The Bush Company DX27 Clamshell Rooftop Tent

The DX27™ Clamshell Rooftop Tent was designed and manufactured in South Africa and brings together The Bush Company’s many years of experience in aluminium fabrication. From The Bush Company’s first hand experience in touring/camping the DX27™ is an innovative product that sets new benchmarks in quality, practicality and reliability.

Industry leading features include an extruded and welded  aluminium alloy frame, a large rainfly at sides and rear, full length roof mounting rails, plus the convenience of setting up/packing down in under 90 seconds,

Whether you are looking for your first rooftop tent or upgrading your existing setup, the DX27™ Clamshell Roof Top has a number of unique features that will leave you knowing that you made the right choice.  The key features of the DX27™ are below and the full details are listed in the product specification tab below. To find out why we believe this is the best roof top tent on the market watch the full DX27™ product review video here.

Key Features

• External Length: External Frame 2.25m /7′ 4.6″ (2.32m / 7′ 7″ inc hinges & handles)
• External Width: External 1.4m (4′ 7.1″), 1.45m (4′ 9″) including gas struts
• Height (exterior, closed): 278mm (10.94″) including roof rails and base extrusions
• Max Height (exterior, open): 1.45m (4′ 9″)
• Max Height (interior, headroom open): 1.4m (4′ 7″)
• Internal Mattress: Length 2.13m / 7′, Width 1.28m / 4′ 7″, Thickness 70mm / 2.76″
• Weight: Approximately 94Kg (207lbs) excluding telescopic ladder
• 2.6m Telescopic ladder, second ladder mount and universal fitting kit/brackets supplied as standard

Accessories

There are a range of brackets available for fitment of accessories including:

• Heavy Duty Awning brackets for mounting awnings directly to the sides of the tent.
• Solar Panel Brackets for mounting solar panels to the roof of the tent.
• Lightbar/Spotlight Brackets
• Shovel Bracket for either long/short handle shovels or axes
• Hi-Lift Jack Mount Bracket
• Fan Bracket to mount a Sirocco fan to internal roof.
• Universal Roof Load Bars to attach to the roof rails on the tent.
• MAXTRAX Load Bar Bracket for mounting up to 4 recovery tracks on the roof
• MAXTRAX Side Mount Bracket for mounting up to 4 recovery tracks on the side of the tent

Installing

If you are installing the rooftop tent yourself please watch our  Pre-Insatll Assemply video for the tent.  Please make sure that you have done the due-diligence on your intended install to ensure that it does not create any safety issues and ensure that you follow standard safety precautions when undertaking the install.