Tourka Journal

Roof top tent guides and field notes

Roof top tent guides, awning notes and camp-system detail written on the factory floor. Start with the product range, the video library, or how we build them.

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Building your own range?

We manufacture roof top tents, awnings and camp systems for importers and own-brand programmes. Send us a spec and we will quote against it.

Latest guides

Ten long-form guides on the things that go wrong in the field and how to avoid them, plus the manufacturing detail behind the specifications.

Rooftop tent weight in practice: an aluminium hard shell tent mounted on a 4WD at a coastal campsite

Rooftop Tent Weight: What 60 kg Is Actually Made Of

A rooftop tent weight figure is a design budget, not a spec. We break a 57 kg soft shell and a 68 kg aluminium hard shell down part by part, then look at what the number means for roof ratings, freight and EV range.

Written in-house

Long-form guides, no syndicated content

Field-tested

Real trip data, not brochure copy

Factory specs

The numbers behind the warranty rate

Updated each season

Reviewed against new stock

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