- [Ben] Ben from snowys is here folks
today, taking you through how to
set up and pack away
the Sabre roof top tent from 23Zero.
but also how you can instal it on your vehicle.
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This guy sets up in one action.
You can fold it up with bedding inside,
and it's easy to mount to your car.
Now, this is how the 23zero sabre rooftop tent looks.
when it's packed up,
how it would look on top of your car.
We've just got on top of pallets here
minus obviously these accessories here.
Now,
these come with it.
These roof rails,
you get through these roof rails with it,
and they just get attached through these
channels on the side here.
All of these attachments are an extra.
Now packed up like this
measures about
two hundred and thirty
centimetres
or probably a little bit more than
to the end here.
Maybe up to about 250 if you include all the handles in.
And then at this end here,
you've got
brackets here.
There's four
big stainless steel brackets here
that just stick out a little bit
to give it a little bit of extra length.
And it's about 140 centimetres in width here,
that maybe a little bit more if you incorporate
where the straps and stuff stick out the side here.
that's about 20 centimetres in height
this way when it's packed up.
And this allows for a bit of space inside for bedding,
which we'll show you shortly.
Now weight wise
it's by no means a lightweight
the tent itself
weighs about 108 kilos
and then you add extra weight for this
the ladder and all the,
the brackets and everything.
And you're up to set about 120 to 125 kilos
which is quite a heavy tent.
So it's up to you to make sure your vehicle
is equipped to be able to carry this weight.
on top of it safely.
And also bear in mind It changes the dynamics
of how your vehicle handles
when you've got this on top.
But what you do get
for all that way is something that is really easy to set up.
We're gonna do that shortly, but first I wanna cover
some of the things as you get with it
and how you can set it up.
So all of these brackets come,
they don't come attached.
So this is for our ladder.
So this
ladder
hooks in
here, and we attach these brackets to
the side of the tent here.
there's channels here
in which these bolts will fit into.
there's square end square points at the ends here.
to get right past the know as a larger area at the end here.
it just slides in here
and we can slide the bolts right along here
and attach the ladder wherever we want.
We get two of those brackets.
We also get
these
little loops
here.
Now these can attach inside the roof rail here.
So we pull the caps off the end here.
We can slide that in there
and it gives little attachment points
on top of the roof rails there.
We also gotta heap more of this rubber stripping here.
And see this You can actually attach that to all of these
unused sections around the edge here. If you like.
probably not necessary.
It's more relevant on top here
so that if you are strapping sail.
stand up paddle board or something hard to this
you've got
a soft rubber panel to sit on.
Now, these only give about an extra 20 kilos of
of weight carrying capability
on top of the, the rooftop tent here.
So you don't wanna put really heavy stuff on there.
but we've used it as we mentioned a good example
just for say
a solar panel
your max tracks, just lightweight items.
You do also get, obviously the ladder that comes with it.
This needs to stay separately.
It won't go inside the tent.
So you need to put this in the back of your car
or if you want to put those rails close enough together
strap it on top of the rails.
On top of the rooftop tent there
these keys working association with the
clips to hold it all down, to you bit more on that shortly
because there's, we've had different stories
and exactly what comes with these tents.
This is an early model. This one here.
And you get at these brackets here.
If we just pop around to the end of the tent here
we'll show you how these work to attach it.
So first, just wanna show you in underneath here
the rails that come attached to the tent
I can't lift it up to show you in any more detail
but you can see an aluminium extrusion in there.
They're actually bolted through the floor of the tent here.
So you can't move them
unless you start drilling extra holes.
You shouldn't need to though
because they're spaced to accommodate or
or for most roof rails.
And those channels fit these bolts inside of this.
So just standard imate bolts
they'll slide inside those channels there.
And that's what we use to attach it to the roof rail.
Now, if we can just
imagine what we'll do is we'll move
to the roof rails on top here.
If we can just imagine the top of these bolts
having been slid in the channel underneath here.
So this is essentially hanging off
the bottom of the rooftop tent here now.
what you would do is
on your, if these were
on our vehicle, so let's assume this is our vehicle roof.
This sits underneath the rail there
our rooftop tent.
these are sitting inside the channel
on the rooftop tent, running along this way.
And this things heightens up
underneath here to secure our rooftop tent
to our vehicle.
If you've got three of these
you can attach it in three different spots.
The more security you've got the better in that respect.
Cause that's basically how you attach it now.
there's lots of variations
on how you might be able to do that.
Roof baskets, flat rooftops, flat bed, roof racks.
You might need to improvise a little bit.
but ideally
it is designed to go on
roof bars like this.
You need to make sure that the roof bars are using
are rated for the weight of the tent there.
Now let's get into the more interesting bit
of actually setting up the tent.
Now these are the
latches that hold the tent down now.
this version has this key in here.
This key lock in here
we've seen a few different versions of this.
I'm not sure what the final solution was
but wherever the case you're gonna get
nice secure locks here.
This is just a really simple lock
and it just has a little latch inside here
so that you can
undo this.
Now to set it up
just undo that latch there.
And that's now loosened it.
I do the same on the other side
over here.
So both of those
are now undone.
Leave the keys in now to set this up.
All you need to do is
pull this
and the straps will eventually take over
and lift the tent up by itself.
You do have this strap here, which is here for pack up
in particular,
and it can just hang there for setup.
And there's this elastic strap here as well
which is all there for set up to pull all the fabric in.
