- Hey Snowy's fam. It's Lauren here
with the Darche 180 Eclipse Versatile awning.
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- It's nice and compact.
It gives you the flexibility of either a side mount
or a rear mount to your vehicle.
Ideal for smaller vehicles like SUVs.
So we're just in a park down the end of the road
from Snowy's here.
And I'm sure that what you're looking at,
is probably a bit funny with this awning height,
the same height as me.
We've parked down in the car park there.
So the ground is almost probably a foot taller
where I'm at now, but the particular awning will extend,
or these poles will go anywhere up to just over two metres.
So we've borrowed a Nissan Pathfinder for this awning today.
Now I'm really excited to show you guys this one,
because I've got a Subaru Forester
and I'm saving my pennies to get one.
If you need or want a 180 awning
or four wheel drive awning,
you love them and you think they're fantastic,
but you don't quite have a car that's big enough,
then this is the awning for you.
So it's nice and light at 13 kilos
and it's super compact when it's packed up.
It's a metre 50 or 150 centimetres across.
Now the setup for this awning is pretty much exactly
the same as the standard Darche 180 Eclipse,
which we've got a video on.
So check that out if you wanna know more,
but for this particular awning here as well,
it's a total of 420 centimetres long
or 4.2 metres long from end to end.
The extrusions that we've got coming out here
are 1.4 metres wide and all in all,
it's giving you about four metres square of shade.
So the extrusions themselves are like,
these box arms or box extrusions are an alloy.
And our brackets here are fully steel,
so it's nice and strong.
We are also fully seam-sealed
underneath the awning here as well.
And the awning does come with a hundred and a,
1,500 mil or 1500 mil water head rating, I should say.
And at the end here, as you can see,
we've got these PVC reinforced patches
on the end of the extrusions,
just to protect that canvas from any damage.
Now, the actual canvas itself is 300 GSM ripstop canvas.
So as you can see,
the little square grids woven in there
will help to limit any damage if your awning
does get cut or sticks or you know,
all that sort of stuff.
As you can see, it's super windy here today.
We haven't even set out all the guy ropes.
We've just got the four main ones and an extra one,
that I'm gonna touch on in a minute,
and it's holding up really well in the wind.
Now there's also this zip that you would have seen
under the lip before.
This is to attach the Eclipse Compact Wall Set,
is what it's called.
So that's the one you'll be needing,
it's the Eclipse Compact Wall Set.
So we've got these tabs that are on each
of the three sides of the awning.
Over here, we've got a guy rope set up for that.
And as you can see, it's just creating tension
to pull this piece of awning down.
So when it's raining, you're funnelling any rain
that lands on top of the awning to this point
to allow it to drip off and away from your shelter.
So your awning will come with everything
you need to set it up.
All your guy ropes, all your pegs,
your brackets, and your fixing kits and your poles.
So these two centre poles that we have here,
this one and this one over this side
are attached at the top with a little ball and socket joint.
So they will simply swing up onto a level
with these extrusion arms
when you're packing your awning away.
And the two poles that we have
on either end there, they're fully removable,
and they will come in a separate bag.
Now, one thing I do wanna mention with this,
if you are an SUV or a smaller car owner,
is that the mounting or the fixing kit
that comes with this particular awning, are U bolts,
and they are primarily designed to go on, sort of,
more four wheel drive or heavier duty roof racks.
You will probably have roof racks
that have a little rubber panel in it
with a small channel underneath,
you'll need to make sure you're picking up
some Darche channel bolts in order to be able
to mount this to those kinds of roof racks.
The other really awesome thing
that I wanna mention about this before I go,
is that I said that it's really suitable
for going on the rear mount of your vehicle.
So many four wheel drivers have a side pull out awning,
and they want a little bit of extra coverage
around the back of your car.
This one is super ideal.
That's about it for the Darche 180 Eclipse Versatile awning.
You can get this at snowys.com.au
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