I have a small tarp that I install as a sun shade on the driver's side. I
use it to shade the Vanagon exterior wall behind the fridge. In hot weather
it helps to keep the cooling fins behind the fridge cooler when I can't
park with that side facing north.
Bill
90 Westy Syncro
Lake Tahoe, CA

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> From: Ed Stevens <ejstevens@EARTHLINK.NET>
> To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Odd awning placement
> Date: Saturday, October 31, 1998 5:35 PM
>
> On 10/31/98 12:38 PM, Ari Ollikainen eloquently inscribed
>
> >        Yesterday I passed a ~88 camper on the freeway with an awning
> >        on the driver's (left hand) side! Why would someone put an
> >        awning on the side opposite the sliding door?
> >
> >
> >
> When I bought Dire Wolf, my 84 Wolfburg GL Westie it had a Catalina 2500
> awning on the passenger side.  Later, after finding an original VW drive
> away tent, I began to think about moving the awning to the drivers side
> for shade on the port side.  the tent would be on the passenger side,
> which is really the only side it can be on.  But the awning would provide
> shade on either side.  I do not think the awning above the propane vent
> would be any issue whatsoever.
>
> I have not made that move because (1) the awning is on real tight and the
> lower support brackets are screwed into the bus, (2) my awning also has
> bug netting that extends from the awning roof to the ground and (3)
> another portion of the netting fits under the passenger rear wheel well
> and under the sliding door.  So the awning really cries out for the
> sliding door side of the camper.
>
> If my PO had not installed such a great awning and anti-bug sysytem, I
> might have moved the awning to the drivers side.  As it is, I erect the
> tent away from the vanagon.
>
>
>
> -peace
> Ed Stevens
> Valley Forge PA