Rooftop for family of 4

Just found this:

Eezi-Awn 2.2M WIDE SERIES 3 FAMILY ROOF TENT

Anyone tried these out yet?

Cheers
NUTS!

The only problem would be with a family is that to move your vehicle at all, you have to fold up the entire tent.. or put it on a trailer as per the pic.. Michael

ShippeShape

The above are not cheap - We have the full setup - I would say with your young family you could sleep 4 in the main bed - there is a lot of room.

Its worth a look and is very good quality.

Regards

Gday Nuts, we have been using our Eazy-Awn family roof topper for about 12 months now and its been great. It's on an offroad trailer, but can be moved with a bit of effort onto the roof of the Patrol onto the rhino racks. It is very heavy, but once unfolded/setup you end up with about 40-50kg of weight on the roof and the other 40-50kg on the 2 ladders supporting the other half. Either way on any car you would be over loading the roof rail capacity with 50kg of tent plus 2x 70kg adults plus 2x20kg small kids plus bedding. The load capacity for the roof of a Patrol is about 200kg if the load is distributed over the roof rail. Therefore based on the weight of all 4 people plus the tent you would be approx. 30-40kg overloaded on the roof rails.

Its not unusual to see 2, 2 man roof top tents on some vehicles which would also overload the roof load capacity. Maybe a traditional tent might be an option? A lightweight roof top tent may be another option with 2 people in each roof top tent? Best of luck making up your decision.

A mate traveled extensively (Capetown to Cairo) with 2 rooftops on a HJ75 Dual Cab Cruiser.
That was 4 adults - no problems

I can dig up some pics if you need some


Anyhows, aren't they only for people scared of crocs?




Have fun

we have been using our howlling moon tourer rtt now for almost 10 years and cant fault it. we now have 2 kids 6yo and 3yo and they slep in the zip on room while we sleep up top. we wrap the top off one of those alli. camp tables around the ladder and scure it with a occy strap to stop the 3yo from climbing up. as for having to pack up to move on it can be annoying at times but really it only takes less than 10 minutes and most of that time is pulling the kids camp cots apart but if you are camping with others we just through the beds with their stuff and to be on the move takes under 5 minutes so by thetime the wife straps the kids in we are ready to go. we also added a slide out kitchen and fridge so we have a set up like a trailer without the worries of towing throurh the bush.

if you wont and tips or pics on set up just let me know.

Another option for you, Tent & Swag

We have the Shippshape tent and have 2 rooms added to it. The bed is huge for the two of us. When we have others we take a double swag and sleep inside if they want too. Swag gets carried on the back.

These pics are from our Kimbery trip with Mrs and I in the tent and my 67 year old Mother In-law in the swag.






We are about to place the tent onto our new trailer.

"I would like to sleep everyone together: my wife and I (both medium sized ;-) as well as our two kids 7 and 3 yo".
If you are still sexually active you may want to reconsider this.
A roof topper is only for the celibate or isolated at the best of time.
Seeing as how your youngest is only 3, it would be very unlikely you would fit this category.