tundratrader
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So I finally decided to add a RTT to my rig. I wanted an Eezi Awn or Maggiolina but shipping is always a deal breaker in Alaska. I found a local dealer selling Tepui brand tents. It was being demoed on a astro van on stock rack. It was very solid even on that piece of junk vehicle. We had several days of severe rain and wind I kept checking it daily and it stayed bone dry.
http://www.tepuitents.com/models/gran-sabana.html
I figured it was here and might as well get it. It is the gran sabana model. I got it for cost plus shipping to Alaska at $1900.00. It included all mounting hardware and the vestibule enclosure attachment that I still have not used. I removed the factory roof rack rails and filled holes with silicone. I already had Yakima 1A towers and bars. I might install a third bar for strength or turn the entire thing sideways and have it fold and deploy out the back and put my Loadwarrior off my tundra up front over sunroof for gear storage. Has anyone done a RTT and smaller rack (yakima, or Bajarack)? The only mounting issue is that they include 1/4 flat aluminum plates. It hasn't moved but I think I will make u shaped brackets for permanent placement on the bars. The mattress is plenty thick and fits a king size sheet nicely. The ladder is very sturdy. All of the windows and screens are well placed and stitching everywhere is just about perfect. It deployed very easy with 1 person and packs away nicely in the attached bag/cover. I put about 1000 miles on this weekend and it held up perfect. The noise was not to bad. I might add a sunroof deflector and see if that helps any with noise. I had thought about wrapping a ratchet strap around the base like the Eezi awns but figured I should just try the zipper and cross straps the factory supplied and it worked flawlessly(minus the 100,000+bugs that are smashed against the front of it).
Overall I am very impressed. My wife, 4 year old, wife's band mate and me all fit comfortably. It was so nice to have all of our bedding from home out camping. It even folded up perfectly with about 8 pillows, a comforter and a big thick old wool army blanket.
A couple pre tent pics.
So my truck over the weekend started idling at about 4-500 RPM's and loping. I looked up how to check codes with paper clip jumper and counting CEL blinks and will be doing that tomorrow. My old job has a fancy Snap-On code reader is there a chance that it will work on my OBD-1 vehicle?
I have plenty of power after I start moving, my MPG was terrible as usual, and my CEL has not come on. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Zach
http://www.tepuitents.com/models/gran-sabana.html
I figured it was here and might as well get it. It is the gran sabana model. I got it for cost plus shipping to Alaska at $1900.00. It included all mounting hardware and the vestibule enclosure attachment that I still have not used. I removed the factory roof rack rails and filled holes with silicone. I already had Yakima 1A towers and bars. I might install a third bar for strength or turn the entire thing sideways and have it fold and deploy out the back and put my Loadwarrior off my tundra up front over sunroof for gear storage. Has anyone done a RTT and smaller rack (yakima, or Bajarack)? The only mounting issue is that they include 1/4 flat aluminum plates. It hasn't moved but I think I will make u shaped brackets for permanent placement on the bars. The mattress is plenty thick and fits a king size sheet nicely. The ladder is very sturdy. All of the windows and screens are well placed and stitching everywhere is just about perfect. It deployed very easy with 1 person and packs away nicely in the attached bag/cover. I put about 1000 miles on this weekend and it held up perfect. The noise was not to bad. I might add a sunroof deflector and see if that helps any with noise. I had thought about wrapping a ratchet strap around the base like the Eezi awns but figured I should just try the zipper and cross straps the factory supplied and it worked flawlessly(minus the 100,000+bugs that are smashed against the front of it).
Overall I am very impressed. My wife, 4 year old, wife's band mate and me all fit comfortably. It was so nice to have all of our bedding from home out camping. It even folded up perfectly with about 8 pillows, a comforter and a big thick old wool army blanket.
A couple pre tent pics.
So my truck over the weekend started idling at about 4-500 RPM's and loping. I looked up how to check codes with paper clip jumper and counting CEL blinks and will be doing that tomorrow. My old job has a fancy Snap-On code reader is there a chance that it will work on my OBD-1 vehicle?
I have plenty of power after I start moving, my MPG was terrible as usual, and my CEL has not come on. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Zach
