- Hey family campers
this is the Coleman Instant Up Gold 8P Tent
set up behind me here today.
I am about to show you how to set it up
and how to pack it away.
Let's get started.
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Hey folks, Dan from Snowys
down at BIG4 West Beach Holiday Park today.
This is just a stone's throw from the beach
over my shoulder here.
It's 20 minutes from the city
chockablock full of facilities
something for the whole family
and it's right here in Adelaide's western suburb
it's an easy getaway.
They've given us some space here today
to film some products for you
and I've got in front of me the
Coleman Instant Up Gold 8P Tent.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up
and pack it away just as one person today.
Starting with how big it is
this is 119cm long in the bag
by 28cm deep and 28cm high
weights about 23 kilos.
Let me unzip the bag, I'll show you what comes inside.
So, inside the bag for you 8P Gold Tent
it all comes secured with a couple of tie straps here.
This is the main portion of the tent
which is the inner, with the frame all attached together.
This other one on the other side here is the fly sheet
obviously goes over the top.
You get three awning poles with the 8P Gold Tent.
Bag of pegs and some repair tape in there.
This is a little doormat to peg down
in front of the entrance.
And this here is a divider to put on the inside
to create two separate sleeping areas.
So, to set it up, we put this stuff aside
and we spread the inner tent out.
Now, as I'm setting this tent up
I'm doing by myself, so I do need to make
some considerations if there's any wind about.
There's a few gusts coming through here today
so, I wanna make sure at any given time
I've got the tent pegged down
and I get the guy ropes out as soon as I can.
The guy ropes are paramount to making sure this tent
has got the structure it needs in windy weather.
So, to get started, I spread this out
and I let the arms fold down to the ground.
I still need to make sure that the centre hub bit here
is facing upwards 'cause that is what's gonna create
the peak of the tent.
So, once we've let the arms fall down
before we spread it out too far
we've just got to think about the orientation of the tent.
I want my door to face that way.
So, I just found the door here
so I need to just spin the tent around
before I pull all the poles out.
So, from this point, I can invert the knuckles
there's two stages to putting this up.
The first one is inverting these knuckles
the second one is extending the legs.
I'm gonna extend the legs after I've got the pegs in place
because I don't want the wind to catch the tent
and blow it away.
Now, as we stretch the tent out lengthways
these poles, the two on the end
not these side ones, but these two on the end
also extend, there's a little button
that will lock into place here
to give the pole it's length.
They'll pull out and make sure that silver button
locks into place.
I should mention too
the ground sheet I'm using here today
is a 2.44 metre by 4.88 metre ground sheet.
Gives nice coverage for the width
and gives me a little bit at the front for my shoes.
So, I've got all the pegs in the base
there's six pegs in the base
now I can extend each of these legs, six of them
out until the tent stands upright.
At this stage, once again, if there is wind
it can benefit from leaving the windows open
to allow the wind to pass through the tent
rather than catch the side
before we've got those guy ropes in place.
So, that's the inner all set up.
I'm gonna work to throw the fly over the top now
get those guy ropes in place.
In terms of the orientation of the fly
it's got to find the doorway
so, we've got the Coleman symbol here
and zips that run right to the bottom of the fly
and this Velcro strip here.
So, that's the door that goes
to the door at this end of the tent
so I know that that end of the fly
needs to stay at this end.
So, find the other end and drag it over the top.
It's certainly easy to put the fly on with two people
'cause it took a little while to wiggle that into place.
Now, 'cause I've got a few gusts of wind coming through
I'm actually gonna take, once again
some preventative measures
and I'm just gonna, temporarily, put a couple of pegs
in the guy ropes of this side here
just to hold everything in place.
So, if the wind picks up now
I've got a big wind break
that could potentially damage the tent.
So, I've got a couple of guy ropes
just temporarily in place there
just to give things stability
if it catches a gust of wind.
Next step is to attach the fly sheet to the frame.
So, if we come up underneath the fly
here in the corner, we've got these Velcro tabs.
These go around the frame like this
all part of the stability of a tent.
Now, there's three of those, another half way down
another the base of the tent
and then a clip that clips to the plastic loop
or D-ring, at the very bottom.
And the next thing you need to do is grab a handful of pegs.
We've got a heap of pegs to put in around the base.
There's two at the front for our vestibule
six on each side
three of each which make up each of these vents here
which allows air flow up underneath
there's a vent inside for that.
We've got one peg at the rear in the middle
and then we've six guy ropes to put in.
Now, when we put the guy ropes in
make sure we put them a long way out from the tent.
There's no point in pegging a guy rope in
really close to the tent
it doesn't do anything.
