Tough Touring - 1/58 Tarnard Drive Braeside, Victoria 3195.
Phone: 0408 390 078
Roof top tents, 4wd Awning Bracket & Rack Manufacturers
Installation of Bundutop Bundutec roof top tents
When Installing a Bundutop tent - your roof rack needs to be at least as wide as the tent.
The Bundutop tent needs support on its outside edge extrusion as the floor itself has little strength. Please check that your roof rack is 1350mm wide for standard size bundutop tents, 1450mm wide for standard PLUS or 1600mm wide for Bundutop KING size tents - DO NOT mount a bundutop on a Narrow roof rack or you will destroy your tent very quickly. (The Floor is not able to hold the tents weight on its own and will seperate from the side extrusions).
M8 Factory Slotted Rails Underneath The tent:
Bundutop tents have arrived from factory with 2 x North South M8 Bolt tracks recessed flush into the tent base since early 2023. The Tents come with typical 'Saddle' Fitting hardware making installation to simple East west bar type roof racks fairly straight forward. (Almost the same set up as is included on all common makes of RTT.
Through bolting tent option:
For a Stronger rattle free instalaltion, You can Through Bolt the Bundutop straight to canopy tops or roof racks. The structure of the tent dictates the positions of suitable fixing points with the required strength for mounting. On the standard delux tents - the Standard tent is drilled through the internal tent structure at 1235mm wide - and then fastened to your rack, canopy or crossbars using 65mm long m6 or M8 (8mm) Bolts.
The King size requires the Mounting points to be at 1475mm - Again M8 Bolts are preferred.
Most common roof racks and trade racks are only 1220mm wide, and are thus not wide enough to fit a bundutop tent - Please measure your rack width before attempting installation.
Fitting Bundutop tents to 4wd wagons with gutter mount racks:
In the case of your vehicle having gutters for roof racks - ensure that the roof racks are installed level from front to rear. If they are not - they will have to be before you can install any tent.
New 'Tough Touring Gutter Mount Roof top tent racks rails for the Ultimate / strong and Lowest profile Gutter mounting option for Bundutop tents... The Tough Touring racks are designed to be easy to install, affordable and allow easy removal and addition of roof top tents.
see our Tough Touring Roof rack page for more information
Dual Cab Utes - Canopy Installation of a Bundutop Tent.
Be carefull that gull wing doors do not protrude / infringe on the available space on top of the canopy... Bundutop tents can overhang up to 500mm over the front or rear of a canopy unsupported - so typical dual cab canopies of 1600mm in length are OK for mounting. however Vehicle Stability is compromised with all the weight behind the back wheels leading to a poor handling vehicle (Regardless of the RTT Brand)
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Mounting Awnings to the side of your bundutop tent
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If your going to mount a Wing Awning, usually the best place to fit it is to the side of the bundutop tent.
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Tough Touring builds "awning to tent" kits that allow customers a quality strong installation -
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Dual-Cab Utes - Over Cab Installation Best Practice:
For most dual-cab utes - by far the best position for installation of a rooftop tent is actually over the cab of the vehicle. (not the canopy)
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Over cab installations place the weight of the rooftop tent forward over the centre of the wheels - vastly reducing negative effects to the vehicles handling, body roll and climbing ability.
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When your tent is over the cab - you will still have almost full use of your rear tub/canopy for carrying gear.
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'Step up' onto the tray, step onto a box then into your tent. No ladders required. Much safer.
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If you're also running a canopy - GREAT - You now have a platform to get up onto to turn around before negotiating ladders - also somewhere to store firewood etc.
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Superlight and economical way to avoid full-length racks and still allow for vehicle twist.
Tough Touring developed specialist roof top tent racks to aid vehicle stability for Toyota Hilux, Mistubishi Triton, Isuzu D-max, Volkswagen Amarok, Nissan Navara 4wd Vehicles, The roof top tent racks design is low profile, load rated to suit these heavier loads and help Minimise body roll on these vehicles and others
How to properly Set up and Pack up your bundutop Roof top tent to avoid Battern / string and pulley damage
When Installing a Bundutop to a 4wd Wagon - Consider 'Tough Touring Roof top tent racks' for lower and stronger fitment.
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Tough Touring currently manufactures its own brand of roof racks for the Bundutop tent for over 38 makes of vehicles. They are lowest , lightest and strongest racks in the world - Check them out here - "tough touring RTT racks"
Close up of a Bundutop roof top tent mounted Over the cab of this Isuzu D Max Dual Cab. Mounting tents over the cab is achieved via Installation of our Stage one or Stage 2 Tough touring Roof racks - our Dual cab over cab Roof racks are the best way to balance the top weight of tents over dual cabs. More on this here - Tough Touring Dual Cab Racks
Dual Cab Utes fitting Bundutops will perform much better on and offroad when fitting RTT over the cab using our 'Tough Touring Cantilever roof bars" kit shown above and below on this Navara.