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| Pam W Member Since: 25 Oct 2011 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1169   
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Presume this is a full length soft top. Personally I'd get a roll cage of some sort fitted, for safety reasons, otherwise your vehicle will provide no occupant safety zone in the event of a roll. At minimum I'd have a combo of a front hoop and rear bulk head hoop.
The soft top will need its sticks and front door/roof fittings anyway, and so when you fold the soft top back these are exposed or you have to take them off and leave them somewhere. So if you get a cage, esp full length, then you can have a custom soft top made which will use the rear hoops as its support and use a combo of press-studs and cords to fix it all down. The roll cage would then provide a ready made roof rack and you could store your oz tent up there. One of the reasons we didn't even consider an Oztent was that the length of the pack size isn't very practical when you have a 90. The other thing to consider would be swopping your RV for a Jet-tent as you can store this inside the cargo space. Our blog - http://landytravels.com/ Yorkshire Off Road Club - http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net |
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3rd May 2015 3:06pm |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8578 
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or a JV special edition which comes in two bags and I reckon they might fit in a 90 as the largest bag is 1.6m long. Or as Pam says get a roll cage and stick an ozbasket on it. Barbara |
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3rd May 2015 4:03pm |
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| ChrisCM Member Since: 10 Jun 2013 Location: Cornwall uk Posts: 572 
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Thanks for the input, This is the way we were thinking Pam, the best option may be to get something like a Safety Devices roll cage to go over the whole cargo area, to, as you say, give roll over protection which would also, of course, provide a base for an OZ Tent carrying basket, We could then, perhaps, get netting to go under the roll cage when the tilt was removed?
Our other vehicle is a 110 CSW with full length roof rack so hence the Oz Tent no carrying problems there - perhaps we'll have to go in convoy 
Chris 2010 Defender 110 Station Wagon, Santorini Black. |
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3rd May 2015 4:30pm |
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| Pam W Member Since: 25 Oct 2011 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1169
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Hi Chris
We got our perfect tourer / overland Defender all sorted out - happy with choices, not a huge amount of room, but then again enough for the 'needs' if not all the 'wants' ! Then, after confirming it was all good choices after our 4.5 month camping trip around Oz, we went mad and got a dog and have had to have a complete re-think as Skye now takes up half the load space!  The 90 means too much to us to swop for a bigger vehicle so we had to get a trailer to fit the other half of the gear in. Having the trailer now means though that those items on the 'wants' list that got left behind before can now accompany us on our next trips!  Our blog - http://landytravels.com/
Yorkshire Off Road Club - http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net |
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3rd May 2015 5:42pm |
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| Pam W Member Since: 25 Oct 2011 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 1169
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PS.
You could use roof bars across the roll cage to carry stuff, if required or you can use some universal mounts. These were supplied for our cage from the manufacturers (Performance and Protection) and have a clamp that goes around the cage, then a straight bar that you can affix your bits and bobs too. We have used these to mount our roof tent onto the roll cage. Our blog - http://landytravels.com/ Yorkshire Off Road Club - http://www.yorkshireoffroadclub.net |
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3rd May 2015 5:45pm |
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