car awning - Polaris/Open sky ????

Kristy
Given that the length of the Swan is 4.165, I find it hard to imagine that any awning built to fit that will adapt to your Prado. I have an awning off the side of my Prado (90 series) which is 2.5m wide. To put that on the side of your Swan would look like a pimple on a pumpkin. Vice versa a 4m awning would look awfully strange hanging off the side your Prado.

Teege

Here’s what I have:

Polaris awning on the car (2.5m)

Fliamma awning on the camper van (3.5m)

When rolled out together this gives me 4.5m (14.75 foot) of shade between the car and the van.

The Fliamma is rolled in each night, but I generally leave the Polaris pegged and roped during the night (unless there is wild weather predicted).

It took me a while to figure out how to get the two awnings aligned, but a couple of blocks of wood and measured rope, fixed the problem.

The Fliamma is easy to roll out and retract, but it does'nt have the strength of a canvas awning attached to the foof rack of a 4WD. They have their good and bad points.

Regards

Kim

Bought an ARB 2.5 M awning for our Prado a couple of weeks ago. It is fantastic.

But it is not the lenght I'd be concerned about but the height of your van's roof from the ground.

The roll out 4X4 awnings a only meant to be a couple of metres off the ground. Unless you got one with leg extensions it would be a very steep awning setup.

Why not speak to Jayco or try one of the companies like Kakadu. They make walls for awnings and may be able to help you.

Why not get both? I have a Polaris on my Paj and over Xmas we toured Tassie with my brother who has a Fiamm on the side of his slide on camper. We found butting the two together made for an excellent amount of shade, and it was quite easy to line them up.

If you want to talk about a custom setup give Polarisinnovations a call. Small family company and quite open to suggestions.