Awning Retracting

[Wayne and Karen]

Hi everyone,

We know the awning retracts if winds are greater than seven miles per hour but can this be adjusted? (E.g. to ten miles per hour).

Thanks, sometimes the awning retracts and it just does not seem all that windy and we lost precious shade!

[Dennis and Melissa]

24 minutes ago, Wayne and Karen said:

Hi everyone,

We know the awning retracts if winds are greater than seven miles per hour but can this be adjusted? (E.g. to ten miles per hour).

Thanks, sometimes the awning retracts and it just does not seem all that windy and we lost precious shade!

If I had been able to buy the Oliver without any awnings (or, more properly, "sun shades"), I would have. ☹️

[rich.dev]

Not sure if this will work with your awning.

[Patriot]

2 hours ago, Dennis and Melissa said:

If I had been able to buy the Oliver without any awnings (or, more properly, "sun shades"), I would have. ☹️

I do like our manual awning. Zero issues.

[rich.dev]

25 minutes ago, Patriot said:

I do like our manual awning. Zero issues.

Lucky you, sure wish we had a manual awning! Oliver should make that an option. 

[Galway Girl]

Awning brand?

Edited 18 hours ago by Galway Girl

[Patriot]

43 minutes ago, Galway Girl said:

Which year trailer and awning model  do you have?  Please put your year , model of awning I’m reply so we can help. 

Its under his info - Hull #1432 - 2023 YM 

Edited Thursday at 11:38 PM by Patriot

[Dennis and Melissa]

16 hours ago, rich.dev said:

Not sure if this will work with your awning.

MDIV is in storage now, but I will definitely give this a try.  There is very little downside for me since I never use it as is.

THANK YOU

P.S. This forum continues to be one of the highlights of Ollie ownership.

[jd1923]

19 hours ago, Dennis and Melissa said:

If I had been able to buy the Oliver without any awnings (or, more properly, "sun shades"), I would have. ☹️

Us too, we never use our manual awning. Tried it once to know how to extend it, and since it was such a pain to do so, I haven't wanted to open it again.

If we had the powered model, I would have used it on this rainy morning for a little protection at the doorway when we took our dog out for morning business.

Also if we had the powered model, in a heartbeat I would rewire it to bypass the auto-retract feature. I dislike features that idiot-proof  for idiots! People should realize when it's windy and know to retract a power awning when leaving the campsite. 🤣

Last time this subject came up, I offered all who complained of their powered models to trade for our dependable manual awning in like new condition. We got no takers.

[Mike and Carol]

We have the manual Fiamma awning and have used it quite a bit.  We’ve done a lot of hot weather camping and it provides shade when sitting and cooking outside.  It has also provided shelter during light rains so we can sit outside and enjoy the weather.  We have a sunshade that easily hooks onto the awning providing even more shade and enables the awning to be used even in pretty windy weather..  I’m not a fan of automatic awnings, but it seems that is where RV’s are trending.

 

At Lake Guntersville.

 

At US Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs.

 

Lake Guntersville.

[jd1923]

8 minutes ago, Mike and Carol said:

We’ve done a lot of hot weather camping and it provides shade when sitting and cooking outside.

That's the real difference. We hope to travel so not to use the awning, nor the air conditioner for that matter! It's 52F cloudy with light rain here in Brainerd MN today. Yes, the awning could have helped for the rain, if I put it up when we got here yesterday. But, we were hearing thunder and you can't trust to leave it out overnight in these conditions. Get stuck in a burst of wind and downpour trying to manually retract it. I imagine that wouldn't be fun, so ours just doesn't get used.

[Mike and Carol]

1 hour ago, jd1923 said:

But, we were hearing thunder and you can't trust to leave it out overnight in these conditions.

The few times I’ve left the awning out overnight I regretted it because I had to get up and crank it back in.  So, I’m with you 100% there.  Mike