Inspired Overland Carbonlite Rooftop Tent

G'day Sophie,

You should be able to do that, although I would definitely recommend making sure your foam mat is not much thicker than 6cm, particularly if you are wanting to include bedding. The Darche 1100 Wide Swag Mattress might fit- it is 7cm thick but designed to compress when being rolled up in a swag. Just make sure that your bedding is not too bulky- tyry to go for a down quilt/sleeping bag rather than synthetic, if possible. 

G'day Peter,

Just for aesthetic reasons!

G'day Sid,

This rooftop tent comes with T-slot mounting brackets and M8 screws which are designed for standard roof rails- for a roof platform you'll likely need some sort of accessory bars, which can be pretty easily DIYed using some 5mm flat bar from Bunnings or the like. 

G'day Brandon,

No you cant, sorry!  As these are a super lightweight tent, they're not strong enough to mount an awning off the side.
Most awnings come with long brackets that allow you to mount to the roof rails underneath the tent - you may have to install your roof top tent 10cm off centre.

G'day Josh,

We've had this question on the standard roof top, with the answer pretty much being the same which i'll copy below:

We dont have all these specs sorry, and no scales here that we're able to weigh the compenents for you to advise of exact weights.
Having said that though, we can give it a good crack with abit of creativity and common sense.
We know the ladder weighs 5.5 kg - that is not included in the stated weight of the tent, as it is required to be packed seperately.

Alloy telescopic awning poles on average weight between 400-500g, so you could guess 800g-1kg for the upright poles.
RTT Fly tensioner poles are around 150g each - so add 300g for that.
The mattress itself is around 6kg.

Based on that, you could attribute around 7.3kg of the 36.3kg tent weight to the 3 removable components - mattress, poles, tensioners.

Hope that helps! 

G'day Luke,

Yes, the Inspired Oveland Rooftop Tent can have accesorries added with use of the Carbon Fibre Crossbar Kit. These have a 30kg weight capacity. 

G'day Claire,

Each of the bars are 25mm wide. From the inside to the inside of each bar is 690mm. From the outside of each bar to the outer edge of the tent base is 245mm. This gives an overall tent width of 1230mm, not accounting for the latches.
The mounting rails on the Inspired Overland tents are fixed and shouldn't be moved.

G'day Tom,

Generally rooftop tent struts are ok for 25-35kg, so if your surfboards are maxing out at 15kg you dhouldnt have any issues.
There are roof racks coming for the Carbon model in the next month or so.

G'day Oscar,

It would depend on the sleeping bag, as some of those canvas/flannel synthetic sleeping bags are really chunky.
You could consider a down quilt instead, like you'd use on a bed at home?  They compresses down beautifully and can be alot warmer than a synthetic bag.

G'day Eden,

You shouldn't have too many issues, we'd just recommend centering the rooftop tent wherever possible.

G'day Nick,

They're only available to view in our store, sorry - Keswick, SA or Brendale, QLD.

G'day Kris,

Yep, they will be in the range sometime this year.

G'day Phil,

By "slats" I'm assuming that you are referring to the mounting rails?  In this case no, they cannot be removed.
It would require reasonable modifications to drill out the attachment points to remove them, in which case warranty would be void.

The height of 13.5cm as specified in the product details includes the 3cm mounting rails.

Hope that helps.

G'day Chelsea,

We don't currently have roof racks for this particular model. We are still hoping that they will be available in the future. We do carry the Darche Rooftoop Rails that fit a few of their models. 23Zero also does some roofbars for their Saber Lite Paw and Saber Max models. 

G'day Kristian,

There are roof racks coming at some stage soon - what other accessories would you be wanting?

G'day Will,

The brackets that come with the Inspired Overland tents are wide enough for a standard roof rail, and arent directly compatible with platfrom racks - the slats are too big.
You can grab the Rhino Rack Pioneer Accessory bars to make mounting pretty straight forward.
Alternatively you'd need to come up with a DIY solution, likely using 5mm flat bar from Bunnings or similar hardware store, and creating some longer clamp pieces that would fit around the Pioneer slats.

D'day David,

You'd be able to store a down sleeping bag or doona that compresses easily, or potentially a synthetic sleeping bag depending how flat it is, but you would be able to get pillows in aswell.
The mattress itself has to be deflated for pack up just for the roof top tent to close itself, without bedding.  There wont be much room left over.
Other models of the Inspired Overland tents will have more leeway, as they have a soft torneau cover, but the carbon one is abit less forgiving.

Pump work to inflate no worries, but the orange valve is abit too wide for deflate support on alot of the pumps we carry.  You can still make it work, but its abit fiddly.
Alternatively you can open the mat right up and attache the pump, and then quickly pull it off and close the cap when you're done.
The Zempire Monstamat has a similarly sized valve, so their Monstapump will be the best bet.

G'day Matt,

At this stage, there are no roof rails available for this RTT - we expect to get them in the next few months.
We don't have any further details on this accessory, or any information on weight ratings at this stage.
Watch this space!

G'day Jon,

We don't have any warehouses or shops in Victoria currently, but we can deliver! If you are ever in the area, we have this on display at our Keswick, SA and Brendale, QLD stores.

G'day Paul,

They don't adjust sorry, and will require cross rails for support proper support.
The rails sit approx 20cm from the outer edge of the roof top tent.

Hope that helps.

G'day Alan,

You can fit the Inspired Overland roof racks onto this Carbo model only - we'll be getting them in the next few months.
It would be possible to mount a light bar, but you'd need t-channel bolts and come up with a mounting solution - there's not an off the shelf bracket that we have, but its definitely achievable

G'day Rohan,

You can't sorry - the only way to leave bedding in the Carbon tent is to fully deflate and compress the mattress.
The nature of a light, compact roof top tent, you sacrifice things like leaving bedding in for a slimmer profile.

G'day Carrol,

You'll need to take into consideration the weight of your roof rack system aswell, but if the total load weight on your vehicle roof is less that 50kg, you should be ok.

G'day Jimmy,

This rooftop tent has T-slots so you can attach roof bars on the rooftop tent lid and pop a solar panel on top. I would just be mindful of your roof load capacity.

G'day Wayne,

I've checked in with Ben on this one - he said in the video they didn't make efforts to deflate the mat at all, which adds a bit of pressure to the shell when closed.  Being such a lightweight option, the best bet is to deflate the mat a bit for pack up, especially if you're concerned with the seal not meeting.
Hope that helps!

G'day Ryan,

The T-slot would not be suitable for attaching a 270 Awning as the T-slot is on the lid of the Rooftop tent and wouldn't be strong enough or in the right position for a 270 Awning. Most 270 Awnings require 3 attachment points, which would be better attached to your Roof Racks.