Hi, am new to the forum and wondered if anyone here could help. We have a tent called a 'Thor 12 person tent' we got if from camping equipment company, anyway think it may be termed a 'tunnel tent' (but not sure) - want a canopy for the front of it and can't find anything at all anywhere! Does anyone know what will fit please? The tent dimensions are (length, width, height): (700x405x225cm).
The only thing seen so far was a free standing dining canopy which isn't what I'm after really as want something with sides on so can sit in it if bad weather and also when kids are asleep.
Thanks very much for any help you can offer, it's appreciated.
Vango do one with sides and a door- and we have the outwell universal canopy which has sides but no door- sorry dont know the dimensions, but worth checking if you have not already!
Thanks for the replies. The universal canopy does look just a bit on the small side for what we were after - wanted more of an extra room (possibly with windows either side to see out of, like on the vango large canopy) - have seen some really great looking ones but they all seem to fit to specific areas of the tent so they can't be usd by other makes like ours. Would be great of there was a universal type....
This is the vango tunnel extension , its the only vango one that fits on the side of tunnel tents that has a closable front EXTENSION
This vango tunnel canopy with open front would also fit tunnel canopy
These are for the side of the tent, not the front. If you want a front extension, look at the outwell website and check the measurements of their tent extensions , like the montana, vermont, maryland typesthere may be something suitable for your tent there.
There is also the khyam sun porch, if you can find one in stock, and a gelert sun porch which is very similar to the khyam one which would fit .
These are all designed for the long side of the tent,
if you want one for the short front end , the outwell montana extension might fit, just 10cm wider than yout tent. Though how practical this one would be if you have no door on the short end I don't know?
Post last edited on 05/06/2009 23:45:58
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Debbie, thanks for all the great info. Like the look of the Sun shelter and also the Montana, shouldn't be a problem fitting as the length across the front is 700cm it's a tent with no side doors just front and back ones the sides are where the bedrooms are so we have to use a canopy on the front, it's only the height I think we'll struggle with as ours seems to be taller than most ot the canopys by about 10cms.
Thanks again to everyone on the forum for all the help, I know I'll be using this a lot
I think we may have our wires crossed here, with regard to front and sides.
I had googled your tent and The front and back doors you refer to are what i am calling the side doors on the 7m side of the tent, and I am saying the bedrooms are at the front and back shorter ends of the tent.
Therefore, the montana extension would only fit on the ends behind the bedrooms where there are no doors ,not over the doors, so not really what you wanted.
All of the other extensions and canopies would fit over your doors .
The tent you have is 225cm high and the extensions I linked to are also for tents 220 - 225 high, the canopies sit just slightly lower than the tents,so that rain can run off them from the roof, there is a flap of material that goes over the roof and guys out at the other side of the tent to attach them, so they are a flexible fit for most tunnel tents.The montana extension doesn't have this flap so wouldn't fit on over the doorways.
Take a look at page 6 of this thread , the bottom picture shows the vango tunnel extension fitted to the (long )side of the tent over the doorway . page 7 show the grlert porch too.
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Topic: canopy for `tunnel tent`?
