Best 1994 Toyota Land Cruiser Car Awnings

In all very happy with the BatWing awning. I do wish it was heavier duty fabric! No issues during the first year of use. Would purchase again!

Super nice and easy to install. Needs better quality hinges and not plastic. I’ve already started modifying the hinges myself using 3/4” eye bolts.

Love this awning! I installed a Batwing awning on a RAM Promaster High Roof van. Had to purchase extended legs for it so they will reach the ground. It is great to be able to be protected from the elements at both the side and the back of the van and while moving between side and back. Some things to be aware of: 1) At least one ladder is needed for opening and closing the awning in this high-roof situation. And it is best to do it with 2 people. 2. With the crossbars mounted on the vehicle's standard middle and rear mounting posts, the awning does not completely cover the sliding door. The front 24 to 30" or so of the door is exposed. If the crossbars are mounted to the front and middle mounting points, most of the sliding door will be covered, but the awning will not extend as far out on the rear. 3. Rain will come through between the side of the van and the awning. The crossbars need to be shifted as far to the driver's side as possible in order to minimize the gap between the side of the van and the awning. 4. The height of these vans makes the awning even more susceptible to being pulled up by wind gusts. Make sure the awning is secured to the ground. This is another reason why it is best to open the awning with 2 people.

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This is the one piece of camping gear that once it's set up people just come by and say "whoah". First off, it's huge and the amount of coverage it gives is amazing and makes single panel awnings just look silly in comparison. I love how easy it is to set-up which makes it a no-brainer whether or not to deploy it, always yes. Here's a few tips after using it for a year... If it's windy at all stake it down and if you have a buddy to help with setup all the better. These things are like giant sails and I've snapped a few of the hinge pieces due to big gusts and not staking it down. The GOOD news is that the hinges are designed to snap under load (instead of the more expensive arms) and are easily replaceable and you can do it with basic hand tools by yourself so keep the spares they give you in the stake pouch. You can extend the coverage with the zip-on panels ...or just get some spring clamps and attach a sheet/tarp/towel/whatever for the extra shade. I had someone come up and chat me up about the awning and he asked this simple question, "if you had to do it over would you buy this one again?". 100% yes.

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Best awning on the market! Bought it a year ago and went with it couple times. We took it for camping and drove couple thousand miles off the road, however it says its not for off-roading and it stood well, heard some rattling noise on the rugged terrain so I cranked and it there was no noise anymore. Also after setting the camp there was a strong wind and I was afraid it would break the awning as I did not use the pegs, awning arm was disconnected and there was no bend or break (thinking of getting sun shade and it will be more secure during the wind)! Don't know about the other brands but THULE is the way to go!

I was going to purchase an ARB awning until I saw the Thule. Perfect size for my 2020 Ford Transit Connect with crank out awning instead of the ARB's hand unroll and roll back up to store. Enclosed casing instead of a zippered bag as well as a quality build overall. The added cost for a quality product was well worth it.

I'm very happy with my awning. I have the Rhino Rack Pioneer roof rack so it was very simple to install with the included hardware. I wan't sure by the description if it came with the zipper for the optional extension, so I purchased that as well. Turns out it came with the zipper so I have an extra one if needed in the future. It's not as simple to deploy as some of the new ones hitting the market with automatic scissoring extensions that can hold themselves up without poles or guy lines, but it's also not as expensive or bulky as those models. Everyone has to choose what works best for them. I like this awning and it holds up well. The added effort in setting it up and taking it down does not bother me. If I were to see any design flaw it would be the use of plastic for the hinges that let the poles fold out from the housing. Nothing broke yet, but those make me a bit nervous when I'm setting everything up.

