- G'day, folks, Ben from Snowys here today,
this is the Oztent Foxwing 270 Awning.
Gives me coverage on this side
and to the rear of my car.
I'm gonna show you how to set it up
and how to pack it away safely today.
Let's get started.
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- We're down here today at the Brownhill Creek
Caravan and Holiday Park in Adelaide's leafy
eastern suburbs, just 15 minutes from the city,
15 minutes from the beach,
and they've kindly lent us some space today
so that we can show you how to set up and pack away
the Oztent Foxwing 270 Awning.
I've got it mounted up on the car, here,
we've got another video on how we mounted it up there,
and I may make some modifications on it,
'cause I see it's quite high at the moment,
but I can show you today how to set it up,
with it as it is.
Now these are 2.5 metres long, they're about
19 centimetres high, and about 12 centimetres deep
when they're packed up,
and they weigh about 18 kilos.
To get started setting it up, the first thing we need to do
is remove this PVC tyre cover off the top of it.
So you come around to the rear of the car here,
and we've got some Velcro patches here to secure it
around the actual bracket.
Now this end always sits to the rear of the car,
if we had the driver's side awning installed,
there on the other side, this is always got to be
at the rear.
We just remove these Velcro straps from here,
there's a large strap at the end,
two smaller straps that wrap around the back, there,
and from here, we can unzip the zip all the way
to the front of the car, just being careful
not to catch anything as we go, right up to the top,
and we can now push the cover, the awning cover,
over the back of the awning and out the way.
Now Oztent have quite cleverly included space
within this cover and some clips up here to store
all of our poles and pegs within the awning, here.
This bag, here, is secured by these orange straps,
that are clips within the awning, there's three of them.
If we undo those, this bag then folds down.
This bag can actually be completely removed,
if we like, there's three more clips on the orange straps,
here, that we can undo and store that
in the back of the car, I'm gonna leave it hanging there,
that way I can't lose the bag.
What I am gonna do, though, is take the poles out,
which are in this pocket, here,
and some of the pegs and guy ropes out,
and get them all ready.
So I'll just mention what comes in your kit, here,
with the Oztent.
You get your four awning poles, here,
or your four upright poles that go on the end of each bar.
There's about 14 pegs, and they're good, heavy duty pegs.
There's four guy ropes here.
And this strap is what we use to attach the awning,
or secure it, at the far end back to our roof rack.
That'll make more sense when I show you how to use it later.
So I'm just gonna lay the poles and the guy ropes out
roughly in position, and then we can start
to set the awning up.
Now I've got my four poles, four pegs, and four guy ropes
roughly in position, so I'm not delaying the awning
being set up without being secured.
Next thing I wanna do is grab the strap
that came with our kit, now there's two straps
that come with your awning,
the short one attaches to our awning to secure it back
against the car, the long strap actually attaches
to our roof rack, so we can clip the awning to it.
Now where to clip it to the roof rack on the other side
of your car, you just need to make sure you've got
enough length for this strap to reach
roughly where the awning finishes at the back of the car,
so if I attach this roughly in the middle of my roof rack,
here, I've got plenty of adjustment to tension the awning,
once I've got it set up.
So we're now ready to start to set the actual awning up.
So we've got two straps up here that we need to undo
to release the fabric on the awning,
and that will then unfurl down in front of us, there.
Just let this sit loose; that's the drain panel,
we'll show you what that is later.
And then at the end of the awning, here, we've got
a rubber strap that's holding all the spire arms in place.
Now this is just a rubber strap, sits over a plastic lug
on the bottom, here, we release that,
and each of these spire arms sits in their own
plastic clip, here, so if we release all of those,
keep hold of them, these are now ready to swing out.
Now, it's at this point that you're most likely
to damage your awning, especially if it's windy.
Ideally, if it's windy, you wanna be able to
pull this out to the first point, here,
put the pole in place while someone else is holding this,
and then do the next one and go around.
You don't wanna leave it set up without any support.
It's not too bad here today,
so I'm actually going to go all the way and set this up,
and put the poles in after, but I will keep a close eye
on the wind and what it's doing.
So once we're at the back of the car,
we grab the strap that we left on our spare wheel, here,
we can just loop that around the end arm, here,
and this will now attach to the clip
that we secured to our roof rack earlier.
Give it a bit of tension, just so it looks tight,
and now, I'm gonna run around and put all the poles
and pegs in place, I don't wanna leave the awning
unsupported like this for too long.
So now I'll work quickly to put these poles into place,
I didn't quite line them up, but at least they're
roughly where I need them to be.
To set these up now, we put the pole
up through the eyelet here, they've got a curved top
on them to stop them from popping off the top.
Put that in place, we now grab our guy rope,
put it over the top, and peg it into place.
We do that for each one of the poles,
that's our awning, all set up and secured.
I could adjust the pole height a little bit, if I liked,
but make sure this strap's tight so that it's taut
all the way around.
I'm happy with the height as it is at the moment,
'cause I can walk comfortably underneath this.
Now the last thing we need to do
is peg this drain panel down.
I'll show you how this works, this is actually attached
to the point at which the water might run into it
at the top, here.
Without this here, there can be a bit of water
that drips down, and it would go
on the back of the car, here, if I had the car open.
This allows us to kinda channel some of the water away
from the car, and down the side.
If I kinda skirt this around, the water
that runs in here will dribble down this fabric.
