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 I love this tent not too sure about the extension though. No matter what we did we couldnt stop it from sagging it just doesnt seem to fit. What do you think?

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Marie

Thanks Debbie

This extension is a nightmare the tent takes about 20mins to erect, the extension takes minutes to erect, but hours to try and fiddle with to get right.

If you move the elastic back to the front pole it leaves you with two big gaping holes on each side.

We tried to erect over the porch but the fabric at the top and the guy ropes are just not long enough.

When we bought the tent in March we were sold the extension to go on where we have put it on the tent. It is only after reading the posts on here regarding vango extensions did we realise there was various ones. I have looked at the bag it comes in and it says nothing more than extension.

I think I will take your advice Debbie and email Vango.

Marie

I was at the Sussex camping show on Saturday & they had that extension on (I think) a Tigris 600 & it looked exactly like yours all pulled out of shape. That extension you have is not the side extension; the side extension has steel poles, not as wide & is higher to fit over the middle of the roof. What you have there is the end extension & yes you have it in the right place but I’ve not seen one that looks as if it’s fitted correctly. IMHO I can not see why Vango wanted to build such an extension, with the Tigris 800 being 7.4M long, making it longer will have big problems at a lot of camp sites fitting into a 6M X 6M plot. Also you loose the use of the bedrooms at that end of the tent.

I have emailed Vango with a link to the picture and I will see what there reply is.

Marie

I thought that was the extension design that fits tents with porches, like the Diablo/Colorado/Killington? Rathger than ones with end doors that are really just the end of the tent. I have a Regular extension (bought for my Colorado, which it fits just fine) and tried it over the end door of one of my Oregons...it looked just as bad as your one and I decided that basically it just did not fit...because it wasn't designed to.

It's also not the side extension for any of the tunnel tents. The side extension has a long flap that guys over the roof of the tent. Got one too, intend to use it on the Oregon 800 this coming weekend. I'll post pix.

Hi

The only canopy from Vango that fits the tigris 600 and 800 well are the side extensions. I dont know where you purchased it from but a good camping shop would of figured this out and suggested the canopy you purchased is not a great fit.

http://www.vango.co.uk/products/tentsInfo.aspx?productid=188&modelid=95&id=59

http://www.vango.co.uk/products/tentsInfo.aspx?productid=200&modelid=111&id=59

The canopy you have is better on the front of tents like the Diablo or colorado etc.

Regards

G Cross

Thanks for that Cross camping those extensions look much better.

I dont wish to sound a bit numb but I get my fronts and sides all in a muddle where this tent is concerned so please bear with me.

The two canopys you have suggested above would they fit the doors on the side of the tent i.e the one with the porch and the one that sits adjacent to it?

Marie

Quote: Originally posted by mar1e on 02/6/2009

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Thanks for that Cross camping those extensions look much better.

I dont wish to sound a bit numb but I get my fronts and sides all in a muddle where this tent is concerned so please bear with me.

The two canopys you have suggested above would they fit the doors on the side of the tent i.e the one with the porch and the one that sits adjacent to it?

 

Marie

 

They are designed to fit over the door adjacent to the one with a porch, but I cant see any reason why they shouldn't fit over the porch as well or maybe one on each side if you need a lot of space.

Because of all the confusion I decided to go for the Gelert one instead which arrived yesterday, & after putting it up last night I'm glad I did. The flap which goes over the main tent looks a better shape than the Vango one & hopfuly there won't be such a large gap between the porch & tent (I have seen the Vango porch on the Tigris 800 & there was a gap of over a foot in places) garden not large enough to check this out so I'll find out in a few days when we go away on the 12th.

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I have the tunnel canopy which I use with my Yukon 800 (similar to Tigris 800) pictures hopefully below

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and more central view

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Thanks for that Karen the tunnel canopy looks much better thanks for posting the pictures

Marie

Good news I have spoken to the shop where we bought the tent and extension and the guy agreed with me that it is not the right extension for this tent and is more than happy to either refund or swap for another one that will fit

Marie

Excellent result Marie