For anyone who doesn't have a lot of experience with RTT's, I have had 4 different ones. Started with a soft shell by Treeline Outdoors, terrific quality and price and great for those who only plan to use it a few times a year. I've had a Roofnest, which is a more budget friendly hard shell with some great qualities. And I currently have the iKamper Skycamp Mini on my fiance's vehicle and a GFC on my rig. Those are both rather expensive, but amazing build quality, terrific profiles, and very unique designs. It really depends what your vehicle and usage is, but all RTT brands have come a long way, hard to go wrong with any brand nowadays.
Roof top tents are great, but they are best when put on top of a small utility trailer. Dont have to move it on and off the vehicle and once you set up camp you're vehicle is free to come and go.
@@maggieeberlin5221 a pop up camper doesn't go on moderately difficult off road trails so you can camp in the middle of a National Forest. Not the same at all.
Wait, this dude was like I didn’t like how rooftop tents are expensive so he went to China and made his own expensive rooftop tents to sell to us? Oh by the way, that falcon, their most popular tent costs $3,500 bucks!!! lol
It costs much less to sleep in your SUV and put the gear on top. And you dont have to worry about the fall when you get up in the middle of the night to take a pee!
@@619Pascal If you download the alibaba app and search clamshell roof top tent you see will see hundreds just like this for 500-1000$ they also have those "Fancy" batwing awnings that these companies are charging thousands for, at literally 200$ and under
Yes, awesome customer service! Logan is the best. I ordered my condo or XL last week, can’t wait till it arrives and I’m out of here! Thanks for this video.
It's great to have a roof over our heads going camping. But how many people can afford a $3000 tent? But for that price, does it comes with a toilet, shower, maybe a small sink?
I've saw horror stories from this brand. One person said they had to spend time to track down the business owner to sue them in small claims to get their money back... Thule has a hard shell popup, go for that...
If you have a friend near you in the US maybe you could ship it there, drive down and attach it to your car and then go camping somewhere in the US while you're at it.
I was interested in these until I saw the quality up close. The shells are not the best quality (fiberglass), the fabric seems to be on the cheaper side, and the hardware doesn't look like grade 8 and will probably rust within a year or two. When it comes to things like this, just buy quality. He has a good start, but has a ways to go before it is a respected product.
Everybody talks about the tent but what about the roof support weight rack also is expensive to buy??..A flat weight rated roof rack cost easy $700..you need to add that to the cost of the tent..your talking about thousands of dollars..Thousands of dollars equates to several nights in nice acomodating local near by hotels and resorts and still have money left..Yes you still might not have the same views but youd have nice ones also..donno..I'm just having a hard time to see the value of paying soo much for one
You lose your rack space, you have to climb down to go pee, your gas mileage decreases, the tent flaps around in the wind and you're out $3,000 or more. Not worth it in my view.
@@denverspin My main hangup is that my camping trips usually involve bringing kayaks or a canoe and I need my roof rack for those toys. I've been making it work just fine with a regular tent for many years.
HEY TFL ..........You Guys Should Review Vehicle Accessories, like this one, bigger Accessories as well as smaller, simpler Ones that the average guy wouldn’t even know existed...
Cool but expensive....The only difference from regular tent is that you are off the ground, and the ground one cost $100 or less or more, but far away from $3K...
@@dustinhale4337 there are ones out there on a chinese website but after doing research it is far better to get them from the distributors here as they all have the same stuff but different specs on a few things.
I feel like the main reason this video is getting a lot of bad comments is right from the get go to the logo is falling off of the tent So pretty immediately you’re telling your audience that it’s a cheap piece of crap when really it’s not, it just had a small design flaw in that particular tent, maybe you guys should edit the video and completely remove that part because it’s just making it look bad
wow can you say icamper mini boys and girls?Because that 1st tent looks like .Maybe that's just my imagination but that is what it looks like to me. But worth a look any way.
