Awning FAIL

[Ford1]

On a brighter side.......How did you enjoy the Jolly Roger TP? It's our favorite destination! Would stay there year round if we could.

[FstopMiami]

Originally Posted by Ford1

On a brighter side.......How did you enjoy the Jolly Roger TP? It's our favorite destination! Would stay there year round if we could.

We had a great time and highly recommend it! will be back soon....

Armando

[The Gritz Carlton]

Originally Posted by Phil Saran

I'm surprised Carefree would even talk to you. They usually require that you
go through a dealer/shop.

A friend of mine that's been selling campers for 35 years (bought the previous Open Range from him) was telling me last week...there's a huge push from manufacturers to improve the relationships between component builders and end-users. The big gap between happy and sad is how well these component suppliers stand behind their products. There seems to be a new attitude recently and this is an example. Trimark was excellent...sugar wouldn't melt in their mouths when I called them with an issue on a nearly two year old lock. My free replacement will be here FedEx today. They know that dealers in general could care less about you so the push is to be more responsive and solve customer issues directly.

[Bill Barber]

TvI have a 2016 Axis and wondering how to lower one corner for the rain please, we will be in lake okeechobee next week and it's going to rain some every day ! Last year we were away and upon returning found the electric canopy all bent to hell and had a ton of water bulging out on the rear end of it, my brother slowly let the water out of it and Kapoof ! Dam awning sprang back into the extended position like nothing happened. Wtheck
We will need it extended during lite showers so we can be grilling ya-know, maybe the old style manual ones were tougher. Please advise ty
Bill and Maggie
Central Florida
Okeechobee bound ��

[Tony&Sheryl]

Originally Posted by Bill Barber

TvI have a 2016 Axis and wondering how to lower one corner for the rain please, we will be in lake okeechobee next week and it's going to rain some every day ! Last year we were away and upon returning found the electric canopy all bent to hell and had a ton of water bulging out on the rear end of it, my brother slowly let the water out of it and Kapoof ! Dam awning sprang back into the extended position like nothing happened. Wtheck
We will need it extended during lite showers so we can be grilling ya-know, maybe the old style manual ones were tougher. Please advise ty
Bill and Maggie
Central Florida
Okeechobee bound ��

We have a 2016 Vegas, on both of your awning arms you should see a silver colored push button and 5 or 6 holes on the arms by the awning actuator....Push the button in and pull down on the upper part of the arm and to what ever hole you want the button to go in... This is how you lean the awning.... It has been said not to have the front and back arms no more then 2 or 3 holes from each other....

[Bill Barber]

Thank you very very much Tony, we have the 25.2 Axis, 2016 era with 17k miles on the clock.
Another note: how do we attach a video or photograph to the ThorForum.
Thanks again !

[TurnerFam]

We have this same exact 17' awning on our Palazzo, and have never had a problem... the design is adjustable so that you can always allow water to run off one corner, depending also on where/how you are parked, and whether you are level to the awning side or not.
If you leave the awning arms in the max high position, you are making it a 'flat' top, which will certainly catch and hold water, as all will do. You can bring both arms down to the lowest point for the maximum water runoff, and still have plenty of shade, or a combination of the two.
We set our front corner a notch or two lower than the rear since almost the get go, 100,000 miles ago, and have rarely, if ever, changed it since.
Yes, the awning can catch wind, as ANY awning will, and it is designed to handle a certain amount, 'billowing' up as it does, but the arms are also designed to be able to handle this billowing, by 'moving' (retracting) as needed. Since there is always outward pressure on the awning arms, the 'retracting' in the wind is a temporary movement, and while some of us don't especially 'like' for this to happen, the only way to minimize any wind disruption of your awning is to bring it in.

No matter the make or model, an awning is simply a parachute - it IS going to react to wind, even 'little' wind, that hits it in the right direction. If wind is from the port side(driver side), then you'll probably have no issues with even a 'lot' of it, but if from anywhere on the passenger side it may only take a small wind to catch it just right and seem to 'rip it' from it's foundation.

[Karenfleck]

Ours automatically retracts as well. Does yours occasionally make a loud click when it gets a tiny breeze?