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Hi there RV and camper owners. Today we're going to be replacing the awning fabric here with Solera's replacement fabric. These fabrics come in a variety of different sizes and color scheme, so you can get the best one to match your particular RV or trailer. We're going to be covering in detail on how to measure and determine the appropriate size for your trailer, as well as in detail steps on how to get that old fabric removed and your new one installed. If your old worn out fabric looks like this, where you've got stains and mold and dirt and debris, sure you can clean some of it but it's probably never going to come completely clean again. And to top it off, we've got some tears and stuff here, so when we're sitting outside, we get drips on our head.
The best way to correct that is to just replace the entire fabric. Now, regardless of how long your awning is, they are all going to install the same. Now whether it's a short one or a long one, let's go ahead and get into it and get this old one retired and a nice new one up on there. And now don't worry if your awning has a built-in LED strip, we also have RV awnings replacement fabric with the LED strip installed in them as well. With a replacement fabric the main thing that you need to figure out is how big the fabric is that you're going to be replacing, because the replacement is going to be basically the same for all of our Solera fabrics here for your Solera systems.
So in order to determine which fabric is going to fit your motorhome, cause you can't necessarily just go off the make and model of your trailer or RV because there's so many different sub models and you can have various different lengths of awnings that can come pre-installed on those, based on those various sub models and options that are out there. So, to determine the correct size, we're gonna measure center to center between our arms. And what I like to do is clip onto the inside lip of one arm, and then if I stretch this out from the inside lip of that arm, and go all the way down and go to the outside lip of our other arm, that's going to give us our center measurement. And we're right at 21' for this setup, so that way we know we need to order a 21' fabric. Now the fabric itself is not going to be exactly 21'.
It's going to be properly sized to fit an awning that is spaced 21' apart. So, whatever yours measure center to center, make sure you order that correct fabric here at etrailer. We begin our installation by extending our awning out by about a foot here. We then want to take our arm here and we want to tie it to the upper pin here, and that'll ensure that it's going to stay in place for us here. We're going to use some zip ties.
You can use some twine if you've got that at home. Whatever you really have to just loosely secure it. And we'll secure the other side the same way. Once we've got both sides zip tied, we're going to take the screw here that's holding our fabric into the rail, and we're going to remove it. In most cases, that's going to be a 1/4" socket. And then you also want to see the gap here. That's where the cord for our fabric runs through. And it's secured into place with a single screw as well. So we're going to remove that. We're using a Phillips screw to remove this one. It looks like it would also accept the square bit. We're going to be removing those bolts over on the other side as well to get our fabric free so we can get it out of here. Now I'm going to use a little paint stick. I j

[@shadowsp8888]

I have the exact same trailer. Thanks for the tutorial. !

[@bayblue9307]

We Appreciate the information it was very helpful. The only thing we would add is do not! do not lay the fabric on your lawn for any amount of time. We laid it to re-roll it for approximately five minutes and it burnt our lawn. Must be the chemicals on the fabric. The sun was out but it was a brief procedure.

[@etrailer]

Thanks for that advice!
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[@harderja]

i see that you did not fully extend the awning until the fabric stopped it. If you had, would the awing arms over extended? Mine did.

[@EmanM45]

Will this work for mechanical Solera awnings?

[@tonyfontana8222]

I just paid to have my awning fabric replaced on my 2021 keystone cougar, the fabric came out of the track. Keystone wouldn’t warranty it ,so it cost me $1100 to have the solera fabric replaced!

[@Jake-st5mm]

Ouch!

[@user-fp1eh7ze1e]

How about the length ?