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- Hey guys, Ben from Snowys here today.
We're down at a four-wheel drive show
and the Darche stand have kindly invited us down
to talk about their products.
I'm going to show you how to set up
and back away the Darche 270 Eclipse awning.
Easy to do by one person, both set up and pack up,
and it gives you coverage right down one side
of your vehicle and to the rear.
I'm going to get started.
First thing I need to do is take it out of the bag.
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So when we fold it out, there's actually six arms.
There's two on the left-hand side
and four on the right-hand side.
It comes with straps, we got to pull this right around
to the side and tension it with a strap.
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Now two straps are included with your awning.
They come with a good steel buckle on the end here.
One end attaches into the awning here to secure the end.
The same clip features on the other end,
you just need to secure that to somewhere else
on your vehicle and then we just tension it,
and we need to do the same thing
at the other end of the awning.
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That's almost set up.
It's in freestanding mode
and you shouldn't leave it in freestanding mode.
There are three poles that are attached underneath here
that we need to extend to give us stability.
So we'll set the poles up.
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Now there's three extra poles, separate poles,
that come with it,
which are just regular alloy extendable camping poles.
They can actually be packed up on top of the awning
when you've got it packed away.
I like to keep them separate in my vehicle,
but they go in the remaining three arms
that don't have a pole in it.
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Now that's the Darche 270 awning almost set up.
You might be wondering what this little flap
of fabric here is.
It's just to give a little bit of protection.
This is an extended vehicle
so it doesn't quite offer the protection
that in the right spot,
normally this would be a little bit forward
to give you protection over the bonnet.
Last thing we need to make sure we do
is put guy ropes in place.
There's six guy points on the corners here.
You get enough guy ropes and pegs to set it up in your kit.
Important to note that these points here are not guy points.
These are actually what they call rain gutters.
You can attach a guy rope to it
and just tension it slightly, creates a slope,
allows the water to run off.
That's how you set up a Darche 270 awning.
I'm going to show you how to pack it away now.
First thing we need to do is remove the poles
and loosen the straps on the end.
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From here we need to fold the arms in.
Before we do that we want
to make sure this fabric's hanging nice and neat.
It's going to make it so much easier
to fit in the bag afterwards.
Now as we face the awning, we want to fold
the two left-hand poles first.
We'll do the four right-hand ones after.
So we push these in towards the car.
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Now these stack one on top of each other,
up against the vehicle
and then there's four arms at this end.
They stack against each other,
so we've got one, two, three, four,
and that folds in against the back as well.
And before I go any further,
there's a couple of things I want to check.
Firstly, I want to make sure my straps
at the top here are accessible, so I fish around for them.
Make sure they're not caught up in the poles.
There's three of those along the top.
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And the other thing I want to do is make sure
that this fabric is hanging nice and flat
so that it folds as compact as it can
to get it back in the bag.
This looks pretty good
but this one here is a bit bunched up.
Just going to straighten that out.
Now from here, Darche call it a three-step process.
There's a fold, a roll and then a fold.
We want this fabric to end up
up on the side of the poles here,
not hanging underneath.
So the first step we do is fold.
And then we roll it nice and tightly.
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Now we don't roll it all the way to the top.
We need to leave a bit of gap
so that we can lift the fabric up in front of the poles.
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So this is now level with the arms,
rather than hanging below.
From there I can do the straps up.
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From here, we flip the bag over and do it up.
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That's how you set up and pack away
the Darche 270 Eclipse awning.
They come with a two-year warranty.
You can pick them up off our website.
Our lowest prices everyday, free delivery
to just about anywhere in Australia at snowys.com.au.
Thanks for watching, we'll see you next time.
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