- This is the RV-5 Plus from Oztent.
A take on the traditional RV-5 as we know it
with a few added extras.
I'm gonna run you through all the features.
Let's check it out. - Hit it.
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Hey guys and gals, Ben from Snowys here today.
It's a beautiful sunny day, we're down by
a little trickling creek here with the ducks in it
at the Brown Hill Creek tourist park.
I'm showing you the RV-5 Plus from Oztent
behind me here now.
It's kind of much the same as the RV-5 as we know it
but it's got a few extras and the kit comes
with everything you see set up behind me.
I'm gonna run you through all those features
but I wanna start first with the bag,
which is down in front of me here.
Now this is the same bag that's always come with it.
poly cotton canvas that they've always used
in their RV tents.
1,500 mil waterproof, it's a really good balance of weight
and durability.
It's been tried and tested for many, many years in the RV-5
or RV tent range.
The frame, they've got mesh panels.
Within, it's an ultra fine mesh that's featured
throughout the tent.
There's mesh panel up here, you can see the mesh door
that's here.
It's a nice, fine mesh.
Whether it's midgey proof, I don't know midges seem
to get through everything, certainly mosey proof
but it's definitely one of the finer meshes that I've seen.
So it's gonna give you good insect protection.
And moving down to the floor.
Same heavy duty PVC bucket floor that they've always used
in all of their tents so really tough floor
on this one here.
The frame that we can see inside the tent here
is all aluminium.
So aluminium components with plastic knuckles
they're the sort of flexible plastic knuckles.
And this is all replaceable so if anything does happen
you can get new parts for your tent.
And the poles that feature throughout the awning here
also aluminium pole so nice, light.
We're strong but lightweight frame within the tent.
I'll just touch on some of the more interesting features
of the RV-5 Plus.
And a lot of this was possible with the RV tents
but you had to add extras on so the setup now
comes included with all the poles that you see
for this awning set up here.
With this high 2.3 metre peak up here and the reach pole
and then this 1.9 metre peak at the front here.
So extra poles than you've had previously in the RV tents.
Now this comes about 1.9 metres out
to this external point here.
With that peak in the awning, if you were to remove
the peak in the awning and make this flattened down
so that it came straight out, this would come out
to about two metres and you'd have a flat awning
at about 1.9 metres.
So a little bit of versatility on how you set that up there.
If you do have the additional sidewalls, you need
to create that peak in there now.
So stepping in underneath the awning for some of
the features that we haven't seen.
Firstly on the front of the awning, there's now
a double zipper that features here.
Which means we can use two accessories on the front of this
awning for the Oztent RV-5 Plus.
Previously there was just one zipper there.
It's also an improvement in the way this skirt runs around
the side here.
And you also get these tabs that feature right around
this side here and also come right across the top
of the tent here too.
Now these are for lights so you can run cables,
LED biolights, strip lights, whatever you like.
You can hang it around the edge of your awning here
to light up this space underneath your awning.
Now one of the other big improvements they've made
also with regard to this strip here is to sort of make this
a little more weather proof.
There used to be two zips that came here.
One finished here, one started here.
This is now a continual zip that they featured
on the RV-5 Plus tent that runs right up here,
right up and finishes at the front.
So you get a really good seal with a seal along the top
of the optional deluxe side panels that you could
put on here.
They're always a pretty good seal, this is just a step up.
And then when you add those little caps that go on top of
the speakers that fit on top of these poles here,
you get just a little bit more weather protection
underneath your awning here.
That's all of the features under that awning I think,
let's have a bit of a walk around outside before we step
inside the tent.
Now these sides of the tent are much the same as what
we've previously seen.
We've got (mumbles) up to the top, we've got a window.
Here's mesh on the outside and internally,
adjustable privacy screen.
That's a weatherproof window.
We've got the fly set up on top here.
Two pegs out the side and this just comes down
over the side of the tent.
Moving around to the rear.
So this is the fly that's included with the RV-5 Plus tent
so you don't have to set this up.
You can unzip it across the top there, there's a storm flap
over the top of the zip.
You can have this separate, it also packs up
with the tent so you can leave it on or take it off.
It's good to leave it on, it's gonna help the condensation
inside the tent.
Moving to the rear, if we just stepping underneath here
we have got a window at the back here.
