- This is the 23Zero Dakota 1400 roof top tent.
A durable touring shelter for two people
that's gonna see you all across the outback.
Let's check it out.
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Ben from Snowys here guys.
Down at the Adelaide Showground today
at the caravan and camping show on the 23Zero stand.
We're running through some of their products.
The setup behind me here is the Dakota 1400 Roof Top Tent
and we're gonna take you through a bit of a walk through.
Now the whole tent weighs about 57 kilo's,
or just over when it's on top of your vehicle.
When it's packed up, when this half is folded over
it measure 1.2 metres in width, 1.4 metres in length
and about 33 centimetres in height,
but that height doesn't include
any of these mounting options here.
It is made from a 280gsm rip stop poly cotton canvas.
Now it's seam sealed throughout.
It's a high quality canvas with a nice tight weave in it.
Gives a 1500 mil waterhead
and it has this light suppression technology coating
on the inside here that cuts about,
just about, cuts out almost all the light
while you're inside the tent
and we'll show you that a bit later.
The windows are an ultra fine insect proof mesh
and clipped on top of the tent up there
is a 210 Denier rip stop polyester fly.
That gives a little bit more weather protection,
helps with condensation on cold nights,
and also adds a bit more UPF or UV protection to the tent.
We're just having a look at the features on the outside.
Starting at this end,
we can see we've got a window at the end there,
it's got the storm flap rolled up at the moment.
Above that is a bit of an awning
that's created by the polyester fly
that clips over the top there.
As we come around the side at the very top
you can see there's a little vent
with a little dome, sort of awning over the top of it.
That's high level ventilation from inside the tent.
Below that we've got this really long window here
that gives you tonnes of ventilation,
also tonnes of visibility from inside the tent,
and an awning that sits over the top.
This awning can roll up against the tent here
if we don't wanna set up like this
and we can do all of that from inside the tent.
Just below that, and I wanna mention this
'cause it's a little thoughtful feature
that's put into this.
This flap here covers the gap between the tents here.
23Zero have coated the back of this
or put a layer of PVC on the back of this
just to stop it flapping around so much,
to make sure it hangs down, doesn't make any noise
and keeps it nice and weather protected.
Let's go round to the end of the tents here.
You can see, we've got a sort of
weather protected awning space, or entry to the tents here.
Below that is the ladder.
Now this needs to be set up
whenever there's someone inside the tent.
It actually creates support
to this overhanging end of the tent here.
We can fold this ladder up.
We just put our fingers up underneath here.
There's little buttons.
Be careful not to crush your fingers in between there.
We can fold this right up
against the bottom of the tent here.
It gets secured with this strap here,
and when we do that
it creates a bit of a weather protected space under here
to set up your table or eat, whatever, out of the weather.
The plating underneath here is just an aluminium,
it's about a one mil I think,
aluminium plate on the bottom of that
and around the edges here there are zippers
that allow us to attach an optional annex in,
underneath the tent here
to create a bit more protected living space.
That's all the features on the outside.
I'm gonna put the ladder back down,
crawl up inside and show you all the features in there.
Okay, we're inside the Dakota 1400 tent here.
I got plenty of living space.
It's about 240, or just less than 240 centimetres in length,
140 centimetres in width, or it's just under 140 centimetres
if I measure between these brackets on the side here,
and it's about 110 centimetres
to the bottom of this pole here.
I'm 185 centimetres,
I've got room to sit up in here
most of way to the back of the tent here.
Starting from the bottom up,
what I'm sitting on is a 60 mil high density foam mattress.
Now just while we're on the mattress,
what 23Zero have done
to try and overcome issues with condensation
that can occur on the floor of a roof top tent,
is to coat the bottom of it with a waterproof polyester here
and that reduces how much water
is gonna be soaked up by your mat.
They've also got velcro pads on the bottom here
which line up with velcro tabs in the corners
so that the mat gets secured and doesn't slide around.
As we work our way up, behind me here
we've got the window that we saw on the outside
that's got a mesh panel closed there at the moment.
We can open it completely to access outside all the way
and there is a storm flap rolled up on the outside there
so we can close that down for full weather protection.
Just moving forward a little before we get to the windows
are little storage pockets.
There's one on each side of the bracket here,
on both sides of the tent.
So four in total so we can keep our necessities at hand
without losing them at night.
As we move up, once again on both sides
we've got these nice wide windows here.
Now these have got storm flaps on the inside
so we can close them completely.
They can also be zipped open from the inside.
The mesh can actually be zipped open from the inside here
so we can access that awning on the outside
to set it up with the little flexible poles there
or roll it up against the side of the tent here if we like.
While we're on the windows
I'll just mention these little loops here that feature.
Now they actually team up with some velcro tabs,
elastic straps that go across
so that when the tent's packed up
it pulls the fabric inside the frame
so it's not hanging outside and getting caught up in the zip
of the tonneau cover that's included with your tent.
Above these windows you got little vents
that line up with the little awning
that we saw over that on the outside
and then at the very top here we've got a skylight.
Now we can open this up completely
to allow ventilation inside the tent.
If I zip both of these things open
I'm looking out onto the flysheet at the top here,
so without the flysheet
I'd actually be able to step right up outside the tent,
or we could just roll this storm cover open
and zip this fly, the mesh closed
to allow ventilation out the top of the tent.
And the next thing I wanna mention is the frame.
It's a 25 millimetre tubular frame
that gives the tent
plenty of structure in here and lots of strength.
And the last feature inside
is just above the doorway that we come in.
There is a little panel to allow a power access cord
to come in so that we can hang a lantern
or something on the frame inside here.
And the very last thing I wanna do for you
is zip everything closed inside here
so we can cut all the light out from coming in
and show you just how well this LST coating
on the fabric here works.
Now before I zip this window completely closed,
'cause it's gonna get dark in here,
wanna just point out that at the moment
the only spots I can see light coming in through the tent
are little points like this here
where there's actually stitching through the fabric
and it's a just a little dot of light.
So I've got everything closed up here now.
Seeing a couple a little spots very down,
down low in the corners,
where a little bit of light comes in
but I'll zip this one closed now
and we'll see just how dark it gets inside.
Okay, now that's everything zipped up.
I'm seeing a few spots around the base of the tent.
A little bit around the top of the window here
where there looks to be a panel
that doesn't quite have all the fabric on there,
through the vents at the top.
Otherwise it is pretty dark here at the moment
and we're in broad daylight.
I'm gonna crawl out of the tent now.
There's just a couple of other features
I just wanna mention before we finish up.
Firstly the bottom of these doors,
and this is just a little thoughtful feature
that 23Zero use.
There's this little stiffener bar in here,
so when this is zipped closed
this holds this door secure at the bottom here
without it flapping around.
It also negates the need for a little velcro tab here.
And the last thing I wanna mention
is that with your roof top tent
you get a heavy duty PVC tonneau cover
to keep it protected while it's in transit.
This has got welded seams.
It's really heavy duty PVC
and it's got this, tight quality sail track on here
that's not gonna tear up or get ripped up every time,
or over continuous packing away.
That's all the features of the Dakota 1400 Roof Top Tent.
I reckon they're a really comfortable and durable tent
for touring for a couple
who's heading off around the Big Lap of Australia.
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