A quick update on this - had a few nights over at Robin Hoods Bay last week and decided to try this ^^^ technique. TBH, it worked pretty well - it was a bit of a faff to fish the canopy legs back out of the deflated awning, but we were able to get >95% of the air out of the tubes. This and using a couple of decent compression straps resulted in a noticeably smaller packed-down volume. Well happy.
Funniest part is that this thread is still going and Sipep has sold his van
Theory goes that it was this thread that drove him to sell.Funniest part is that this thread is still going and Sipep has sold his van
I found this out too. Real pain to have to go back to kador strips.
I must be lucky, for once!
I've got a small Cayman Mini and that fits without a kador strip
Do you have two awning rails on your F45s?
The newer ones definitely do. Older ones only 1.
We always use the top one, gives that little extra 'headroom' for the side door to clear.
I keep meaning to find out the clearance of the awning rolled up in the case as i want to fit a C channel on top of the fiamma to give more height to the tunnel but would need to fix with self tappers
I wouldn't risk self tappers myself, surely there is a good enough 'glue' product out there to do the same job?
Can't risk just an adhesive as the fiamma is powder coated as out the factory but after 6 years has started to get a bit of corrosiion and blowing the coating mainly on the end caps but don't want to risk it on the main casing
I touched up my front cap yesterday with a bit of old BMW gloss black. The rear cap still looks new. It looks quite respectable if you squint your eyes a bit, and look in another direction... I really wouldn't fancy putting only self tappers in the casing, something bad may happen!
