Roofnest Condor Overland

Getting ready to pull the trigger on a condor overland.

looking for feed back on this tent. Looking for any possible deals, or previous sales to know if it’s worth waiting for another sale.

 

Just running across this now. I’ve had mine for over a year. I have the XL version. No problems whatsoever. I’ve camped in all 4 seasons with it and also had it on when I crawled all over the red mountain trail system in Fresno, CA to San Juan mountains in CO and almost all the hard trails in Moab. Been solid all around.

 

I'm also late to the party on this thread. I expect I'm not really going to help out the OP, but for others reading this thread perhaps this will help. I bought mine right after they were released, a bit out of character for me as I don't like to buy big-ticket, new-to-the-market items. We camp year round and my partner wanted enough interior space to be able to comfortably hold her, myself, the dog and still have space to play cards or otherwise occupy our time. I wanted the hard shell and accessory tracks so we ended going with this over the iKamper Skycamp or other similar style tents.

Initially, I ran this on bed bars over the truck bed. I have a long bed and it was great for the size, allowing a little bit of space front and back to get stuff in and out of the bed. The front and rear access would've been tighter on a short bed, but I don't think it would've been out of place, just a little less convenient. Later, I added a Smartcap to the truck and mounted the tent on top of that. As you might expect, parking the garage and fuel mileage took a major hit.

Overall, it's a great tent, but there were some persistent issues that frustrated me. Firstoff, the portion of the gas struts that remained exposed to the elements rusted. The rear strut was worse than the front strut (which was initially sheltered by the cab). No amount of oil or other protectant would persist long enough in the elements and Roofnest had no recommended maintenance or solution. In fact, they insisted that this was related to manufacturing debris left in the accessory channel. I scoff at that a bit since the shell is aluminum and shouldn't trigger rusting, but humored them and cleaned out the channels. The problem continued and living in western Washington, road salt is a non-issue. They sent a replacement strut for the rear, but 6 months later, both struts were significantly rusting again so we went through the clean the tracks discussion again and they eventually sent out another set of replacement struts. I just installed those right before selling on the tent, partly because of this issue.

Another issue that came up was the tent/fly combo allowing rain to pool between the upright aluminum shell and the fold-out support above the door. The fly simply doesn't pull taught enough between those end points to provide a great drain path; once the pool stars forming the problem exacerbates, the fly and tent saturate, and you wake up with dripping water on your sleeping bag. Camping year round in the PNW kind of made this a deal breaker. Going forward, I'm more inclined to a wedge/clamshell style tent.