Do you open your tent to the left or the right?

[Elliot Botkin]

This may be a dumb question but I can't decide which way to mount my tent. Which way do you guys have yours opening and why?

 

[dstn2bdoa]

^^^ Ditto

 

[JKJim]

Mine opens to the driver's side. I put my awning on the passenger side so that I can open it roadside.

 

[Nd4SpdSe]

I had mine open on the drivers side at the time. So I can park tight on the passenger side (against a fence or what not), but have access to the truck and the tent on the same side.

Since it's on the trailer, the awning opens on the drivers side, so the tent has to open on the passenger side, but no big deal honestly.

 

[dman93]

I have mine open on the driver's side. Seems logical to me

 

[diluted]

Passenger side for me

 

[OverlandKyle]

Passenger side for me as its mounted on the trailer.... the awning is mounted on the passenger side so when I set up camp, I jackknife the trailer into a L and the tent opens up to and into the awning for extended living space

 

[ZMagic97]

When I had an RTT I opened it to the driver's side.

 

[Kerensky97]

If you mean direction its flipped open ( if its a flip open type...)
I dont think there is a "standard" but lacking a good reason otherwise, the passenger side would be preferred.
Same reason camping trailers have doors on passenger side. If tent needs to be deployed roadside, its put further away from other vehicles.

I never thought about it I just did the Passenger side because I've seen it more often like that, but that reason it genius. From now on I'm telling people that's why I did it that way.

 

[cozmo2312]

I had mine open on the drivers side at the time. So I can park tight on the passenger side (against a fence or what not), but have access to the truck and the tent on the same side.

this... i have to open the drivers side door regardless.. this way everything opens on the same side and keeps my footprint as small as possible.

 

[TwistedGray]

I'm unique in this thread so far as mine opens from the back, but I sacrificed my hatchback opening for this. I can live with that, but it would be so awesome if it opened over the front (wasted space).

 

[dstn2bdoa]

If you frequent public campgrounds most put the fire ring, tables ect are on the passenger side.

 

[Kevin108]

Mine opens to the back for two reasons:

1 - I have a rear door, not a rear hatch. The RTT doubles as a rear awning when deployed. I used clevis pins to make removal of the ladder simple.

2 - I'm still running the factory roof rack, which isn't the strongest option out there. When entering the tent, I'm loading the cross bars of the tent with my 250+ lbs plus some of the weight of the tent. Opening to the back, that load is distributed via the cross bars to both rails of my roof rack.