*THE RTT Owners Thread (With BS)*

Hmm on mine I couldn’t see any questions. But I know someone locally that has bought this tent on Alibaba, and all said and done was in it at 3k. Said one of zippers was giving him grief, and the mattress is much thinner than normal ones. For the cost savings, I’m not expecting perfection, by any means.

 

thanks for that! @Rhodes keep us posted

 

Camped out at three different spots with three different groups of friends each day last Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Camping, shooting, and wheeling. Then, I did parts of a trail with my last group of friends to take the scenic route home. It was a good weekend of truck camping.

 

Stupid good deals on some CVT tents if anybody is looking for one

https://cascadiatents.com/products/expedition-ev-tent-shasta?variant=40965132779652

 

Based on my experience so for with my Hybrid series, I wouldn't touch one of their tents without the warranty.

 

Mines been nothing but great.

 

I had a problem with bad stitching on the travel cover first weekend out, and a really bad night the first time in heavy rain. They replaced the rainfly and comparing the two side by side it was obvious that the first one missed the waterproofing step in production. I love the design, woulda been pissed not to get any support from them for those issues though. This is my second tent from them, the first one had no issues for 10 years rother than normal wear and tear.

 

After a whole 5 days, it was delivered. Packaging was great. So far. I’m pretty impressed with it. The struts seem pretty stout, the seal all around seems good to go. No damage whatsoever. Gotta wait for a buddy to stop over to mount it. Even comes with 2 extra latches. My kid was pumped for a ‘new fort in the garage’ lol!

It’s got a 1.5” mattress, which I knew about and already ordered a 3” memory foam pad.

 

Curious if there’s a rack you could add to the top like the Osprey ones. That would be a game changer and what I would probably end up doing

 

i just picked up a Mt Washington from CVT. Had it installed in Bend. It has no warranty. But a call to them to explain some missing items… the shipped them to Canada.. which they don’t typically do. Also they spent about 6 hours with me installing a fridge slide I picked up and then hummed and hawed about whether I should buy a bigger tent.

They were uncontrollably easy-going and fun to work with. Knowledgeable too.

So be sure, if you buy a CVT, reach out for support. They live up to that from what I understand.

 

You could easily make one with minimal effort. Slide some nuts in the track and bolt some plates in, and cut some extrusion to use as your cross bars.

 

Does anyone know what size zipper I can buy to replace mine? Broke this weekend. PFA:



Edit:

I broke the pull part:

 

Windrock park TN

 

I like this idea. I have one of those Anker chargers. Can use it instead of my Bluetti.

 

I replaced the zipper on my tent a while back. I ordered a pack off Amazon for replacing Jeep soft-top zippers (YKK #10 or #10C-1-BLK) and one by 'zipper rescue' for marine zipper sizes. I searched forever for the tent zipper size and asked around on here and wasn't able to find it, but after ordering enough random sizes I got lucky.

 

I appreciate it man. I found this in a quick search previous to posting:

https://www.fixnzip.com/product/large-dark-nickel-zipper-slider/

 

Broke down for the time being and luckily made it to my buddy's shop. Parts = discounted. 2 new tires = it'll hit ya right in the feels if I said. The ability to have a good night sleep on a mattress while saving hundreds on hotels = priceless

 

more details on this please

 

Ah.. the cut out. This was a salvage attempt. Long story short, freon and propane don't mix. I was making an on board refrigerator put of a redbull fridge I got for free from a bartender in Vegas. I don't drink redbull, nor do I drink alcohol but I figured I could use it somehow. I already have onboard propane for the grill (cut out a section in my tailgate and used an old coleman) but needless to say the fridge failed. So I cut the shreds out and mounted a shovel I found in my buddies truck (he's a state worker so he won't miss it)

 

Gambling man. But fully intending to add a backup system using 200# or greater, rope or chain.