Good idea, personally not too keen on the design of the sides, looks a little dull (No offence if you have one!!) Would save some time though, but from £691 its too expensive at present.
What do you think!!
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I certainly would welcome the opportunity to have a wind out sun canopy on my caravan rather than the Caravanstore which I currently have as it takes two of us to put it up and put it away. Not sure I would want to make an awning of it but a front sun blocker and side could be useful. Not sure its that much more expensive than a Caravanstore Zip.
We used to have one on our Tranny when we were racing. It was nothing but trouble. If there was the slightest wind it would flap about and we had to wind it in. We had to weigh it down with tool boxes etc in addition to rock pegs in the tarmac. If it rained one corner had to be lowered but seemed to drench everything anyway. The sides weighed a ton - that may have changed now though and were really hard to zip in. Winding it out was really hard too. The central pole buckled under the weight of water once. I would never ever have another one - but perhaps we had an older model and we were duffers - who knows !? I'm sure they are fine in the right hands !
We watched a family struggling to put one of these up as a canoeing shelter on Conwy marina last week, they had arrived in a camper van with one fitted, although im a bit unsure what make the canopy was, but it took some time and effort to hold and support it still, whilst it was finally held in place by upright poles, then finally guy ropes at the front, and even then it flapped around like Grandma's Pantaloons on a windy wash day lol, and it was only blowing a gentil breeze at the time.
It was quite noisey too, with the wafting of the canvas all the time, it certainly would have kept us awake if it had have been up thoughout the night.
Julia
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Personally it looks like a shed to me. Apologies to anyone who has one, but where would we be if we all had the same looking van with the same looking awning attached.
I have the clip system fitted to our van, but I use the arched rafter on the canopy, this stops it flapping in the wind, and I use the storm straps, takes about 20 mins to put it up.
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Pete.
Certainly easier than putting an awning up & can be used without sides in warm weather down in France etc, so ideal for overnight stops. This is not the Caravanstore that that fits in the awning rail. It is the more robust motorhome version that needs bolt on fixing thru body.
The ad points out that the Alutech body can be fitted with a motorhome roll out canopy whereas older 'vans do not have the body strength to allow fitting.
You do see plenty of German 'vans Hobby, Burstner etc fitted with these canopies tho.
------------- Think this year is to follow old meet friends for 2014.
If you cant do someone a good turn,don`t do them a bad one,its nice to be nice you know,and little things mean much more later in life.
Pete.
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Topic: What`s your views on this
