- Hey guys. Ben from Snowys today taking you
for a walkthrough of the 23Zero Yowie rooftop tent.
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The Yowie's got a roomy ABS shell over the top
that allows space for your bedding to be packed inside.
A luxurious inner for you to sleep in
and comes equipped with a few added extras
just to make life a little more comfortable.
We've got the 23Zero Yowie set up kind of
in a back corner of the store here at the moment.
So we're gonna take you for a bit
of a run through as best we can
with the space we've got here, but we've got it set
up here at the moment, but when it's packed up
the whole tent goes up sort of
underneath here and this packs flat.
So this measures 150 back this way, which will be
along the length of the car, but 130 centimetres out here
including sort of the little brackets and things here.
And height wise, when it's packed up,
it's about 125 centimetres folded open,
but when it packs down it's about 35 centimetres
from the top here to the bottom.
We've got a lot more specific dimensions on our website
to sort of explain how these things sort of line up
with what I'm talking about here.
And lengthwise, it's about 250 centimetres
from this edge here right to the front edge there.
And width wise, by the time you set up these sort of awnings
over the windows here that adds about another 60 centimetres
on each side.
So this window also exists on the other side there.
And altogether it weighs about 79 kilos.
So it's within the realms of what your normal
or most rooftop tents are,
but this kind of has a double folding mechanism,
which we'll show you in a different video how to set it up.
But it packs up inside here
which means it's got a smaller footprint,
suitable for say dual cabs and that sort of thing.
And when you set it up, it will be mounted such
that this comes out the side of your vehicle.
So it'll be mounted this way on the vehicle.
And it'll come out to the side of your vehicle.
With regards to the fabrics that it's made of,
23Zero continually improving their products,
but always using really high quality materials.
This is a really durable, rip stop material.
that the main tent is made of
and it's got their LST backing on it.
So this doesn't let any light through or
let's blocks almost all lights.
So it's nice and dark inside the tent.
The fly that sits over the top
of this fabric is a 210D polyester.
It also has the black coating on the back of it there.
So that gives a little bit
of extra weather protection to the tent,
and also a bit of protection against things
that drop on top of the tent.
This is gonna cut most of that.
There's a TPU window in the top here, a skylight.
We'll show you a bit more on that when we get inside.
And looking at the mesh, actually in the tent
there's the mesh panels are they're really durable mesh.
It doesn't feel like it's a mesh that's gonna get torn up
in folder or get prickles and stuff caught in it.
It feels like a really good balance of sort
of a fine mesh that you can see through
and offer good durability.
The most interestingly is the case over the top here.
This is a flexible ABS plastic case that sits
down and encompasses all of this tent up underneath.
And this folds flat.
Show you that in the other video.
The frame is mixed.
It's sort of a combination of materials.
It is X frame design here.
So there's a stainless steel frame here
and gas trots that help with the setup of the tent.
Aluminium based plate.
So it's sort of a sandwiched aluminium here for mounting
that only comes to halfway along the tent here
and also aluminium mounting rails underneath here.
And you get a couple of these poles here
which are a still sort of flexible pole
for the awnings over the windows.
There's a few other poles and things in there.
They're all either steel or aluminium
sort of flexible round poles, just for the structure.
You can see when we when we do the setup video
where all those poles sit.
Now a few inclusions with the tent.
We can see down on the floor here,
you get four of these.
These are these metal poles here.
So these two will do the window on the other side.
And that comes in a bag.
You get a couple of LED strip lights
which come in this case with a loop
or like a Velcro fixing on the back here.
There's a couple of spots in the tent that they can fix.
We'll show you where they go shortly.
And you get a few mounting options.
Firstly, a spanner to help you put it all together.
Some brackets that you can use
in conjunction with the mounting things here,
or the mounting rails here, sorry.
To go either side of this, instead of sandwich it
onto your roof rack or roof rails with these bolts here.
So these bolts actually fit inside the
the rail that's on the bottom here.
Show you more on that in our set up video.
And a few little extras including caps
that go on the end of the rails if any of these disappear,
and some keys because you can actually lock it closed.
So do have a walkthrough of the Yowie now.
Firstly, the configuration of the tent.
Now if this was sitting on a car,
the car will be running that way.
So that's the front and that's the back.
And the shell folds out over the top
of the passenger side of the vehicle.
If I hold one of these poles up here,
you can see that it comes out just a little bit further
than the base plate.
But it allows for space for passenger side awning down here.
You have about five centimetres of clearance
between the edge of the base plate
and where the shell comes to.
Now, this fabric is all attached with zippers here.
So if anything does happen over time
you need to replace this.
There's a zipper up the top here
and a zipper here that runs all the way around.