If I come to the bottom down here,
Oztent have actually included two smaller pegs
for this drain panel, here, just to put in place
here and here, and that way all the water does end up
running down the back of the awning there,
channels onto the ground and not into our car.
Now, in wet weather, this is only really designed
to channel a small amount of water,
the small amount that does happen to get in here
onto the ground.
If we put these poles up really high
and angled all the water back that way,
we'd end up with a very wet area under our awning, here.
So what we do in wet weather is grab these poles
and lower them a little bit,
on all four so that the awning slopes down
and away from the car.
We then grab the other four guy ropes
that came with our kit,
attach 'em to these point in the middle of each side,
and pull the sides down.
That then creates a gutter for the water to run into
and away from the car.
I'll tie them in place and peg 'em all out.
Now there's one other thing that I haven't mentioned yet,
and that are these Velcro tabs that feature at each pole.
We do these up around the pole and that just keeps this
kinda storm guard in place from flapping around,
and gives us a bit more protection over the top
of the zipper, when the optional side walls are attached.
That is our Foxwing 270 Awning all set up,
with the extra guy ropes in place,
to help the water drain away from the awning
in really bad weather, not that I need it today.
That was pretty easy, did it by myself,
if it's windy weather, make sure you get help,
because you don't want to damage the hinges and the poles
on your awning.
Now pack up is almost as easy.
What I'm actually gonna do as I pack up
is leave all the pegs and poles in place,
and pull them out as I go,
so I'm not ever letting go of these poles, here.
That way the wind can't catch them
and it can't cause any damage as I'm in pack-up mode.
Now I'm just thinking ahead a little here,
'cause as soon as I undo this strap,
I don't wanna let go of these poles,
'cause it's coming up a little bit windy, here,
and I wanna hold on to these 'cause I don't
want a gust of wind to grab it.
So, I need to do the things that I can't reach,
once I've undone this.
So I need to unpeg my drain panel,
and I also need to take the guy ropes
out of these central guy points,
'cause I'm not gonna be able to reach those pegs
while I'm holding this.
So now I'm going to release our buckle, here,
that's securing our awning to our roof rack.
I can leave this end of the strap attached
to the awning, if I like, and as I go around,
I'm just going to drop the awning poles,
'cause they can sit on the ground,
they're not gonna get damaged
if they just sit on the ground,
but the awning will, if a gust of wind catches it.
So go around and do this one by one.
And as we go, make sure our spires, as they call 'em,
stack on top of each other neatly, and all this fabric
hangs neatly in between.
If we do that as we fold it, it's gonna make rolling it up
so much easier.
Once we get up to here, just move our rubber strap
out of the way and clip each of these back in place.
Then we secure it all in place with our rubber strap, there,
so they don't go anywhere.
Now, folding this up, we need to fold this
up into a triangle first.
Now it can be easier without these guy ropes on here,
'cause they do tend to flap around a little bit,
so this might look a little bit awkward.
We fold it up into a triangle like this, first,
and then we kind of fold it and roll it, like this,
and we wanna get it as tight as we can,
'cause it's gonna make securing the awning much easier.
Now, grab our straps, here, which should lie onto the top,
bearing in mind that the cover on top here
is in a sail track, so it may move,
so you need to just make sure these are lined up.
So I clipped these in place, two of those, one there and
one further to the front.
Now this lump here may be a problem with the guy ropes,
we'll see how we go.
We'll grab our poles and put 'em in our bag, here.
And before we secure our bag up here,
we gotta take our drain panel and lay it on top.
So if we go along here, just unclip this,
tuck it in underneath, so it's secured to that
in both locations, and we can then secure
our peg and pole bag up against the awning, here.
It's all in place, if we can try to flatten that out
as much as we can, it's gonna make
putting the cover back on.
Now what I need to do is flip the PVC cover back over
and carefully do the zip-up.
As we go, we just need to make sure we're pulling any fabric
out of the way so it's not getting caught in the zipper.
This corner zip is a little bit awkward,
so just ease it around and hopefully,
if we tuck all this up under here,
we can get the zip done up the rest of the way.
But as I get further along, I think I'm realising
that the guy ropes that I've zipped up inside
are going to cause me problems.
So I can see this fat section here, where all those
guy ropes are, are causing the issue,
so I'm basically going to unzip it
and just take the guy ropes off,
put 'em in the pocket at the end.
So, removing those guy ropes from the middle, here,
and putting them in my little bag at the end, here,
has made doing this up much easier.
A couple of other pointers, this cover is actually just
sealed in or just attached via the sail tracks,
and I've found it moved forward a little bit
during the day, so I just needed to pull it right back
to make sure it fit neatly.
Now this zip doesn't do up really easily,
it's firm, it's doable, you just need to make sure
you're pushing any fabric in and out of the way
as you go, but the good thing is
that it all packs in there nice and firmly,
which is what you want
when you're on a rough four-wheel drive track.
Once we get the zip to the end, here,
we need to grab these two flaps, here,
the top one down first, the bottom one can hold
the zip in place, there, goes up over the top,
and then this big flap, here, seals right over the end,
and that's our Foxwing 270 Awning from Oztent
all packed away.
Now, I did that solo today, I didn't have any help,
if there was a really windy day, I'd certainly want help
but you can certainly do it by yourself on a breezy day
with a bit of thought.
I reckon these are a great product,
you can pick 'em up online at Snowys.com.au,
lowest prices, every day of the year,
I hope that was useful, thanks for watching,
and we'll see you next time.
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