- G'day folks, Ben from Snowys here again today,
with the Oztent RX-4 touring tent.
It's a two room touring tent,
with a sleeping quarters at the back and an awning,
that can be enclosed.
It comes with a complete panel system and a floor
to enclose this front room.
The main thing I want to talk about is the new ModCan canvas
that Oztent have used here.
It's actually a synthetic, it's different than their
eight ounce canvas but it has more mass.
It's got a higher tensile strength,
it's more water resistant,
it's got a higher UPF rating,
and, it's fire retardant.
It also feels like a really nice fabric so,
if your concerned about the different fabric,
I wouldn't be, it feels like a really good fabric.
I'm gonna start with the feature on the outside,
I'm gonna head down the side here first.
So on the side of the front room here in this wall,
we've got a door,
that can be unzipped all the way, once I find the zipper.
Here ya go.
So this storm flap undoes... all the way.
And then there's a mesh door here.
Now this feature's on both sides,
this mesh door just zips this far,
this storm flap zips all the way to create a window,
and a door, you can close this halfway if you like.
There are loops here to allow you to keep,
that half closed solid here and just a mesh door here.
As we move further back on the tent,
this is this side of the sleeping quarters,
this is a mesh window with an internal privacy screen,
so that's operated from the inside of the tent.
As we move further back,
at the rear here there's actually a double window,
at the moment it's covered by a storm flap and you can
unroll it or unzip,
and roll this up, to expose a double mesh window,
at the back here.
There's no internal privacy screen on that one,
it's just a storm flap on the outside.
Now as we move up to the top here I've actually got
the fly on this tent at the moment,
you don't have to put the fly on.
So it's a bit hard to show you what's under here but,
underneath the fly here is a skylight.
Now there's a big storm flap on this skylight,
so even without the fly it's gonna be pretty weatherproof.
You can actually operate that from the inside,
I'll show you more on that when we step inside the tent.
Once we come back around to the front of the tent here,
this large panel on the front,
can actually also be extended as an awning.
We unzip both sides.
It has eyelets in the corners here and we can extend
this out like so for a bit of extra shade if we want.
If we don't, we roll this up,
and out the way,
and once that's rolled up and out the way,
we've now got two mesh doors here, independent doors,
so you unzip one side and we can access the tent.
Let's step inside the front room, show you what that's like.
So the first thing you notice is you step into the
roomy front awning of the Oztent RX tent here.
Here's the high, 2.3 metres at the peak,
so plenty of height here.
You might notice that these reach poles actually go up
through the awning on the inside here.
You might be concerned about water getting in there,
but no need, Oztent have included weather caps,
which actually go on the outside of the tent,
over the top of the spigot and that creates a seal
that the water runs around,
and doesn't come in through the eyelet.
Now see the zip here that runs right down the wall
of the tent here,
right around the top edge of the awning here and zips
the complete side panel system in place.
We've got a door on the side here, mesh,
and I've currently got the storm flap closed on this one,
same as what I've showed you on the other side.
You can unzip that storm flap halfway or the whole way.
Got our two mesh doors in the front here,
the same door that I unzipped earlier on this side.
Then was we move down I've got the floor,
which is also zipped into place.
This zip is a continuous zip that runs right around,
the base of the awning here.
The only place people might be concerned about with this not
being completely sealed is in the corner here.
There is a slight gap where the zips don't meet,
but Oztent have put flaps there velcro flaps to try
and seal it up as best you can but,
nothing's gonna get through there.
You might get the odd insect that come in but,
it's quite well sealed.
As we move from the front awning of the RX-4 to the back,
the sleeping area we go through to, or a zippered curtain,
door, zipper down the middle and zippers along the bottom.
These are double doors you got a mesh panel,
and a solid panel in here and at the top of each door,
you've got a vent that you can roll up,
and out the way so ventilation through the top of the tent.
As we step into the back of the RX-4 here,
I wanna talk about the space.
It's about 240 by 240 so they say four person but,
realistically two to three is pretty comfortable.
On the sides here we've got that mesh window
that I talked about earlier with an internal privacy screen,
one of those features on both sides.
We've got the mesh window at the back here,
now that storm flap on the outside is actually gusseted,
so you can zip it closed if you haven't got the fly on,
you can zip it closed with an opening to allow a bit
of airflow up underneath the gusset.
As we move up a little further we've got two
removable storage pockets hanging off the crossbar here.
And the coolest feature of this tent is the skylight,
at the top here.
Now this isn't gonna let a lot of light in at the moment
because I've got the fly sheet on but,
you can actually operate this from the inside.
Can unzip it completely, I can access the storm flap.
And I can roll this right up and out the way,
while I'm inside the tent.
Through the mesh panel back up again and I've got tonnes
of ventilation and an insect proof space,
I can stargaze at night,
or even if it's raining and you've got the fly on,
you can allow to ventilation so you don't get condensation,
and moisture inside the tent,
so really cool feature of the RX tents.
That's pretty much all the features of the RX-4,
another great touring tent from Oztent.
You can pick them up at lowest prices everyday,
at snowys.com.au with free delivery to just about
anywhere in Australia.
Thank you for watching.
See ya next time.