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[snosball]

Howdy Folks

new to this site, i have an Blue Outwell Colorado 5 and am looking to source a front extension, sadly the range is discontinued so i am not having much luck, if anyone out there has one they would like to sell i would be grateful if you could let me know, or if any of you experts can advise me of something that would fit ??

thnx

[Rob-merlin1973]

hi
Welcome to the forum

[Wayne]

Hi and a warm welcome to the forum., hope you manage to source one

[Rob-merlin1973]

I have been looking but have not been able to find the correct one so i will have a look around to see if i can find anything else to do the job

[Admin]

Howdy Folks

new to this site, i have an Blue Outwell Colorado 5 and am looking to source a front extension, sadly the range is discontinued so i am not having much luck, if anyone out there has one they would like to sell i would be grateful if you could let me know, or if any of you experts can advise me of something that would fit ??

thnx

Hi welcome to the forum

You could add a wanted add into the Classifieds section of this site

[Dave & Angela]

Hi there , and welcome to the forum

We used to have a Colorado 5 some years ago (2003 model Ithink ) Dark Blue in colour .... Great tent

When we were at the NEC show a few weeks back , we were chatting with one of the Outwell guys about what tents we have and what tents we have had in the past , and the Colorado 5 came into the conversation .
He did tell us that the Colorado 5 was to be introduced again , so you may be in luck .

Cannot find any info on this on-line , but may be worth sending them an e-mail to see if you can find out more .

When we had ours , this was long before Outwell brought out extensions/awnings etc for their tents , but what we used to do , and I'm guessing your model does the same ,
The whole front panel could be zipped off , and zipped back on one pole section further back , in effect creating a canopied area , albeit losing some living space area to do so . We used to have it canopied like that during the day , then zip the panel back on the front at night , having the larger living space when we were inside the tent at night .

I agree a Front extension would be better , if you can find one , they certainly did them for it when they re-introduced the tent ( 2008 ish ??) .

The Colorado's sometimes pop up on ebay and the likes , so worth keeping an eye out .

Will keep my eyes and ears open , and post if I ever see one .



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[snosball]

thnx for all you responses so far, i have emailed Outwell direct and they could not help, so i guess its just eyes and ears to the ground and see if one pops up sometime

[Dave & Angela]

When we were at the NEC show a few weeks back , we were chatting with one of the Outwell guys about what tents we have and what tents we have had in the past , and the Colorado 5 came into the conversation .
He did tell us that the Colorado 5 was to be introduced again .


Will keep my eyes and ears open

Here's a pic of the 2011 Colorado 5





Only place I can see selling , upto now is to pre order at camping world
http://www.campingworld.co.uk/Models.aspx?ModelID=7335


May be worth giving them a call to see if there's any extensions/ canopy's coming up that would fit your tent .
Colour ain't gonna match though , looking at the pic






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[snosball]

thnx for this link, i emailed outwell to ask if they were going to produce a front extension and the 1st reply i got back was that they were not producing the tent and where did i get my info from !!, i sent them your link and got an apology back and no they were not doing an extension. We then went to a tent event near canterbury on saturday and spoke to an outwell rep who suggested to look at side extensions and showed us the one for the magic tent range which appears to be the same sizes as colorado (and the same colour) so thats what we have plumped for

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[Wayne]

Glad your sorted.

Is it me or has anybody else noticed that Outwell Customer Service isn't always 100%. Don't get me wrong, there pretty good, but there just not all that.

[soupytwist]

We then went to a tent event near canterbury on saturday and spoke to an outwell rep who suggested to look at side extensions and showed us the one for the magic tent range which appears to be the same sizes as colorado (and the same colour) so thats what we have plumped for

As I'm in the same situation as you were I'm wondering how you've got on with the magic side extension? Does it fit OK? Would be grateful for any input, if it works well we'll probably get one before our main hols in a few weeks time.
Thanks

[snosball]

Hi

hope i have caught you in time for your holiday, the magic extension was perfect for the colorado 5
(tried to upload a photo but site says file to big sorry)

[soupytwist]

Thanks for the reply. We're off on hols tomorrow but it's still good to know anyway. We allowed ourselves to be talked out of getting one by our local Outwell stockist (who does tend to know everything) so I'll take great delight in going back there and letting him know when we get one. I've taken the liberty of PMing you my email address, if you wouldn't mind sending me a picture that would be great.

Thanks
Matthew

[soupytwist]

If anyone's still curious about using a Magic side extension with their old model Colorado 5 I've posted a couple of pictures in the gallery of the extension in action. These two show the Magic side extension on the front of the Colorado 5 (that's what I did having picked one up for £79.00)

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The other is from Snosball who contributed earlier to this thread and shows it on the side, which in hindsight is much the better option.

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The extension still worked well for me on the front but it's a lot neater on the side and fits the shape of the tent much better.

[nat_c3]

hi i have just stumbled accross your threads and i was wondering if anyone still needed the frount extension i have the tent and frount extension but have just upgraded to a trailer tent due to growing family i have never used my frount extension as things always come up to stop me from using it eg family so not going away and things please contact me if anyone is interested in it it is the blue colour many thanks natalie