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Hi

We were in North Devon last week with our brand new Khyam Ontario 8.  The weather was pretty wet and windy and the tent suffered FOUR broken poles!  The wind was fairly strong but not too horrendous, other campers on the site had probs with their tents (leakage etc) but no-one else's tent was severely damaged like ours.  We think there must be a quality/manufacturing defect with the poles as ours was the only tent to be so badly damaged.  The tent took about four hours to fix (by replacing pole sections with some spare ones - sawn to size - scavenged from the campsite skip) and get back up.  We have a 10 month old (teething) baby and a 3yr old.  Believe me, it wasn't a nice experience. 

On a previous discussion, Khyam Ontario 8??, Joness Family said their tent had similar probs.  Has anyone else also had the same experience with this tent? 

I'll be contacting the company we bought it from on Monday morning, any info would be a great help.

Many Thanks

The tent was only slightly off line with the wind (there wasn't much when we pitched) and all guys were pegged out properly, some with extra strong pegs.  We will def make sure we're get direction to wind spot on next time. 

Hi Abby iles, just to let you know that we've had all our poles sorted now and going away again in August Bank Hols.

Hopefully uneventful with the tent and praying for good weather