New Kampa Air 350

[Brobin]

Awning with all the panels zipped out

 

[Brobin]

Picture to show how the bumper pads are no where near the caravan

 

[Brobin]

Can't see how you would adjust the height?

 

[Sproket]

Am looking at this on my phone and it looks like the van needs to be put on a pair of leveling ramps to increase the height of the van as it looks very low at the back, was the pitch sloping towards the van ? If the van is low the awning will appear to be too long.
If the pitch sloped away from the van it would look totally different.
You also need some rear poles and they will hold the foam padding up against the side of the van apart from that it looks ok. 😉

 

[Brobin]

The "pitch" was my front garden

 

[Brobin]

OK had the shop I bought it from check it out and the instructions are wrong! There is no back webbing straps so no wonder I could not find them!

Also advised that the best way to get a seal with the caravan is to use the optional rear poles - pity it didn't come with those as standard!

 

[Sproket]

Looking at this photo it shows the sides splayed out, so if you peg out like this is it will fit your van better.. 😛
Remember that all of the sides need to be zipped into place when pegging it out. 😉

 

[WoodlandsCamper]

Like for any porch awning, if the ground is not at right angles to the side of the van then you may get problems with the sides of the awning not meeting the van in a tidy manner. Those with fixed length poles are the worst for getting a good fit.

 

[Brobin]

Thanks for pointing that out sprocket. I will not be using the awning for a couple of weeks but when I do I will give your advice a try

 

[Sproket]

Well i got round to trying the new Kampa Pro Air 330 today, have to say impressed with how quick it goes up after the initial struggle getting it into the awning rail, my fault for not getting some silicon spray, but I do like how the doors have full fly screen doors fitted so you have two doors if you get what i mean :dry: and the front can be opened up just one side or both, this awing is just sat there by itself in fact I'm going to leave it up for the next few days to weather all of the seams then when we do use it it should not leak....

This shows how the front corners are held in place

One front side open 😉

Both sides open and its self supporting and not pegged down 😱hmy:

It's on the smallest pitch available for the next few days to get a good soaking and help it seal the seams, when we use it, it will not be across the window like in the photo, its there for now to stop it getting too near to the shed roof. 😉

 

[Brobin]

Wow that is a lovely looking awning, but I could not justify the exra
£200 over the Fiesta for the amount that we will use it

Have you figured out how the adjustable height system works yet?

 

[Brobin]

OK we have just had a couple on nights with the Fiesta awning, no pictures, but all went well apart from one tiny niggle.

I splashed out £20 for the optional rear poles and these make a real difference to how the awning seals to the caravan.

Awning went up and down really quickly and easily and my only complaint is that the pocket for the blind for the large front window is too lose and so the bli d will not stay in it.

 

[Sproket]

Had the same problem with the blackout blind, but to stop it coming out of the pocket I rolled it down rather than trying to just lay it in the pocket, apart from that the awning is brilliant, when the roof lining is fitted you forget about all of the tubes being there, I have even managed to hang the big led strip light up quite easily on the middle beam....

When taking it down it took the best part of ten mins to get it all packed away back into it's bag, 😉

These photos were taken at ten o'clock at night with night mode enabled on my phone.

This is without night mode, and due to the inner roof being fitted you can't see that the awning light was turned on.

 

[Lucysmum]

I'm dithering over which air awning to buy and have just read up to here. How have you been going on since this last post?