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That one weekend the tent zipper failed in the rain
Last September during a trip up near Gatlinburg, I woke up at 3 AM to find the main zipper on my 3 year old tent had completely separated about 6 inches... water was just pouring in through the gap and soaking my sleeping bag. By morning everything was drenched and I had to cut the trip short by two days. Has anyone else had a zipper suddenly give out like that, or did I just get a defective model?
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the_riley8d ago
Man that is brutal, sorry your trip got wrecked like that.
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My buddy had the same thing happen on a cheap Coleman tent last summer, totally ruined his trip.
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parker_park825d ago
3 AM in the rain with a busted zipper, that's just about the worst wake-up call I can imagine. I've had gear fail before but never like that, usually it's a slow leak or a broken pole, not a sudden six inch gap flooding you out. Sounds like a manufacturing defect if it was only three years old, maybe the thread holding the zipper together just rotted out.
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