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Dave and Ginny

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Aaaaahhhhh...ouch!

That's most interesting!

When we bought our Hymer we were told that it had had a new Fiamma awning fitted when the previous owners lost the old one in a wind in France!

On the roof though, I later discovered a small repair 'patch' for a leak??? Looking at this vid, I reckon it was the end of the old awing kicking over the roof and thumping it one!

Thanks for posting! :thumb:
 

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All down to body shell failure. Obviously not a Rapido, possibly a Burstner :Smile:.

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We saw this happen in real life at Hunstanton last summer on a brand new motorhome that was out on its first trip. Felt so sorry for the owners
 

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seen it happen acouple of times one cloggy had the side of his van ripped out . :cry: 12 month old van . with 3 rolls duck tape and polithene and wife in tears . :cry: stan
 
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A couple of points I noted.
1. There were no windows or doors in the van face so the wind had places to go. I think it would have been much worse on a proper van.
2. The internal plates are a lot smaller than the ones supplied as standard with the Fiama awnings. I have fitted two of these to previous vans so know the Fiama ones are much larger as I struggled to get them to fit in one of the vans.
3. I think the flailing legs would have done more damage. They were bashing against the space were the rear window was.
4. Most sensible people I know either wind their awning in when there is the slightest of breeze or they use tie downs.

Unless they were to do an identical test on a Fiama and publish the video I don't think they should be advertising this as a win?

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Our Omnister has never moved with the storm straps we use.

In Spain last year all the flipped awnings I saw were Fiamma and I noticed that they didn't have as good fixings for the storm straps.
 
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Our Omnister has never moved with the storm straps we use.

In Spain last year all the flipped awnings I saw were Fiamma and I noticed that they didn't have as good fixings for the storm straps.

What kind of storm straps do you use on your Omnister Chris.
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What kind of storm straps do you use on your Omnister Chris.
Nev

He will ask Isabel!! :ROFLMAO:

By the way I am surprised that Biggles from Johns Cross has not posted, I'm sure Glenn would be able to fix it... :winky:

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