Now this is, it's closed at the moment.
If we unzip this, we can see a mesh panel underneath here
and there are guards on here as well.
So we've got a few options so we can roll this right up
to the top to open it right up for full breathability
or ventilation.
You can also use the guards that are attached here
just sort of peg this out as a bit of a weather protected
awning here.
So you get weather protection over the mesh
while you're still getting ventilation,
which is more prevalent if you haven't got the fly sheet
on top here.
With the fly sheet on though, you're getting pretty good
weather protection, you can just roll it up for ventilation.
If we keep going around the back, we can see
three pegged points for the fly sheet there
that comes out over the top.
There are these peg points out in the back here now
which has been slightly improved to sort of raise this up
a little bit and create this sort of space at the back
of the tent to make it a bit more usable.
It used to come down as a bit of a peak or sag down
a little bit, a few slight improvements there.
Then back around to the other side of the tent.
Same as what we saw on the opposite side,
it's a mirror image.
Flysheet over the top of a mesh window here
with an internally adjustable privacy screen on it.
And I went back around to the front of the tent,
now there is a skylight on the roof of the tent
that I'm gonna touch on shortly.
It'll be easier to show that inside.
Couple of things on the front here before we step inside,
we've got these vents on the top.
Slight change here to what we've seen
in previous RV-3 tents.
That's closed at the moment and my hands behind it,
you can't see it.
Internal zips allow that to fold down
so it's internally adjustable.
You can now see you've got a mesh panel there.
Now these these are really good panels for ventilation,
particularly if you're not using the fly sheet on the tent
because it allows high level ventilation throughout
the tent to manage that condensation inside.
We'll just sneak down to the bottom corner here.
I'll just show you a little power inlet.
Now this is a zipper that you can open and close
from both the inside and the outside.
It gives you a little point to put 12 or two 40 volt power
into the tent, so you can run lights, fans,
or whatever you wanna run that's electrical
inside your tent.
And just in terms of head height, we haven't touched on
that yet.
We've got 1.9 metres at the front here when these poles
are extended as far out as they'll go.
This goes up to 2.3 metres at this point here.
And that tape is back to a fixed height of 1.9 metres there.
And if we follow that back to sort of the point
or the corner where it then drops down to the back
it's about 1.3 metres at that point there.
So there's only really standing room
at the front of the tent here.
And as we start to go inside, I'll just show you
the doors that feature on here.
I'll just undo these two so you can see you've got
the mesh door underneath here.
Now this zips along the bottom and also zips as a T-zip,
it zips along the bottom and also zips down here
so these two doors will zipped together.
Same with the solid door on the outside here
zips across the bottom to seal it.
And you've got a weatherproof flap over that zip there
for protection as well.
And also a zip that runs down the middle so you've got
that upside down T-zip here for the doors.
These can be secured back with little tabs that feature
on the sides here so you could just do them up.
I'm actually short, 'cause there's a loop in the middle
that I'm short cutting here, but you can use
both external tabs to bunch them up together.
Good, stepping inside we'll start with the features in here.
So each side I'm gonna show you firstly
the storm flaps that are on those windows.
So this is internally adjustable so this double zips.
So if we want we can just have it unzipped partially
or unzip it all the way, roll it up and secure it with a tab
at the bottom here so that we can allow ventilation
on that side.
Same feature on this side of the tent.
We can unzip this one here so we've got cross ventilation.
So you combine this with a window at the back,
the vents at the top and you got good ventilation.
Just next to this window some tabs that run up
the side here, which is above where our little
power access point is so we can run power up to here.
You can then use the tabs to go around the frame
to secure the cords if you like.
As I move to the back of the tent, we'll started at
the bottom again.
We got this big mesh window here that I showed you
from the outside.
That's closed at the moment so if we open that up,
we'd have ventilation right up to this height here.
So plenty of ventilation there and above that,
a couple of pockets.
This one's a media pocket so you could put,
it's got a clear plastic front on it so you could put a tab
or something in there if you like to lay back
and watch a movie if that's your thing when you're camping.
And then just a solid pocket here, two pockets,
one on each side, and these are just secured over the top
with a Velcro strip.
So you can leave them or you can take them off if you like,
you don't have to have them there.
Previously, Oztent have had pockets down
in the bottom corners here and they tended to get sort of
a bit lost once you've got your bedding and everything there
it was tucked down the side.
