Expedition Roofrack v Roof Tents

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G4 Overlander	G4 Overlander posted 17 Years Ago Topic Details
Group: Forum Member Posts: 1, Visits: 14	Hi all I'm new to this forum and hoping to purchase a G4 vehicle of some sort soon. After various phases of Landrover's, I have settled on the Overland option. My question is: "Can a 'Howling Moon', 'Hannibal', 'Eazi-Awn' or similiar be fitted onto the G4 Exped Roofrack? I ask this as I haven't seen any pics that show this. Or, hopefully until now :) Thanks for your help. G4 Overlander Exped V8 Discovery 1 & Ex-MOD S3 109 FFR www.2492atc.moonfruit.com (Landrover Project Pics)
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~~Chrisallse~~	C ~~Chrisallse~~ posted 17 Years Ago Post Details
C Group: Banned Members Posts: 146, Visits: 2.5K	Here is a picture of ours, great tent used it in very severe weather and it was superb, bottom annex is very handy too as it gives you somewhere to change and eat if the weather is bad. takes a little longer to put up against our old Brownchurch but it has stacks of room and the built in mattress makes up some of the time. It also drys off fairly fast. 2005 G4 Defender Please click on the link below to view my gallery. http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=579125
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adesg4	a adesg4 posted 17 Years Ago Post Details
a Group: G4 Member Posts: 1.2K, Visits: 6.8K	I have run my Howling Moon on both my D1 with safety devices highlander roofrack and on my G4 D110 with the G4 rack. As I did not want to cut a pair of very expensive roofracks I made some brackets up that support the tent between the roofrack floor cross bars and the rear top rail. Murphy law dictated they they were both different and they will need to be different for my 03 rack. These brackets clamped to the rack using 'U' bolts. The downside with doing this is that the tent is lifted another 125mm so raising the c of g though the D1 appeared to be affected less as it had anti roll bars fitted and OME suspension. I too am not impressed with some of the methods some of the retailers use to fit these tents on some roofracks. They are too flimsy and protrude beyond the tent / roofrack. If the additional height is an issue a 1.2m width of tent will fit inside side rails of a 2006 G4 style of roofrack and when bolted down can sit 30mm above the rack floor. The tent will then need to open forwards and fit inside the rack (just) though this will not allow anything else to be fitted on the roofrack. The Maggiolina rooftents are a good fit inside a 2006 roofrack but again you lose any other carrying space. If you are setting up with a bias to expedition use then the Patriot or hannibal racks may be better as they have removable sides and also floor sections that are easier to attach to. Adrian Adrian Technical Officer G4 Owners Club D110 - Mongolia 2008 - 1925YbA - Recce D2 - Australia 2003 - 1BIJ-664 - Australia/ Russia Media car. Fleet 104
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Adamski	A Adamski posted 17 Years Ago Post Details
A Group: Past Forum Member Posts: 83, Visits: 480	Nice 110 Dude!!! I'll be installing my Overland 2000 on the roof tomorrow, (Sunday), so long as the weather holds up damn it!! Got my stickers this week :w00t: BT52's looking good =) See you soon... Brgds... BT52 OVH, stage 3 Film Crew Vehicle #41, Karratha to Willai Downs, Western Australia :cool:
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