I went with the Trasharoo Bag, it can hold a lot of stuff like sleeping bags, clothes etc. Costs about 50 dollars




I also have small tents, 3 Hilleberg tents and are four seasons tents and lightweight. The smaller one Namatj has only 2 poles and the Keron have 4 poles, they are very fast and easy to put up. The inner and outer tent is coupled together. They are nice for sleeping but prefer bigger ones with windows if I stay som day at the same place, base camp.

They are small tents and can be strapped to the bar, the green tent bags to the left and right.

 

I'm using a Cabelas tent. Very simple. If you have a tree overhead you can actually mount it without even the single center pole. Pretty cool tent. Spacious and you can stand in the middle.

 

Well it's not a "jeep tent" but I got a 1min Coleman pop up tent and love it! Gotta add ur own rain fly tho. But it's perfect me

Sent from my obama monitoring device

 

This is what I used last year with my wife and 18 month old. I was able to fit 3 fold up chairs, tent, air mattress, and a cooler in my 2dr. I'm going out to Yosemite next month and will be using the same gear.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=as2&tag=lr-20

Plenty of room sleeping on

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=as2&tag=lr-20

There are a lot better tents out there for $300, but if you're just going car camping you probably won't need to spent more than $100 on a tent.

I also have a soft top, I considered a hitch carrier but didn't need it. The only problem is you won't be able to open your tailgate with the hitch carrier loaded but you can take it off at camp and chain it to a tree.

 

The only advantage I can see with having a tent connected to your jeep is to run away from a bear lol

 

HAHAHAHA! Or the in-laws!

 

Regarding tents, if you're going to use this fairly regularly it's worth investing in a decent tent. The right one, if looked after, will last you a lifetime. You don't have to spend a fortune but this is not the right piece of kit to skimp on, either. A good North Face or Hilleberg type tent will have you thanking yourself for not being cheap later down the line.

 

Tents are great, we have a few of them depending on what we are doing. If we are car camping (ie. driving into an established campsite), we bring our 8 man tent from Canadian Tire... this is for just me and the girlfriend. She likes the space to move around and change without being confined to something tiny. If we are staying multiple days at this site, I'll bring a long one of my 2-3 man tents from MEC as its rated for bad weather. This way if the cheap 8 man breaks in winds or storms, we still have a dry place to fall back to. If were staying off road somewhere then I just bring the 3 man tent from MEC and tell her to suck it up.

Rest of tents I have are alpine tents meant for alpine terrain. Too expensive to bring offroad where the weight of the tent is irrelevant (your carrying it a few meters).

The thing to keep in mind on a tent that connects to the vehicle is unless you are doing a road trip and staying somewhere else each night, do you really want to pack and repack everything each evening and the following morning? Seems cool when you see them but you have to remember the practical use of it. Even if you move each night, where do you put all the gear? outside on the floor? I'd be weary of random wildlife and untrustworthy people nabbing something in the middle of the night.

 

The attachable tents disconnect and have no dependency on the Jeep to stand alone.

 

My research led me to buy the Oztent RV1.
Haven't done any field testing yet, but am happy with the result of the in-vitro living room testing.