Drive Away Awning

I am considering purchasing a Drive away awning for my Duetto but concerned that the sliding door will interfere with the awning wall. Should I be worried and any suggestion for a suitable awning.

Morning! We use a vango kela drive away…..appreciate it’s used on a different van from yours, but we don’t get interference on any wall when opening sliding door. With these types of awning there is a joining section between the van and the actual awning. This gives a lot more space and it means the sliding door doesn’t come into contact with awning walls. What I do find though….is the roof of the joining section tends to be a bit ‘flappy’ in the wind and when sliding door is open full , the door corner does come into contact with the roof of joining section. Not worrryingly so.
 We just don’t open the door to its fullest.

The driveways come with joining sections in various sizes to suit the height of your van and method of attachment.  It can be attached to roof rails, thrown over the other side of van or the most popular…the wind out awning rail if you have one.

I certainly wouldn’t be without out ours now as it gives a great outdoor space for eating, cooking and we have had family sleeping in it when coming on a trip with us.

I use a Outdoor Revolution cayman combo PC on our WXL, the tunnel width is 2.6m so this doesn’t allow the door to open fully, I have fitted a stop so it only opens half way , on top of the door I use a piece of foam pipe lagging to cover the corner of the door to protect the material

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Does it need to be attached to the van? Day tents/utility tents can be used for storage or for sitting in , lot cheaper and no hitching back up to van after going out for the day . We used to use one with our Symphony, we don't bother now.

We have a Kampa Travel Pro and the sliding door of our Kingham does catch the tunnel, when it’s close to fully open. I tend to ease the fabric over the door corner, allowing the door to continue to fully open.

We’re not long back from a couple of weeks away and as the weather was dry, we didn’t attach the tunnel at all during the trip.

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