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Well our door is also forward of the axle and we use a Sunncamp Ultima 260 without any problems whatsoever.  The Scenic Plus tends to slope inwards losing a lot of the useable space hence we went for the Ultima.  The Ultimas are well thought of on here.

I don't think you will have a problem using one on your van at all.  You have to work hard to get the edges tight against the van with this sort of awning, usually by pegging underneath the van, but we had ours up for 2 rain sodden weeks at the end of June with no water ingress issues whatsoever.

Ali

Forgot to say, welcome to UKCS and ask away, there aren't many questions that haven't been asked so no matter how trivial it may sound nobody minds helping you.

Ali

Yes our door is front of the axle too, we got our Merlin from Campbells   when we bought the van and the awning guy spent quite a bit of time with us checking that the window of the van was not obstucted. We are really pleased with the fit, you can see it on our gallery pic. It is more than adequate for a table and two chairs. Also when we have visitors we keep a plug in cool box in there.

Sue

He he, I only know that Scenic owners have come up to us on site and said they wished they had gone for the Ultima because it is more spacious, but it is horses for courses I guess Tony.  We are delighted with ours though.

Ali

We have the Abbey Spectrum with the door to the front.  There was no way that a porch awning looked anything other than a bag of spanners on this van.  Basically, the problem was that the space between the window at the side and the door was something in the region of 10", which gave no room for manoevre.  It either blocked the window halfway across, or it blocked the door.  If there had been about 18" space then we wouldnt have had any problems.  The only place it looked halfway decent was on the back end of the van.  In the end I sold the porch and got a full awning.

Jenny

Hi

Why dont you look on the NR Awnings web site. They will adapt any of their small awnings to suit your van. One end of the awning will fit in the rail as normal and the other end will be fitted with a pad and pole to fit close to the van.

Sandy

Was it becuse the door is sited under the sloping part of the roof?  If so many porch awnings will not fit properly.

The rail needs to be level.

Quote: Originally posted by Jafa on 02/10/2007

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Scarletsfan, I'm not sure if your reply was about our awning creeping, but if so it wouldn't have been down to the rail as ours is completely level and so is the roof. Any slight slack in the awning gets taken up when the wind blows on the awning. Some people have also said their lightweights get blown almost flat against the caravan in high winds as the poles are so bendy, and some said their poles break. Not being a killjoy here as I think they are a really useful item, but one to put up when conditions are favourable.

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Mine did that once - but only because I was feeling lazy when I put i up and didn't peg out the guys.