Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

When I first started researching rooftop tents, I was looking at the $2000-3000 tents because they were well known names and everyone recommended them over anything else. Through my research, I saw people saying all of these rooftop tents are actually one tent with different names on them, which was the push I needed to purchase this tent at a fraction of the cost of the others. Now, although this tent looks like the ARB Simpson III, it is not the same tent. The ARB uses different materials and ever so slight design differences. That being said, this is an EXCELLENT tent! The instructions are pretty bad. If you're not adept at figuring things out on your own, get a buddy to help that is. There were no instructions at all for the annex, but it's easy enough to figure out. An unexpected surprise was the addition of a ratcheting wrench in the included tools. It wasn't required and it's not a top name brand, but it made the process where it was needed fly by. The construction and materials are great. The floor is aluminum, the poles are aluminum, and the hinges and brackets that take the most stress are stainless steel. The fabric is a heavy duty ripstop material that doesn't feel cheap. All of the seams are sewn and welded/sealed. The window zippers are smooth and chunky enough to take abuse. The zipper around the tent where it attaches to the annex has a little too much give. Getting the annex zipped on is a slow, tedious process in some areas. Setup is fast. In 5 minutes or less you can be inside the tent and relaxing. Figuring out how to insert the metal rods for the rain fly was perplexing at first. From my vantage point, the spots where the rods went looked like just dimples in the aluminum. There are actually deep holes drilled and the rods have to go in nearly vertical with the ground. Once they're in, they aren't going anywhere. Putting it away is nearly as fast as setting it up. I really, really like the fact that the cover isn't super tight fitting. There's room for the cover to shift around and expand and contract with the weather. The last thing I'd want to do on a freezing last day in camp is try and stretch a super thick cover over a tent after the cover has shrunk. I really look forward to camping with this tent!