When we bought our new D-max nearly 18 months ago, I had a small scupper vent fitted to the front of the canopy to keep the dust out.
Does anyone know how long the springs last? Luckily I found ours had broken before leaving Cape Palmerston (south of Sarina) before TC Narina filled up the tub with water! Getting new springs in Townsville has proved impossible. Yes, I can get them on eBay with a new seal (not required) but I would have thought they would last longer than 18 months - or am I expecting too much. It is not open all the time - just to vent the tub to keep it a little cooler & keep the dust out when we travel on dirt roads.
ARB showed me their vent - it looks to be more flimsy with the catch being made of plastic. It is a larger vent adding more pressure on the catch.
I had thought of making a remote control open/shut vent out of it so that I wouldn't have to close it when we ran into a sudden storm but finding a suitable solenoid is proving to be impossible.
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Lots of views but no-one has suffered the same problem, I assume. Perhaps scrupper vents aren't made for almost constant use. Or they are made for slow dirt road speeds? Or they are like everything else made these days - last for a while, then they break?
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Lots of views but no-one has suffered the same problem, I assume. Perhaps scrupper vents aren't made for almost constant use. Or they are made for slow dirt road speeds? Or they are like everything else made these days - last for a while, then they break?
Sorry old mate for not replying earlier. I did go out and have a look at the vent between a lull in the rain down here on Central Coast NSW where it been raining now for quite a few days. I did not see anything to suggest
This time round we have a ARB vent as you say made of plastic now a shade off 7 years old mostly left open, closed when washing the ute or it is raining. Out of ten for quality maybe a 5 but it is lasting. No spring s
On my previs ute it was a truck metal one, hard to shut and open about 4 years with zero maintance and better quality. Had 2 springs.
I am not a lot of help.
-- Edited by Radar on Monday 22nd of March 2021 07:13:49 AM
We have a Dometic one fitted to the van - the spring snaps vent shut like a rat trap - never game enough to close with hand - always use a loop of fine rope and lasso the handle.
Ours seems solid enough, doesn't leak - only problem with it is, can't fit an insect screen to it when we want to leave open on hot nights.
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Thanks Radar, Possum,
After leaving two messages with the car's dealer, I visited him today & found who installed the canopy (TJM). They bought in some springs just in case - I was their first customer. $10 it cost - for a piece of strong wire!! Still they cost from $17 on eBay & I didn't need the bit of rubber they call a seal.
The next task - installing it (was told it's difficult).
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