So this is probably more functional place to have pockets.
And then moving up to the top, which is
a really cool feature of these tents is this skylight here.
Now this is open at the moment and this mesh panel
can be opened from the inside completely.
So if we were to leave this as it was now
when I open that up, we look at the fly sheet.
So we're allowing tonnes of ventilation through the top here.
Above this at the top, we've got a solid
poly cotton canvas panel that we can roll closed
and zip closed.
All adjustable, sorry, from the inside.
So there are zips that run down the sides here.
We roll this closed, there's a big Velcro strip
along the base there with a bit of a stiff in the bar.
So if we zip this right closed there's a big overlap there
with a Velcro strip along here.
So if we weren't using the fly, we're still getting
really good weather protection (zipping) with this done up.
You just wanna make sure that Velcro tab does up
on the bottom there.
We can then do this up again (zipping) and we've sealed
the roofing completely if it's a really cold night.
So if we wanted to sleep and do a bit of stargazing
we could leave that outer panel open, rolled open.
Just leave the mesh there if you don't use the fly sheet,
you've had a lie down and watch the stars at night.
Touching on dimensions of the tent.
It's 2.5 metres wide so then that 2.5 metres extends
right out to that awning and 2.5 metres deep.
The frame itself finishes here so we've got
this extra fabric at the back that gets pinned out.
This comes sort of folded into here when it's packed away.
So you do have this bar across here.
So if you're using a really thin mat,
you're gonna notice that but if you've got a thick mat
then it just sits on top, it's a very fairly bar.
What I do have is a decent sized stretcher that I'm gonna
put in here to show you how you might be able
to use this space.
You know this is RV-5 might suggest that it sleeps
five people and you probably could sleep five people
if you had small mats side-by-side across this way.
In reality, if you wanna sleep in here with two people
you're only really gonna fit two full sized stretchers
in here.
Now this measures about, we stand at 220 centimetres
in length and about a metre in width.
And it's about 50 centimetres in height.
Now this fits just up against the edge surface pretty neatly
and is just touching the back edge here.
So your head's gonna be just clear this back wall.
You could fit well, if this is 2.5 metres across,
it's a little bit less because of this frame here.
So let's call it 2.4 metres across.
You're gonna have about 40 centimetres in between
the stretchers but you have got all that storage underneath
so it is quite functional with two stretchers.
Alternatively, I've got a tent about this size,
you can fit a double mat and a couple of sort of
smaller height mats so I can fit my wife and I
with my two kids on smaller mats next to it.
And there's a pretty cosy sort of a space.
So not really a five person tent,
a good cosy four person tent or a really roomy
two person tent.
That's pretty much all the features of the RV-5 Plus tent
from Oztent.
If you're looking for an RV-5 but thinking you might
be upgrading with a few extras, like a fly
and the extra poles and that sort of thing.
Maybe check out the RV-5 Plus because it does add
a few other extras that you can't upgrade the RV-5 to.
Now we get a lot of questions about what accessories
fit what, what tent can attach to what?
Basically everything's compatible with this tent here,
except for the side panel and the front panel
because this zip configuration around the side here
is slightly different.
So if you've got an RV-5 Plus tent you need
an RV-5 Plus deluxe side panel or front panel.
But an RV-5 front or side panel won't work with this guy.
And same as the other way round.
You also can't use the side awning that attaches on here
with the RV-5 Plus tent because that relies on
this zipper finishing here.
Whereas the zipper on the RV-5 is a continuous run
that runs right down the bottom.
Apart from that, you can use awning connectors
on the front here.
If you would use an awning connector here,
you're gonna have an extra zipper so your redundant zip
'cause you've got two zips on the front, you got
an extra zip on the awning connector.
So you can have a front wall attached to another tent here
if you like, and you'll just have a redundant zipper
in there.
And you can also put it on your Tagalong tent.
Also fits to your Foxwing, all compatible in the same way
the RV-5 or RV tents are normally.
Just the side and the front panels and that side awning.
Ground sheets too same dimensions fit perfectly.
That is all the features of the RV-5 Plus tent from Oztent,
I reckon it's a great upgrade on what's already
a really good tent.
Now I've got an RV-5, this is certainly
what I'd be looking for if I was in the market.
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