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Subject Topic: SV 8....side extension help. Post Reply Post New Topic
03/5/2010 at 1:55pm
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Hello everyone, we have had a couple of outing recently in our new Sun Valley 8. It seems like a fab tent to us and we are loving it!

The one thing that is puzzling us is the side extension. It is a Sun Valley specific one, not a universal, and I am having trouble setting it up I think. Could anyonr tell me if it supposed to sit over a side door or is it supposed to shift along just giving an extra shelter?

It seems to fit better if it isn't over the doorway. Am I doing something wrong? Obviously I would rather have the shelter directly outside a side doorway if poss but it does seem to just slightly cut across the entrance in one corner.

 

Thanks in advance



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03/5/2010 at 2:38pm
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sits over the door looking at this link: (click larger image for closer look and then next image to get sketch of design plan showing door in center)

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03/5/2010 at 7:01pm
 Location: Surrey
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The whole purpose is that it covers a side door.

I'm wondering if they changed the shape of the extension between years, and the extension you have is made for a different year to your tent. Perhaps the tent height or door shape changed between the 2007 (sloped front) version and the 2008 (flat front) version. But I don't have the side extention myself so I don't have experience of the problem.



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03/5/2010 at 7:40pm
 Location: swansea
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The extensions didnt become available til 2008 I think?, when the flat front tent came out , so it was designed for the 08 version.

My sister has the SV extension uses it on a nevada xl . she places it at the pole beside the doorway ,and has no problem with it obstructing the entrance .

Do you mean that its too low where it cuts across the entrance?
if so,   there are straps to tighten up on the floor, maybe you have it with the poles too far apart, if the arch isnt high enough to clear the door ?


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03/5/2010 at 8:24pm
 Location: Derbyshire
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I had the same trouble with our SV8 - they are designed to fit over the door.  Make sure the  clips onto the tent frame are in the right place and then pull the side roof  guy lines out over the roof and out at 45 degrees.  It holds it tighter then.

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