- Folks, I'm gonna show you how to set up the
Coleman Instant Up 6P Gold Tent, all by myself, today.
Let's get started.
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- Hi folks, Ben from Snowys here today,
down at the BIG4 West Beach Holiday Park
in Adelaide's western suburbs.
The beach is right over the back of the caravan park here.
The city is just 20 minutes that way.
And the park is full of facilities, there's something
for everyone in the family.
And they've given us some space here today,
to show you some of our products.
And I've got in front of me here,
the Instant Up Gold 6 person tent.
I'm going to show you how to set it up and
pack it away today.
So having a look at the size of it when it's packed up.
It weighs about 21 kilos and 134 cms in length.
By 26 high and 26 deep.
I'll start by showing you what comes in the bag.
So inside the bag, with the 6P Gold tent, you get
the main portion of the tent.
This is the inner and the frame, all together.
The big bit of fabric here is the fly sheet
and some accessories you get, the awning poles you need,
pegs, guy ropes, a couple of doormats,
a gear loft to go inside,
It's all secured up with a couple of straps.
Now to get started setting it up,
we just need the main inner portion of the main tent.
So I'll put all this stuff aside and start unrolling this.
So when you unfold the tent, just make sure you've got
this hub facing upwards that creates the peak of
the tent or the roof.
And then as we go, just let these arms just fall
to the ground.
Don't force them, let them fall.
Before we go too far, we just want to check the
orientation of the tent.
So I want my doors facing this way and this way.
So I'm just gonna check where the doors are.
There needs to be one between these poles here,
so I'll just spin it 'round a little bit.
And then I can stretch the centre of the tent out.
So from here we can start to put the frame in shape.
Now I want to mention, if it is a windy day,
it's probably a good idea to put some pegs in
place first or make sure you've got someone else at
hand to keep hold of the tent so it doesn't blow away.
The most likely chance that damage is gonna occur
is during windy weather.
So just take some precaution when you do that.
So from this point here we can invert the knuckles backwards
and extend the legs up.
So there's four legs to extend.
And they go from where this little sticker is here,
it says instant tent.
We'll pull them all the way out until this silver button
here, engages in the hole.
So once I've got to this stage, I'm gonna run around and
put four pegs in the corners, as quick as I can.
So that just in case the wind picks up,
it doesn't blow away.
I'll just mention a couple of other things.
While I'm putting this last peg in, these are quite thin,
the pegs that come with your Instant Up Gold Tent.
So you would benefit from getting some heavier duty pegs,
particularly for the guy ropes.
It is important that you use the guy ropes, when you set
these tents up, to give them the stability they need.
The other thing I'll mention, is the ground sheet I've got
here today, is a 3.05m by 4.88m ground sheet.
Gives me coverage underneath the tent and a little bit
underneath the vestibule as well, so it fits pretty well.
It is a little bit wider than the tent here so I will need
to fold it underneath here before I put this
last peg in the corner.
Once I've got that in place, I'll grab the fly sheet and
get that oriented to throw it over the top.
So I've got the fly down here now.
Now I just need to get the orientation of the fly right.
Now there's a door at the fronts and the rear of the tent,
so I can tell the doors in the fly by these zips that
go right to the base here.
And also this Velcro strip.
That's the storm flap that goes over the vestibule here.
So now that I can grab this and drag it over the top
and the other door will be at the other end.
So I've got the fly oriented roughly right
there at the moment.
The only thing that I can see that's really different
with front and back, is this Coleman symbol here.
So if that bothers you where that sits, I guess
put that where you want it.
But otherwise there's a door at the front and the back.
Now on the fly sheet, there's three Velcro tabs like this
that attach to the inner frame.
One at the top, one at the middle and one at the base and
then a plastic clip at the bottom.
Now move quickly to get these into place, because the
winds picking up here and I don't want to leave it set up
like this, without more support.
So I've got the fly attached to the frame now.
I'm gonna move to put the gyropes in now so that the tent
is sitting supported.
I don't want to leave it sitting like this
without guy ropes for long.
They're quite flat sides and they do catch the wind,
the gyropes are what gives it support.
Now when you put the guy ropes in, make sure you get them
right out from the tent.
There's no point in putting a guy rope in here, it doesn't
do anything.
So put it right up at the tent like this and
it gives it plenty of stability.
There's four guy ropes to put in, tighten all those up
and then I've got pegs to put in around the base and
then we're almost set up.
These are the cone shaped bits of fabric on the side here
are part of the common circle ventilation.
It will make more sense when we show you the vent inside
the tent.
This allows airflow right down low in the tent.
This is where our ground sheet is a little bit long
for this tent here, so I'll just tucking this under,
like this, so I can get the peg in the side.
The other alternative would be that I could put an eyelet
in me ground sheet if I wanted.
But I'm just gonna, fold it under for now.
But once we've got these in place, we can actually
extend the front and the rear of the tent out
as awnings as well.
These storm flaps that come down on the front of the
tent here will have eyelets in the corners here.
