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We pitched our Taranto 600 in the garden on Sunday and all went well, eventually, for two novices anyway.

The only problem came when we tried to attatch the back of the bedroom to the flysheet. All there was on the bedroom was a tiny hoop, only big enough to thread elastic or string through. All there was on the flysheet was a buckle attatchment but the belt that went through the buckle didn't attach to anything, didn't have a hole for a tent peg or any way of it attatching to the bedroom. This part of the flysheet looked as though it needed pegging out but there were no guyropes or elastics to peg it out with, just this buckle thing.

Can anybody help me please? We are camping for real next week and don't want to be re-attatching the bedroom in place in the middle of the night.

Our DS has a small Easycamp and his pitches inner first with hooks that clip the inner to the poles

It sounds like you might have a clip missing

You said there was a buckle thing with nothing to attach it to ?

For the rest of the bedroom.. how does it attach to the frame? Clips?

Sorry I am not very good at explaining technical stuff but I hope you know what I mean

Angie

Ok just took a look at a taranto on google. It is alot bigger so may not pitch inner first

Still sounds like there is something missing though

Angie

For the rest of the bedroom.. how does it attach to the frame? Clips?

It has small duffle style buttons to attach it to the flysheet and a bigger one on either side at the bottom then one peg at the bottom in the middle, so the front of the bedroom is fine. It pitches the flysheet first too, does that make a difference?

I might have to go back to the shop where my parents got it from and see if I can explain myself to a salesman to see if they can help. They have them all set up so maybe they can, even though they have stopped selling these tents now.

I pitched our new Taranto 500 in our garden for the first time yesterday. This has a similar arrangement at the back of the bedroom compartment. However in our case the small hoop on the bedroom inner was large enough to get a tent peg through. The back of the buckled belt on the flysheet could be pulled out to form a loop which I then pegged out, with the buckle acting as an adjuster. This seemed to work - at least the tent didn't fall down in the wind last night!

I found the tent reasonably easy to pitch except for the fact that the front pole was a real struggle to get into place (the other 2 were simple).

Thank you for that salgal, it sounds like a very similar model to ours.

 I know one of our poles was really hard to get into place too. I'm not sure which now, OH was very stressed by then   

I will try that with the tentpegs through the hoop, it just seemed odd to me that it should be pegged down as it isn't waterproof. I know it's on top of the tarpaulin but it still seemed a bit odd. And why is there a buckle at the back instead of another elastic? I will do that though when we go camping next week, thank you again. xx

Yes, it does seem to be a bit of an odd system, doesn't it? The 500 actually has 2 of the the buckle and belt things at the front end as well (It took me about half an hour before I spotted them them!). If you come up with another way of fixing the back of the bedroom do please let me know..

Hope you have a fab trip next week.

Ok thank you and I will do if I figure it out.

Ours probably has them for the front bedroom too but we didn't attatch that one, we'd been out for 2 hours by that time and No.3 needed attention. I presume it fits the same as the big bedroom though.