I notice that Eric added some pics of his awning to the gallery yesterday which included this pic of a wheel arch cover.

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Any more information?

Randa

That's posh.

Is Eric a wealthy man?

In my limited experience, any low-volume purpose-made item with Hymer written on it is likely to be very expensive.

It looks pretty swanky, mind...

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Far too posh for my van ( we still use a beer crate as a step ) but I though other folks might like one.

Randa

He regularly gets into them, especially when 'tired and emotional', Andy

The "spat" is the little mudguard Andy often retrofitted to Minis in the 60's before fitting wider wheels although they also used the term when talking about covering the wheelarch for aerodynamic reasons on sports cars. (only the back wheels for obvious reasons )

Randa

Have you ever tried fitting them to a Croc? Rather you that me.

Far more sensible on a duck, Like Scrooge McDuck, related to Aaron Calder, Bah! Humbug!.

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Randa

Do you have a link to it Eric?

Randa

When using our full awning we have resorted to a refashioned metal coat hanger with a canvas covering. It fits into the wheel arch and over the top of the full length draft skirt.

Randa

I wish you hadn't asked that Mike. It won't give you any inspiration as, because we've not used our full awning for some time, it was buried under a mass of other camping junk so is now a bit bruised and battered. However I've just taken two pics of it to show you how not to do it. I can probably reshape it though if I need to use it again.

In good old Blue Peter tradition I used two wire coat hangers. One to form the basic shape to fit under the wheel arch and one as the centre prop which can be bent onto (not into) the ground. I then covered it with spare Protec Cover material using duck tape etc to hold it together. The lower half of the material can be lifted over and outside the awning draft skirt although the only pic I can lay hands on shows it tucked in.

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Randa