Buying an awning

This story happened on: 14/07/2012

So, having changed the ‘van, our old awning wouldn’t fit the new ‘van (of course)We spent ages trawling through Gumtree, ebay, CC Classified etc. 

We nearly bought an ebay item which ‘needed a few repairs’, but we wimped out on that one, cheap though it was. Then on Gumtree I found one 20milesaway. I contacted the sellers as I didn’t like buying blind, to see if I could bring my ‘van over to them. They offered to bring the awning to our storage, followed us there   and showed the awning fitted to our van. Job done, sale made.Happy

What lovely people, thank you Andrew and Janice from Wakefield. 

It just shows how nice caravanners are.

Back2Sorento commented on 15/07/2012 02:33

Commented on 15/07/2012 02:33

It just goes to show that there are a lot of caring & honest caravanners out there, as ever the fraternity comes through

debnjon commented on 16/07/2012 11:26

Commented on 16/07/2012 11:26

we have just upgraded our caravan to a much bigger one so the awning is too small , as its only a year old I did some research and found that it is possible to have them adjusted , so our full awning is now going to be adjusted to a porch one , which is what we were thinking of buying , much cheaper and a great idea , looking forward to our first weekend away with three grandchild and bikes included !!

whoopie commented on 20/07/2012 13:00

Commented on 20/07/2012 13:00

We too bought a larger caravan which our old awning did not fit.  After trying to sell it & failing rang Bradcot who were so helpful & told us how to make our full awning into a three quater one. We had to purchase a pole & pad set but are so delighted that we can once again use our awning.

swiftphil commented on 30/07/2012 19:03

Commented on 30/07/2012 19:03

Why bother with trying to find a replacement awning I'll bet that there is a place nopt far from you that will be delighted to modify your existing awning to fit your new van

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