So you can replace the shell,
but you shouldn't need to if you look after it.
You're gonna get plenty of years of use out of it.
So moving around, I won't go
into details of all the mounting options.
We've got another video for that
but we've got this window here
which is also featured on the other side of the tent here.
So this is held out by these poles here
which just slot in the side.
Let's take these out to show the window underneath.
You don't have to have this set up.
So you can actually just fold this up
and put these up on the side here or tuck these up here.
So if you don't wanna have shelter over the awning
or over the window, you can put these away.
Probably if you do have rain
that's gonna give good protection.
You can have this window open.
And then this has got a mesh panel on the outside
and a canvas panel or a solid panel on the inside here.
Probably easier to do from the inside.
There's the zip there.
So you can see, we can now access inside the tent there.
Underneath that, a few flaps and things.
Now these just don't cover
up the sort of mechanisms in the tent here.
So sort of double layers
and stuff here to try and cover that, 'cause it folds here.
So 23Zero have just added some flaps
and things over that to try and keep the weather out.
If it rains, it goes over the top
and you're not gonna get too much wind and stuff in there.
So moving on from that, we come up to this section here
which is all part of the fly sheet
that sits over the top here.
That's attached up the top of the
the tent up in here by the zipper.
You can't remove this.
It stays on all the time.
And there's a strap here that's part of the setup.
Packed down centre process to be able to
pull this cover down.
TPU mirror, not mirror, window in the top there.
We'll show you more of that when we get inside.
And you've got this mesh panel here, which lines up with,
I'll just jump across in front of you, a panel inside here.
So you can be folded up to the top
to allow a bit of extra air flow through here.
Or if you want to protect it against wind and or any sort
of breeze coming through here, you can close it right up.
There is still gaps up here.
So you will still get a bit of air flow through here,
but it does offer a rain protected space to stand under
to crawl into to the tent.
Before you go any further, a couple of other things.
You've got the frame that sits up around here.
So this loop hole is another thing.
I don't know exactly what that's made of
but I believe it's a steel frame
with extendable or lockable sections here.
It's all part of the pack up and set up.
So you do have to put this up each time you set the tent up.
And one of the other extras you get
with the Yowie are these boot bags.
There's two of them, one on each side here.
This just allows you to get up, sit inside the tent here,
put your boots in the bag here.
So they're up off the ground.
You've got a few other storage pockets
for things in there, seal it up, close it up.
It's weatherproof as well or reasonably weatherproof.
If you tighten this loop up here,
and then do the loop over the top,
it's gonna keep most of the rain out.
And that way you can keep your boots safe
and easy to access when you get up in the morning.
The ladder here is attached by a bolt
so you don't actually remove this.
It folds up inside the tent and stays attached to it.
And we can't extend this now,
'cause it's set up down really low,
but this just goes up and down there.
Little locking points up underneath here.
And this actually forms part of the structure of the tent.
So this leans on the ground to give support
to this side of the tent,
'cause this will be coming out the side of the car.
Just above the ladder is this Velcro hook strip,
hook and loop strip that you can use
in conjunction with the Velcro LED strips here.
Now, before I put that on
I just wanna mention you can actually.
These come with these strips,
but you can actually replace 'em if need be.
It's just a strip with a loop backing on it,
PVC on the front there.
And you can slide in any strip light.
So if you wanna get orange light strip lights
you can put them in replacement.
But then that just attaches on here.
And you've got probably, I reckon it's a bit
over two metres of cord attached to this here.
So you can weave that through your tent around the side
or wherever you want to a power source.
The USB power source to power light under your awning here.
And there's a second one of those, as mentioned before,
that goes in the back of the tent.
I'm just gonna throw that in here
and I'll show you where that goes in a minute.
Crawling inside the tent.
Now I've got a light in here that's just a 240 volt light
from the shop so we can see what's going on
because of this dark room coating in here
and the the plastic backing on it.
There's not much light inside here.
So got this here to try and show you inside.
But what I'm sitting on here
is a 65 centimetre foam mattress.
It's a reasonably firm foam mattress that feels comfortable.
As I'm sitting on it now,
I can sort of push through to the bottom,
but by the time I'm lying on it
the weight it'd be evenly distributed
and it would feel quite comfortable.
It's got a velour top on it.
It's quite a sort of a thick velour top on it
and a synthetic backing on it.
And in the corners it's got little side release buckles
that line up with the clip down on the base here.
So you can actually clip it in place
so it doesn't move around for pack up.
That's just in the front,
or at this end of the tent.
They don't exist at the other end.
And it probably just helps to stop this mat
from sliding when it's folded up.
I'm just gonna put this light down here
to try and get some light in the tent.
Cause I wanna talk about the dimensions in here.
