Motorhome canopies

I have never seen that mentioned in the operating instructions they only say to drop one side for water runoff, however, I am not sure that you would be able to tension the canvas properly unless fully wound out, especially if using tight storm straps. It’s always sensible to wind it in if a storm is coming, especially on the continent, but if you keep an eye on the weather maybe a partially wound out canopy is fine.

If we are doing an overnight some where and it is raining we wind our Thule Omnistore out just enough to keep the rain clear of the door 

We don’t always wind our Fiamma fully out, depends where we are parked up. We don’t leave it partially wound out overnight though, fully out, or fully in overnight, depending on the wind conditions.

Thanks, no we've never seen this advice anywhere either. 

Our thoughts are, providing it's secured properly its fine. 

If you have storm straps on when it's out say half way and you put them coming out the front of the canopy it does tension the canvas fine.

 

We don't wind it out without the legs down and straps on at all times, so if it's partially out and the weather is ok we do leave it overnight. 

After friends of ours saw their canopy ripped off and the metal arms buckled over the roof we've always left a little bit on the roller rather than stretch it right out. This might give a bit of extra resilience if the worst starts to happen?

Always on a slight tilt to remove water.

This last week away we've left it out with storm straps, hardly any wind and lovely sunshine, we needed it for welcome shade.

We tend to wind ours fully out but that is because we are using it as a sun shade. It is always wound in at night, rarely left up. I can't see any reason why it can't be left partially wound out, except perhaps that the folding arms are not fully tensioned. 

David

Do the arms need to be fully tensioned?

We put storm straps on the fixing at the top of the upright legs and then peg them out tight, as they are racket straps you can get them really tight so that will tension the canopy. 

Our thoughts to, if canvas is fully out. Having a little on the roller is surely better. 

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