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We bought this awning because we did a trip across America in our 1999 Chevy Diesel Suburban last year and used a 10x10 awning off the side at night, while it worked and stayed together the whole trip- it was still a 1/2 hour set up time, and there was a gap between truck and tent at all times. (Not great for rain). We plan on going back to the areas we want to spend more time, and this will allow us to have our shade/rain protection and a 5 minute set up time! The following pictures are of what we used (old system) to the new Rhino Rack Sunseeker 55sq ft awning from etrailer.com set up in the driveway- new adventures are in the beautiful future!!! Thank you to the awesome staff at etrailer.com for the great price, ease of ordering and fast shipping!

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Many thanks to you and the crew. After I received the original order, which UPS and the USPS managed to mangle, you had Rhino Rack send the part directly to me. It arrived in a long cardboard box made from two shorter boxes taped end to end. They tapered the end of the bottom box to a small hole to stabilize the middle of this pole, and encased the top and bottom of the pole in some styrofoam so they wouldn't shift. It arrived in good order. It was quick and easy to install, though customers need to know they'll have to carefully drill out the rivets on the free end, taking care to preserve the little washers there. They'll also need two 5/32" pop rivets with a 1/4" working range, and a rivet tool in order to reinstall the awning to the pole. The pole comes with a composite hinge ring installed, so no need to pull the old one off the pole they are replacing. A word about the Foxwing awning: I own two: One on my rooftop tent that I use on my Land Cruiser, and one on my truck-mounted camper. Though there are a couple of other foxwing-style awnings which are less...fiddly...in that they don't require as much staking down with ropes, etc., their price point is about twice what the Foxwing's is. Well anchored, our Foxwing has just sat there through a microburst in Zion which featured lightning, pelting rain, and hailstones the size of quarters, but the anchoring needs to be very well attended to. If the ground is loose, or you can't really anchor the guy ropes well, it is best to stow the awning if the weather looks very windy. I needed to repair my Foxwing because of an incident which occurred in Glacier this last summer. The ground wasn't very good, and the report was for fairly high winds, so we set about stowing the Foxwing...because I didn't expect the ground anchors to hold. My usual method is to unfasten the anchor strap which attaches the top strut to the rack when the awning is at full deployment, then walk the awning around, pulling the vertical supports as I go, and keeping firm control of the furled awning. I had the assistance of a friend impatient with my plodding process. He went in front of me and harvested all the vertical poles. Unfortunately, as I was gathering in the awning, a 60mph gust swept down from the hills, striking the top of the awning. The unsupported horizontal braces bent under the load, and one of the metal hinge pieces on the end of one strut fractured. That pole struck me forcefully on the head. I started talking like Donald Duck, while continuing to wrestle the awning to a place we could just anchor it, and wait out the wind. I was able to partially straighten the bent pole, at least to the point where the awning could be stowed, and by driving out the drift pin which held the pole into the broken metal hinge piece, was able to run a couple of courses of thin stainless wire through the drift pin hole and around the hinge pin, anchoring the base of that pole and allowing it to be stowed. The broken hinge piece was replaced with a composite replacement, which I think is more robust, and is included on the new racks, standard. The bent pole couldn't be repaired, and that's the one you sent me a replacement for. So: This is a really robust awning, but its weak point is that the anchoring needs to be done very well. Otherwise, I'd stow it in winds above about 15-20 mph. We now carry an assortment of stakes, from 14" long construction spikes for hard ground, to screw-in anchors for soft ground and sand. We also carry a bunch of 6 foot NRS straps, which are good for wrapping around trees and rocks, and then hooking to the adjustable anchor ropes from the awning. The awning ropes don't tolerate much abrasion, so we let the NRS straps suck up that punishment. So far, so good. Again, thank you for the extraordinary effort to which you all went to provide me with this very awkward-to-ship part. Hint to the USPS: Don't try to put an 8 foot long pole in a 7 foot long delivery jeep. Just sayin'. Stan

Love that it mounts to my roof crossbars and it is out of the way so I can use my crossbars for other gear. Love the size but a little difficult for me to set up; take down is easier by myself. Will need leg tie-downs or weights. As an older female, it is pretty heavy to lift above my head and mount on the crossbars myself but it can be done. Took it on my almost 4,000 mile trip this summer, didn’t end up using it but was glad to have it just in case. It is nice to use in conjunction with my camping trailer awning, too. Great product for the price.

