- Ben from Snowys here today folks,
we're showing you the peaked side panels
for the Oztent SV-5 Max tent.
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These panel come as a pair,
they attach easily with a zipper,
they feature a door in both panels,
and there's some weatherproof features
that allow you to enclose the sides
of the awning on your SV-5 Max tent.
This is how the Oztent SV-5
peaked side panels look when you buy them.
It's about 60 centimetres in length
and about 15 to 20 centimetres in diameter here,
depending on how tightly you pack it up,
and they weigh about 5.2 kilos.
There's two walls inside the bag here,
we'll show you what else comes inside,
it's pretty straightforward.
It's all rolled up and contained with a little strap here.
So we undo that strap, we can access both walls.
And in here somewhere we should get, here we go,
a little bag of pegs, and we just need the pegs
to go along the base of the walls
to stop them from flapping around.
Now these are the walls, while I've got 'em here
I'll touch on the fabrics that they're made of.
It's the same eight-ounce ripstop cotton polyester
that RV tents have always been made of.
It's a 1,500 mil waterhead, it's a nice durable fabric,
offers a really good balance of strength and weight.
Within the wall, there is a doorway,
if we just unfold this here a little bit,
we come across some ultra fine mesh,
this will make a bit more sense
once I've got it all together.
That is an ultra fine mesh, is it midgie-proof?
I don't know, it could be, I'd say it's pretty good
but midges seem to be able to get through everything,
but certainly mossie-proof,
certainly a good quality mesh on that one.
And on the very base of the doors
there is this 510 GSM,
actually I don't think it's quite 510 GSM, but it is a PVC,
that hangs down at the base,
just to help the water shed away from the tent.
And they've also incorporated some flexible peg points,
or plastic eyelets, in the base of that PVC panel there,
to peg them out, to keep it sitting away from the tent,
so that water runs away.
And that's all gonna make more sense once I put them on.
Now, there's two walls in this kit.
And they're both gonna be labelled
at the bottom here somewhere.
If we look at the front, there'll be an A on one
and a B on the other.
There we go, I found the A there.
So this A, if we just back up towards the tent here,
is gonna go on the same side
as the A that features down on the base of the tent here.
So we know this wall fits on this side of the tent,
I'm actually gonna grab the B wall
and set it up on that side of the tent,
So we can enclose each side of the awning here
on the SV-5 Max tent.
It doesn't enclose the sides of the extension tarp
that features out the front here,
these walls are gonna finish at this point here.
But it creates a semi-enclosed space here,
and then we've got this extra open space out here.
This is an accessory comes included with the tent,
not the side walls.
So let's grab side B, and we'll zip it on.
So we just orient the wall the right way.
So the mesh panel here is going to be
on the inside of the awning
and the solid panel on the outside there.
So, we've gotta find the end of the zipper.
Now this is a continual zipper.
Previously the RV tents
had a zipper that kind of finished up in the corner here
and then a second zipper ran down.
The newer tents have been improved with this curve here,
which offers a little bit of extra weather protection.
It's also important to note
that you can only fit SV-5 side panels on an SV-5 tent.
You can't interchange RV panels with an RV tent.
So I'm just mucking around here trying to find the zipper.
Now we're gonna find the zipper pull as well.
Now in this instance,
the zipper pull's actually fallen
right down to the bottom here.
So I need to grab this and pull it right up around
to the front of the tent
because this is actually gonna start
right up here.
Push it around the corner,
the corner's the hardest bit to get it around.
(zipper rasps)
This is where we start to attach our wall.
So we now find the end of the zipper here,
so you can see, this is the end for the corner.
This zipper that runs down the pole here
is what we will be able to attach
the other optional front wall accessory to.
This top zipper is what we slide into here.
So put that in, I make sure it seats
right to the back of the zipper
I hold the wall up as I go.
And I zip it right across.
Now it goes around the outside of the pole here.
Up over the top, just make sure you lift the wall as you go.
Just a little bit of fiddling
to get around the corner there.
(zipper rasps)
The zip runs right around the side here,
all the way down to the base of the tent there.
From this point, we've got these peg loops
to go in the bases.
So one, two, three if we wanna peg the door,
four, and then one in the far side here, five
to peg in place.
Once we've got those pegs in place
we can just tighten those loops a little bit.
There's a buckle one there to tighten it.
And then we've just got these tabs here
that we can put around the poles
to stop the fabric from flapping around too much.
Also holds the pole sturdy in place.
We've got one two, there's three on each pole.
And there's two on the centre pole as well.
And that's just going to stop these walls
from moving around too much in the wind.
So we just step around to the outside of the wall here,
just to make sure a few things are sealed up.
Firstly along the top here there's these flaps here,
they sort of tend to sort of automatically fall into place,
but these go over the top of the zipper.
There's a Velcro strip
that seals across the top of the zipper there,
goes right up the top.
This tab here where it joins seals up as well.
So it's quite weatherproof and that goes right down,
right down the bottom of the tent here,
so that entire zipper length has got a storm flap over it.
Then at the base of the tent here we've got this PVC flap.
Now this has got multiple peg points in it,
so you'd be beneficial to use it,
there's enough pegs included to be able to do this,
but peg this out like this.
You probably don't want to peg that one
if you're gonna use this door, I'll show you why shortly.
But if you peg all this out,
it allows water to run down here, it hits the PVC
and runs away from the awning,
so you're not getting wet edges
around the inside of the awning.
Now if you leave this one unpegged,
'cause you wanna use the door,
that allows you to unzip this.
If you open this up, you can roll it back
and use the tabs that feature here in the tent
to secure this panel.
And you've then got a mesh doorway here
for access under your awning.
At the base of this doorway
there's just a lightweight polyester flap here,
which sort of seals that gap
but it does blow up a bit in the wind.
So it's going to stop a few bugs and things getting through,
but it's not a complete empty space under there.
Furthermore, you can open up the mesh door here.
You can also roll this back using these tabs.
Secure that on the side,
and you've got a doorway to access the awning here.
It's about 185 centimetres, thereabouts,
at this height here.
So you can see, that's fully enclosed
that side of our awning there.
We've got our second door
that came included with the kit here
that we could put on this side
and enclose this side of the awning,
which means you've got three sides of this space in here,
if we count the tent as one side, fully enclosed.
So the only space externally is out the front there.
And that leads out under
the accessory that comes with the SV-5 tent Max,
which is creating another big enclosed space
out the front of your awning.
Furthermore, there's another accessory called the front wall
that goes on here,
so you can almost completely enclose, all but the floor,
completely enclose this space here
and still have that sheltered space out the front.
So lots of options with the Oztent SV-5 Max tent,
and these are the peaked side panels.
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