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Oh dear - dont like to read this as just brought one of these!

When did it first show problems? Do you think you could have thrown it back at them last year?

i'd look at what size budget you have to spend on a tent. We had problems with 2 new vango diablo 600 xp's last season and it totally put me off buying another tent as big as that, with the same type of fabric. So, we ended up upping our budget damatically and buying a polycotton outwell wolf lake 7! Best buy we've ever made. Yes, it did cost a lot of money and yes, we did end up having to buy a trailer to put everything in, but it has ben by far the best tent we've ever owned in the past 13ys of camping!!

Good luck with your search x

Lisa saw the pics in your garden looked good.

we have two tents one a vango venture 500 we we use for short breaks and have owned it for 7 years it has stood up to galeforce winds including the night that Boscastle got flooded, the other tent is an Outwell Bear Lake 6 which is a polycotton 4 season tent and the best tent we have ever seen both for quality and space.

the latter I know is expensive but well worth it and if you do as we did and buy the display model we saved over £250 on the normal price.

Prof9

If looking at polyester then take a look at the Kampa tents - their Ultimate Range uses 100D polyester. The higher the denier of the polyester the more tear and UV resistant. Other makes typically use 70-75D polyester. Take the following figures for example - 70D polyester will last UV radiation 30% longer than 70D nylon and 150D polyester will last 200% longer (everything else being equal - e.g. design).

Helen