And you get enough awning poles to set up both the
front and the back awning and also a removable side awning
that I'll show you shortly.
So I'll set that up next.
Now you get seven steel awning poles with your
Instant Up Gold 6P Tent.
And one of them's a little bit longer than the others.
Now both the front and the rear panels for the awnings,
and the removable side awning, all have three eyelets in it.
So you can create a pegged awning wherever you want.
I'm gonna use this one on the side awning
when I set it up here.
So I'll put that aside.
So I need two awning poles for the front awning, a couple of
guy ropes and a couple of pegs.
Same for the back and then we'll do the side.
There's one more awning that we can set up on this and
that's this fabric on the side her.
Now this is actually removable.
There's a zip that runs along the top of the window here.
I'm actually going to put it on the other side of the tent.
So I can unzip this here now, to remove the awning
from this side.
So you come to the other side here.
We get the zipper and we just zip this back on
the other side here.
Now we can grab our remaining three awning poles,
one of which is the long one.
And I can peg this out as an awning on the side of the tent,
with a peak in it.
Now that's how you set up a 6P Gold.
Mostly set up, I've got a shelter to the rear and
to the side here.
Now there's a few other things you can do for set up.
Firstly with these windows, we can unzip the sides here.
There's attached guy ropes on here, we can
actually peg this out as a sheltered protection over
the window to allow ventilation while keeping the rain out.
Particularly if this awning wasn't on here.
Alternatively, we can zip it right open on both sides
and roll it up so that it's up and out the way,
to allow ventilation right through the tent.
Which is what I'm gonna do because I've the awning to
protect this window from any sun or rain that might
appear here today.
The last thing we can do for set up, is with
these few accessories here now.
There's two doormats that we get with the
Instant Up 6P Gold Tent.
One for the front and one for the rear.
I don't really need it here today 'cause I'm using
a ground sheet.
But if I didn't have my groundsheet, the six peg points here
and I could peg this out as a little
entrance way at the front and rear of my tent.
And the other accessory that comes with your tent
is this little gear loft.
We're gonna step inside to show you where that goes.
Now this guy provides us high level storage
in the tent here.
There's little plastic hooks in each corner
and they all line up with the little fabric hooks
that appear inside the tent here.
And these just hook inside like this and that suspends
a little hammock up here for us to keep our valuables
in a nice safe spot.
And that's how you set up the
Coleman Instant Up 6P Gold Tent.
I did that by meself pretty easily.
Always makes it easier if you've got a mate
to give you a hand, particularly if it's windy,
make sure you've got extra hands.
To keep that tent steady until you've got all
the guy ropes in place.
Now pack up, I'm going to do that by myself as well.
Straight forward.
So I'll go around and pull all the pegs out for
the awnings around the base of the tent.
You also need to make sure all the windows
are closed and the fly sheets gonna make it easier
to roll up.
But I am gonna leave the four, main gyropes
of the tent in place,
'cause the winds just picked up a little bit.
I'm gonna take all the pegs out of the base.
And then I'm gonna reach up underneath, under
all the Velcro tabs on the poles that we put in place.
And lower the frame down before I take the gyropes
out of the corners.
That way the tents got plenty of support if a
gust of wind comes through, right up to the very end.
So now I've lowered the tent down, it's less intend to
catch the wind now.
I'm quite comfortable taking the guy ropes out,
folding the fly and then we can fold the inner up.
But do still have the four pegs in the corner of the base
of the tent, or inner tent, just in case.
I can collapse the inside of the tent down.
I just have to invert the knuckles here, now this is
a whole lot easier if you remember to leave the windows
on the inside open, to allow the air to escape before
you do this.
If we collapse all of these down, then we can pull
the pegs out of the side.
'Cause the tents nice and low to the ground
and the winds not going to catch it.
From here we can gather up the corners.
We fold our arms right into the centre for each side.
Gather them all up.
Try and keep the fabric flat as you go, don't
let it bunch up.
You do just need to hold the arms with one hand,
as you fold them.
Once we're at this point here, we just want to try and get
the fabric as flat as we can.
We can lay it down on its sides.
I might just lay it, into the wind here,
so the wind doesn't catch it.
And start to fold this fabric as flat as we can
and then we can roll it up, ready to go back in the bag.
So from here we can grab our straps.
Tie the tent up.
We can put everything back in the bag.
Now you can roll the fly up in here, if you like, with it.
I prefer just to zip the fly on the bottom and
then this on top.
It's a bit easier to pack it all in separately if you've
got a bit more room to play with.
Put all our accessories in and we're all done.
And there you have it, that's the setup and pack away
of the Coleman Instant Up 6P Gold Series Tent.
Managed that pretty well by meself,
there was a bit of a breeze
Used a bit of common sense, a bit of some consideration so
the wind doesn't catch it, but, it was pretty easy.
You can grab these online at
snowys.com.au
lowest prices, everyday of the year.
Thanks for watching.
We'll see you next time.
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