This is part 2 of our Newbie mistake which cost us our awning arms when practicing for our RV Living Full Time in our Grand Design RV Solitude 310 GK. Grand Design Customer support was amazing. The provided all the the information we needed to DIY upgraded awning arms. Thank you Grand Design RV.
The "incident": I forgot to rewind my awning before leaving our campsite on our first trip in our Grand Design Solitude 310GK The first tree we came across ripped it off the side of the Fifth Wheel. This can be seen in part 1
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The DIY: In this video I show how I replace the broken arms with upgraded ones and reinstalled the Awning.

The awning is made by carefree of Colorado. The original awning is the Longitude model that was discontinued because of problems with its durability. The Longitude was replaced with the Compass model. I show the differences between the longitude and Compass models.

A special thank you to Grand Design RV for sending me the drawings of the construction of the RV. It really helped. https://www.granddesignrv.com/grandd...

Link to Compass arms
https://www.camperid.com/carefree/bla...

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We are a married couple in our mid 50s downsizing/selling our house so we can see the sights and enjoy every day along with our two dogs, Scrappy & Chewie.
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