When we had our T25 we always wanted one of these awnings but price was out of our reach!
As always things are never simple with this build. Many emails back and forth with Fiamma agent! We settled on the F45 S 300 in black so it would blend a bit!
Because of the scissor hinge set up on our pop top (it is fairly normal these days because it gives a bit more room at that end!) means the brackets do not fit at the end. A lot of cutting and re drilling is required which I felt on receiving the fixing kit made things weaker for such a long awning. In the end I fitted the front bracket as per instructions. The "end" bracket was fitted as far to the rear as the OEM fixing would allow just over half way back. I also found that someone had done more or less this for similar reasons. Once fitted there was far to much "awning" to the rear of the middle bracket so I needed to make a bracket to stabilise the end of the awning.
Was a bit of a fiddle and I have not got the bracket as perfect as I would like but if it works with no stress factors I'll make another one! By bending it and having a couple of angles instead of just one it is pretty solid. The OEM brackets use 6 mm bolts, only one per bracket so I have used a 8 mm bolt and so far all is good!
I've still to roll it out in full as do not have the room to do it, but there is a business area close by so will take it down there to play
Rear bracket including yellow sand from overnight rain!
Front OEM brackets a lot neater but mine is tougher lol
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