent and also believes the window awning support rods are to be used to in aiding to pull down the roof while closing is actually doing a REVEIW on this product. Please educate yourself with your purchase before attempting to guide others on said product.
No instructions at all?
I think that says it all
Ok. You could pay twice as much for one with instructions that is most likely made in the exact same factory. If and only if you find one made in the US, it would probably be 3k.....and 50% of the parts would still be made in china.
@@live.life.simple. Yes ..I do understand what your saying. At the end of the day after looking at all angles we pay out money and make a choice.
Just seems so odd not to have even the most basic instructions. It's not like producing those is any degree of expense.
Anyway may it prove fabulous.
Cheers
You always get what you pay for.
For sure is not ''The Best Roof Top Tent'' as the title of this video says. Proper Roof Top Tents at this style range from 2.800 euro up to 5.500 euro.
For those that think to buy one should consider many things, but most important are:
1.
Weight, especially if you are going off road. Adding a massive heavy thing on top of your vehicle could be dangerous in some situations. This one is not the lighter one for its size.
2. If you are going to camp during winter there are few that provide proper insulation.
3. How often you camp and what is your style on camping. If you camp 1 month per year in a specific camping in summer time, you maybe can go with a cheap one like this, although there are others that provide more veνdilation with more windows. But if you go often, you like overlanding and off-roading my opinion is that you should go with a better one.
4. Quality of materials and construction - Lifetime: Again, you get what you pay for.
5. There are 2 basic types of Roof Tents. This one which is the best and those that are folding.
6. Search a lot. There are many videos and forums about this subject.
The lantern is garbage...
Inches :). Didn’t know people still measured using imperial.
Only Americans🤔
Pretty stupid. That's a big van.
It’s not much, but for anyone watching that needs it - here’s the installation manual for this tent: rirorwxhmjkqlr5p.leadongcdn.com/Trustmade+Roof+Top+Tent+Manual+%28V4%29-aidlnBpiKmpllSRoinllipriq.pdf