Replacement Drive Head Motor Gear Pack for Solera Power RV Awnings

by: Cate S11/16/2023

F’g junk! I spent several hundreds having a welder repair ir twice. Replaced it once from you, left NC 1 yr ago
o & am ready to move again. But the damn thing won’t work- feel like cutting it off to replace with manual. Yours has never worked but one time a year ago. I even Gorrila taped it up for transport. Never again!! Also as a 83 yr old widow I have each time had to hire a repair man to do the work.1693591

Same as original. Used bolts,washers, and locking nuts to make more of a secure and tighter fit. Not sure who thought self tapping screws would hold up over time. The engineers of this one really "stepped up". Hopefully it lasts but unsure. It's a stupid design over all but glad etrailer has the parts I needed.1650916

Gear pack worked as it intended to! Excellent product from an excellent company! Fit in my 14’ solera awning! Was quoted about $400 to have someone come out and look at it and maybe try to see what was wrong with my awning. Decided to take matters into my own hands and with a help of[{online] I was able to figure out what parts I needed and how to fix it. Took me about 20min to fix my awning. Now it’s up and running again! Thanks etrailer for your service and support! Saved me a little over $300!1281251

Hue

4/4/2023

It’s been about a year now with this part and it’s till running like a charm! No complaints at all I’m fact, I was able to help a few RV’ers with the same issue! Thanks again etrailer! Can’t recommend you guys enough!

Put the part in and tested it out..no problems…

Just brought the trailer out for its first trip since the install While letting the awning out for the first time it broke again. Plastic sleeve seems to be the culprit. No chance of finding one here so zip ties hopefully will hold it until I get home.

I guess you have keep buying them until you get one that works:)1627750

Excellent service, I order this particular part. And was surprised how fast it got to me. Will order from etrailer.com again.1657601

Great , I wanted the gears as a spare set! My awning has been giving me trouble, so now I have spare gears and pins, which have sheared at least once. Thanks for the spare parts.1616908

Doesn’t seem to be any better than the factory one. Installed it, worked great for about a week. Only pulled in the awning 2 times during that time and the third time it flew back out to discover it did the same thing as the factory one did!1288634

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Jenny N.

4/29/2022

I will have our Customer Service team reach out to you.

Easy to replace, after reading a lot of articles and research, slightly concerned about the reliability new part. But that can go for a lot of things. Overall went well1618172

Like others have said, this part is weak and the whole set up is a poor design. The original gear pack on our awning shattered after maybe 5 uses, and our camper is barely 2 years old!. We order this replacement gear pack, which to our dismay, shattered on the second use. We are now on our third one, and I need to order a spare knowing the current one will likely fail as well, but at $60 a pop the price is adding up. It is disappointing when you are packing up to vacate your spot by the check out time and bang, the awning springs to life when you are trying to roll it in and it won't roll up! It is bummer to have to organize friends and neighbors to help roll up the awning by hand. We have a system now though.....bring tools to unhitch campground picnic table, move the table under the awning so you can stand on it while rolling in the awning by hand while your friends push the support arms into place, then strap the frame to the camper so at least you can drive home.....finally, replace picnic table and any mounts disassembled in step 1. We permanently mounted straps on our awning frame to strap the thing to the side of the camper when traveling because I'd hate to see this gear pack shatter while driving on the interstate!1483156

Great product. Exactly what I needed to repair a customers rv awning!1666369

Perfect! Thanks guys! Super fast deli very!1680883

This replacement part broke first time out after repair.1552159

Brooke M.

4/11/2023

Oh, no! I will have our customer service team reach out to you right away.

Ive read other reviews and agree its a poor design. Will update my review once its been tested for a few months. I havent been able to find a manual that shows installation procedures but i took pics as i took it apart and its all i had. Easy to install if you pay attention during dismantling.1519791

Parts fit perfect 1663820

Our awning was not retracting. We found that drive head motor was stripped. This fixed out issue and our awning was back to normal! Easy install.1546810

Perfect fit. 1656349

Perfect in all respect. Service was exc ellent1628184

Excellent will definitely buy from etrailers again1526408

Exact replacement for the awning. Hard to fine but available here on this site. The pin ordered did not fit this drive.1418454

As advertised, easy to install! 1583356

All I received was the outer plastic shell. no gears no aluminum part at all. The pictures clearly show outer housing with all inner parts to include gaskets and gears with alumimum gear holder.1300446

Brooke M.

5/25/2022

Thanks for letting us know. I have sent your information along to our customer service team and they should be reaching out in the near future.

Always help you get the right part or product. Fast shipping and follow up1542820

THANK YOU! GREAT SERVICE 1558562

Delivered in a timely manner. 1531222

Just the part I needed to repair my awning and make it usable again.. etrailer.com is great for finding all those hard to find rv parts. Thank you.1209640