Quest Rollaway 450 Awning Wanted

[barne_as]

I'm looking for a rollaway awning, preferably a Quest Rollaway 450, or similar to fit on our Coachman Amara 570/6.
Must be a large awning (as the dogs sleep in the awning at night), with no need to thread the awning on the rail when we get to site, and be easy to erect.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

[barne_as]

Any recommendations for other roll away awnings? Struggling to find a quest rollaway

 

[Craigyoung]

There's two on Gumtree don't know exactly what kind off Quest awnig you want. could be wrong though
Edit . Sorry I've got the wrong item :huh:

 

[GeorgiePorgie]

Any recommendations for other roll away awnings? Struggling to find a quest rollaway

How about a Fiamma CaravanStore 440 XL?

I've just changed my 3 awnings, full, porch & sun, for one, just waiting for the canopy in the colour that I ordered

 

[Martin24]

I do think perhaps a poled awning would be more stable in higher winds for the dogs. SWMBO puts our Isabella Magnum up single handed so really not much effort involved.

 

[GeorgiePorgie]

Hi Martin24,

As we, SWMBO & myself, get older & the arthritis kicks in (it already has! ), even using silicon spray in the awning rail & on the beading on the awning, I have to admit, that it's getting harder & harder to erect the awnings, even the porch awning, & that was an air beam one!

My brother in law (he's on the dark side!) has a motorhome, & after talking to him & many other motor homers, plus current users of the Fiamma CaravanStore (specially designed for caravans) regarding stability of the Fiamma type awnings in high winds, not one said that they had experienced any instability issues, provided they used the storm tie down straps. Just look how many motorhomes have them, they can't all be wrong.

We took the conscious decision to change to this type of awning for its ease of use, yes it's not so common on caravans. The only downside I can see is that there's 13.5kg up high on the side of the caravan & that eats into the user payload.

 

[Martin24]

Luckily it's only me that can't do anything useful. I can certainly understand the difficulty pulling the air porch through as generally they are heavier as you're pulling the beams through as well as the awning.

Have another chat with your brother in law just to make sure they don't roll them up when the weather is not so good.

Putting the sides and a front on will help with stability but you'll still have the awful job of bending to peg out. I only suggested what I did because we've been looking at solutions that would make life easier with the boss having to do everything because of me being in a wheelchair.

There is no easy answer unfortunately to making life much easier and we decided to stick with what we've got. We are going to have a pull out awning fitted to the side of my wheelchair accessible car for days out and the like.

Please let me know what you settle on and how you find it with use because anything that makes life easier for us is a bonus. The dogs are in the van but my wheelchair stays in the awning to charge over night.

 

[GeorgiePorgie]

Hi Martin24,
Spoke at length to my brother in law regarding using a Fiamma awning in high winds, he said that the only times he has rolled it up is when very high winds are predicted then he'll wind it away before they come. Otherwise it stays out with the legs pegged down & the storm straps fitted

Yep, bending down to peg out any awning is now a pain! so I use screw in pegs & drive them with a battery operated drill (also does the steadies as well) & I use a "Garden kneeler/seat" see it here https://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/garden/st06067i/

 

[emmerson]

Morning all. I have a Caravanstore on my campervan, bought so that it can be used on either camper or caravan. Works well, I can pack it away in three minutes, which is good because I would not want to leave it up in anything more than a strong breeze.
I assume they are all the same in that all the securing to the ground is done on the upright pole; the guy rope has a little toggle which fits into a hole on the pole, and the pole is pegged to the ground.
But here is the weak point - the upright is fixed to the horizontal pole on the corner by one, yes one, 3/16th pop rivet and this is all that keeps the roof attached to the uprights. (ask me how I know this!)
If you use storm straps all may be well, but I wrecked an old Caravanstore on Skye a few years ago, as the canvas ripped along the edge of the awning rail, as the storm strap was on the front edge.
My current one was new this year, and I'm not going to risk losing it. If you read the book of words, it tells you in there to dismantle it in wind or heavy rain, and stresses that the Caravanstore is a SUNSHADE.
Sage advice indeed.

 

[Mel]

When you think about, awnings are symbolic of the Optimism of Caravanners. Off we go in our little tin huts, assemble some poles and canvas and pegs and then expect it all to stand up to gale force wind and horizontal rain. And you know what, most of the time, it does.
Caravanning is great. B)
Mel