Whoa!

Whoa!

Ah!

Oh my God.

Facts!

Facts!

Get it outside.

Get it outside.

Ah!

We're not going to do so good in the wilderness,

I think.

Ah!

$900 rooftop tent.

Versus $3,500 rooftop tent.

Does more expensive really mean more better?

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

Let's find out.

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Thanks for getting me this.

Absolutely, man.

Psh, ah!

Open it.

What?

You're supposed to open it.

I will.

Take a sip, dude.

No, just take a sip.

It's not the right take yet, Job.

We bought two nearly identical Toyota Tacomas and we've been building them to be fun daily drivers that you can take literally anywhere.

One Tacoma gets all the expensive parts and the other one gets a bunch of the cheap stuff.

Then we compare the two to see which components are worth spending your hard earned money on.

Some outdoors people are gross and they sleep on the ground.

But if you're a real adventurer, you know that the elevated luxury and comfort of a rooftop tent is the only way to camp, baby.

That's right, James.

And that's why we've installed tents on top of our trucks so we can camp wherever we park.

Because there's nothing more fun after a day of driving and digging your truck out of stuff than sleeping in a 24 square foot area with your fully grown adult friend.

High Truck is getting an iCamper 2.0 top clamshell tent coming in at $3,500.

And Low Truck, on the other hand, we have a $900 Smittybilt tent.

We got it on sale, usually like 1,200 bucks.

Smittybilt it himself.

For you guys keeping score at home, that is a $2,500 difference.

High Truck's tent is three and a half times as much as Low Truck's.

But is it really three and a half times better?

There's only one way to find out.

Hey, Micah, check a one, two.

Back at the shop, we unboxed our tents.

Oh, there's a lot more bugs.

Ah!

Oh my God.

They came from your box!

And we quickly got to installing them on our bed racks.

Okay, there are some instructions.

Come this way, three quarters of an inch.

Low Truck's install was a breeze for the most part.

Oh, s**t.

Just going to drill a couple of holes, that way these little pins can hold the length.

Nice and strong.

High Truck had its fair share of snags as well.

So it's crooked.

Which way does it need to go, center-wise?

Our bed rack was a bit too beefy for the brackets supplied by iCamper, so we had to do a bit of modifying.

Yeah.

Oh my God.

Oh, man.

Oh my God.

Look at our house, man.

I don't know if that'll be a ladder or not.

Oh, no, that's fine.

No, this is...

Max, Max, please.

Oh God, it's not fine.

I did the same thing Low Team did.

All in all, the installs on both trucks was pretty plug and play, but it's hard to get an impression of these tents without actually using them.

So we hit the road and drove all the way to the San Juan Mountains here in Colorado, America.

Because nothing says donut media more than driving 900 miles into the wilderness with a bunch of stuff that you put on a truck yesterday.

The main goal of our trip is to test all of the components of the trucks.

But over the course of our four nights in the mountains, we were able to get familiar with the ins and outs of both tents.

And after familiarizing ourselves with our tents, it's time to give you a little tour.

Welcome to the Crawl Daddy Cave.

Please don't judge us by our riffraff neighbors.

Once you get inside, this baby is plush.

As you can see, it's pretty nice in here.

The materials are super nice.

This is like a very high quality,

I think like a wax or oiled canvas.

The zippers are really nice.

If you'll notice the actual poles are covered in rubber.

So there's no jangling in the wind.

You shake Low Team's tent, it sounds like a bunch of fricking jingle bells in there.

There's obviously thought put into the shell.

The foam is amazing.

It's kind of like you buy a really nice jacket and only having owned cheap jackets, you're like, oh, this is why things are expensive.

This is how nice things can get.

The materials might not be the highest quality, especially compared to High Team's tent, but it's all there and it's very well-constructed.

It's like got the double stitched here.

I mean, yes, some of the stitching might be a little bit off or layered up, but nothing's moved and it's nice and sturdy.

So that's a big plus for me.

The mattress itself is pretty good for like a tent, but I can feel it breaking in already.

True.

I'm not sure I like that very much.

We have quite the spacious opening.

Also we can enter the tent from both sides of the truck.

High Team cannot.

I think that's kind of inconvenient.

I would say that our airflow in this tent is a lot higher just because there's more openings and I think that's an advantage, you know?

You can have so much more control over your...

It's true.

I haven't showered in a while.

