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Well, it finally died!
By Tommy Jordan on Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2024
I purchased this thing in 2018 and we've carried it to the salty ocean shores for 7 years now, not to mention countless other events. I was originally concerned about the price, but year after year it's been the best performing, sturdiest, most well-built canopy I've ever purchased. I make it a habit after coming back from the beach to hose it down really well and pressure wash up inside the poles to get the sand out. Salt and sand will ruin anything if it's not cared for. The instructions show the canopy being removed between uses and put on fresh each time. We've never taken it off. For seven years it's held up fine being folded and packed away. It's super fast to setup, durable as can be, and totally worth it! This year we took it to the beach and one of my gang decided to try to set it up solo in 30 mile-per-hour winds..... It's not the canopy's fault. No canopy is made to withstand that kind of wind, especially while being setup by one guy in the sand. Somehow during the fight with it down the beach he broke one of the support struts. My only solace is that in the process of trying to set it up, when the wind flipped it upside down it wrapped him up in it in the process. lol. Serves him right! Guess what? I'm buying another one just like it! It was worth every penny and the next one will be too!
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30+ YEAR COLEMAN CUSTOMER - DO NOT BUY UNTIL COLEMAN ADDRESSES CONNECTIONS
By REP on Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2021
I have been a Coleman customer for over 30 years. They have very good products, but not this one. After my first canopy failed at connections, Coleman sent me a free replacement and upgraded model. After this replacement was starting to fail after the 2nd use, I decided to look closer at what the problem is. It turns out that the connections on all of their models are made of plastic and molded at joints and destined to fail. The first picture is with the free replacement that Coleman sent me. After 2 uses there are a few connections that are already failing and so decided to dismantle it and keep the connectors for use on my old one. This of course will not last but hopefully will get another year out of it. The 2nd picture shows why the connectors break so easily. You can see by the arrows where the plastic is molded together right where the screws go. It only takes a slight amount of stress on these joints before they start cracking and separating. IT ALMOST SEEMS THAT THESE WERE DESIGN TO FAIL BASED ON WHERE THEY ARE MOLDED TOGETHER. The 3rd picture shows a closer look at the connector where one can see the seam of the molded plastic at the joint. A better design for this would have been to make the connectors out of metal and then the canopy would last for YEARS like the earlier models did several years back. It is frustrating that Coleman would sacrifice their integrity for a poor design such as this and continue to offer this to the consumer. I will plan to talk with Coleman further in order to hopefully persuade them to change this design flaw as only seems in their best interest to do so.
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