I made my own load bars to run across my rails and works great.. I'll look for pics but not sure if I have any.. Anyways, it works fine.. I use a Tepui..

I would recommend STAYING FAR, FAR AWAY from a CVT group buy. Last year's was a total fiasco. We ordered our tent during the group buy in March, with the understanding that it may take a month or two to get, but we didn't actually get it until mid August, so we missed out on using it for the summer trips we had planned for it. If I'd known it was going to take that long to begin with, we'd have taken our money elsewhere. Communication was bad too, after taking our money they didn't provide any updates unless prompted by emailing/calling them several times first.

I'm quite happy with the tent I (finally) got, but the group buy experience was terrible. If you check the Tacoma World forum group buy thread, you'll see that many people shared the same experience we did. Perhaps non-group buy customers get better service from them?



I have the Mt. Shasta and love it too. I rotated the tent rails 90 degrees before bolting them to the floor of the tent (you have to shorten them slightly with a hacksaw) and then clamped them on to the factory rack with the provided hardware. This way it mounts a bit lower than cross bars would allow.

For anyone interested, the Tepui site has an excellent video on installing the tents. CVT didn't provide any instructions with the tent, or respond when I asked for some.

thanks for all the reply's. I am now looking for a larger tent like a 3-4 person. Any problems with a larger style tent on the 4runner?

Sorry to hear of your bad experience with CVT. My experience 2.5 years ago (a group buy through expeditionportal) was nothing short of stellar. I spoke with Bobby a couple times during the process and he was nothing but accommodating and informative. Perhaps they're experiencing some growing pains--hopefully your experience won't become the rule.

I've enjoyed my Mt. Shasta immensely (sorry,mounted on my Ram, not my 4R):

I too am sorry you feel this way. I am quite happy with my RTT from CVT.

I originally oredered a Mt Bachelor, immediatly realized it was a bad choice in side since i have a family of 4. Ordered march 15, and march 21 i reordered a Mt Hood. My end of April, I get a call with info that the Mt Hood was oversold and back ordered till June/July. I was offered a refund or I can get a Mt Rainer shipped out to me today at no extra charge, if it would fit on my vehicle.

I took the offer and been a happy camper ever since. well my wife was a happy camper since she is a NON-camper!

Yeah, from what I understand they got a lot more interest in the 2014 group buy than they were expecting and basically just got overwhelmed and dropped the ball on many of us. Bobby seems like a good guy, and I know that they weren't intentionally trying to screw us over, which is why I gave them the benefit of the doubt and waited it out.

A call or email update once in a while after they took nearly $1500 of ours would've gone a long way though. As with any business - communication is key, and they just didn't do a very good job in many of our cases. Hopefully they have their act together this year (or put a cap on the group buy so that it is manageable).

Last years GB did get out of hand - all for reasons that Bobby couldn't have predicted. The discount code was passed around the internet and orders were coming in from all over. Something like 400 tents sold in a month - that's more than they sell in a year! They simply couldn't make them and ship them fast enough. Lessons learned. I touched base with Bobby recently and he says he is up for another this year but will be doing a lot of things differently - like limiting the quantities of tents ahead of time.
Sorry you had a bad experience, I don't think he was intentionally ignoring people he was just completely overwhelmed. I thought Bobby was great to deal with and I love my tent, that's why I stand by him and CVT.


Anywho....I've been in the market for a Runner and have been searching for ways to mount my Mt Bachelor when I ran across this thread.

Can you take pics or describe how you mounted to the stock rack?

Thanks in Advance!

I have my RTT mounted on the front runner slimline II rack. Really a great rack with a well thought out design. Good luck and hope you get this figured out!... Must say it does suck to spend 1100 on a rack Just for the tent... No more usable space.

Sent from my SM-N920T using Tapatalk

So help me understand this- the factory base rack (front-to-back bars) is strong but could some aftermarket crossbars fit side-to-side? I think the factory crossbars are pretty weak and flex a lot, but not sure if anyone makes crossbars that fit the factory base rack.

Second- I'm in for a nice tent when the next group buy comes up. Do I need to joint the Taco forum for that?

The major brands (Thule, Yakima, etc) all make adapters that let you mount their crossbars to OEM roof rails.

https://www.yakima.com/railgrab-4-pack

Thule Rapid Crossroad Foot Pack 450R | Thule | USA

Sport edition rack checking in- a Tepui Kukenam will attach to the sport edition crossbars. Although it is a bit of a ***** to get the nuts on due to clearance between the roof and end of bolt. But given enough time it attaches sturdily. Supports 2 people without breaking or creaking haha.

Good info...thanks!

Here's the only pic I have right now of the tent rails bolted to stock (Limited/SR5) roof rails, we haven't mounted the tent for the summer yet:



The tent rails effectively become your crossbars when mounted this way, and allow for a lower profile than when using stock or aftermarket crossbars (plus you don't have to buy anything extra to mount your tent).

So I just got my CVT and got it up there on the factory rails that run parallel with the vehicle and bolted it there. I'm having some issues getting the annex room into the channel due to the bottom of the tent bars/rails that run perpendicular to the roof rails sticking out so much further than the roof rails (did that make sense? Did in my head..). I'm going to go back out and try and put the cover on (cause that's more important than the annex).

Has anyone had to trim these tent bar/rails? Or do I need to stop being a sissy and just get it done over the rails?

*EDIT* I was able to get the cover in the channel, so I was probably just being a sissy with the Annex room

p.s. I have a Gobi stealth rack on order.. just waiting... so this is temporary and I have a few trips coming up before the rack will be here.