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Here's some more measurements. Should help with working out if it ill fit round the doors.

Got loads of info on this tent as I used to have one and when I sold it I kept the details....Let me know if you need anything else.

Emma

Thanks for the info!

Emma...did you use an extension or canopy with it? I'm considering one but the lady I got the tent from used the Monty 6 canopy.

It has the canopy on the front, and the universal canopy should fit the side (I did consider the sun valley side canopy as it's the same colour but not steel poles) If you go here it's quite a good price. The layout of the Indi is pretty much the same as the SV8 (2008) so carpet & footprint can also be bought for the indi....

You have a great tent there, Very solid in the wind!

Emma

What canopy did you use? It looks like you had one that comes right down to the ground...I can't find it anywhere!

I love my tent...it stood up to gale force winds 2 years ago when everyone around us had problems with leaks, tents collapsing etc!

OOOh I like the look of your side canopy! I'd been thinking of getting one but couldn't see any pics. Emma's has something on the front of hers - the top of it looks like the canopy that comes with the tent but has sides right down to the bottom.

** Sorry - what I should have said is that on the tent pic thread, Emma had a different canopy on the front of hers and it looked great **

Hi, I made a side panel to go on each side of the canopy as I got sick of my cooker getting wet last year!!

Just made some ties to go down the poles and sewed on some hooks to get it under the canopy. Worked an absolute treat!! Help up to the wind and really helped when we went to dorset in the rain for a week!!

I also added some more mud flaps under the bedrooms, so that when it got windy it didnt get underneath. Was like having a sig, but a bit more work!!

Great idea! What did you make the canopy sides from? They look great.

Mud flaps?? Now I'm showing my camping ignorance!!

I got some ripstop nylon from ebay, used about 6m of it.

The mud flaps I added were round the bottom of the bedroom part of the flysheet, I found that once all was set up, there was a considerable gap that needed filling. It seemed they put them around the whole main living part of the tent that the groundsheet covers, and left the bits where the bedrooms were.  I bought some black waterproof fabric that I cut into long strips of about 25cm widths and stitched together in lengths to fill the gaps at the bottom then sewed onto the bottom of the flysheet. I used to peg these inside the tent, under the bedrooms, sealing the gap. Was very cosy.

I had such a great tent that I didnt want to replace it before really getting use from it, so we used it like this for about a year, and it all held up well. Helped with selling it too, as it then had features that meant people would be more comfortable in it!