Darche Eclipse 180 Freestanding LED Awning

G'day Michael,

You can purchase awning poles for the freestanding 180 through Darche here. Unfortuantely, we do not carry spares instore.

G'day Adam,

This model will come with two rafter poles. It would be recommended to purchase two other poles for added strength.

G'day Luke,

You shouldn't have any issues with the ARB base rack, and the mounting channels run side to side on the vehicle.
The Rhino platforms have the mounting channels running bonnet to boot, so thats a different system altogether when looking at the mounting options.
The spacing will be a-ok on the base rack.

G'day Deb,

This one is too big to fit to the rear of the vehicle, but your question does make sense!

The Darche awning you would have seen on the back of some cars is actually the Darche 180 Versatile Awning (previously known as 180 Rear, or 180 Compact)
Its a smaller 180 awning designed for the rear of you vehicle, or for the side of SUV's and smaller 4WD.

We dont stock these anymore, but you can find them on Darche's website directly:
https://darche.com.au/products/eclipse-180-versatile-awning

These do need both bolts on the bracket to secure it, otherwise it will camber and break off or damage your roof rack.
Realistically rear mounting is best suited to platform racks.  Otherwise you'd need to set up two roof rails close together at the rear.

Hope that info helps!

G'day Simone,

We dont have any feedback from someone with a liftback Landcruiser to confirm either way - I'd say the strap will be in the way, but it shouldn't really impact your ability to open up the vehicle as it's a soft strap.
Depending on how often you'll want to back opened up, there would be ways to make it work.

G'day Meryl,

The light strips are integrated into the frame, so cannot be removed, but you can choose not to plug them in.
Yes, it does come with 2 poles for abit of support in windy weather.

G'day Ben,

The Xtender only attaches via sail track, so will be compatible with side pull-out awnings such as the 2m & 2.5 Eclipse that have the sail track plating at the end.

G'day Will,

Its not something I've personally heard of as being an known issue, although it may effect some awnings sometimes.
I know with my 270 awning for example, the tension of the canvas can change based on the weather.  When its a hot dry day the canvas shrinks a bit, and if its been raining or is quite humid with moisture in the air, it may be a bit looser.

Generally it wont be permanent, or effect the performance of the awning.

G'day Will,

It's not generally an issue Will, I've checked our history of product faults and feedback on both the 180/270 awnings and it may come up once or twice a year on awnings in general, not specifically Darche. Theres no record of any of these instances being a fault, because it's rectified over time - as I've mentioned above the tension on the canvas will change due to weather, moisture & rain, etc.  Awning are also manufactured to account for this, so there's no chance of over tensioning which causes strain on the awning arms. 

G'day Joel,

It can be, but depending on the gap between the t-channels from the edge to the next channel over, the brackets may not be long enough.
Usually the way around this is grabbing some galv steel flat bar from Bunnings to bridge the gap & create more anchor points, or using something like the Rhino Rack accessory bar, but you'd need 3 of them to match the 3 required brackets for the 180 Awning.