Nissan Patrol GU and GQ
About: The Nissan Patrol
The Mighty Nissan Patrol runs a gutter mount roof - The gutters taper towards the rear around 40mm and front to rear drop approx 4mm each end - Requiring adjustable feet or specialist GU/GQ racks.
GQ PATROL ROOF TOP TENT RACK
Nissan GQ - roof top tent rack (SHOP LINK HERE)
Built for Roof top tents that are 1350mm - 1600mm Wide -
GU PATROL PLATFORM RACK
GU Patrol / Platform INFOLD RACK (SHOP HERE )
For ultimate versatility - m8 or m10 tie down points on all faces, heavy duty aluminium flat rack - East west crossbars
The RED GQ Patrol is Fitted with a Tough Touring One Piece Roof top tent Rack and then has an Ostrich Pole Less 270 Wing awning Bundutop ROOF TOP TENT, and Tough Touring Awning to Tent Bundutop Brackets
The White GU Dropping into Gunshot Creek is fitted with a Tuff Trek Mk3 RTT, Ostrich wing awning , Tough Touring GU Roof Tent Roof rack, Tough Touring Awning to tent Brackets, Tough Touring Solar mounts
Roof Top Tents - what's the best Fit for the Nissan Patrol
Like all 4wd Wagons, the Nissan Patrol has nowhere to carry dirty equiment like firewood / chaisaws etc - so load bearing Roof top tents can provide handy up top storage space - The Tuff Trek Mk3 is the lowest profile one we've seen with a big payload. Its beautifully finished and were calling it "the roof rack you sleep in" as it can be mounted without the roof rack basket.
More on these Amazing new tents here "Tuff Trek Mk3 Roof top tent"
The GU and GQ Can handle almost any RTT once your rack is sorted. In the UK and Soon to be in Australia - Tuff Trek does a beautifully finished Load bearing Clamshell that competes with the Bush company and Alucab tents for quality but at better pricing.
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Awnings: and the Nissan Patrol
Ostrich Wing Awnings are a high quality poleless 270 degree wrap around awning. The barn doors on the Patrol are great - Providing easy fitting of Pole less awnings, and the Ostrich wing awning would be our pick of them all to date.
Installing an Awning and a Roof top tent seperatly on a Patrol.
If you choose to run a Soft shell Roof tent - or a Plastic/ Fibreglass Roof top tent - you cannot install poleless awnings directly to the tent and will have to install them instead on your rack. This becomes difficult as most roof top tents are WIDER than common roof racks.
Some of this is discussed (How we solve this problem) Here on a short You tube video
Tough Touring Manufactures over 72 types of Awning to rack, and awning to tent brackets - covering almost all types of roof racks and pole less wing awnings... View the range here