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Hi everyone, it's Evangeline here at etrailer. And today we'll be taking a look at our Rightline Gear Truck Bed Tailgate Awning. Are you at a game and ready to go tailgating or maybe you're at the beach and you wanna quick and easy campsite to set up or maybe you just wanna camp out at the campground, this is gonna be the truck bed tailgate awning that will help out with that. We have some different pros. We have some different cons. This is gonna be great for quick and temporary solution.

So let's talk about that. So I've set up enough awnings during windy days to know that my personal and most important thing about awnings is how are they strapped down We have three main touch points here. One is going to be where it connects to your truck bed to the side. You also have a strap that goes around your tailgate. You even have this extra pole that goes into the corner of your tailgate, and you have at the end steel poles with sandbags, holding things down.

The sandbag option is unique. You can see that this is designed to be used in your driveway, at a parking lot, or at let's say a paved campground. Usually awnings have stakes that you drive down into the grass or into the dirt. This has these sandbags that makes it easier for you to set up on hard surfaces like this. So holding the tailgate up are gonna be steel poles as well as aluminum poles.

So we have the steel poles connected to those sandbags, giving us that nice support here at the end but then towards your truck, it utilizes both your tailgate as well as these poles to give that support. Now, I personally recommend also supporting those poles with your other items as well to prevent people from knocking it out of space as they get in and out of their truck bed. Adding to this quick and easy solution, you also have these plastic hooks. So these are designed to hook into your truck bed whether it's over by your bumper or by your wheel well. Now the tricky part is just finding a spot to anchor it to especially one that doesn't take up too much force.

The good news is since it is plastic, it's not designed to scratch things up. So this goes over your truck bed and will cover about a quarter or half of your truck bed, depending on the bed length. You do have this water resistant fabric, but not waterproof. So if a quick rain shower kicks up, you do have enough time just to gather your stuff and possibly tear down the tent before you get soaked. This is going to be a very thin fabric. So you do have taped seams underneath, helping maintain that water resistance but then you also have these strap material along the edges so that it doesn't fray on you. So it's not just an awning that sticks up there, you do have that angle here, which makes it perfect for sitting and hanging out on your tailgate or setting up your food and your drinks. So the height from the top of our tailgate here to right where our support bar is, is going to be 4 feet. So let's talk about dimensions. So for width, that's gonna be 6 feet wide and that's from sandbag to sandbag. For height, it's going to be 8 and a half feet tall. And then for length, those are two different measurements there. So length is gonna be about 9 and a half feet long. But if you measure from the taillight, because that's gonna be where your pole is, it's going to be 99 inches long. So that's gonna be a bit over 8 feet. So I'm 5'2" on a good day, and I don't take up much space. So this awning has plenty of room for me. But Dave here, how tall are youAbout 6'4" and I can't even quite touch the ceiling, if I really stretch, I can. So you can see here that there's plenty of space, so whether you're as tall as Dave or as short as me, you can all enjoy this awning. Now be mindful that because it has that traditional awning shape where it's just straight across, you are gonna lose some of that shade. And you're gonna have to constantly readjust where your campsite is if you wanna stay out of the sun. For example, this is how much shade I'm in, right where the chair is and then my feet are already in the sun. Did you know, you can also use this as a privacy shade. So a quick and easy way to do it is just take off the steel poles, re-utilize these sandbags with the hooks on your awning and this is now in the down position. So everything breaks apart to be a bit more compact and the awning itself folds up. Although I do recommend having your friend help you out so you don't tear it since it is thin. They fit inside this stuff sack. And this stuff sack also has the instru