So far so good! Everything came ready for a quick and easy install. Quality seems good and sturdy and mounting options allowed it to easily match up on the underside of my Yakima HD bars. Been deployed a few times so far and out on one camping trip. Over all I’m very happy with the sun seeker!

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Haven’t had a chance to use it but install was very easy. One tool and about 10 minutes.

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I will just email this review to you here. So far the Thule roof mount awning appears to be a 5-Star product. Just now have it installed. This awning is very nice. It mounts tight to the roof with a foam rubber gasket to eliminate any potential rattles while driving or rain leaking in under the awning when in use. It has a low profile to minimize wind resistance while driving. The adapter kit which secures the Awning to the roof of the ProMaster Van is excellent quality and attaches quickly and securely. However, placing the awning into the adapter brackets is not as simple as the directions indicate. Once you figure out the proper procedure required(which is a bit different than the directions) it all went together nicely. Here are a couple of pictures. from this morning's installation. Not a very nice day here so the pics are marginal. Hopefully you received the return awning ok. Thanks for you good service,

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The awning arrived and was very well packaged. Installation was a little tricky until I realized that being on the roof of my van rather than on a ladder next to the van would make seating the connecting hooks far easier. I think the awning looks great and seems rock solid.

I mounted this awning to the back of my pick up cap. I chose this one for the dome shape so the rear door of the cap could be opened under the awning with little interference. Feels well made. And the awning easily mounted to a Rhino Rack roof track to make it look stealthy and snug to the roof. Only negative, is the dome tent poles are difficult to install in the pockets, but I assume this will get easier with use and as the temperature outside increases. I should have bought some sand screws for the beach.

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The Rhino-Rack Dome 1300 is a great addition to my Toyota Tacoma. I use my Tacoma for transporting SCUBA gear and the Awning is great for having shade at a dive site. Easy to setup and take down.

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I've been on the hunt for this awning for over a year as its been out of stock. There are other options out there for the Sprinter van but this one was the best choice for my rack. You do need to purchase the mounting brackets separately, which come with different options for attaching to crossbars amd roof rails. I had some roof rail pucks laying around that I used to attach the brackets too. This is very versatile and can be set up with the legs on the ground or with the Thule optional brackets(Purchase separately) that attach the legs to the van..this is great if setting up on a hard surface or if you need to keep your dog on a lead and not get tangled up.the only tricky part for me is that my van is tall so once I get the awning out about 2 ft, I have to hop in the van and get the legs out- no biggie.this is very nicely made and easy to set up take down. Lots of optinal accessories as well

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After a ton of research I chose the Hideaway roof rack mount awning for my Ford Transit van conversion project. The awning was easy to mount, (did so in about 1 hour with help of my wife). I mounted my roof rack mounting brackets upside down onto my home-made roof rack and it fits beautifully.

