Fiamma tie down kit - worth it or not?

[Peter Clark]

From Funsters experience - is it worth buying a Fiamma kit for £24 to secure your awning?

Or just buy some cord and tie it on to whatever comes to hand?

 

[WESTY66]

Unless you ordered already, I'd recommend having a look at the Peggy Peg kits - easy to fix to the awning and comes with various pegs or bolts to be used depending on what you're parked on which can be screwee into the ground using a cordless drill. Decent price as well, believe we paid around £80 for ours, worth every penny..

+1 for the Peggy peg kit, great product

 

[Tonks]

I had that one until a freak thunder/hail storm blew the awning over the roof. Cost the Insurance a grand which I paid back in increased premiums.

Now as well as front straps I have the rafter and the more sensible magic rafter.

The problem with the long single strap was it allowed lateral movement of the awning and the legs buckled. From then it just took off. That's just my experience.

I also have the adjustable rafter now after also experiencing a flash thunderstorm which partially collapsed the canopy. However, due to the straps, mine didn't get blown over the van. Maybe just lucky! The front awning casing was twisted though, and I feared I would have to replace it at the cost you mention, but luckily a little careful attention with a mallet later on means that it now rolls back and clips in fine, and the incident was several years ago now. I can see the 'battle scar' but I don't think others would if I didn't mention it.

Nowadays, as well as the storm strap, I almost always have a front panel (either a solid panel or a mesh one) fixed to the front of the canopy too, so that gives me additional security for the canopy with two to four (depending on the panel) extra ground fixing points.

 

[TCG]

From Funsters experience - is it worth buying a Fiamma kit for £24 to secure your awning?

Or just buy some cord and tie it on to whatever comes to hand?

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we could always start a crowd funding page for you

 

[Don P]

I have 2 for sale for £10 plus postage

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[Razamataz]

So
You’ve spent £00000s on yer van
And now you’re apprehensive about spending £24…
Words fail me(no they don’t)

 

[jezport]

So
You’ve spent £00000s on yer van
And now you’re apprehensive about spending £24…
Words fail me(no they don’t)

When I was selling at shows I had a lot of people like that. One stands out, he tried to screw me down on price, visiting me at numerous shows. Then one time he came to me and bought 2 sets of straps. Normally I would ask why 2 sets? But instead he told me his awning had blown over his van that night! So I took the money and didn't dare say any more!