When we set it up, we just pull this out,
latch it underneath
the brackets here
so that it sits out the way.
or we don't need that again to pack up.
Now we need to put this warning
out the front here. So inside
the tents
we should have packed somewhere
little bag.
There's some poles in it. There'll be three poles in here.
The black pole
is an extendable pole
jump inside and put that in place shortly.
But right here, right now, I'm gonna put these in place.
So these are a flexible steel pole.
The hook goes on the top,
and the bottom goes in this bracket here.
So we slide that
in there.
We then grab with the hook facing downwards.
We hook this through the eyelet
in the (indistinct) there.
We do that on both sides.
And that then sets up a little (indistinct)
at the end
of our rooftop tent.
there's a pole inside
that we need to put in place that
I guess may be not necessary but just a safety thing.
And that's this little extendable pole here
that goes in the corner here.
If we extend this out,
probably a bit hard to see cause it's all black inside here,
but extend it out till it hits the roof
and just tighten it.
It's a twist lock pole.
So I'll show you where you can see it in the light
but this extends out.
We twist it to lock it in place.
So it extends out
that goes in the corner here.
And there's a little Velcro tab to hold it in place
that just sits discreetly there.
And all it does
is provide
the top a bit of security.
Should anything happen.
Any weight
or anything
come on top of the tent or any particular winds come.
It's not gonna collapse it down.
That's just holding that in place.
One last thing inside, if we just
scooch around to the other end here,
we've got this elastic strap here
which I think I talked about in the other video that we did
but we didn't actually explain what it was.
This just helps to pull this fabric in
as the tents packed up.
So when this got set up,
you could use it as a small clothes line, I suppose,
if you like
but just undo it and throw it to the side
when you don't need it.
Just remember to hook it back in there's little plastic
loops on each side here
that it just clips into
do that up and it just helps pull it in
and then helps to pack it away.
Now they say, and I've never done this
but they say you can pack this up with bedding inside.
So I have got
one of 23 zeros,
double
sleeping bags
here.
And this I believe comes with a couple of small pillows
as well. So I'm gonna throw this inside
and we're gonna pack it away and see
how easily it folds up.
So I would say
what we're gonna do is get a elastic strap
and do that up before we go any further
spread this out flat
cause I think if it sits flat inside the tent
it's probably gonna be easier to fold everything up.
There is a couple of small pillows that come with this.
they probably not gonna fit much bigger pillows than this
inside the tent, but we'll lay them there as well.
Fold this over
that all set up and we're gonna try
and now pack this up with that inside.
Now you probably wanna leave the doors undone a bit
to allow the air to escape as you fold it up.
So I would say
just do that
so that it that will then just pull inside the tent
and it'll all pack away.
We do need to take the pole out from the inside there.
So reach in
under the Velcro tabs
and collapse this pole down,
I've put my pole bag away.
I've hidden it somewhere.
I'm just gonna leave that there while I grab these poles
we'll grab the other one as well.
And these actually come out in to here.
surely you can tuck these.
They'll just go in at the end of the mattress here.
don't be lazy.
pardon me. I'm not gonna use that pole bag.
but
you can just tuck them down
at the end of the mattress here.
So they're not
impeding
in any way
on trying to fold the tent up.
Just tuck it down there. Easy to find afterwards as well.
I might just fold this one up so that that
bar stays in place
cause this does have a stiff bar in it
and you probably just want that to sit nice and flat
at the end there.
So we're almost ready to pack up.
What we just need to do first
is grab this elastic strap here
around the end
and just put that around all the fabric here.
So that's just pulling all the fabric in.
So we've got this pulling the fabric in.
We've got that
elastic along the end there pulling the fabric in.
So as we pull this down
is automatically pulling most of the fabric in for us.
There's this strap here, which you should be able to reach
while it's on top of the car.
So you can start by pulling this down.
If you can't reach this handle up here anyway
now that's pulling down relatively easily.
It's gonna pull that in as go
to a certain point
and then just stop
and then just go around the edge
and make sure
cause the fabric doesn't
all tuck in most
elastic straps help
but there's still fabrics sticking up the sides so
just go around the edge
and make sure this is all tucked in
so that you're not pinching it.
Probably is. If you've got a second person to do this
while someone is on the end of the tent
cause they can lift it up just a little bit higher
while the other person does this.
And we tuck all this in
because there is a,
a rubber dust seal
that runs around the side of the tent here.
that
while you're on the road,
this seal that runs underneath here
sits against the bottom
and stops all the dust and water
getting inside your tent.
But even if a little bit did get in there,
it's still gotta get through the canvas
to make it wet.
Grab a strap
and push that inside as well.
And we're almost ready to pack up.
Now. Now, as I mentioned, I haven't actually done this
with bedding inside before we say,
let's see how
easily
we can get this folded up.
Push that down.
So that straps that up.
that should do that up with a key now, ideally
this side as well.
Yeah, this is pretty firm.
It's probably gonna be easier
If you're pulling down.
I don't like hanging on it, but
I did get that done up.
So definitely little bit of muscle required to close it
with the bedding inside.
Remember, that's a heavy
double
canvas
sleeping bag
sleeping bag that we've got in there
with a couple of pillows
certainly much easier to pack up without that inside.
So if you're camping in summer
and you've only got sheets and
and a few small pillows in there.
certainly gotta be pretty easy
but that is how you set up and pack away.
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