VANAGON archives -- May 2007, week 3 (#325)

Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:30:48 -0700 Reply-To: honemastert <honemastert@GMAIL.COM> Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com> From: honemastert <honemastert@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Re: fiamma awning 10 ft or 11-8 ft Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

I've never mounted the hardware on the side of my van. I just swing the legs down and stake them into the ground.

Downside is camping over rocky areas, etc: but havent encountered that anywhere but in Joshua Tree NM where it was too windy to deploy the awning in the first place.

I have the longer one, it hangs over the front door by a bit (installed even with the back roughly)

If I had it to do all over again, I'd go for the shorter one, maybe even a shady boy. It's a lot of weight hanging off the rain gutter on the van IMHO, even with the mounting brackets bolted into the body.

hope this helps

picture of the awning deployed.. http://tinyurl.com/2oqrqj

another fiamma awning on a syncro http://tinyurl.com/2n8pp9

-tim

90 syncro westy gilbert, az www.timschneider.org

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