The Bush Company Wall Kit 270 XT MAX Awning

270 XT MAX Wall Kit: six walls, full wraparound enclosure

Five main walls plus a front arm wall turn the 270 XT MAX Mk2 Awning into a fully enclosed, all-weather room: a living space, a change room or a storm shelter, with all 12.2m² of the awning under cover.

What’s in the kit

• Five main walls, each cut to fit its position on the awning, for a complete wraparound enclosure.
• Three midge-mesh windows and two roll-up canvas doors, each door with its own mesh window. Inner canvas flaps zip from inside to control airflow.
• Front arm wall that runs along the front non-trussed arm to block rain and shelter the gap above the bonnet. It doubles as a privacy screen.
• Custom vinyl hanger for a private change room.
• Six aluminium telescopic poles, extending to 2.6m, to carry the weight of the walls and keep them taut and steady in wind.
• Pegs for the wall skirts.
• One heavy-duty canvas bag for all six walls, and a separate canvas bag for the poles.

How you’ll use it

With two doors you can come and go from either end, and one sits where it keeps full access to the back of the vehicle if that’s where your kitchen is. Roll both up on a hot day for a cross-breeze. Each door and window has mesh on the outside and a canvas flap on the inside that zips up from the bottom, so you can open it right up, open it partway, or close it off completely. The mesh is easy to see out through but hard to see in through, so with the flap zipped halfway you can get changed below head height and still see out.

Peg the door panels out horizontally with extra poles (not supplied) and they become extra awnings, stretching shade beyond the main footprint to keep gear, chairs or the fridge out of the sun.

For a private change room, shower or toilet area, fit the custom vinyl hanger around any of the trussed awning arms and hang a wall from it with Velcro. Using a door panel means you can zip it open to go in and out.

The poles fit the built-in holes in the trussed arms. On Mk2 awnings, a webbing loop built into the outer edge of the canvas at the end of each non-trussed arm takes a pole too; for older models, retrofit webbing straps are supplied and can stay on the awning. When pegging down, start where the zips join, which stops the zips being pulled open by a gust. The walls can stay zipped together and fold away as one piece if you prefer.

The whole kit is 24kg and packs down to 166 × 24 × 20cm.

Built for Australian weather

260gsm ±5% acrylic-treated polyester ripstop canvas, the same olive canvas used on our awnings and tents, with 600gsm PVC splash skirts. The weighted PVC base helps the walls hang straight with less flapping and wipes clean of mud and sand. Adjustable pegging points and eyelets suit different vehicle heights and stop water getting in and walls lifting in gusts. The panels join with YKK spiral zips, made from spiralled polyester and nylon: the softest, smoothest-running zip YKK makes. Wet the walls down before first use so the thread swells and seals the stitching.

Fit

Cut to suit the 270 XT MAX Mk2, with zips and Velcro closures that line up with the awning. The walls attach to the Velcro loop strip on the awning’s valance, so they also fit any awning with a Velcro loop strip on its valance. 12-month warranty.

Only need one or two walls? The Universal Single Canvas Wall and Universal Single Mesh Wall fit any Bush Company awning, and zip together along their sides to increase coverage as required.