ARB awning question

[gregs]

Here is what I did with our ARB awning. I added another couple of lengths of sail track, one to the back of the mounting extrusion and one to the ally channel that rolls out with the poles attached. The piece on the mounting exrusion was for a cover that I had made up to fill in the gap between the vehicle and the awning as our roofracks stuck out further than usual. The other track was so I could add a tarp (with the sail track rope sewn in along one edge) to either use as an awning extension or drop it down for protection with either the room attached or not. The ARB awning only had 2 tracks on the channel, one was for the awning itself and the other for the room or an awning extension, you couldn't use both at the same time.
The rear awning I made using a couple of good quality small tarps, joined together with velcro strips throught the eyelets. The main piece (over the rear doors) had a piece of rope sewn in along one edge and this was slid into a piece of sailtrack that was bolted to the rear of the basket. WHen I first made it and rolled it up I used ocky straps to hold it together but later changed to velcro to keep it secure. The poles were usually stored in a length of 100mm stromwater pipe that was attchaed to the crossbars. The rear awning, when up, went down beside the ARB awning and gave very good coverage with only a small gap between the 2.