Caravan Awning Problems

The unit should begin to operate again.

Caravan awning problems.

Caravan and awning problems heading to wales. We headed off to wales to glanllyn campsite which is on the shores of llyn tegid lake bala. The awning does not function properly now it will move in and out with the remote but operates very slowly and does not lock into the travel trailer the switch on the wall for operating the awning works sporadically most of the time this switch will extend the awning but not retract it. Plus while you are doing this you have the weight of the caravan awning which is considerable in our case making the job quite hard.

Might say that i am a pole man as the advantage is that the poles and awning weight can be loaded separately between caravan and car. Before we could. The third possibility of a bad retraction could be the fabric of the caravan awnings has over stretched either due to manual force or due to the weight of the water accumulated on it. Paddling to the far shore and having a picnic.

Prolonged use or in and out several times in a row can cause the motor to temporarily shut down. Given the problems with kampa awnings i wonder if other air awnings have similar problems or do they work okay. The next day we planned to spend on the water. Remove the crew holding the awning spline in place in the sail track.

The awning does not seem to have the right tension. The problem is this rail is quite high up. Before you go any further make sure you have something soft to place the roll on when it is removed from the caravan so the new vinyl is not damaged while fitting it to the roll. The stretching of the rv awning fabric causes the retraction to be uneven as the length of the fabric gets distorted.

This is how the awning connects to the caravan. Then 2 days ago had terrific thunderstorms from 7pm through the night with winds that literally. Your awning motor has a built in thermal override to prevent overheating. An rver asks gary bunzer the rv doctor why the awning on his recreational vehicle will not retract evenly and what he can do to f.