Awning - correct one

Scottjames1uk
Scottjames1uk Forum Participant Posts: 17
edited December 2015 in Parts & Accessories #1

I have a Lunar Solar 524.What size awning do i need for a full awning. I know you can measure from one end to the other which i have tried but i dont trust the measurement. Sureley asking fellow caravanners it will give me the corrent answer.

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  • Pathfinder
    Pathfinder Forum Participant Posts: 4,446
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    edited December 2015 #2

    Thread string around awning rail from ground to ground then measure, this will give you the size. (make sure the van is on level ground when you measure)

  • SELL
    SELL Forum Participant Posts: 398
    edited December 2015 #3

    Assuming yours is a dealer special based on the Quasar 524,Lunars website advises acutal awaning size 960m (31'5) that info is based on 2016 models, but i would check with lunar direct quoting your year etc before making any purchase.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited December 2015 #4

    Is the figure not in your handbook?

  • JVB66
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    edited December 2015 #5

    If you go on Isabella awnings website and enter your caravan it normally will give the size needed

  • rogher
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    edited December 2015 #6

    I’d measure it myself, rather than trust someone I’ve never met before or even the internet. You need to measure from the ground, up and around the rail, and back to the ground at the other end. Yes, it is a fiddle and string may be the easiest thing to
    use. I’d get the next size up, rather than smaller, if there’s no matching size. You can always splay the ends out but cannot stretch them! 

  • rogher
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    edited December 2015 #7

    Is the figure not in your handbook?

    or was there not a handbook with your van?

  • Chestrefeldian
    Chestrefeldian Forum Participant Posts: 53
    edited December 2015 #8

    Although my van is a 524 Swift Challenger, the awning size is quoted as 963 and a Swift recommend a 975 awning so your measurement should be in this ballpark, which SELLs measurement aligns with.

  • ocsid
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    edited December 2015 #9

    I as others would measure it as you could well find you get conflicting data, plus an awning is a very expensive item to get wrong.

    That said I have found trying the string technique “difficult” to execute single handedly.

    I find measuring in bits and adding these up to be so much easier .

    To do this I start at the ends and using about an arms span, but known amount, of a steel tape I mark that known distance on a bit of masking tape placed on the van as needed. I use a marker pen to put a mark onto the tape.

    Measuring in lengths I can physically cope with that are within my arms span suits me much better than doing it in one.

    Then it is simply add these measurements up.

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