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H guys I am looking for some advice from other owners of this tent. I would love to know if my tent is faulty or am I just too retarded to pitch it properly

Hi Paper Clip & welcome to the forum

The Carolina is a lovely looking tent, so many windows  However, I don't own one, so I can't advise you about pitching - but now that I've bumped your post back up to the top, hopefully a Carolina owner will notice it & be able to help you

Hi Paper Clip, whats your problems I have a Carolina3 and can pitch it no problems on my own in 15mins

Hi

My Carolina has tension straps on one side.  I can put it up by myself (5'7" female) if it's not windy.

It also has a hole in the fabric after only 8 days of use so is in the process of being returned!

Jo

thanks for the help guys, I found a video on utube of some crazy guy pitching this tent alone and it didnt look like he had tension straps on his model, but I took note of his method of getting the pins in. After trying again in the garden we did manage to get the pins in but I would not say it was easy. I wasnt really comfortable with the amount of force that was needed and I was scared I was going to break something either on the tent or me! My husband only has the full use of one hand so I had to do this bit by myself. the real fun was getting them out afterwards, that took two of us!

I am happy now that I know we can pitch it it properly and can have it up in under 15 minutes as I love the tent and was impressed with its performance even when it wasnt pinned up properly, it withstood some really bad winds that even killed some tents on the same field. But I am still at a loss as to why the tension straps are no longer on this model of tent, they obviously make it so much easier to pitch with much less risk of damaging the fabric or poles.

Sorry to hear about the hole in yours jo I hope you get it sorted out.