Durable 6-1/2' long awning provides cover from the hot sun and summer rains. Simple one-person setup with integrated telescoping poles. Clamps onto your mid-size vehicle's roof rack crossbars. Includes SKS lock cores.
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Note: When mounting the awning ensure that your minimum crossbar spread (measurement X) is atleast 24". And that the length of unsupported awning from your crossbar (measurement Y) does not exceed 47".
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (26 Customer Reviews)
Durable 6-1/2' long awning provides cover from the hot sun and summer rains. Simple one-person setup with integrated telescoping poles. Clamps onto your mid-size vehicle's roof rack crossbars. Includes SKS lock cores.I put it on a New Camp teardrop trailer with a Yakima roof rack. Fits perfectly!
Quick shipping. Tracking information is at another level!!! Good pricing and tech support. I don't do reviews. This one is justified. Will be a repeat customer. 5 freaking stars.
The rubber gasket to hold the poles is not adequate.
Very well constructed.
I love it!
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Your delivery was so fast! The Slim Shady awning arrived in perfect condition and fit as advertised.
You have a customer for life!
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Easy to install, just had to find a good mounting spot. Yakima always makes quality products as this one is well done. Suuuuper fast shipping and customer support is spot on! Couldn't find this particular awning anywhere else but here! Thanks again!!
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As advertised, high quality product, super-easy installation with very clear instructions, this awning is a great addition to the rig I'm building. The 8' can be a bit challenging to deploy with one person but doable and it's totally worth the extra shade space especially in the AZ sun. etrailer is awesome as usual, easy ordering, great communications throughout.
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1 yr later, so far so good. A bit tough to setup on your own. Well constructed. If you can fit it, 8ft is the way to go for multiple people. I like how low I can make one end to create nice angled shelter against wind at night for my equipment.
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Arrived within a week. Unpacked, all material present and felt well made. Installation was simple and secure. Comes on and off easy.
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Excellent product. Super easy to install. super easy to deploy and stow. Looks very good on my truck. Using it this week camping. Great for some shade after a long bike ride.
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Product arrived slightly damaged but was able to still install it and quality of the product overall is great
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Many thanks to you and the crew. After I received the original order, which UPS and the USPS managed to mangle, you had Rhino Rack send the part directly to me. It arrived in a long cardboard box made from two shorter boxes taped end to end. They tapered the end of the bottom box to a small hole to stabilize the middle of this pole, and encased the top and bottom of the pole in some styrofoam so they wouldn't shift. It arrived in good order. It was quick and easy to install, though customers need to know they'll have to carefully drill out the rivets on the free end, taking care to preserve the little washers there. They'll also need two 5/32" pop rivets with a 1/4" working range, and a rivet tool in order to reinstall the awning to the pole. The pole comes with a composite hinge ring installed, so no need to pull the old one off the pole they are replacing. A word about the Foxwing awning: I own two: One on my rooftop tent that I use on my Land Cruiser, and one on my truck-mounted camper. Though there are a couple of other foxwing-style awnings which are less...fiddly...in that they don't require as much staking down with ropes, etc., their price point is about twice what the Foxwing's is. Well anchored, our Foxwing has just sat there through a microburst in Zion which featured lightning, pelting rain, and hailstones the size of quarters, but the anchoring needs to be very well attended to. If the ground is loose, or you can't really anchor the guy ropes well, it is best to stow the awning if the weather looks very windy. I needed to repair my Foxwing because of an incident which occurred in Glacier this last summer. The ground wasn't very good, and the report was for fairly high winds, so we set about stowing the Foxwing...because I didn't expect the ground anchors to hold. My usual method is to unfasten the anchor strap which attaches the top strut to the rack when the awning is at full deployment, then walk the awning around, pulling the vertical supports as I go, and keeping firm control of the furled awning. I had the assistance of a friend impatient with my plodding process. He went in front of me and harvested all the vertical poles. Unfortunately, as I was gathering in the awning, a 60mph gust swept down from the hills, striking the top of the awning. The unsupported horizontal braces bent under the load, and one of the metal hinge pieces on the end of one strut fractured. That pole struck me forcefully on the head. I started talking like Donald Duck, while continuing to wrestle the awning to a place we could just anchor it, and wait out the wind. I was able to partially straighten the bent pole, at least to the point where the awning could be stowed, and by driving out the drift pin which held the pole into the broken metal hinge piece, was able to run a couple of courses of thin stainless wire through the drift pin hole and around the hinge pin, anchoring the base of that pole and allowing it to be stowed. The broken hinge piece was replaced with a composite replacement, which I think is more robust, and is included on the new racks, standard. The bent pole couldn't be repaired, and that's the one you sent me a replacement for. So: This is a really robust awning, but its weak point is that the anchoring needs to be done very well. Otherwise, I'd stow it in winds above about 15-20 mph. We now carry an assortment of stakes, from 14" long construction spikes for hard ground, to screw-in anchors for soft ground and sand. We also carry a bunch of 6 foot NRS straps, which are good for wrapping around trees and rocks, and then hooking to the adjustable anchor ropes from the awning. The awning ropes don't tolerate much abrasion, so we let the NRS straps suck up that punishment. So far, so good. Again, thank you for the extraordinary effort to which you all went to provide me with this very awkward-to-ship part. Hint to the USPS: Don't try to put an 8 foot long pole in a 7 foot long delivery jeep. Just sayin'. Stan
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EXACTLY WHAT I EXPECTED AND ARRIVED ON TIME
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