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just purchased a Vango aspen 700 to use as a weekend tent (thuoght it would be easier to erect than our very large sunncamp grange ) How wrong could we be !! Just given up after several attempts to get the thing upright and a couple of phone calls to the shop !

Does anyone know a foolproof way to get it up and if so would you be kind enough to share your knowledge? We saw one at the weekend on a campsite and thought what a lovely tent and read alot of reviews so it must go up eventually!! Our grange is a doddle in comparison !

Any info very much appreciated - want to go away in it in a couple of weeks !

thanks

Helen

All i know is its an "inner first" tent where you put the inner up first, then throw the flysheet over the top. Quite new model but someone must have one. come on guys...

good luck.

I would say give up and give it to me !! Sorry cant really help ,dont think many people will know ,its a new tent for this year ,and it is a real monster!!!

Good luck hope you get it up soon!

I think Towsure in sheffield have one of these on display, give them a bell if its miles away. Or take some cold beers to your first campsite and offer them round to anyone prepared to help out..

we're just as helful in the flesh you know

Thankyou so much for those tips . We will endeavour to put it up again at the weekend in my Mums field (found our garden a wee bit small !) Hopefully we'll have it down to a fine art soon !

Many thanks

Helen and Alec

We have returned from the Norfolk meet this weekend & managed to get our Vango up in 35mins & all ready to use in 1 & half hour. This was only the 2nd time of erecting it & we are complete tenting virgins, so if we can do it so can you.

We do it very similar to Richard but we do not have anyone inside the tent when erecting the side poles mainly because I'm too short to support the roof. I just hang on to the back pole until all the side poles are up. We also insert the ring & pins as we go as it seems to give it more stability.

Good luck

Sharon

We have just erected our brand new Aspen 700 for the first time in an hour and a half, basically to the same method as RCRichard!

We would like to say thanks to all the contributors of info on this tent as we read all the reviews before buying and then again before pitching (in the garden!) and we have had no problems at all. (However, we have discovered that we could do with a much bigger garden!!)  

Its a fantastic tent and we can't wait to use it properly.

If anyone in the Staffs area is having problems pitching the Aspen we don't mind coming to give you a hand, just give us a shout! 

Lambster and OH xx

hello found this link for you hope it helps

http://www.qksrv.net/click-1428744-10297635?URL=http://www.qksrv.net/click-1428744-10297635?URL=http://www.wildday.co.uk/CMSPage.aspx?PageID=124

ooooops just looked at date sorry

hi all ,

we have the vango aspen 500 what i did i down loaded the information from dream wolf on this site then laminated  the pages  and have it like a book so you have it to hand . the video  is allso very handy it doe's get better with practice . it's a great tent just take your time