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19/8/2012 at 8:37am
Location: Lancashire
Outfit: Sprite Major 6 TD
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Hi
Not sure how best to describe the part we're having probs with and not sure if all folding campers work the same, but on our trigano 575, the awning zips on. Once zipped on a flap on the mainunit is overlapped onto the top of the awning and existing within this flap is an elasticated cord. On our last trip without the awning we discovered it pulled quite a good way through and in a pile on the floor - someone obviously had fun pulling at it :-(
Anyway, for various reasons we've not been able to get the camper open and sort, and my hubby thought it wouldn't take much sorting. We need to sort it today, or sort something out which will work until we can get it repaired.
HERE'S WHAT WE TRIED
We cannot attach something to the elastic (like a safety pin or something) and drag it through - it won't come.
The other thing he tried was pulling a wire through which he got all the way through (fed it through with the safety pin on end) and this took about 3-4 hours to thread through. He then attatched the elastic to it and tried to pull the wire back through to pull the elastic with it. It wouldn't come! It is a really tight fit
Obviously we can stil zip the awning on, but without this flap tensioned, we will leak at the seam - through the zip as we did on our first ever set up until we tensioned that flap realising what the elastic was for! We need the awning on for the trip and we need it dry!
We're thinking unless we can do the elastic, the camper will have to go in to be repaired, but no time now.
Anyone had this issue and been able to sort? In absence of sorting properly, anyone got any ideas of a temporary solution?
Thanks for reading
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