- This is the Coleman Instant Up 4P Tent.
Sets up in two minutes, really affordable, really popular,
and I'm gonna tell you all about it.
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If you live in Adelaide and you want a super easy getaway
then you've gotta check out Big4 West Beach Caravan Park,
which is where we are today.
It's 20 minutes from the city,
the beach is just over my shoulder
at the end of the caravan park here.
It's full of facilities from jumping pillows to pools,
there's a cafe nearby, you got a fully equipped camp kitchen
a fire pit, it's grassy, it's shady, there's heaps of space.
They've given us some space here today
to show you some of our products.
And today I've got for you the Coleman Instant Up 4P Tent.
The Instant Up 4P sleeps up to four people,
realistically it's a comfortable two.
But you can fit a family of two adults
and two small kids in there.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up today.
Packed up this is what it looks like,
112cm in length, about 20cm wide and 22cm in height,
and it weighs about 12 kilos.
It's easy to set up and it's quite portable.
First thing though I'll show you what comes in the bag.
Out the bag of your Instant Up 4P,
you get the main portion of the tent,
now this has got the frame
and the inner all attached in as one, it all pitches as one.
There's a couple of awning poles here,
you can pitch the front of the fly out as an awning,
this is the flysheet all comes in this carrier bag here.
There's a couple of straps that secures it all together.
And in this bag here you've got some pegs, a few guy ropes,
and some repair tape.
Just on the pegs these are thin pegs
now the tent itself can handle some wind,
it has been weather tested but its not designed
for high winds it's a very boxy shape.
You'd benefit from upgrading the pegs to some heavy pegs
to make sure they'll stay in the ground
you should always use the guy ropes,
always put the flysheet on
and when you pull those guy ropes out
make sure they're a fair way out from the tent
so they're really giving it lots of support.
Now to set up our tent here, we start with this unit here,
now just for reference sake I've got a 2.4 metre
by 3.6 metre ground sheet down here today.
It's gonna protect the floor of the tent.
The tent itself is about 2.4 metres wide
and it's square inside but the extra length
is gonna give me coverage in the vestibule.
there's no right or wrong against which size you use
just whatever suits you I suppose.
The first thing we do is stand this up on it's end here,
with this hub facing upwards,
that's the roof side of the tent.
We unfold all the fabric
and let the arms drop to the ground.
Now as we lay all these arms out just take care,
don't force anything.
We've heard people often cause damage
by pushing things at this stage.
And these arms twist, there's mechanisms in there,
if they start to twist; they can break.
If you're careful with it you not gonna have a problem.
The next thing I'm gonna do is actually put pegs in place
before actually lifting any of this tent up
because I don't want the wind to catch it at all.
If that happens we're almost surely gonna damage it.
So before I pitch any of this
I'm gonna lay this flat put four pegs in.
I've got the four pegs in the corners now,
I've still gotta take care, given there's wind here,
I don't want the wind to catch it.
So I'm gonna jump in the middle here
stand this up again and I'm gonna erect this only part way
and I'm gonna throw the flyer over the top
before I extend it all the way up.
It's gonna make it easy to get the fly on
and we're also shortening the amount of time
it's sitting fully pitched
without all the guy ropes in place.
So from here we grab each arm and we invert the knuckles
back the other way, like this, we'll do that on each corner.
You may need to, this is actually the little button here
that you pop down in place,
we just need to keep these arms short, popped in place
as I've extended it to keep the pegs there.
So make sure it's low like this.
So now I'm gonna leave it at this height
and I'm gonna throw the fly over the top now
and clip it in place before I extend it up
and I wanna move pretty quickly then
to get the guy ropes in place
because the wind is actually picking up.
Now I've just got the orientation of the flyer right
the two zips for the front door of the awning
and these ones here will go right down to the bottom,
I've got my entrance on this side.
So I've thrown it over in the right orientation
and then on each corner I need to find
a plastic clip like this that clips on to our inner tent
down in the corner here.
So we need to extend each arm now
so we do need to take the fly off as we do that
jump up here to find the little sticker here
where it says Instant Tent
and we extend each of these arms out independently,
until a silver button appears down below
and clips into place, right zip that flyer back on.
Now these poles knucked
'cause they've actually inverted back the other way
when I extended the rear ones.
Because it's windy here it's a little more awkward today,
so I just need to pull them back out
and extend these legs as well.
Now while I'm at this corner here
I just wanna mention that these extendable poles
that they each have a flat side on this top section here,
it's designed to stop this pole from twisting around in here
so this button lines up.
It can still twist a little, so if I extend this out
and kind of twist it as I go you see the button won't engage
but in some instances you can see
it can actually disappear in there.
Easily fix that just by twisting the pole around
until that button engages.
Now I keep talking about wind here today
but it is really important given these big flat sides
on these tents that there's no guy ropes in place
I don't wanna waist any time getting them in
what I'm also gonna do is unzip these doors
to allow the wind to go through the tent
instead of a big wind block.
So unzip this and I put all four guy ropes in.
When I put these in make sure we put them as far out
from the tent as we can to give it as much leverage
or support for the structure as possible.