Thats nice im looking for a good hard shell roof top tent for my suv within 2k-3k price range but i would really like something that i can mount led light bar on my roof. I would love to check one of these out in person. Are there any out here in Boston Massachusetts?
actually, it is.. one company called MW sells hard shell one (Falcon) as Motop Roof Top Tent.. i bought 5 months ago from their Brisbane shop for $2,500 and so far so good.. it's $2,799 now tho
This thing looks so cheap. He's just flipping garbage Chinese roof tents with horrible design. For how much he charges you could be making those in the US and actually having something that lasts and doesn't look like a trash bag with a cooler lid on top.
The roof rails both VW and Thule are rated for only 75kg. Which is enough to carry the tent, when unoccupied. I know VW engineers a safety factor but I don't know whether that is 2x or 3x.
All these roof top tents are a rip off. How much does it cost for a couple pieces of moulded plastic and a couple yards of canvas.. I'll buy one when you can sell it to me for under $600
@@macbook802 actually I am, been 4x4 camping with a roof tent for years. I'd use proper camping equipment rather than risk carbon monoxide poisoning and a leaking roof in the future.
The most frustrating part of this video is how many times he says "yeah" WHILE you are talking, without letting you finish. So frustrating I can't even
*$3,000.00 for a freaken tent ! So just because it's on a car roof and not the ground it's worth $3,000.00 USD ? I, AND ALLOT OF OTHER PEOPLE DON'T THINK SO ! Also, I don't want to buy stuff manufactured in China at any price ! If you have no interest in producing a product the average person can afford, and made domestically, then it's just another elitist product for the rich. I'm confident someone will soon come along and address the HUGE market segment which would gladly pay around a $1,000.00 USD.*
Wow. That was a great intro to another option to what’s out there in Roof Top Tents. Thanks!
For anyone who doesn't have a lot of experience with RTT's, I have had 4 different ones. Started with a soft shell by Treeline Outdoors, terrific quality and price and great for those who only plan to use it a few times a year. I've had a Roofnest, which is a more budget friendly hard shell with some great qualities. And I currently have the iKamper Skycamp Mini on my fiance's vehicle and a GFC on my rig. Those are both rather expensive, but amazing build quality, terrific profiles, and very unique designs. It really depends what your vehicle and usage is, but all RTT brands have come a long way, hard to go wrong with any brand nowadays.
Guy crys that they cost 5k back then... starts making them instead... sells them 5k Lol GTFO
😂
Not making lol just ordering from china with a brand name
the design looks oddly similar to iKamper.
Haha
I heard him say $2200 on the pop up. Pay attention
0:23 the letters pelling off, good thing these roof tent isn't expensive, wait...
Just need a sharpie, problem solved!
tuffstuff makes a WAY better version at half price...review of it is on my channel
Chinese
Yeah seriously, made in china but still several thousand dollars. Ok then.
Go with Eezi Awn
Roof top tents are great, but they are best when put on top of a small utility trailer. Dont have to move it on and off the vehicle and once you set up camp you're vehicle is free to come and go.
That’s now a pop up camper… which is great. And a simple used one may cost less than $2k and sleep 6.
@@maggieeberlin5221 a pop up camper doesn't go on moderately difficult off road trails so you can camp in the middle of a National Forest. Not the same at all.
It looks like he just went to the chinese manufacturer for iKamper and said "give me that with my own logo on it."
That's literally what people do, I've looked them up on Alibaba and part of your order is putting "your brand" on them.
Chris Coffel got a link?
Lots of guys have copied....it is amazing how many popped up in last 12 months with same general design.
That how it works $$$
@@ilovetacos210 That's literally why I wrote the comment, because it's pretty clear that is literally what he did.
Wait, this dude was like I didn’t like how rooftop tents are expensive so he went to China and made his own expensive rooftop tents to sell to us? Oh by the way, that falcon, their most popular tent costs $3,500 bucks!!! lol
Guy is a hypocrite. Complaints that other sellers are expensive and then goes and does the same.
Ray Pabs exactly!
