Roof tent on Jimny

I think the 35kg refers to the "cheese" that the roof bars are made from.....I carried an 8X4 sheet of ply on those....then noticed what the mountings were made of.....it appears that having Jesus on your side works.

Moved to steel immediately!

Had 250kg on the roof.....interesting handling!

The allowed load is the same for the Gen4 with steel gutter mounts. It's not the static load, it's the dynamic load, having all that weight up high on such a narrow car is going to seriously compromise the handling. I wouldn't fancy the chances of getting an insurance payout if you had an accident with a rooftent on the car.

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationAs many says the weight is an issue.. That and the fact that very few use their roof top tents for very long so most of them end up sold second hand after little use wich makes for good value.
Problems with them other than too much load in a bad place is that it isn't very practical to climb up there to sleep.

I have been looking at something like this:
Link is just the first one i found on ebay as an example.

There's no such restriction on the roof load of the gen4, only on the Suzuki own brand roof bars. Not mentioned at all in the manual. And even roofbox.com who are normally very careful to see pecify roof load limits (they do for all accessories for the earlier gens) don't mention limits other than the roof bar manufacturer's limits (around 70kg).

I carry a 41kg kayak on 10kg of bars/mounts and have no issues although I don't kayak in strong winds so haven't carried the kayak in windy conditions.

Any load placed securely on the roof doesn't immediately make a Jimny any more unstable than any other live axle 4x4. What makes them feel unstable is trying to drive them without any consideration of the roof load. It's driver inexperience. It's exactly the same with trailers, the vast amount of people who obviously don't tow regularly and set off like they aren't, only to get into difficulties from going too fast or or not accounting for windage or not knowing how to place a load etc etc. It's all perfectly safe and easy if conducted with a little decorum. As I and others have mentioned though the plastic feet on the gen3 rails are going to have to go which constitutes a modification that the insurance have to be notified of. They may not want to insure, that is up to them but with suitable mounting and a bit of sense from the driver it is no more risky than anything else.

Bill Portland wrote: There's no such restriction on the roof load of the gen4, only on the Suzuki own brand roof bars. Not mentioned at all in the manual. And even roofbox.com who are normally very careful to see pecify roof load limits (they do for all accessories for the earlier gens) don't mention limits other than the roof bar manufacturer's limits (around 70kg).

I carry a 41kg kayak on 10kg of bars/mounts and have no issues although I don't kayak in strong winds so haven't carried the kayak in windy conditions.

There was a big argument on the Aus Facebook group about this. The blurb for the Suzuki roofbars says 30kg, however there are emails from Suzuki Australia that confirm it's 35kg.