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21/7/2015 at 8:20am
Location: Broughton Astley
Outfit: Kampa Croyde 6 Air
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Hi, it took us 3 attempts to get a good one from Kampa and currently away in Cornwall on a two week break, the tent has been great to be honest but will give you a few pointers.
1) Although it's a polyester tent it does need to get thoroughly soaked and dry in order to shrink the seams around the airbeams, it absolutely chucked it down on our 2nd day and there was water dripping down the airbeam sleeves and puddling at the bottom. It then dried completely and has rained since with no dripping.
2) In wet weather try to avoid using the front large door in the awning / Vestebule, as this slopes backwards the water will always drop into the tent, you are better off using the side storm door, the clue is in the name I guess 😊
What it would say is we are amazed at how this tent has performed in the wind, it is rigid beyond belief much better than our old composite poled tunnel tent.
All in all we are delighted with it, great size and the 10 min pitching time is a real bonus after a long drive, the separate front vestibule is great for keeping all you kitchen equipment and supplies in leaving the living area uncluttered and spacious.
Have a great trip to France, you'll love the Croyde 6 Air.
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Oh no that is awful hope it gets sorted out, is it the PC or polyester that you have, 5weeks is a long time to wait, what if you had another camping trip organised?
Hope they can sort it out for you and if you like the tent that they give you another one.
We have just come back from a 3rd camp in ours (PC) we have had awful weather on each camp for at least 24hrs, storms and wind.
But we were on the south coast last week to this Tuesday, we had 50mph gusting winds from 2pm Monday until 11am Tuesday and very heavy rain throughout, it was the worst weather we have ever camped in.
The back beam when the winds started did bend inwards and really scared us so we checked all the beams and pumped some of the beams back up to 7psi, some had gone down to 5 or 6, made all the guys another 2ft longer along with the storm straps and re-pegged with rock pegs and sat it out.
we had to have each area closed as it was too windy having them all open at once,our dog refused to get off our bed all night, we did sleep and wasn't sure what we would wake to but thankfully all was ok in the morning, we weren't sheltered as we were in the middle areas, we parked our car along the back of the tent where the wind was coming from.
It was very very worrying but so pleased nothing leaked or broke.
So I hope your tent is faulty and it's replaced
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Duffs54 
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