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| steveww Member Since: 05 Jan 2022 Location: Uppingham Posts: 550   
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Using a roof rack with a roof tent is a bit of a waste because the tent fills the rack. Roof bars are all hat's needed and they weigh less; lower weight up top is a good thing.
However, if the supplied bolts are not long enough is easy to buy some longer ones https://accu.co.uk/ When I fitted the roof tent to my Defender I fabricated my own bars for stainless steel stock bar and purchased the required fixings from the above link. |
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23rd Apr 2024 11:12am |
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| AJC Member Since: 30 Nov 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 1342
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i have had my tent fitted to my rack which si the same and used a big sandwich washer. no problems.
helps having battery ratchet to tighten though as it is a little tight |
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23rd Apr 2024 11:48am |
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| JARowley Member Since: 28 Dec 2022 Location: Nottingham Posts: 88 |
L663 with the genuine Land Rover rack and Tentbox classic plus awning installed. No issues at all - looks great, fits perfect. No modifications!
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10th May 2024 10:36pm |
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| Ianb Member Since: 25 Oct 2023 Location: Devon Posts: 272 
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We have a tentbox cargo, so a bit different. Looking at your pics, worst case scenario you might need to change the bolts supplied for longer ones, can't see an issue otherwise...
Biggest issue we had is that the thing is heavy and a bother to get tightened up. The bolts were too long for a short ratchet bit, and the gap between the bolt and the roof was too short for a long ratchet bit... so had to resort to spanners and they were quarter turn each time  The Yeti - 110 Camper https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic90308.html
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11th May 2024 2:39am |
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| Dorothy Member Since: 14 Sep 2020 Location: East Sussex Posts: 36 
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Did you get any further on this. I dived in and bought their Lite XL. I have a Patriot so not too dissimilar to your rack. I am hoping to answer these questions on Monday...
I know various T Bolts exist at different lengths have seen a few different clamps. I am eventually going to look to rotate the tent to fold out over the rear. Then, all things being equal I can get the Living Pod and the rear door will open allowing access in the dry from tent to vehicle. I'd no doubt need to source wider fixing clamps to allow for the width of the long wide top bars. One tip I keep getting is to buy the anti-condensation breathable under mat to go below the mattress. 2001 Defender Special Vehicles TD5 Hardtop (Ex Scottish & Southern) Side Lockers, Side Hatches - Poorly chassis and bulkhead. (SORNd) 2013 Defender Puma Utility XS |
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23rd May 2024 7:10pm |
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| Dorothy Member Since: 14 Sep 2020 Location: East Sussex Posts: 36
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Well our Lite XL turned up but there were issues fitting it to our Patriot Rack. The distance between theTentbox rails was 60cm and of course this didn't align centrally with the Patriot rack. The cross supports beneath also mean't we had to shift it 6-8 inches forward to be able to clamp it. The supplied bolts were fine depthwise because the steel clamp bars are angled allowing a shorter bolt.
Ours sits left side of the rack. I had removed one Patriot side rail to allow it to fold down but the other will have to go too, as it doesn't allow the raincover tension poles to be inserted into the base. Plenty of drilling for me to do. A fix will be to redrill where the Tentbox rails affix to the base to have the rails fall into the voids between the lengthways top rails. it might be feasible to bolt straight through the parallel roof rack, perhaps with some alrger spreader washers but less keen on that idea although I reckon the weight load would be nicely distributed. 2001 Defender Special Vehicles TD5 Hardtop (Ex Scottish & Southern) Side Lockers, Side Hatches - Poorly chassis and bulkhead. (SORNd) 2013 Defender Puma Utility XS |
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9th Jun 2024 10:04am |
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