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Many thanks to you and the crew. After I received the original order, which UPS and the USPS managed to mangle, you had Rhino Rack send the part directly to me. It arrived in a long cardboard box made from two shorter boxes taped end to end. They tapered the end of the bottom box to a small hole to stabilize the middle of this pole, and encased the top and bottom of the pole in some styrofoam so they wouldn't shift. It arrived in good order. It was quick and easy to install, though customers need to know they'll have to carefully drill out the rivets on the free end, taking care to preserve the little washers there. They'll also need two 5/32" pop rivets with a 1/4" working range, and a rivet tool in order to reinstall the awning to the pole. The pole comes with a composite hinge ring installed, so no need to pull the old one off the pole they are replacing. A word about the Foxwing awning: I own two: One on my rooftop tent that I use on my Land Cruiser, and one on my truck-mounted camper. Though there are a couple of other foxwing-style awnings which are less...fiddly...in that they don't require as much staking down with ropes, etc., their price point is about twice what the Foxwing's is. Well anchored, our Foxwing has just sat there through a microburst in Zion which featured lightning, pelting rain, and hailstones the size of quarters, but the anchoring needs to be very well attended to. If the ground is loose, or you can't really anchor the guy ropes well, it is best to stow the awning if the weather looks very windy. I needed to repair my Foxwing because of an incident which occurred in Glacier this last summer. The ground wasn't very good, and the report was for fairly high winds, so we set about stowing the Foxwing...because I didn't expect the ground anchors to hold. My usual method is to unfasten the anchor strap which attaches the top strut to the rack when the awning is at full deployment, then walk the awning around, pulling the vertical supports as I go, and keeping firm control of the furled awning. I had the assistance of a friend impatient with my plodding process. He went in front of me and harvested all the vertical poles. Unfortunately, as I was gathering in the awning, a 60mph gust swept down from the hills, striking the top of the awning. The unsupported horizontal braces bent under the load, and one of the metal hinge pieces on the end of one strut fractured. That pole struck me forcefully on the head. I started talking like Donald Duck, while continuing to wrestle the awning to a place we could just anchor it, and wait out the wind. I was able to partially straighten the bent pole, at least to the point where the awning could be stowed, and by driving out the drift pin which held the pole into the broken metal hinge piece, was able to run a couple of courses of thin stainless wire through the drift pin hole and around the hinge pin, anchoring the base of that pole and allowing it to be stowed. The broken hinge piece was replaced with a composite replacement, which I think is more robust, and is included on the new racks, standard. The bent pole couldn't be repaired, and that's the one you sent me a replacement for. So: This is a really robust awning, but its weak point is that the anchoring needs to be done very well. Otherwise, I'd stow it in winds above about 15-20 mph. We now carry an assortment of stakes, from 14" long construction spikes for hard ground, to screw-in anchors for soft ground and sand. We also carry a bunch of 6 foot NRS straps, which are good for wrapping around trees and rocks, and then hooking to the adjustable anchor ropes from the awning. The awning ropes don't tolerate much abrasion, so we let the NRS straps suck up that punishment. So far, so good. Again, thank you for the extraordinary effort to which you all went to provide me with this very awkward-to-ship part. Hint to the USPS: Don't try to put an 8 foot long pole in a 7 foot long delivery jeep. Just sayin'. Stan

Used it a few times and it’s worked great! Plenty of cover with 8x8 . I think it’s a two person setup for this model. Putting it on and taking it off the truck is easy . Wish they made Yakima side walls and bug net for it.

We bought a 2019 Forest River R Pod in Sept. 2022 with no awning because the previous said it was broken and he threw it away. I called to cancel an awning that was too short on Nov. 18, 2022 and ordered the 9' 10" awning and Alyssa told me we may not get it until next summer. I received an email over a week later that our awning was shipped, and we received it Dec. 9, 2022. It was very easy to install since the camper already had the Thule bracket on the camper. The weather also cooperated with installing it! These awnings are made in England and Alyssa told me the Thule is having difficulty getting orders done and shipped. I don't know what kind of strings e-trailer pulled but I was very happy we got it in a very timely manner. Very pleased with the quality and excellent service!

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Great product with good mounting system. Options on how the supports get anchored. Clean slim profile when closed up.

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What an awesome canopy. This is the one I’ve been looking for every since I purchased my 2020 palisade. I like to take my 2 young toddlers for day trips and just hanging out in back of the palisade makes it more fun for my kids they feel that they are camping. I would highly recommend this product.

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unreasonably difficult to set up. specs are too loose... nearly impossible to stretch fabric over poles.

