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Personpaintings lady
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Hi, has anyone experienced problems with lightweight caravan awnings in windy weather. The Outdoor Revolution manufacturer and a place selling both types of awnings have both said they aren't suitable for windy weather and would need to be taken down -AS IF! We have seen the half-tunnel shaped ones up on a windy rally field which looked ok but didn't get to speak to them. I'm a female pensioner with a disabled hubbie and would need to be able to lift it myself, that's why i wanted lightweight. On the down side we did have an Outdoor Revolution free standing Movelite which got damaged by the wind.

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Personbrianjose
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Hi  We have had a half tunnel type for several years, and used it in some really foul weather conditions with out any problem. I wouldn't be without it now, and we never use our full awning anymore!

Brian



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Persongeneralhawk
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My PDQ did get very battered in strong winds last year including a pole actually bending. I now have a much heavier awning with steel poles

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Personadsheadv
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Our lightweight Kampa Rally has stood up to some pretty awful weather.  If there were really high winds (not just windy) I think we'd take it down tho rather than risk it being damaged or worse still, causing damage to our van or someone else's property.

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Personpaul+julie
20/4/2011 at 11:08pm
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We have one of these and caravan all year, twice  we have had to get up in the middle of the night as the awning had completely blown down, apart from the bit in the awning rail, it clattered against the van for ages until OH finally woke up and we decided to take it down. It was -3 when we did it in Jan and was so freezing cold , then about 6 weeks ago same thing happened in wales but this time the fibreglass poles split up the side of the cord, we had the awning held down wioth rock pegs too. All our stuff had blown across the site too. We are going to buy a more hardwearing one with steel poles later in year when we can afford it and just use the full pyramid awning through the summer.  J x


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PersonJax365
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I've had a movelite drive away awning for three years. It has stayed up in 40mph gales on the Outer Hebredes islands. I bought it for the very same reason, it's lightweight and easy to put up.

I've had to replace two poles in all that time as they had split.

Perhaps you aren't tensioning the guy ropes and storm straps correctly, or checking them every few days, they can loosen in windy weather. I also use Delta pegs on the corners/storm straps. And make sure that the awning is absolutely taut and square before I start pegging it out.

I don't know if this might help, but I always put the awning up on the lee side of the caravan, so that the caravan takes the brunt of the wind and the awning is on the sheltered side.

This worked quite well when I had a small Romahome, and now works well with my tiny caravan - however it's often pointed in a different direction to everyone else's as the awning fits across the back!

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Personwynnie69
21/4/2011 at 10:01am
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we had one it was a nightmare in the wind ,only good in calm warm weather


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Personrobin52
21/4/2011 at 10:12am
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Quote: Originally posted by brianjose on 19/4/2011

Hi  We have had a half tunnel type for several years, and used it in some really foul weather conditions with out any problem. I wouldn't be without it now, and we never use our full awning anymore!

Brian

exactly the same here.

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Personpaintings lady
21/4/2011 at 1:15pm
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with such a large variation in experiences i'm wondering how many of these are the half-tunnel shape and how many are other lightweights?

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PersonGillian 58
21/4/2011 at 5:06pm
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We were on a site near Southport a couple of weeks ago , a few people had sited their caravans there and left awnings up , on the Monday Morning we had gale force winds 70 mph , i can tell you at least four awnings were smashed to bits , one awning the roof had torn completly off , it was scary to see and frusrating that we coudnt do anything to stop it only pick up the owners tables and chairs etc and put them safley underneath their vans .
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Personpaintings lady
21/4/2011 at 7:13pm
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were they all lightweights or were any canvas?

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Personbirder99
21/4/2011 at 9:20pm
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My personal take on the matter is that whatever awning I use I want to be pretty sure it is not going to damage the caravan if it does start to blow apart. A few weeks ago I saw two awnings that had taken a turn for the worse. One was a 'half tunnel type' and that had somehow got the wind inside it and flipped itself and the poles over the caravan roof causing a few dents to the caravan side and the other was on a motorhome with a wind out type canopy where the side struts and support legs crumpled and hit the side of the vehicle. I think I would rather pay extra and take longer to put up an awning than to risk damage to the caravan by using something of lightweight construction (poles of material) if there is any chance of strong or gusty winds. I have a lightweight awning but it only gets used for weekends and then only if the forecast is for light winds or calm. The strongest awning I have used was a snow awning and that had extra poles that could be fitted in bad weather and lots of reinforced pegging points plus guyrope points.

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we were at pillaton last year and looking for one of the lightweight awnings anyhow the weather changed and got v windy and the rain hammered so dh and i wandered round the site lookingat how the awnings were standing up to the weather .Alot of the lightweight awnings were flapping all over the place but the kampa rallys stood firm so that made our decsion for us . we have the back upright poles that some places sell seperate that clamp the padding to your van and we have also bought the storm straps and again where we can we use the deltas and never had any worries with it .

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Personpath20
21/4/2011 at 11:46pm
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We were at Old Hartley(Whitley Bay) a couple or so years ago when it was blowing a gale.It came on very suddenly and late evening.During the early hours of the morning we were checking our storm straps and pegs which were struggling to keep the awning up.We were even hanging on to the roof pools at one stage as the wind was so fierce.The following morning there were only two awnings still intact. All the lightweight awnings had been ripped and blown about or taken down. The site was full and the two awnings still up were ours and one other,both Isabella full awnings.


PersonD S B
22/4/2011 at 10:04am
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Just for information, the Kampa Fiesta is a lightweight with steel poles all round - very stable in the wind.

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PersonTracy_Ashton
22/4/2011 at 10:10am
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We have a kampa rally 390 , this stood up to very strong winds at Burnham recently , we had storm straps and had prurchased the optional poles , i was impressed with its ability in these conditions , we always peg down everywhere around the awning though .



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