Hyundai Santa Fe roof rack tent

The Hyundai Santa Fe is a great vehicle for the city but also for your next camping trip. With the Hyundai Santa Fe, you have enough space inside to take your whole family with you. You can also explore off-the-beaten-track campgrounds with the Santa Fe.

When you go camping with the Hyundai Santa Fe, you don’t need a heavy camping trailer or even an expensive RV. You can also do without the uncomfortable ground tent.

A rooftop tent has many advantages over a ground tent or even a camping trailer or RV. With a rooftop tent, you are very mobile and can also spontaneously go camping. A rooftop tent can be set up and taken down very quickly and easily. So you can change the campground more often. You can also discover campgrounds that you could never reach with a camping trailer or an RV. Wherever your vehicle goes, you can also stay overnight.

A rooftop tent also offers protection from small and large animals due to its elevated position on the vehicle roof. The position on the roof of the vehicle also protects you from the cold at night or even rain or water that could collect on the ground.

All you need to mount a rooftop tent on the vehicle roof of the Hyundai Santa Fe are the appropriate roof crossbars. The roof crossbars are mounted on the factory roof rails of the Hyundai Santa Fe. This gives you a stable basis for assembling the rooftop tent.

Most Hyundai Santa Fe models have factory roof rails. If your model does not have factory roof rails, you can easily retrofit the roof rails. The Santa Fe has factory mounting spots on the roof for roof rails. You can also easily retrofit roof rails there.

Rooftop tents are attached to four mounting spots on the crossbars. In this way, the rooftop tent is securely and stably connected to the vehicle. Some rooftop tent models are also screwed directly to the roof rails. This always depends on the respective rooftop tent model.

The weight of the rooftop tent and the people in the roof tent is transferred to the vehicle body via the roof rails. This means that neither the vehicle roof nor the body is damaged.

The Hyundai Santa Fe offers enough space on the vehicle roof to mount a large six-person rooftop tent.

Although the registered permissible roof load of the Hyundai Santa Fe is relatively low, this only applies to the vehicle in motion. This is important if you are transporting a roof box or other loads on the vehicle roof, for example. But as soon as the vehicle is stationary, the permissible roof load increases many times over. You can easily set up a six-person rooftop tent and up to six people can stay or sleep on the vehicle roof in the rooftop tent.

When buying a rooftop tent, you should only make sure that the rooftop tent is not wider than the vehicle when folded.

For example, you can buy a hard-shell or soft-shell rooftop tent. A hard-shell rooftop tent usually offers less space and features inside but is easier to set up and take down.

You can also buy a rooftop tent, which has an awning. A built-in awning offers the advantage that you have a safe, additional space that protects you from wind, cold, or rain.

Further down on this page, you will find a small overview of the most popular rooftop tents for the Hyundai Santa Fe.

However, you should note that installing the rooftop tent on the vehicle roof increases fuel consumption and thus reduces the maximum range of the vehicle. The driving dynamics can also deteriorate because the vehicle’s center of gravity shifts further upwards through the rooftop tent. So you should always drive very carefully with a rooftop tent on the vehicle roof and think about the increased fuel consumption. If you don’t need the rooftop tent, you should also dismantle the rooftop tent and store it safely in your garage.

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Happy Camping 😉