G'day folks, Ben from Snowys, down on the Darche stand
at the four wheel drive show filming some of their products.
Behind me I've got the Hi-View 2200 roof top tent.
This is a family roof top tent,
one of the first one's we've seen like that.
But there's room for four people up the top there,
we'll climb inside and show you later.
Now the tent comes alone by itself,
this annex here is an accessory.
These are available in two different heights,
1.6 and 2.2 so if you have got a set up
on top of a trailer you can put a lower annex on here.
So that it's not bunched up on the ground, this is the 2.2.
So the tent itself is made with a 260 GSM proofed
poly cotton canvas with a rip-stop weave in it.
It's housed inside a 600 GSM PVC Tonneau Cover
which protects it while it's on the roof.
And these are the rails that are used to mount,
your roof top tent to your car.
This is the bracket that goes around the base
of quite a heavy duty rail here.
Some bolts that slide inside the rail,
there's another one of these on the other side
all tightens down and keeps it nice and secure.
Now up on top of the tent
there is a 210 Denier polyester fly,
gives a bit of extra weather protection and sun protection
to the main portion of your tent,
these are easily attached just with
some side release buckles here.
It clips in over the top of the tent.
Now packed up, this tent measures about
2.2 long, 1.2 wide and about 30 centimetres high.
You can pack a little bit of bedding
inside this tent when you pack it away
so you can leave the doona in there.
Not too much but just a little bit,
to make it a little bit higher
than 30 centimetres when it's packed up.
Now as I mentioned this is an
optional extra it just zips into place.
I'm gonna show you just the tent in this video now.
Next thing I want to show you are these ladders.
Now there's two ladders that are included,
with the 2200 version of the Hi-View.
These are extended at the moment when they're extended
they add a little bit of support
to the overhanging end of the tent here.
So you need to make sure they're firmly in place.
Now these fold up and tuck up underneath here,
they've got little levers underneath
the steps here.
We just push them in.
This one's getting a bit stiff.
Keeping you fingers out from in here
so you don't crush them.
It folds up like this, we've got a strap that
goes over the top here.
You just tuck it over.
Push it up here, another strap that it can hang in here.
So this stops it from extending.
And this strap keeps it in place when it gets folded up.
When we want to use it, we loosen this strap a little,
release this out.
Undo this buckle and let the ladder extend all the way out.
Once it's extended all the way out,
we just need to lift it a little.
Make sure they're all locked into place,
just making sure that its firm into place
so it gives some support to this end of the tent.
As I mentioned there's two of these ladders
So heaps of people can access the top
of the tent at the same time.
Let's crawl up inside we'll show you what it's like.
So I'm siting up inside the Darche Hi-View 2200
roof top tent now,
and there really is a lot of space up here.
Really is room for two adults, and two children.
A true family roof top tent.
I'm sitting on top of a mattress, a foam mattress,
with a removable cover on it.
And it's covering a space of 2.4 metres long,
2.2 metres wide, and I've got about 1.2 metres of height,
at the highest points here.
We came through one of two doors,
at the top of each ladder there.
Which has both the solid and a mesh panel on it.
Same at the back here, there are two mesh windows
here at the moment, with a storm flap on the outside.
I can access right outside, with this
and fold down the storm flap.
Which is a single storm flap
that runs right across the back there.
And on each side of the tent, I'll move across here.
I notice I've got two storage pockets on each side.
A canvas pocket here, a canvas pocket here.
And two on the other side here.
And as I move up, I've got an internally
adjustable storm flap that zips up here.
And I can actually unzip the mesh panel here,
to access outside the tent.
So I can put these in place to hold my awning in place.
I'm gonna put one on this side now.
So with this side window open I now got access
out here to put theses in place, which hold this out
to create a protected awning over my window.
That way I can have the storm flap open,
let the breeze through, get the insects out.
And just at the top of the tent here
there's a couple of mesh vents.
Just allows a bit of airflow, or a bit of hot air
to escape and reduce condensation.
Then at the very top of the tent
here there's a skylight on each side.
Now these zip right open so you can access
the outside of the tent.
Above me here now the fly sheet is rolled away,
I've got another storm flap that can zip closed over here.
So I've got tonnes of protection, or if its a nice night
I can leave this open and so some stargazing.
I'm gonna head back through where we came now,
I just wanna show you how to setup
the front of the rooftop tent there.
So just at the front of the rooftop tent here,
where we climb up on the ladders.
There is one extra element to the setup,
and that's this pole that runs around the front here.
Being a wider tent to there's an extra pole in the middle
but the ends are adjustable just with a clip lock here.
So that holds it into place secures
this out to give you space to get up on the ladder.
This pole in the middle here
is actually completely removable.
If I undo this mechanism here, it just uses C-Clips.
To clip onto the frame.
And that just creates a little bit of extra support
giving that the tent is so wide.
Just gonna head down out of the tent now.
So that is the Darche Hi-View 2200 roof top tent.
You can check him out on our website,
we've got lowest prices everyday at snowys.com.au
Thanks for watching, see you next time
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