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When we bought our caravan last October we had  a number of accessories thrown in as a package which included a Dorema Starcamp awning. I purchased a tie down kit as we have had a few bad experiences when we were tenting. Unfortunately when I tried to fit it the straps would not fit the sewn in fittings on the awning. The tie down had 3 prongs and the central one would not allow me to insert it into the roof fitting. In the end I had to cut the central pin off the strap leaving just the 2 outer prongs but I'm not sure if I have weakend tha system by doing this.

I'm not sute how old the awning actually is, it might be an old 2007 model that that the dealer had lying around, so is it possible that Dorema changed the roof fitting over th last few years?

dont worry,just get an extra one to go over the top.ie.we have a dorema 2003 cardinal extra wide.

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Hi

We have 2 sets of clip on tie down straps with different clips, one for our Dorema porch awning, and one for our Pyramid full size.

Judging by this the Dorema has the 3 prong.

HTH

Paul

We have 2 sets of tie down kits.The first ones we got are Fiamma the same as pictured in one of the posts above,we brought 2 sets of them.They was purchased to hold down our frame tent on a very windy night in sept 2006  i remember it well lol ....it survived the wind though some of the other tents did,nt !!!! Then we got caravan and a pyramid awning and brought their tie down kit as like you say the black plastic fittings are different in size to our previous kit. Have now changed van and brought porch awnings sunncamp scenic plus and a starcamp quattro.We now use both kits.With a D ring it is perfect for the scenic we thread the 2 outer poles through that and then peg down.Quattro then has the other set with a change of head.We still have the other size head in caravan in case its needed for anything else ....sue ..         .