Put them out as far as you can
to give them as much leverage and stability as possible.
So, that's all the pegs around the base
and the six guys ropes
so the tent's nice and stable.
Now, there is a few other things we can do for setup.
Firstly, these windows.
So, there's two on each side and one at the rear
they're the same configuration.
These are zipped closed at the moment
for our full weather protection.
You can zip them open
or roll them open completely if you wanted.
Roll them up and use the tabs to secure it.
Alternatively, we can use the attached guy ropes
to peg it out as small weather protected awning like this
over the window.
I'm just gonna roll them up today
to allow light inside the tent.
The last thing we can do for setup...
Sorry, there's two more things.
Firstly, the awning at the front
and then the doormat.
So, to set the awning up at the front
we grab our awning poles.
There's three extra guy ropes
and we need three pegs as well, and our hammer.
Now, there's a longer awning pole
and two shorter ones.
What that allows us to do is create
a peaked awning at the front
obviously, with the longer one in the centre.
So, we put these together
and then we grab our awning out on the base here.
Once we've unzipped this
there's three brass eyelets so we can extend this out
as a shaded entrance to our tent.
Now, that's the Instant Up 8P Gold Tent
pretty much set up.
The only thing left of the accessories
so, this is our little doormat.
There's six little key loops
sorry, peg loops, on the side of this.
Now, we can put this down here if we like
just peg it out as an entrance to the tent.
I've used my groundsheet under there
so I've already got a bit of coverage with the groundsheet
but this gives us a bit extra if we like.
I'm gonna leave that aside for now
but the other thing we can set up
if we wanna create two different sleeping areas
inside the tent
there's this internal divider.
So, we're gonna step inside
to show you how that attaches.
We're inside the tent here.
This divider is designed to go across the middle here
so it can create a back sleeping area if you like
a front living area
or two different sleeping areas.
Now, this just attaches with plastic loops
or plastic knuckles, I suppose
they go through loops in the top here.
Just need to get the orientation right.
So, we find the zip.
The zip goes right to the bottom
so, this is gonna be our top
'cause the zip doesn't go all the way.
And at the bottom
the zip finishes right at the very bottom there.
So, this is our top.
This loops through the little loop in the ceiling here
and we do the same thing down the sides.
And that has now created central divider
in the middle of our Instant Up Gold 8P Tent.
Now, that's all set up.
I did that by myself reasonably easily
on a windy day with a bit of consideration.
I put the same consideration in when I'm taking it down
just to make sure the wind doesn't catch it.
I'll get started. First thing I wanna do
is take the awning down and start to take all the pegs out.
So, I've taken all the pegs out from around the base
and closed all the windows down
and shut the awnings that the ends.
Now, just while I'm on pegs
they are pretty thin
the pegs that come your Instant Up Gold Tent
can benefit from some upgrades
at least six to ten of them
just to put the guy ropes around the side.
Now, I left the guy ropes in for as long as I can as well
just in case a gust of wind comes along
and damages the tent.
So, I've just undone all the Velcro tabs
around our poles, around each pole
and I've undone the plastic clips at the bottom
so the fly's just sitting loose over the top.
Just try and slide this off
fold it in half as I go.
Now, I can collapse in and down.
I'm just gonna press these silver buttons on each leg.
I'm not gonna force them down
they'll collapse down by themselves as we go round.
So, do that on all six legs
and the tent should lower down.
As I go round, I just need to invert these knuckles.
I'm gonna pull the pegs out as I go
the wind's died down here now
so I can pull that peg out
and push the knuckles in as I go.
One other thing I almost forgot
is that these top arms, so four of them
the two diagonal ones at each end
also need to collapse down.
So, there's a button on each of them
that we need to push to collapse in as well.
So, both sides there.
Now I can start gathering the arms into the middle
just making sure these centre arms
collapse right up as we go.
You do need to hold all these arms up
with one hand as you go
you could always benefit from a little bungee strap
or something to hold them together.
Now, as you pull these in
just make sure this fabric sits as flat
or as neatly as you can.
It's gonna make rolling it up back into the bag
a whole lot easier.
So, just pull that out a little bit
before I lay it on it's side
flatten this fabric out, and I can roll it up.
And I can use a strap
I like to tie the centre piece up individually
and then put the fly in first with this on top.
I find it's easier to fit it all in in separate pieces
than it is to roll it up as one big item.
And we are all done with the setup and pack away
of the Coleman Instant Up 8P Gold Series Tent.
Did that all by myself, it was pretty easy.
Certainly would benefit from having an
extra set of hands to help me do it.
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