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Topic: Missing instructions for a trailer tent

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Jonnos

12/3/2025 at 11:46am
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I have a 2001 Trigano Cheverny GL but it has come with no instructions.

Would anyone be able to point me in the direction of help. Either where I can download instructions or if that's not possible, any advice on erecting it if someone has the same tent or a similar one.

I can get the trailer part up alright but I've not touched the joining tent part and it's so big I'll have no choice but to take it to a campsite to try it for the first time.

This isn't the exact tent but it is the same model
https://www.blackcountrycaravans.co.uk/stock/1237/2001-trigano-cheverny-gl-trailer-tent

Any general advice would also be welcome. I've done plenty of backwoods camping and have owned a caravan but this is the first time trailer tenting it.

Post last edited on 12/03/2025 12:08:25

jaiash

13/3/2025 at 3:59pm
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https://www.camperlands.co.uk/trailer-tents-instructions-downloads/?srsltid=AfmBOorckROD-l6eFpOXGiFdfua1wShSj9odNOk1M8brLfsUIQI7aVr9 might help.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Trigano+cheverney+GL

Also if you include a rough idea of your location you may find somebody nearby with some experience who would be willing to help.

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Jonnos

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Thanks Grahame. Camperlands don't seem to have any docs dating back that far, suppose 2001 was early internet for the UK and docs might not have been digital. I did go through all the Youtube videos. They were vaguely useful but none showed the tent, only the trailer part.
I'm in Northern Ireland.

navver

13/3/2025 at 7:51pm
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I can't give specific advise I'm afraid. I would say, on no account go to a site miles from home with all your kit and expect to put it up without any trouble. It will be pouring with rain and blowing a gale.

Try and find a site nearby where you can go and try too put it up.

Have a look at the trailer unit and see if there is a zip at high level and down the sides which the tent could join to. If not it might tie to the trailer unit, with the tent roof passing under the trailer unit.

See if there are any holes high up in the canvas which will allow the tent roof poles to pass through into the trailer unit and join to the trailer roof poles.

Look at the poles you have and see if you can group similar looking ones together.

There will probably be upright legs which have spites in the bottom with a small circular foot.

There will be roof poles which will run from the trailer to the front of the tent. Roof poles may pass through a hole and join to a trailer roof pole or might have a rubber end allowing them to rest against the trailer. There maybe a sleeve in the tent roof allowing the roof poles to slide into.

There will be roof edge poles which run across the front of the tent and maybe similar poles which run from the front ones up each site of the tent.

There will be small parts with several short tubes joined together. These will be used wherever poles join together.

By identifying all these poles lay them out on the ground where you think they will go.

Then you have 2 choices to put the tent up.

Either Join the tent canvas to the trailer unit and then build the pole framework under it.

OR Assemble the pole framework and then pull the canvas over it.

The canvas maybe in several pieces such as roof, sides, ends etc.

Good luck.

If still not sure, try and see if there is a trailer tent dealer nearby and see if there is anything similar there which might give you the general idea how they go together.

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VinceBeckworth

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Wot navver says, but also have you read this thread?
https://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=10&TopicID=307225

If you can't put it up in the garden, I would definitely suggest a night away locally. We like to do this most years so that I remember all the stuff about the tent before we go away for a week in the summer. Electrical tape on to remember which pole goes where has been the saviour of many a camping relationship!

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