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- Howdy campers, Ben from Snowys here today,
with another Oztent RV tent accessory.
This time it's the deluxe front panels.
Now there's a panel for each tent, with the exception of
the RV three and the RV four
which actually use the same panel.
They're set up on the far end here,
so that panel fits on either of those tents.
The RV two, the RV five and the RV one have their own panel.
These front panels are made with the same
eight ounce poly-cotton rip stop canvas,
that the RV tents are made from.
At the bottom of each panel is a heavy duty
PVC storm flap, to shed water away from your shelter.
And underneath this front panel is
an insect proof mesh panel, to keep the bugs out.
Now there's one other variation I'll talk about
with the set up with these, and that's because the RV one
is a slightly different configuration,
than most of the other RV tents.
Because these come with 2.2 metre poles and a ridge pole,
none of the other tents come with a ridge pole
and they only come with 1.9 metre poles.
So every front panel comes with a ridge pole.
So at the moment I've got 2.2 metre poles here
with the ridge pole that came with the tent
and it creates this big long flat awning.
Ideally we'd wanna use this with the peak side panels
because that way we've got two ridge poles,
a high one in the middle, a shorter one in the front
and four uprights to create a peaked room,
at the front of the tent.
Now I've got the RV five set up over here,
with the peaked side panels attached.
I'm going to show you how to instal
the front panel on that one.
So we've got the RV five set up here.
We've got two other optional accessories
set up on the RV five.
We've got mesh floor saver in the bottom here
and we've got the peaked side panels,
on the side here as well.
All optional accessories.
Wanna take it one step further
and fill in this panel on the front here,
with my deluxe front panel for the RV five.
Now these weigh about three kilos,
about 155 centimetres in length
and I'll show you what comes in the bag.
Now inside the bag here we've got
our spreader pole, a ridge pole,
this a 2.6 metre pole.
Bag of pegs, there's just four of them in there
to secure the bottom of the panel.
This is our actual front panel here
and a little strap to keep it all together.
First thing we need to do is put the ridge pole
in the front of the tent here,
over the top of the existing spigots.
Probably the easiest way to do this
is to leave your guy ropes in place,
I'm just going to rest this on my shoulder.
I'm going to lower this pole down a little,
so it doesn't all fall apart.
Hold on to this tightly .
Put my pole over the top of the spigot,
put my awning back over the top,
rope back over the top of that as well
and then lengthen the pole out.
Then we just stretch the pole out in the middle,
make sure its tight across the front.
So that's our ridge pole in place.
To attach the panel now, it's as simple as zipping it on.
So lets get orientation of our front panel right.
The PVC panel goes at the bottom there.
So we find our top, I'm starting with
the top left corner which is where
the top zipper pull starts.
The zipper pull is on the tent,
up underneath this Velcro tab here.
We just insert this in, its easier to do this
from the outside especially when we do the corners zips up.
Because the zipper pull is on the outside of the tent.
We lift it up as we go and just do it up.
Now while we're on the outside here,
we'll just make sure that this storm flap and the Velcro
is secured over the top.
That just stops the water from getting in.
Now if we didn't have our side panels attached at the moment
we'd wanna make sure we just peg this down at the bottom.
And also use these Velcro tabs,
to go around the poles.
What I'm gonna do first though,
is because I've got the side panels joined, or attached,
I'm gonna do this zip up first.
Then go inside at attach all the Velcro.
Now we'll just make sure these storm flaps
cover all the zips.
Now these integrate quite well with each other.
The storm flap at the bottom here overlaps.
This covers the zip right up the side.
These cover the zips on the top here.
All of these kinda integrate.
The side panel.
The front panel, detaches.
There's Velcros to the side panel,
and then the storm flap goes right over the top.
All I need to do now is do up the other side,
then I can step inside, put the pegs along the base,
and attach the Velcro tabs to the poles.
Now there's one extra little C clip in here,
that you might wonder what it's for.
It's actually on the bottom of this door.
This allows you to just clip it to the peg,
the existing peg that's there,
and it stops this zip from undoing in the wind.
I've done some Velcro tabs up around the side here,
they do go right across the top.
There are Velcro tabs here, and also right down the side,
so it's all held nice and secure.
Now there is this big mesh door in here.
We can undo this and that way,
when we've got the side panels attached as well,
we've actually got three entrances, in this area here.
And this front panel here,
I'm gonna show you in a sec on the outside,
we can actually extend this out as another awning,
on the front of the tent, or just roll it up.
I'll step outside and show you that.
Now this front panel has two big zippers up the side here.
(Velcro tearing)
If we undo these.
(Velcro tearing)
We can extend this front panel as another awning,
at the front of our RV tent.
(Velcro tearing)
There are actually eyelets, in the corners here.
We'd have to get a couple more poles to do this,
but we could set this up as extra shade, at the front here.
Alternatively, we can actually just roll the whole thing up,
and leave just a large mesh panel,
in the front of the tent.
(canvas rolling)
That is how you set up the deluxe front panel,
on your RV Oztent.
Now a couple of questions people have,
firstly can you pack everything up while this is attached?
Possibly.
You might end up damaging bits doing it that way,
and it's probably gonna be quite a wrestle
to get it back in the bag.
I'd recommend just taking him off,
and packing him up separately.
Now you can use this front panel in conjunction with
a caravan connector.
We'll have another video on that,
to show you how that works.
People also ask, about the front area here.
Now with all three walls on it, you could sleep in there,
but it's not sealed around the base.
There are just these PVC flaps.
So, you're gonna have shelter,
but it's not as sealed as that back area
of the tent there.
Now you can grab these off our website.
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Free delivery, to just about anywhere in Australia.
I hope it was helpful.
We'll see you next time.
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