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08/6/2017 at 8:49pm
Location: Louth Lincolnshire Outfit: Coleman Instant Tourer 4 and tarp!
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Anyone with any experience,opinions or views on tents that attach to the roof of a car ? 🐰😎
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14/6/2017 at 10:58am
Location: Ayrshire Outfit: Auto2DSleeper+MHs
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I saw quite a few of them in Australia. But they have poisonous snakes out there. The ones I've seen on sites in UK have all been on German registered vehicles, and on sites where you can get a bus into the city centre for sight seeing.
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15/6/2017 at 7:34am
Location: Scotland Outfit: Coachman Highlander (Amara)
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Ive always like the idea of these and occasionally actually think of getting one. But reading the post from lescargo reminds me it's that it's probably the idea of them I like rather than the reality.
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21/6/2017 at 4:15pm
Location: Ayrshire Outfit: Auto2DSleeper+MHs
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As a follow on - we were at Mortonhall site recently (Edinburgh) and there were 2 such tents, both Continental, both being used by single mature men & not travelling together. And both very different - one looked like it would go on safari: all canvas, almost a pram top style. It looked like folding it away on your own could be fiddly.
The other looked much smarter & easier - like the pop-top roof of a campervan, solid moulded top matching the bottom like a clam, and sprung side supports. It would pack away in minutes.
Both tents were there at least 4 nights. But there's a bus stop at the gate & loads to see in the city.
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21/6/2017 at 8:12pm
Location: Midlands Outfit: Mondeo Avondale Gram
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Dont forget your roof will have loading limits.
Some of that will be down to the load attached and doing 70mph etc. But some down to the strength of the roof itself.
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