Yeah no kidding most of the other higher end brands are right around this price point nowadays anyways. 2k id be all for it though.
Yeah, agreed. I won’t be buying this anymore.
His are similar prices as all the other ones??? maybe if he was popping them off for $509 I would forgive him
It costs much less to sleep in your SUV and put the gear on top. And you dont have to worry about the fall when you get up in the middle of the night to take a pee!
This tent is literally the same exact hard top tent you can find on alibaba for 500$ same exact thing minus the logo.
provide me a link please. i search one ^^
Pascal Klinker yes, I would love that link aswell haha
I would probably pay that. $3,000? No way.
@@619Pascal If you download the alibaba app and search clamshell roof top tent you see will see hundreds just like this for 500-1000$ they also have those "Fancy" batwing awnings that these companies are charging thousands for, at literally 200$ and under
Good heads up. And I'd pay extra for logo-delete! this tent is a bill-board for that company! no thanks. (unless they're paying me)
Roof nest is out of their minds for their prices.
Yes, awesome customer service! Logan is the best. I ordered my condo or XL last week, can’t wait till it arrives and I’m out of here! Thanks for this video.
It's great to have a roof over our heads going camping. But how many people can afford a $3000 tent? But for that price, does it comes with a toilet, shower, maybe a small sink?
Saw rust on the rivets and the nest was peeling off the fabric. That's a shame because I was looking into this for my tent purchase.
What do you expect? It's generic Chinese crap sold at a premium
I've saw horror stories from this brand. One person said they had to spend time to track down the business owner to sue them in small claims to get their money back... Thule has a hard shell popup, go for that...
Looks great. What a shame you couldn’t support your fellow Americans and have it built in the US.
$3000 ain’t cheap neither lol
OK
And there Chinese
Any chance of getting one of these in Canada without it costing an arm, leg, moose steak and bottle of maple syrup?
That’s definitely the most Canadian way to describe it for sure 😂
If you have a friend near you in the US maybe you could ship it there, drive down and attach it to your car and then go camping somewhere in the US while you're at it.
😂
Sorry, we don't ship to Canada anymore. But, if you visit our Instagram and follow, we will outline everything
I’m from Canada aswell and having the same problem.
I’ll just sleep in the back with the seats folded down for now 😂
Now imagine these hardtop tents - BUT(!) with built in solar panels - how cool would that be?!!
I need a version of this on wheels for my bicycle
😂😂
@Chris Kibodeaux 😆
you can undertake to buy his prototype and give it a test run😀
Waiting to see you with Tim showing the BikeNest!
Now those have possibilities! What a great weekender unit too!
I was interested in these until I saw the quality up close. The shells are not the best quality (fiberglass), the fabric seems to be on the cheaper side, and the hardware doesn't look like grade 8 and will probably rust within a year or two. When it comes to things like this, just buy quality. He has a good start, but has a ways to go before it is a respected product.
Justin McRoberts don’t buy lol
Take a look at the Trustmade Nomad Hardshell Rooftop Tent.
The logo on the tent at :23 is peeling, that says a lot.
What kind of weight will these hold. I am 6'5 and about 300lbs. Am I going to crush my roof??? :)
Damn TFL YOU over doing it on the ads
You mean the entire video right?
Dig the “Friend Of The Pod” tee!
No thanks! Manufacture here in America and I might think about one.
for twice the price and same quality :D
Everybody talks about the tent but what about the roof support weight rack also is expensive to buy??..A flat weight rated roof rack cost easy $700..you need to add that to the cost of the tent..your talking about thousands of dollars..Thousands of dollars equates to several nights in nice acomodating local near by hotels and resorts and still have money left..Yes you still might not have the same views but youd have nice ones also..donno..I'm just having a hard time to see the value of paying soo much for one
$3000 I mine as well buy the ikamper
Sold my Jeep, might get one for my new Fiat 500X 👍🏽
RoofNest starts around $3K. Will stick to Thule Tepui brand.