So go with all four guy ropes in place
still a few steps we should take to make sure
the tent is structurally stable in windy weather like this.
First this is there's tabs up underneath the fly
to attach it to the inner frame.
Second thing is there's four peg points on each side,
halfway down each side and also the awning in the front.
Put all the pegs in place that way
the tent is as stable as it can be.
So there's just two more pegs for me to put in place
and that's at the front here for the vestibule
now the ground sheet I've got extends out
the front of the tent here
which give me a bit of a protected entrance
it also covers the vestibule, the front here.
But I've got two options for putting a peg in place.
Firstly I put an eyelet through my ground sheet here
or secondly, what I'm gonna do today is actually
just fold the ground sheet over so it sits up
underneath the vestibule like so.
So I've just tucked the ground sheet up
underneath the edge here
so I've got a bit of a coverage here, my vestibule's covered
and the tents protected inside.
Now that's the tent set up,
all the pegs and guy ropes are in place.
They are designed for mild weather camping
if it was much windier than this today
you probably wanna put something in place
like a wind break here maybe park your vehicle
in front of the tent just to give it some protection
but that's all set up now, apart from the awning,
in which there are a couple of eyelets
in the front door here, we use the included awning poles,
put them up out at the front here
and create a bit of a shaded entrance,
so I'll get that done for ya.
So that's our awning set up, it's blowing around a bit today
it's getting even worse.
I wouldn't wanna leave this setup unattended
an awfully long period of time
but you can see how it works here in a moment.
One other thing we can set up on the tent
there's two guy ropes on each window,
there's one of these on each side.
Zipper up the side here and we can actually peg these out
as gusseted windows if we like
doesn't really offer support for the tent
but it does allow ventilation inside the tent.
We would wanna peg this out like this.
Now gonna worry about that today though.
That's how you set up the Instant Up 4P Tent from Coleman.
As I said, not designed for really windy weather
we've pushed the boundaries a little bit here today
I should use heavier duty pegs on the guy ropes
but it's set up, you saw how it's done
we're not gonna leave it set up here any longer.
I'm gonna take it down
'cause there's a dust storm on the way.
First thing I'm gonna do is take this awning down
and zip it up so I can take the flyer off,
so take these guy ropes out
and just drop the pegs to the floor now.
Just gonna take care while we're doing this, it's windy,
I don't wanna let the fabric flap around,
I don't wanna leave the frame unattended
'cause then things can get damaged doing that.
So I'll zip this up.
The first thing we'll do is get the flysheet off.
Now with all this wind here today the last thing I wanna do
is go and pull the pegs out while the tents up like this
because it's gonna damage the tent,
it's gonna end up in someone else's campsite
and there's gonna be a few unhappy people.
So what I'm gonna do is just undo a few of these clips
and pegs, get underneath and lower the frame
down to the ground so sitting lower to the ground
there's less tent to catch the wind then.
And taking apart camp and leaving as many pegs in as I can
for as long as I can so I don't damage anything.
Now I've actually timed that pretty well
because a big gust of wind just came through
so I've just lowered that down
so the wind can't catch as much of the tent now.
Just wanna make sure all of these poles are inverted in here
like so, so I've just got my central hub here sticking up.
Now Ima be more comfortable taking the fly off
and this we'll just drop down as I go.
So I'll get this fly off now.
The tent's now flat in the ground can't blow away.
Now I'm gonna fold up the fly.
I'm gonna leave the four pegs in the corners of this tent
while it sits there so it doesn't blow away still
so I'll do as best I can to fold this fly in the wind.
So now I can fold the inner portion of the tent here
I'll take the pegs out
at no stage am I gonna leave it unattended though.
Pull the four pegs out of the corners.
Fold it as I go so I'm not letting anything sit
that can catch in the wind.
Fold this right over this way.
The last two pegs out.
While I'm here I will mention that these corners here
they can pop out of the little plastic, oh there you go,
they can come of off there, no drama,
it just pops back on again,
just leave it on and put it in place
sometimes it pops out when things are twisting.
So that's all the poles together now
and if I stand this up on its end I get all the poles
so that it neatly on each side,
right so now it can fit in the bag easy.
Just flatten all this fabric out on the sides of it all.
Like so, then lay it flat, can be a little awkward
but just take a bit of time to get all this fabric flat
and it rolls that much easier.
As you roll, just be careful you're not
twisting the frame up,
tuck the top of it in so it's above
or in between the end of the poles here
and then just roll as tightly as you can.
Now I've rolled this separately to my fly,
you can roll the fly inside of it if you want as well.
I actually find it easier just to put this in
and then tuck the fly in next to it.
So we now grab our straps that came with it,
use these, I tie this one up and put it in the bag
get all our poles and everything, then tuck in around it.
And that is how you set up and pack away
the Coleman Instant Up 4P Tent.
It's a great 2-4 person tent for mild weather camping,
sets up easy, it's super affordable.
Have a little bit of thought in bad weather,
it's gonna give you years and years of use.
You can grab these online at snowys.com.au
at the lowest prices everyday of the year.
I hope that was useful, we'll see you next time.
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