So lengthwise, it's about 196 centimetres.
So this end here is quite upright
and that end slopes a little bit.
So you've got pretty good use
of that 496 centimetres of length
and about 130 centimetres in width.
With regards to height, I'm 185 centimetres.
So I'm sitting here cross-legged quite comfortably
with plenty of head space.
It's about a metre to sort of this point here.
This sags down a little bit there.
And then this is where the hard shell backing is.
There's like a foam on the inside of the ABS plastic.
And that tucks up a little bit higher.
It's about 110 centimetres on this side here.
Serving a general look at all the features inside.
We'll start on on this side here.
So this is the side that we didn't have
the awning set up on.
So you can see you've got inner window here
and then the outer mesh there,
which then looks out to the the outer set of awnings
that we could reach out this window
and put those flexible poles in place.
You have got another pole here that runs right
around the top.
That's all part of the folding structure.
So moving further to the back
of the tent here and I'll bring the light
with me because it's quite dark in here.
We've got a little storage pocket.
This is fixed on here.
So or two pockets on this side here for a bit
of storage at night.
Further to the back, starting at the base,
you've got a vent here.
So there's vents on all sides.
You've got the windows on each side
this low level vent here that opens up to a mesh panel.
And then the mesh panel opens up
so you can get to outside the tent.
So it's a bit darker out there
but that's looking outside completely to the tent there.
And then above that is the second Velcro strip
that runs along here.
If you can see that
and that's where we can mount a second LED strip.
So I can just attach that on there.
And there's a little Velcro tab here
for me to be able to just put the cord
through so that it doesn't pull directly
on the side of the light strip there.
And you've got that almost two metres of cable here
which will run right to the other end of the tent there.
Or you can tuck it outta the window or even you can tuck it
through where the actual hinge occurs on the tent.
There's enough space to get a cord down through there.
Probably just worth making sure you remove it
before you fold it up
so it doesn't get caught up in the mechanisms.
So down the other side of the tent here
we've got two more pockets here for storage
for the person on this side of the tent.
Forward of that, another one of those windows.
This is the one that would open
out into that awning that we had set up previously.
And looking up above that sort of talking about the roof
this is the underside of the ABS plastic
and there's a little bit of foam here.
So it's slightly padded sort of material.
So I guess a bit of noise suppression.
It feels quite nice and thermal
or sort of laminated to that plastic.
And you can also see while I'm here
that all of this is seam sealed.
So inside here, along the roof here
and also down around the sides
you can see around the windows, this is all seam sealed.
So it's all waterproof.
The fly itself has got a 3000 millimetre Waterhead rating.
We don't actually have a Waterhead rating for this
but I can assure you, it's gonna keep you more than dry.
Any of this fabric is a jewel fabric.
Now the roof vent, moving forward a little bit.
We've got this double sort of panel here.
So this is closed completely at the moment.
I can actually unzip this and roll this up if I like.
And I've now got that mesh panel there
and that's still waterproof because above that,
if I undo this one as well, which I can do,
and you can see that we've got this PVC panel here
that gives us waterproof protection.
So we can actually have this completely open.
If we like looking at the storm clouds
raining down upon us while we're sleeping inside the tent.
The last door that I haven't referred to is the one
that we came through at the start.
And that's this one here, which also has double panels.
So you've got the mesh panel here
and then a solid panel here.
And 23Zero have actually included,
I will undo this to show you in the bottom of this,
a hard sort of ridge here.
So instead of putting Velcro along the bottom of here,
there's a flexible pole in there
and that holds this down firm
or stops from flapping around too much
down against the edge of the tent there.
Now, one other thing that I do wanna mention,
well I may have mentioned before,
is that you can actually leave a little bit of bedding
inside the Yowie when you pack it up.
So this section here that I'm sitting on now
actually folds up onto this section here
and it comes to about, you can see the fold sections here.
So it comes to sort of about here,
which means you've got a bit of space at the end there.
So the 35 centimetres height in space
just to leave some bedding and pillows.
So you put all your bedding up that in there
and then you fold this closed.
Now we test that or show you a little bit more on that,
in our set up and pack down video.
So check that out if you want to know
a bit more information on that.
That is the 23Zero Yowie ABS hard shell rooftop tent.
It is the perfect option for people
who've got, say a dual cab and want to fit it
within the confines of the chair in the back
or perhaps a vehicle with a smaller roof space
because it's got a smaller footprint.
Does set up a bit higher, but you can fit the bedding inside
and it packs up really easily with that inside as well.
You can see us do that in our pack down and set up video.
So check that out for a bit more info.
You can find these online at our lowest prices
everyday at snowys.com.au
You'll find all the details
on dimensions on there as well.
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