My thing is what is so very expensive not pay 2004 that it's worse maybe $1,000 maybe even cheaper but not no 2000 hell no
You lose your rack space, you have to climb down to go pee, your gas mileage decreases, the tent flaps around in the wind and you're out $3,000 or more. Not worth it in my view.
What do you suggest?
@@denverspin My main hangup is that my camping trips usually involve bringing kayaks or a canoe and I need my roof rack for those toys. I've been making it work just fine with a regular tent for many years.
"Yeah"
Tim…I’m getting one of these…awesome!
HEY TFL ..........You Guys Should Review Vehicle Accessories, like this one, bigger Accessories as well as smaller, simpler Ones that the average guy wouldn’t even know existed...
Could you please say YA one more time. Ya , Ya , Ya, Ya, every half sentence the guy says Ya, terrible interview. Could not watch anymore.
Yup..yup..yup....yep...yep !!! 😁😂🤣
At least he’s not saying, “like” every sentence like most do nowadays.
Can this RoofNest share the roof (the roof racks) with an awning? Thanks!
This great! I was never into camping. This is amazing!
As soon as my Bronco is delivered I will be buying a Roofnest.
yeah
Dude sick! I need this for camping.
Cool but expensive....The only difference from regular tent is that you are off the ground, and the ground one cost $100 or less or more, but far away from $3K...
Do you have a store where I can check them out in California?
tuffstuff is in cali and has the same clam shell, half the price
Should be able to find it on wish soon enough since he went with chinese manufacturing.
@@dustinhale4337 there are ones out there on a chinese website but after doing research it is far better to get them from the distributors here as they all have the same stuff but different specs on a few things.
I feel like the main reason this video is getting a lot of bad comments is right from the get go to the logo is falling off of the tent So pretty immediately you’re telling your audience that it’s a cheap piece of crap when really it’s not, it just had a small design flaw in that particular tent, maybe you guys should edit the video and completely remove that part because it’s just making it look bad
Holy yep and yeah..
Can we see Nathan and Andre overland in these? Real world test
There are many youtubers out there using all varieties of RTTs
wow can you say icamper mini boys and girls?Because that 1st tent looks like .Maybe that's just my imagination but that is what it looks like to me. But worth a look any way.
Frank Simpson looks exactly like it.
Exactly
Love your story . Great job!!
Just buy an Alu Cab and don’t look back. Ready in less than 30 seconds.
Did they at least pay you for posting this commercial for them?
I’ll show you how easy it is to set up by NOT demonstrating on one fitted to a vehicle 🤷🏻♂️
Dude you can buy a generic version of this tent on Alibaba for like $800-$1200 shipped to your house
Buy his solution for US$3000..... OR.... go to Aliexpress and buy the same thing for US$500-600???? WHAT IS THE VALUE ADD for >500% markup?
Thats nice im looking for a good hard shell roof top tent for my suv within 2k-3k price range but i would really like something that i can mount led light bar on my roof. I would love to check one of these out in person. Are there any out here in Boston Massachusetts?
Roof tent is cool..id look in Roof Nest if i ever tho 💪💓👍
what kind of cross bar will you use for a toyota 4runner trail ?
I don't understand the appeal of an rtt. It is literally a 2 man tent on top of your car and costs 10x as much.
Ya ya ya ya
Yeah...yeah...yeahhh...yea...yeahh..
Love the fact you can buy these from Thule for wayyyyy less but not Aliexpress quality lol
I wonder what hunting from one of these would be like. Like would it be illegal?
Need one, that can fit family of 5..not too much of those :(
free spirit recreation makes on that is as big as a CA king bed
Even if someone made one I wouldn't recomend putting that much weight on your roof. Bad things would happen.
Love it, but it’s not available in Australia and definitely not at a reasonable price!
actually, it is.. one company called MW sells hard shell one (Falcon) as Motop Roof Top Tent.. i bought 5 months ago from their Brisbane shop for $2,500 and so far so good.. it's $2,799 now tho
0:40 he spent $2,500 on his van and sells his tents for $3,000 a piece lol
Can I mount it to the bed of the truck instead of the roof I wonder
I’m betting the cross country trip will have one of these.
