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Hello, I have just ordered a Vango Sumatra after finding no negative reports following my research.  Typical of my luck having made the order I have found the MamaBear saga with the snapped poles.  Was MamaBear unlucky or have other Sumatra owners had similar experience. I have noted the poles on Vango's website are different to the one's used for the Orchy.  So have Vango updated this issue as MamaBear states the Poles she had was the same as the Orchy.

Any replies welcome as the tent may be going straight back if it's a common fault. 

Hi there,

last year i was looking at the tent in caseys camping in a brochure asking why they had not put it up and she said it is because the weight of the fabric on those poles is just asking for trouble she did however say that vango had known so maybe it has been rectified this year it was last season.I have not seen the tent up but i have watched 2 or 3 orchys collapse in strong winds last year in keswick,so im not surprised mamabear had probs.

x

We had a TC tent with flexipoles and even with strong winds it was ok.

Hopefully your sumatra will be fine as it is a nice tent .

Vango has a really good reputation so I am sure they will have rectified any design faults

Dont forget, we will be expecting pictures :)

Angie

Hi All

Do any of you Sumatra owners have any updates on your tents, please?  We're very nearly ready to buy and having talked ourselves out of a BL6 (we're only going to use the tent a few short times each year so an £800 purchase just isn't appropriate), we're now down to choosing between the Vango Sumatra 600 or the Carrera 600.

Neither seem to be very common so I'm hoping some of you kind people might have some advice!

Many thanks,

I'm affraid the only Sumatra I've seen was a display model that was creaking and lost a little height following rain .

Thanks, numbersix, but that really wasn't what I wanted to hear!!  I've found a way to get the Sumatra, footprint and carpet and it'll only end up costing a little under £360 so I was keen to go for it.

Can anyone contradict this?  Maybe it was an older model that doesn't have the alloy poles?  Help?!!