Buying an awning

RedMick
RedMick Forum Participant Posts: 173
edited July 2012 in Your stories #1

So, having changed the ‘van, our old awning wouldn’t fit the new ‘van (of course)We spent ages trawling through Gumtree, ebay, CC Classified etc. 

We nearly bought an ebay item which ‘needed a few repairs’, but we wimped out on that one, cheap though it was. Then on Gumtree I found one 20milesaway. I contacted the sellers as I didn’t like buying blind, to see if I could bring my ‘van over to them. They offered to bring the awning to our storage, followed us there   and showed the awning fitted to our van. Job done, sale made.Happy

What lovely people, thank you Andrew and Janice from Wakefield. 

It just shows how nice caravanners are.

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  • Richiebuoy
    Richiebuoy Forum Participant Posts: 244
    edited July 2012 #2

    Nice one ! Smile

  • Back2Sorento
    Back2Sorento Forum Participant Posts: 75
    edited July 2012 #3

    It just goes to show that there are a lot of caring & honest caravanners out there, as ever the fraternity comes through

  • debnjon
    debnjon Forum Participant Posts: 7
    edited July 2012 #4

    we have just upgraded our caravan to a much bigger one so the awning is too small , as its only a year old I did some research and found that it is possible to have them adjusted , so our full awning is now going to be adjusted to a porch one , which is
    what we were thinking of buying , much cheaper and a great idea , looking forward to our first weekend away with three grandchild and bikes included !!

  • whoopie
    whoopie Forum Participant Posts: 1
    edited July 2012 #5

    We too bought a larger caravan which our old awning did not fit.  After trying to sell it & failing rang Bradcot who were so helpful & told us how to make our full awning into a three quater one. We had to purchase a pole & pad set but are so delighted that
    we can once again use our awning.

  • swiftphil
    swiftphil Forum Participant Posts: 8
    edited July 2012 #6

    Why bother with trying to find a replacement awning I'll bet that there is a place nopt far from you that will be delighted to modify your existing awning to fit your new van

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