This thing looks so cheap. He's just flipping garbage Chinese roof tents with horrible design. For how much he charges you could be making those in the US and actually having something that lasts and doesn't look like a trash bag with a cooler lid on top.
Why are his tents being stored at a little storage facility and not in some warehouse? I was under the impression this was a fairly large company..
Does it matter?
@@johnmcgough3132 well, it looks sketchy, to say the least. But those tents are manufactured in China so that says it all.
Why spend $3000 for a tent when you can get a nice ground tent for $300???
Harder to fall out of a ground tent too, lol
@@wickedmuffin76 But harder to enter from a ladder :) :)
Can 4 people fit and play poker without the roof collapsing?
He should also sell these in kits for the DIY people that need to save money.
Yup yeah, yay, yup, yeah, yeah, yeah, yup, yup, yup, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yup, yup, yeah, yeah
Yup Yup yupppp
That’s awesome! I want it
Hard roof cost around 800 bucks and soft 400-500 on alibaba. You guys are ripping off.
No Shipment to germany :( dang! just clicked to the homepage
check out the Maggiolina roof tents. Their Italian made and actually worth the money unlike this piece of roofnest garbage
Great! What’s the maximum load for the VW roof rails?
The roof rails both VW and Thule are rated for only 75kg. Which is enough to carry the tent, when unoccupied. I know VW engineers a safety factor but I don't know whether that is 2x or 3x.
Its 75kgs…. But you know, better keep quiet about that, gotta sell those tents!
Nice
What is the weight capacity of these tents
Can you put the ladder on either side?
Literally said that in the video
ill keep my smittybuilt overland xl.....
Can it put in truck bed
Nice product
All these roof top tents are a rip off.
How much does it cost for a couple pieces of moulded plastic and a couple yards of canvas.. I'll buy one when you can sell it to me for under $600
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah.
hotel room capsule... cool
Their website is Dead: "access to this site has been limited" WTF
my problem with roof top tents is.. i'd like solar panels thanks.
I am sure they can implement the solar panel too but you will have to pay a lot for all that feature..
Sally jesse Raphael has not aged well... she looks like a tall older man now...
That wasn't a very nice thing to say about Sally! Shame, Shame.
Can you cut a duct hole in the car's roof and the floor of the tent and share climate control?
yeah sure, buy a sawzall and go at it!
@@sun_dreaming hole saw would probably be more intelligent
@@macbook802 neither would be intelligent...
@@sun_dreaming ductwork is not intelligent. Are you a mud dweller?
@@macbook802 actually I am, been 4x4 camping with a roof tent for years. I'd use proper camping equipment rather than risk carbon monoxide poisoning and a leaking roof in the future.
think i would buy a lil trailer for that much!!
so cool!!
What??? Those Chinese ones go for $500 not $2000!! This is a scam
The most frustrating part of this video is how many times he says "yeah" WHILE you are talking, without letting you finish. So frustrating I can't even
BOUGHT IN CHINA , UP - SOLD TO CONSUMERS FOR 6 TIMES THE ORIGINAL COST 🖕🖕
check out James Baroud Explorer Evolution..
Does this fit a mk6 gti? I can’t find any roof top tents
Dude it fits anything with a crossbar
yeah,nup
Poor mans James Baroud
good
*$3,000.00 for a freaken tent ! So just because it's on a car roof and not the ground it's worth $3,000.00 USD ? I, AND ALLOT OF OTHER PEOPLE DON'T THINK SO ! Also, I don't want to buy stuff manufactured in China at any price ! If you have no interest in producing a product the average person can afford, and made domestically, then it's just another elitist product for the rich. I'm confident someone will soon come along and address the HUGE market segment which would gladly pay around a $1,000.00 USD.*
3k is really expensive