The windows are two layer.

You know, you got your screen door kind of feel here and then like a more waterproof cover and just two layers like that.

But I've heard tell that High Team has a more sophisticated window system.

One of the coolest features about this tent is the windows.

So we have the classic screen and flap, but we also have this really nifty clear plastic.

In case you're out in the rain, you can watch it.

And you want to watch the frogs skip around, you can.

Because of the fiberglass shell, this being a clamshell tent, we don't have as many windows or entryways as the low tent, which I do not like.

Yeah.

I want to be in nature.

I want to be up getting some breeze.

I would like to add a window to this side.

We missed out on some good views to be honest.

Yeah.

You really have to position your truck towards the views.

Yeah.

And if the campsite doesn't really work for that, then you just miss out on the view.

You miss the sunrise.

Slept in this thing a couple nights and I've been fairly comfortable.

I sleep like a baby.

Aside from one bad aspect, which is just leveling the whole tent.

I mean, parking in a spot that's flat.

If you're not, you can feel yourself over time, the sleeping bag sliding down to the edge and you have to like readjust.

You have to wake up and readjust.

We have a lot more space in here than the low team's tent.

Zach and I have been sleeping in this thing for a few days now.

And sometimes I forget that he's here.

We roughly estimated the size of this thing.

It's about 49 square feet, about seven feet by seven feet, which ain't bad.

Yeah.

That's like $1,500 a month in LA.

As for sleeping space, there's room for two sleeping bags.

Aaron sleeps exactly like that.

So bumping into him hasn't been a problem.

I know that high team's tent is a lot bigger.

I'm just not sure that that much more room is necessary.

But me personally,

I've actually not had very good sleep the past couple days.

First night in the old Smittybilt roof tent.

I feel like.

I feel great.

I went to sleep hours after you.

I feel amazing.

I think I got like one hour of sleep last night combined.

The rain fly on this gets extremely loud.

This material is pulled pretty taut in areas and it acts like a big drum.

So like, even though this tiny thin rain fly is just flapping against it, it's very loud in here.

Yeah. And that might be a thing where high teams materials come into play cause it's just less noisy.

Yeah.

One big inconvenience for having a rooftop tent is that your tent is on the roof.

You have to climb in a ladder to get up into it, to get to bed.

That being said, it does feel like we're in a tree fort right now, which is kind of cool.

Yeah.

If you have to wake up to go pee in the middle of the night, you better not miss that ladder.

Because this tent is so big, you really do have to mount it up super high on the roof.

Some people do mount it low, like low team did on their bed, but it's longer than the bed.

So it's going to hang off about a foot.

And you know, we really didn't want to deal with that.

And since we have to put this thing on top, on top, on top of the truck, we have a lot of leverage over the suspension on the truck.

So anytime you kind of readjust in the night, the whole thing shakes for about five or six seconds afterwards.

It's really kind of annoying.

Another downside to our tent, which low team also has, is bed access.

With all of our recovery gear hanging off of our bed rack, the convenience of having a pickup truck is really lost.

Dare I say, we may have gone too far.

I think we've added a lot of stuff.

The truck bed is a lot harder to use.

Yeah, it's-

You pretty much have to go through the back.

Yeah.

It seriously cuts down the convenience and the accessibility of the bed.

I mean, if we end up getting stuck on a mountain face and we don't have access to the truck bed, that's an issue to me.

So it is awesome that our lower profile tent means that we don't have to climb as high and that we might be getting better gas mileage because it's not blocking the airflow.

But that does mean that we can't see out the back of our truck.

We only have the side mirrors.

Yeah, that's an inconvenience, especially when you're trying to see who's behind you.

Yeah.

If someone's too close.

It's very inconvenient in parking lots.

One thing that's pretty cool about Low Tent, this thing takes like 15 minutes max to put onto these racks.

You can actually take this thing off and set it up and just get rid of all those inconveniences.

You have full access to all your recovery gear for the rack and you still have a pretty nice tent just on the ground.

Only four mounting points, done.

Yeah, it's just as easy to go on as it is take off, so.

I don't think Hytruck can say the same.

So the number one reason you go with a rooftop pop-up up and down tent is convenience.

You want to get to camp, you want to go to sleep because you're tired.

But which one of these sets up faster?

Only way to find out is a good old fashioned drag race.

We've got Zach Jobe versus Nolan.