- This is the Coleman Instant Up 4P Gold Series Tent.
It is a little beauty, I'm gonna show you how to set it up
and how to pack it away today.
Let's get started.
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- We're in a shady spot down here today
at the Brown Hill Creek Tourist Park,
just 15 minutes from the city, not far from the beach
at the base of the Adelaide Hills
it's in Adelaide's eastern suburbs.
And they've given us some space today
to go through some of our products for you.
What I've got in front of me here now,
is the Coleman Instant Up Gold four person tent.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up and pack it away today.
When you buy it, this is how it comes
in a bag, weighs about 15 kilos,
measures about 112 centimetres in long,
in length, sorry, 24 centimetres high
and about 24 centimetres deep.
Before I set it up, I'll show you what comes in the bag.
So, inside the bag for your Instant Up Gold 4P tent here,
you're getting the main tent,
this is the inner and the frame all combined as one.
This is your fly sheet here.
Now you do get a removable awning with this as well,
it goes on both sides of the tent,
in this instance, it's actually attached to the fly here
but we'll show you more about that later.
You get a bag of pegs, they're light-duty pegs.
You will benefit from adding, say, four to six,
possibly up to eight heavier-duty pegs to your kit.
There's five awning poles in here.
Two for the front awning and three for the side.
There's one longer one
so you can create a peaked awning on the side.
You get some extra guy ropes.
There's some straps to tie it all up together,
and this is a little doormat, I'll show you that later.
Now the first thing I need to do to set it up is
put this stuff aside and grab the inner tent, spread it out.
'Cause there's no wind here today,
I can pop all the poles up in place,
and put the pegs in after.
Now if I just let the poles just fall to the side here,
don't force them.
Before I pull it out too much further,
I just want to work out where my door is.
So, I can see that the entry is on this side here.
I want my door to face this way,
so I'm just gonna twist the tent around a little bit,
and then I can gradually spread these out.
And pop these poles into place.
First thing I need to do is just grab each of these
and invert the knuckles.
Just spread it out a little bit.
If it was windy, I'd wanna put some pegs in place now
so that this doesn't blow away.
It's not windy so I can put it straight up.
All I need to do now is extend these poles out,
until the button appears in this little hole here.
That's the frame of our Instant Up 4P, all set up.
I put four pegs in the corners now,
and then I can grab the fly and throw it over the top.
So I just gotta get the orientation of my fly right
before I throw it over top.
Now, there's only one doorway,
so I know that this brown panel here,
with the zips that go right to the bottom,
are the door, so that goes on this side here.
So I'll let that sit on there, I'll grab the other side
and I'll throw it over and sort of work it into place.
So I've got the fly roughly in place there.
Before I touch it at the bottom,
there's three attachment points
on each pole that we need to put in place,
to attach it to the frame, to the inner frame.
So up underneath here, we've got one, two,
and right at the top, is the third Velcro tab,
that we need to put around the inner frame.
Once you've put the last one on,
we just grab this plastic clip at the bottom here,
which goes into the D ring on the base of the inner tent.
We do all four of those attachment points on each corner.
You may find you need to undo the clip
at the bottom on the opposite corner.
I found I couldn't lift this fabric up high enough
without doing up the clip on that bottom corner
to be able to get to this top tab here.
So don't force it,
just undo it so you can get them all done up.
So now I've got all the attachment points on the corners,
and each corner of the fly clipped to the inner,
I can go around and put all the pegs in
in the base of the fly.
Now there's one at the rear,
there's three on each side for the circle ventilation,
and then I need two pegs at the front
for the vestibule as well.
So this bit of fabric here is the removable awning
this can go on either side of the tent.
I'll set that up shortly for you.
I just need to hold it out the way,
did come attached to the fly,
just hold it out the way, while I peg these in.
Now these little vents here,
are for what's called Coleman's circle ventilation
I'll show you the vents inside shortly
but if we peg that out,
just allows a bit more airflow inside the tent.
Just got two more pegs to put in
for the vestibule around the front here.
Now, I'll mention the ground sheet
that I'm using here today.
This is a 2.44 by 3.6 metre or thereabouts ground sheet.
Now, it's a little bit longer than the tent
and what I'm gonna find is
when I go to put this peg in here,
it's gonna go through the ground sheet.
Now I've got two options here.
I can get an eyelet kit
and put a eyelet through the ground sheet or,
all I'm gonna do today is fold this up over the top
or underneath like this if I like,
and put the peg in on the outside of it.
Now I'm gonna put all the guy ropes in,
there's four of them in total on the sides.
Really important that we use these all the time.
It's got a nice big flat size which creates room inside
but it does catch the wind.
If we put all these in, put 'em a fair way out from the tent
as far out as you can like this,
don't put 'em in close by, right out
so they get lots of support for the tent
and you won't have any dramas.
And that's the main portion of the tent set up.
While I'm on the side here I'll mention these windows.
There's one at the rear and one of these on each side.
We can actually roll these right up
if we want, leave them closed
so when they're closed like this
they offer storm protection.
When they're rolled up like this,
obviously, they offer ventilation.
