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Submitted: Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:00
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troopyman
Who has an oztent. I just bought an RV4 with the peaked side panels and a front panel and a fly . What i like about it is that you can just set up the main tent if staying over night . You can set up the rest if staying longer . It really only took me thirty seconds from taking it out of the bag to having the tent up . The hardest part is knocking in the six ground pegs .
Reply By: Member - Jack - Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 14:15
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 14:15
I have the RV4 and love it.
I agree with the set up speed, and have received many comments from fellow campers on how quickly we can get set up.
Packing is not so quick, but we collapse it, fold the legs in, and roll it before fitting a strap around it. then we put the bag over it and roll it again to zip up. Pretty simple and quick enough for us.
Enjoy it ..
mine is
well travelled and still going strong.
Jack
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Reply By: Member - Malcolm C (QLD) - Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 15:07
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 15:07
I recently bought a brand new RV2 and buggered it because stupid me packed it on the trailer next to the (open) wheel. It rubbed a hole through the bag, the floor, the roof.
After I stopped crying :-( I contacted OzTent, sent it back to them for repair (naturally at my cost - my fault). Also bought the fly as insurance roof won't leak.
I can thoroughly recommend this company. Very professional and excellent to deal with.
Malcolm
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Follow Up By: Krakka - Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 15:48
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 15:48
Hi
Malcolm, no need to send it back to Oztenet at your expense, any canvas repairer can fix it.
Regards
Krakka
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Reply By: Member - Shane D (QLD) - Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 19:48
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 19:48
I have the RV5, Also have the peaked side panels and the front panel and while the while lot cost $$$, I'm glad I did.
If staying over night and there is no
sign of wind, I don't even use pegs.
You won't be able to unroll the awning but that's no big deal.
Had
mine for 4 years now, I managed to put 2 small hole's in the floor (don't know how) but just used a tyre tube patch to fix it.
One other thing I did is go down to supache.. and bought a couple of 8x6 ft plastic tarps, $3-4, and use them as ground sheets.
Keeps the underside of the tent dry as I found that condensation often causes mud and earth to stick to the bottom of the tent making wrap-up in the morning just that little bit difficult.
Roll the taprs up so all the mud stays with-in, once it drys out a quick brush with the small broom and is good to go, and HEAPS easier than cleaning the underside of tent.
There's a couple of photo's in my memebers profile
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Follow Up By: troopyman - Friday, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:06
Friday, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:06
I bought a product called cgear for the floor . Comes in a few sizes but the one i got was 6 x 2.4 mts . Its more or less a double layer of shadecloth but with ripstop technology and very tough . Water , dirt and sand just fall thru but dont come back up . cheers .
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