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Subject Topic: Cardinal - Pull Out Bed Inner tent sizes Post Reply Post New Topic
03/11/2015 at 12:05am
 Location: West Yorks
 Outfit: 1990 Conway Cardinal Clubman & Mondeo
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Hello all,

Has anyone ever made their own or adapted inner tents for a Conway Cardinal?

Inner tents will cost me £180 ex.VAT from TVS... and I'm just thinking that they must be just a simple PolyCotton and either I can buy some universal ones / buy some universal ones and hack them to fit / make some myself...

As my cardinal came without them I have no template to work from - so any help would be most welcome!!!!

Cheers all!

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08/11/2015 at 9:23am
 Location: West Yorks
 Outfit: 1990 Conway Cardinal Clubman & Mondeo
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Anyone ;(

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08/11/2015 at 11:11am
 Location: Redditch
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To be fair, you do have a template. You have the Cardinal. All you need to do is set it up, measure the bedroom dimensions and reduce them by a couple of cm, to allow for an air gap. The pods are, usually, attached using plastic / metal hooks and a small length of elastic, so there is a little bit of flexibility affored by the elastic, itself. A lot of people use universal under bed tent pods, or, even, awning inner pods, but the issue there is that there is, usually plenty of excess material that needs to be tucked under the mattress. Bed pods are relatively easy to make, with a few sewing skills, although I would imagine the zips are a whole different ball game, but you have the curtains to close the bedroom off, anyway. As a starting point, the bed base of the Cardinal is 198cm long by 122cm wide.

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08/11/2015 at 10:13pm
 Location: None Entered
 Outfit: autosleeper executive and 13 tents!
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I made my own out of thermal blackout material, they were open fronted as we had curtains across the pods anyway and this is how our original pods were. We used an old sleeping bag for the bottom of the pods under the mattress which mage the pods a bit warmer. we basically did as Blue sky above said and measured the camper as a template.

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22/3/2016 at 9:50pm
 Location: West Yorks
 Outfit: 1990 Conway Cardinal Clubman & Mondeo
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Hi all

Just to update - I ended up fluking it! Saw a gentleman selling Conway mattresses on eBay (from a damaged corniche) I chanced it and emailed to ask if he had the inner tents too - he did! The size is perfect and unlike other cardinal inner tents I have seen, they have a zipped door which makes them perfect as a deterrent from our little man poking his head out at 11pm to see what's going on ;)

Thanks

Nick

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