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Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

Replaced slide out awnings

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

confuse Where's that darn ' Like Button.......... biggrin smile smile biggrin

Laura and Bunk · RV-Dreams Family Member

Wish I had seen this earlier. DH and I just paid 500 to have the same thing done to our 2002 rig (ours was hail in SD also) very small world! Think we will stay out of there😊

NorCal Dan · RV-Dreams Family Member

When severe weather threatens we always pull in our slides. I tell the DW that it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to push that little button than to have to replace awnings. Ever since our 1st RV I have hated awnings. I once saw an RV, I think it was an '02 vintage Beaver, had what looked like plastic molded tops on the slide out instead of fabric awnings. I would have loved to have the same thing on our coach.

Here's a picture that shows what I'm talking about.

-- Edited by NorCal Dan on Thursday 17th of October 2013 10:24:35 AM

Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

Laura and Bunk wrote:
Wish I had seen this earlier. DH and I just paid 500 to have the same thing done to our 2002 rig (ours was hail in SD also) very small world! Think we will stay out of there😊

Laura,

It was a pretty easy project but the videos helped a ton. I would not known where to even start without those. The hail storm that damaged ours was on 9/4 and we were parked near Custer, SD. It was a DOOZY!

Phil

Workinrvers · RV-Dreams Family Member

NorCal Dan wrote:
When severe weather threatens we always pull in our slides. I tell the DW that it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to push that little button than to have to replace awnings.

-- Edited by NorCal Dan on Thursday 17th of October 2013 10:24:35 AM

Works great when your in the RV to push that little button, unfortunately we were a few miles away at our work camping job when the storm hit. Sure would have been nice to have had some notice, weatherman said it was going to be sunny that day.

RVRon · RV-Dreams Family Member

Phil, thanks for posting the info on swapping out the slide awnings. Ours are getting stiff and brittle with age and I figured this winter it was time to replace them. Glad to have a recommendation on where to get them and the info on how to do it.

dianneandsteve · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks for the tip Phil!

We had a quote from an RV dealer for $445.00 to replace our large slide topper, so thought I would at least give Tough Top Awnings a try. It also took us about 1 1/2 hours and cost $165.00. Now that I know how easy it is to do yourself I will eventually replace the other 3 as they wear out. If it wasn't for the videos showing a couple of different ways to do this I wouldn't of attempted this myself. The second video shows an optional method in which they removed the roller and dropped it down the side of the slide. That seemed to be a lot of unnecessary extra work so I used the standard method.