I'm willing to bet you do know why he leaves it attached...."Expo Chic"!! Gotta look the part at the starbucks drive through after all!!
Jokes aside I have an old ARB Touring awning. Your customer is right in that it's not as fast to setup as a free-standing batwing/270-style awning would be, but its way faster than positioning the car
just right next to the trees and then finding logs, buckets, and spare tires kicking around the place so you can climb on them to tie the tarp off to said trees. Biggest issue with ours isn't wind - we can stake it down - it's snow and rain. For rain, I typically drop a pole lower and it sheds off, but snow tends to "stick" and it doesn't take much weight to break the poles. Thankfully ARB are great about parts and they are cheap - $15 for replacement poles. We also have a zip-in room with a floor (We refer to it as our "living room") which is fantastically handy to have a bit more shelter while travelling; in the future I will be going to a free-standing 270 awning but the room is so darn handy that we're waiting for a Batwing-style awning that has an equivalent room option (None had 3-ish years ago when I last looked, but I should look again!)
that’s a long media/press event. Look forward to the 8th feb 
