Pop Top Roof - Which one??

I'm getting my Reimo fitted in 2 weeks time, just ready for the Easter weekend when we're taking the van camping.  If all goes well the plan is to tour down to Rome in September, with lots of stops along the way.  Kewl!

DanB wrote: Well done matey! Pop-tops are definatly the way forward. Just out of interest how much are they charging you?

<cough> Too much.

A little less than £5k all in but for that I'm getting the roof (with built in bed, colour coded), a mains hook up for my Leisure Battery, new LED internal lighting and a complete interior carpet job as well.    So I'm happy with that.

Once that's all done I only need to add curtains and she's ready to camp in!

Nice one.  How easy to fit and use are they?

Anyone using an SCA elevating roof on a T5?

I had a chance to compare one of them directly with a Reimo roof recently (over at Jerba funnily enough Ex-car bloke) and the quality seemed even better. The design is neater when closed, particularly at the front, and it seems manufactured to the same if not better standard. Similar price to the Reimo.

Thanks. Yep, Simon at Jerba still offers both the Reimo and the SCA, but seems to favour the SCA (on LWB vans at least) so that's what we're going with - rear-hinged. Didn't know about the difference in headroom but that's nice to know being 6'1.

(BTW, that signature pic is stunning - that's my definition of camping)


Edited by a11y - 11 Mar 10 at 15:13

BlackBeltBlakey wrote: Ex-car bloke wrote: I certainly agree with you that the quality of SCA looked excellent if not better, as you say. Now you tell me!   I think I did look at SCA when doing my research and there was a good reason why I decided not to go with it.  It might be due to distance - are there any SCA fitters in the south of England?   If they only are available up in Scotland that would be a good reason not to use them...

We were chatting to the guys from Torbay conversions(in Torquay) and they said they can do SCA roof, same price as reimo, but they can take some longer to be delivered. Also they provide a courtesy car when they convert yours!

I just remembered something a came across a few weeks ago when I was researching roofs: a bloke who's Reimo roof failed a bit when carrying kayaks on roofbars on a roof. Sounds like an isolated incident, but it meant I wasn't too unhappy when a SCA roof was suggested to me...

http://simon-willis.blogspot.com/2009/11/vw-t5-campervan-and-sea-kayaking-pt1.html

http://simon-willis.blogspot.com/2009/11/vw-t5-campervan-and-sea-kayaking-pt2.html

marksabs wrote: I noticed from their blog that the new roof had a plastic wind deflector. is that a new roof design or only for LWB?

Only going on what Simon from Jerba told me, but apparently it's a revised design. The Reimo comes with the plastic wind deflector which is fixed to the front of the roof above the windscreen - although it's a bit of a PITA to fit according to him, not the easiest to sit it perfectly in place.

I've got a SWB Reimo and it has the wind deflector on the front. Without it the noise is so loud as soon as you get above 30MPH that you can't here yourself think. With it you can do over 100MPH and not here a thing from the roof. Although I have never done over 100MPH in mine, honest