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Rooftop Awnings
A rooftop awning is a car side awning described by where it lives: mounted along the vehicle's roof line or rack, rolled or folded away in transit, and deployed at the pitch into covered space at standing height. In this catalogue the rooftop-mounted formats are the three Play.do! models on the car side awnings page — the 90° quick-setup compact for one-person pitching, the 180° wide-coverage model at about 6 kg, and the 270° full-coverage wrap that packs to pillow size.
Mounting is the specification
For a rooftop awning, the mounting conversation is the purchase: which rail, rack or channel it fixes to, whether it shares the roof with a roof top tent (the classic overland pairing — tent on one side, awning deploying from the other, or the awning under the tent's ladder side), and how the packed unit behaves at highway speed. None of that is decidable from a coverage angle, so put your vehicle and rack in the enquiry and ask for the mounting specification for the model you choose. The same discipline applies to the catalogue's listed 4WD off-road car awning tent (US$35–50, MOQ 10): a low listing price is only a bargain once the mounting is confirmed to fit your vehicle.
Pairing with a tent
The integrated alternative is the Osprey, whose extension wing builds the covered space into the tent itself. Choose the separate rooftop awning when the shade must serve the vehicle without the tent pitched — market days, work sites, lunch stops — and the Osprey when the camp is always a camp. For SUV-specific layouts, see SUV awnings.