Which Awning? (1 Viewer)

[ourcampersbeentrashed]

We have been told the dometic automatic wind in awning will be too heavy for our motorhome so do we choose

omnistore

fiamma

something else

What are your suggestions

 

[haganap]

Gail, there was someone on Facebook motorhomes buy and sell thingy started by Tonka that was seeling one that would fit your van, think it was 5.5 meters and brand new, only wanted £350.

Might be worth you taking a look.

 

[jamieBG]

I have just bought a Fiamma F45s from John Cross this very week. :thumb:

It was the one thing missing from MoHo when I got her, and we decided to rectify that before our summer hol this year, as it promises to be scorchio and it would be nice to sit out under a canopy.

:sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin::sin:


Out of interest - how heavy is the dometic one? The Fiamma we got weighs in at 23kg for the 3.5m variety.

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[Chris]

If its the wind out bit you are talking about I think Omnister is better, at least its better for attaching storm straps to.

All (and I mean all) of the awnings that I have seen flip in the wind have been Fiamma.

 

[ourcampersbeentrashed]

Gail, there was someone on Facebook motorhomes buy and sell thingy started by Tonka that was seeling one that would fit your van, think it was 5.5 meters and brand new, only wanted £350.

Might be worth you taking a look.

Cheers haganap. I dont have facebook so I will ask Robert to find it later on hopefully.

I have just bought a Fiamma F45s from John Cross this very week. :thumb:


Out of interest - how heavy is the dometic one? The Fiamma we got weighs in at 23kg for the 3.5m variety.

Havent got a clue sorry

 

[eddie]

Dometic self supporting (no arms) 12 volt (no winding) automatic wind sensor (no worrying )

Arrive push a button, out rolls the awning. even over gravel or tarmac (no legs remember) No reaching or straining just a remote.

Open the wine and fall asleep, wind comes up, and the awning simply rolls away leaving everything safe and you blissfully unaware, in the land of nod!

Next morning when everything has calmed down, press a button on a remote control and out is comes again!

Simples!

Eddie

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[Chris]

Dometic self supporting (no arms) 12 volt (no winding) automatic wind sensor (no worrying )

Arrive push a button, out rolls the awning. even over gravel or tarmac (no legs remember) No reaching or straining just a remote.

Open the wine and fall asleep, wind comes up, and the awning simply rolls away leaving everything safe and you blissfully unaware, in the land of nod!

Next morning when everything has calmed down, press a button on a remote control and out is comes again!

Simples!

Eddie

Glamper

 

[ourcampersbeentrashed]

bumped for more input

 

[jhorsf]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-ep4j8tKIU"]Dometic Premium Awning - YouTube[/ame]

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[bigfoot]

I had a GH(now the Awning Company) awning http://www.theawningcompany.co.uk/ on my last Hymer and it was bombproof and very resiliant even in winds.

 

[MichelleRyall]

We have always used Omnistor awnings with the tie downs. Never had a problem but wouldn't use a roll out in really windy conditions anyway. We use windblockers to keep out quite strong breezes which work brilliantly. Our local Omnistor dealer is less than a mile away so that sort of swayed us but there was a goid choice of products that suited us. I believe that Thule are part of Omnistor now too.

 

[stcyr]

We had a Fiamma45 on the old MB608 ... used to bang around a bit in strong welsh hillside winds but always stayed put (well tied down) -

- now have a CaravanstoreZip (from John's Cross) which we've had for a couple of years now. Manual rollout and much lighter than the windout version. A lot cheaper too. Easily fitted and removed when necessary as well - just slides into the awning channel ...

^{_{Subscribers  do not see these advertisements}}

 

[teddybard]

Wouldnt have any awning personally.

It causes too much aggro.


Roger

 

[TheDogMan]

I had a GH(now the Awning Company) awning http://www.theawningcompany.co.uk/ on my last Hymer and it was bombproof and very resiliant even in winds.

I have a GH and its just brilliant and a few weeks ago we had it up with all the sides in a gale up north with 60-70mph gusts.
The downside is the price its the most expensive one on the market and sometimes comes as standard on some premium brands like RS, you would only have one of these if you were intending to keep the van for a long time to get your value out of it

Link Removed