We can use a couple of extra pegs on these guy ropes also,
to peg them out as small awnings like this over the window
which gives us a bit of shade while allowing ventilation.
I'm just gonna roll it up for now, though.
The other elements we can set up,
on this tent, is the awning at the front
using the included awning poles,
and there's also the removable awning
that was on the other side of the tent.
That we can actually put on either side that we want.
There's a zipper, along the top of this window here,
that allows that awning on the other side
to be zipped either out this side,
or out that side, I'm gonna zip it off there
and put it this side for you shortly,
and we can create a peaked shaded area
on this side of the tent.
I'll sent the front one up first, though.
Now you get five steel awning poles
with your Instant Up Gold 4P Tent,
and one of them is longer than the others.
We need two of the shorter ones for,
this awning at the front here,
so I have front storm closure here.
I'm gonna extend out as a shaded entry to our tent.
The other three we use for the side awning,
to create a peak in the middle,
so the long one will go in the middle.
And the two shorter ones on each side.
That is the Coleman Instant Up 4P Person
pretty much all set up, we put the longer awning pole
in the middle here, I do get another guy rope.
It's probably beneficial to also put this guy rope on,
to pull this out like this.
And create a nice flat awning there
and the water runs off of it as well, it's got an angle.
And that is the Coleman Instant Up 4P Tent all set up
apart from a couple of accessories,
and that is the doormat,
which is this guy here.
Now, I don't really need it 'cause I've used a groundsheet
but I could peg this out on the front here
if I didn't have a groundsheet.
Just to wipe my feet on,
there's six peg points around the sides.
And something I didn't mention before
was this little gear loft,
now this goes up inside the tent here,
up the top, might be a bit dark in here at the moment.
But there's four attachment points
for these little plastic clips to hook on to,
and it creates a little loft for us,
to store our gear in, up high in the tent.
That's it, we're all done.
That's the Coleman Instant Up 4P Gold all set up.
I've got shelter on two sides,
we're ready to set up camp on the inside.
That was easily done by myself,
it's easy to pack up by myself as well.
I'll show you how to do that,
first thing I do, is take all the pegs out.
And just use a little bit of common sense
when you're taking down your Coleman Instant Up Tent,
most people would damage their tent
when they're taking it down in the wind.
And that's usually because they don't have a think about,
leave some pegs in place if it is windy
so the wind doesn't pick it up,
and take it to someone else's campsite
and you end up with a damaged tent.
So we just gotta pull the clips off each corner,
and remember to undo the Velcro tabs
around the frame underneath.
And also go around and make sure all the flaps
on your windows are closed up,
it's gonna make folding the fly a lot easier.
One little tip I've got for trying to make it easier
to fold your fly sheet is to firstly,
down one side of the tent, make sure it's up over the side
of the frame so it can't catch.
And then I grab roughly the centre point of each side,
walk around the middle here and I find the very peak,
of the tent and I grab the middle.
You can usually tell where it is
'cause all the fabric crosses here.
I'll grab that point as well, gather it together,
and then I try and find the same centre point,
on the other side here,
so it's between my two tie points here.
Now if I pull that off,
as I lay it down it kind of automatically folds in half
provided it doesn't get too caught up on the tent there.
And it doesn't take too much effort then,
to get the fly folded in half.
So it neatly goes back in the bag.
The more time we spend
getting these fabrics flat at the moment,
the easier it is, to fit it back in the bag
with the rest of the tent.
Now it's really calm here now
so I pulled all four corners out of the pegs,
I don't have to worry about wind.
All I need to do now to lower the tent
is go to each corner and push our silver button here,
to allow the legs to collapse.
Don't force it just yet, just let it sit.
We'll do it on all four corners.
And the tent will lower to the ground.
Now I've got all four legs lowered
so the tent's as low as it will go, all I need to do now
is invert these knuckles backwards like this,
the tent will then fall to the ground.
And I can gather the corners up into the middle,
and roll it up.
Now I've got all four poles gathered in the middle here
now you could always benefit from an elastic strap
or something to round this now, just to hold 'em in place
'cause otherwise you need to use your hand to hold 'em all.
Now if you just take a little bit of time now
just to stretch these fabrics out
on the side here, sort of flatten them out a bit.
It's gonna make rolling the tent up so much easier, so.
I'll get these flat and then I can lay it down on its side.
And then I'll get these ones out as well.
We just take a little bit of time
to fold this so it sits as flat as you can,
it's gonna make getting it back in the bag so much easier.
All I need to do now is roll it up,
get the fly, and put it all back in the bag.
Now you can roll the fly up inside the tent if you like,
that's how it came when it was new.
I actually find it easier just to pack this up like this,
and then roll the fly up around next to it.
And that is how you set up and pack away
the Coleman Instant Up 4P Gold Series Tent.
It went back in the bag reasonably easily,
if I was to do it again
I'd probably fold it up slightly differently,
the fly a different shape 'cause there's more space
at one end than the other after you put the inner in there.
But I got it in easily by myself.
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Thanks for watching, I hope it was useful.
We'll see you next time.
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