Help! Need new awning
Last year my husband left me and kids to camp by ourselves while he was on a business trip. I forgot to put one side of the awning lower and surprise-surprise we had a torrential rain overnight and d...
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lkay22 wrote:
I forgot to put one side of the awning lower and surprise-surprise we had a torrential rain overnight and destroyed our awning (rookie move, I know).
Mistake #1 :(
We're told we have the "older style arms" that AE/Dometic made I don't have a model number for our awning as it was thrown away after the rainfall disaster.
Mistake #2. :R
Given the year and model of your trailer there's a good chance you have a Dometic A&E 8500 manual awning - one of the best and still in the current lineup. The key to replacing fabric is to take a pic of the label affixed to it 'cause with that information any dealer can get an exact replacement directly from Dometic. Since you've tossed the fabric look for label on either the roller tube or vertical arms or both ... a production number would ID this awning exactly but so too would a serial number, particularly from the roller tube. The dealer won't have that info but all he has to do is supply it to Dometic tech support and they can tell him the current fabric replacement that would be needed to fit this awning.
A tip ...
Good idea to take pics of any identifying labels on everything you can think of in the trailer, for future reference. With that info any dealer can source the correct replacement parts, without that information it can be a real chore.
