Roof porthole and roof mounted tents

[Rusty Sheckleford]

Does anyone know if the official ford tents are designed to be compatible with the rear roof porthole? Can you open that up and go from the truck to the tent without even having to go outside?

Would just be a cool little feature if you could do that.

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[@BadBlueBronco]

I’m sure the aftermarket will pick that up, sounds like a great idea.

 

[AK SNO RIDER]

The tents in Fords catalog are not "ford" tents, and no, they are not designed to be used like that. They have a solid floor.

 

[lobbs611]

I very highly doubt it. That appears to be the same Yakima tent that Ford offers elsewhere for other vehicles and Yakima offers thru their lineup.

 

[Rusty Sheckleford]

The tents in Fords catalog are not "ford" tents, and no, they are not designed to be used like that. They have a solid floor.

Well it's an official accessory sold by Ford for their vehicles, so I'll keep calling them Ford's tents.

 

[BroncoTodd]

lol.... i love the idea!

But usually rooftop tents have a sturdy solid floor. As others have mentioned, Ford just licensed an existing rooftop tent that was light enough to qualify for the amount of weight that could be put on a Bronco's roof. Thus, it will not have a cut out for your 'bronco treehouse' vision.

 

[Rusty Sheckleford]

lol.... i love the idea!

But usually rooftop tents have a sturdy solid floor. As others have mentioned, Ford just licensed an existing rooftop tent that was light enough to qualify for the amount of weight that could be put on a Bronco's roof. Thus, it will not have a cut out for your 'bronco treehouse' vision.

Yeah, I kind of figured that would be the case... but thought it was worth asking to be sure.

Hopefully as others here mentioned, the aftermarket will take notice of the Broncos features and design something to take advantage of those.

 

[RookieMissSteak]

Does anyone know if the official ford tents are designed to be compatible with the rear roof porthole? Can you open that up and go from the truck to the tent without even having to go outside?

Would just be a cool little feature if you could do that.

Wow, that‘s one of the coolest ideas. I wonder if there’s a way to get that to work.

 

[ZackDanger]

Well it's an official accessory sold by Ford for their vehicles, so I'll keep calling them Ford's tents.

Ford Winch:

Ford Podlights:

Ford bike rack:

 

[Squatch]

It totally should! It doesn't, but one of those with a movable floor hatch and a Sportz tent out the back and you have a very spacious two-door bungalow.

 

[Brongo]

Does anyone know if the official ford tents are designed to be compatible with the rear roof porthole? Can you open that up and go from the truck to the tent without even having to go outside?

Would just be a cool little feature if you could do that.

That would be really cool!

 

[Rusty Sheckleford]

Ford Winch:

Ford Podlights:

Ford bike rack:

Does ford have a wheel factory to build their own wheels, or does another manufacture build them for Ford?

Are the blistein shocks that come stock on the Sasquatch not the official, OEM shock for that vehicle? Even though they're made by a different company? and have a differnet companies logo on them?

Everything you listed is built by a different company, but it's still an officially authorized Bronco accessory, approved and sold by Ford.

I just don't see any difference whether ford takes the trouble to build their own pod lights with a ford logo, or just licenses something off the shelf to be one of their official accessories.

 

[Beach_Bum]

Ursa Minor was supposed to be developing a camper top with interior access. That was last summer when they said they were going to doing it. One of the early pre-production camo'd rigs had an unusual roof top and some speculated that it was an Ursa Minor top being tested. You'll have to look in the Overlanding sub-forum for the threads on Ursa Minor.

 

[ZackDanger]

Does ford have a wheel factory to build their own wheels, or does another manufacture build them for Ford?

Are the blistein shocks that come stock on the Sasquatch not the official, OEM shock for that vehicle? Even though they're made by a different company? and have a differnet companies logo on them?

Everything you listed is built by a different company, but it's still an officially authorized Bronco accessory, approved and sold by Ford.

You'd still say the vehicle comes with "Bilsteins" though, right? Is that "Ford" oil you're buying when you get your car serviced?

The point is, if it's branded by a different company, convention is to refer to the product under that brand's name, even if they are offered as a component from the factory.

If the 3rd party supplier manufactures the parts, but applies the Ford logo, and they are sold as a Ford branded part, then convention is to refer to them as a Ford part.

At this point I'm really just having some fun because you are doubling down on calling it the "Ford tent" when obviously it's not a Ford tent... even though Ford will sell it to you with FordPass points at a markup.

 

[Sarconus]

Ursa Minor was supposed to be developing a camper top with interior access. That was last summer when they said they were going to doing it. One of the early pre-production camo'd rigs had an unusual roof top and some speculated that it was an Ursa Minor top being tested. You'll have to look in the Overlanding sub-forum for the threads on Ursa Minor.

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