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To add to this, I understand that purists will find a rooftop tent excessively expensive and overpriced, but as soon as I have shown a few of those people my setup, they changed their mind.
If you like to camp once or twice a year, this may not be for you, but if you are camping for extended periods of time, or many times a year, these are great. I took a trip from Southern California, through Sedona, up through the Grand Canyon and into Utah, Zion, Bryce. When you are covering that many miles, I really need my sleep. Sleeping in my Tepui Tent is often a better nights rest than my bed at home.
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I can tell the people putting the Tepui in the lead have never owned one, or they would never vote that way. They're built like crap. I had seams separating after a few months, maybe four uses. Check the reviews on REI on the ones sold there. You can do much better for the money.
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I have had a completely different experience with mine, and used it more than four times. Did you reach out to Tepui support? I emailed them and got a response back within 20 minutes, and they shipped me a new cover next day.
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The biggest pain with Tepui, or other fold open tents is the cover.
The GoFSR tent is a little better because it has a hard plastic cover and it's electric when it pops open, but ARB, Tepui, CVT, etc all have a cover that you have to zip up. When it rains and you sleep inside, you still have to zip it up wet and then remember to open it lest mold grow rampant when you're back from your trip.
We've also used our tents way more. We'll pack and stow the tent 5 times for a 4-day trip. Once for each night we sleep, and once for when we return from the trip and need to clean and dry.
Compare this with a Habitat from Adventure Trailers or an Autohome Columbus.
Autohome Columbus is one latch, and a push and it's open in 10 seconds.
AT's Habitat is four latches, and a push, and it's open in 90 seconds. (less than 30 seconds if you just want to dry it)
Folks who actually use their tents will find out what's really high quality and what's not.
Autohome Columbus tents run about $2,599 + tax + shipping, Tepui Ayer ~1,000 bucks. Over the course of 75 nights outdoors in a year, I'd gladly take the Columbus.
I've had the ARB Simpson III, My group have run various Tepui, CVT, GoFSR, and Autohome tents.
The ones that stand out are always the hard shell models.
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WHY?!?!?! just get a tent!
Yea! I am building an off-road trailer so if I can get one of these on a deal that would be great.
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you should definitely hit up expedition portal, pirate4x4, and ih8mud. If you had a toyota, I'd direct you to tacomaworldforums, but yea, get active in the community. You'll find that expanding your overland expeditions to other states, even countries, it brings everything to a whole new world.
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for sure man! Thanks for the advice and sorry for such a late response! Built the trailer and had a blast with it in Colorado and Utah. It has served me well. I never did get a roof top though.. I think ground camping still feels awesome.
Hey folks,
I created this for the car campers among us. This isn't necessarily to say hate roughing it, but more like you're done with the BS of putting down a ground tent on mud, wet grass, and boulder fields. In a lot of situations, it makes a lot more sense to pop a rooftop tent than sleep on concrete.
One of our friends had the option to sleep on concrete or to sleep in his tent at base while they were on alert for the Lake Oroville Dam Collapse.
If you've ever been to Utah, you know that it's a beautiful state with a lot of fantastic trails to check out, but you also know that when it rains, all that beautiful red clay turns into mush and stepping in and out of your vehicle or tent is more a hassle than it's worth.
When you roll into camp after a 12 hour day of trail driving, wouldn't you want to be able to just flip open your tent, crawl into your sleeping bag, and fall asleep within 2 minutes?
I know I would.
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