Many thanks to you and the crew. After I received the original order, which UPS and the USPS managed to mangle, you had Rhino Rack send the part directly to me. It arrived in a long cardboard box made from two shorter boxes taped end to end. They tapered the end of the bottom box to a small hole to stabilize the middle of this pole, and encased the top and bottom of the pole in some styrofoam so they wouldn't shift. It arrived in good order. It was quick and easy to install, though customers need to know they'll have to carefully drill out the rivets on the free end, taking care to preserve the little washers there. They'll also need two 5/32" pop rivets with a 1/4" working range, and a rivet tool in order to reinstall the awning to the pole. The pole comes with a composite hinge ring installed, so no need to pull the old one off the pole they are replacing. A word about the Foxwing awning: I own two: One on my rooftop tent that I use on my Land Cruiser, and one on my truck-mounted camper. Though there are a couple of other foxwing-style awnings which are less...fiddly...in that they don't require as much staking down with ropes, etc., their price point is about twice what the Foxwing's is. Well anchored, our Foxwing has just sat there through a microburst in Zion which featured lightning, pelting rain, and hailstones the size of quarters, but the anchoring needs to be very well attended to. If the ground is loose, or you can't really anchor the guy ropes well, it is best to stow the awning if the weather looks very windy. I needed to repair my Foxwing because of an incident which occurred in Glacier this last summer. The ground wasn't very good, and the report was for fairly high winds, so we set about stowing the Foxwing...because I didn't expect the ground anchors to hold. My usual method is to unfasten the anchor strap which attaches the top strut to the rack when the awning is at full deployment, then walk the awning around, pulling the vertical supports as I go, and keeping firm control of the furled awning. I had the assistance of a friend impatient with my plodding process. He went in front of me and harvested all the vertical poles. Unfortunately, as I was gathering in the awning, a 60mph gust swept down from the hills, striking the top of the awning. The unsupported horizontal braces bent under the load, and one of the metal hinge pieces on the end of one strut fractured. That pole struck me forcefully on the head. I started talking like Donald Duck, while continuing to wrestle the awning to a place we could just anchor it, and wait out the wind. I was able to partially straighten the bent pole, at least to the point where the awning could be stowed, and by driving out the drift pin which held the pole into the broken metal hinge piece, was able to run a couple of courses of thin stainless wire through the drift pin hole and around the hinge pin, anchoring the base of that pole and allowing it to be stowed. The broken hinge piece was replaced with a composite replacement, which I think is more robust, and is included on the new racks, standard. The bent pole couldn't be repaired, and that's the one you sent me a replacement for. So: This is a really robust awning, but its weak point is that the anchoring needs to be done very well. Otherwise, I'd stow it in winds above about 15-20 mph. We now carry an assortment of stakes, from 14" long construction spikes for hard ground, to screw-in anchors for soft ground and sand. We also carry a bunch of 6 foot NRS straps, which are good for wrapping around trees and rocks, and then hooking to the adjustable anchor ropes from the awning. The awning ropes don't tolerate much abrasion, so we let the NRS straps suck up that punishment. So far, so good. Again, thank you for the extraordinary effort to which you all went to provide me with this very awkward-to-ship part. Hint to the USPS: Don't try to put an 8 foot long pole in a 7 foot long delivery jeep. Just sayin'. Stan

Your delivery was so fast! The Slim Shady awning arrived in perfect condition and fit as advertised. You have a customer for life!

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One of the best purchases I have ever made. Easy to deploy and easy to retract. Installation is simple also. Impressive engineering

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The Awning provided shade and with the net tent added protected me kitchen from bees and wasps while cooking. Easy to install. On my Tundra I needed to reverse the mounting bracket to allow the bottom of the tent to reach the ground. It worked out perfectly.

The Thule awning is a high quality awning that can easily be opened by an individual in 2 minutes. I installed it on my home built tear drop trailer in a couple hours using custom aluminum anodized mount brackets. It would be awesome if one could purchase just the awning for these types of custom applications. I'll save the key-lock Thule brackets in the event it gets placed on my Subaru.

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