Awning

[ditto2001]

Hi me and my partner have bought a bongo our "pig-sty" this year and a drive away awning, we have used it twice and on our last trip detached the awning so we could go out on arrival back to our awning we had a nightmare trying to re attach it to our van , we first of all couldn,t correctly gauge the distance we needed to park (decided we should put a marker when we park up) but OMG the wind was so bad we couldn,t attach the poles to the van they seemed to not have enough "give" in them Is there any think we can get to assist as this really was a nightmare !!, does anyone have any ideas /tips to help us out PLEASE : )

[mikeonb4c]

Hi me and my partner have bought a bongo our "pig-sty" this year and a drive away awning, we have used it twice and on our last trip detached the awning so we could go out on arrival back to our awning we had a nightmare trying to re attach it to our van , we first of all couldn,t correctly gauge the distance we needed to park (decided we should put a marker when we park up) but OMG the wind was so bad we couldn,t attach the poles to the van they seemed to not have enough "give" in them Is there any think we can get to assist as this really was a nightmare !!, does anyone have any ideas /tips to help us out PLEASE : )

You are right about using markers to ensure you reverse back into the same position the Bongo was in when you pitched the awning. Many of us use tent pegs lined up with wheel centres and about 2" out from the wheels. A refinement is to use (luminous green) guy rope between the pegs to make a clearly visible line.

When you say 'attach the poles', are you using poles to clamp the awning to the Bongo? Many of us use figure 8 strips to attached to the Bongo rain gutter (I use one long strip of figure 8, which I think makes it a lot easier and better for reducing rain leakage).

There's another thread running on this topic at present - worth a look.

[ditto2001]

Hi Mike thanks for your response, good tip re tent poles, yes it is the figure 8 strips we are(using 5 in total) we found as 2 of the strips had a slight gap we did have a small leak(totally our fault) we just found trying to get them re attached to the bongo hard work the wind was very high and it actually pulled the awning from the runner! we were wondering if there was another say strong industrial type bungee addition to put the awning on and then attach that to the van. Hope im explaining myself ok ? i will read the link you suggested too, thanks again Deb

[mikeonb4c]

Hi Mike thanks for your response, good tip re tent poles, yes it is the figure 8 strips we are(using 5 in total) we found as 2 of the strips had a slight gap we did have a small leak(totally our fault) we just found trying to get them re attached to the bongo hard work the wind was very high and it actually pulled the awning from the runner! we were wondering if there was another say strong industrial type bungee addition to put the awning on and then attach that to the van. Hope im explaining myself ok ? i will read the link you suggested too, thanks again Deb

No probs. Firstly, read this current thread:

http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 48&t=57557

Having a single length of Figure 8 (provided you can source one for pick-up as imposisble to post really I believe) makes connection a one-step-thread-it-on process, plus stops leaking. Not quit sure what you are saying about the bungee so I'd pursue the figure 8 thing first then see how you find things after that. Anything is possible, with enough ingenuity and some components, but I'd say try it one step at a time then come back for further discusison.

[ditto2001]

Thanks again , i will look at getting a single strip figure of 8 and try and harder : )

[mikeonb4c]

Thanks again , i will look at getting a single strip figure of 8 and try and harder : )

Good luck - keep us posted

[ditto2001]

Thanks Mike : )