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Contents
1 Guarantee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1 Guarantee conditions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 Water ingress test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.1 Inspection plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2.2 Inspection records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3 Further inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.3.1 Inspection plan for annual inspection . . . . 12
1.3.2 Inspection plan for chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.3.3 Gas inspection plan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.3.4 Inspection records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.2 Environmental tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.3 Licence categories / Registration . . . . . . . . . 19
3 Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1 Rescue card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2 Fire prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2.1 Avoidance of fire risks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2.2 Fire-fighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2.3 Gas odour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.3 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.4 Road safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.5 Towing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.6 Gas system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.6.1 General instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.6.2 Gas bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.7 Electrical system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.8 Water system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4 Before the journey. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.1 Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.2 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.3 Payload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3.1 Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3.2 Calculating the payload. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
4.3.3 Loading the vehicle correctly. . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.3.4 Roof loads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4.3.5 Fastening system in the rear area. . . . . . . . . 37
4.3.6 Double floor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.3.7 Bike rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4.4 Towing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.4.1 Tow coupling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.5 Entrance step. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4.5.1 Mechanically operated entrance step . . . .40
4.5.2 Electrically operated entrance step . . . . . . . 41
4.6 PVC-floor covering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.7 Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.8 Sink cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.9 Driver's cabin Roman shade. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.9.1 Roman shade for driver's window and
front passenger's window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.9.2 Roman shade for windscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
4.10 Central locking system for kitchen unit . . . 45
4.11 Snow chains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.12 Road safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
5 During the journey . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
5.1 Driving the motorhome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
5.2 Driving speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
5.3 Brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
5.4 Seat belts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
5.4.1 Fastening the seat belt correctly . . . . . . . . . 51
5.4.2 Adjusting the seat belt correctly . . . . . . . . . 51
5.5 Driver's seat and front passenger's seat . . 52
5.6 Headrests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.7 Seating arrangement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
5.8 Branch block (model I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
5.9 Electrical window winders (model I) . . . . . 54
5.10 Electrically adjustable external mirrors
(model I) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
5.11 Roman shades for windscreen, driver's
window and front passenger's window . . 55
5.12 Writing and reading rest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
5.13 Bonnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
5.13.1 Model I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
5.14 Filling with washer fluid (model I). . . . . . . . 57
5.15 Refilling cooling water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
5.16 Checking the oil level (model I) . . . . . . . . . . 59
5.17 Filling up with diesel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
6 Pitching the motorhome. . . . . . . .61
6.1 Handbrake. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.2 Entrance step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.3 Wheel chocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.4 Supports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.4.1 General instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
6.4.2 Steady legs (AL-KO) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
6.5 240 V connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
6.6 Refrigerator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.6.1 Absorption refrigerator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.6.2 Compressor refrigerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.7 Awning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
6.8 Satellite unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
6.9 Cable connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
7 Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
7.1 Doors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.1.1 Conversion door, outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.1.2 Conversion door, inside (with locking
lever) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.1.3 Driver's door, outside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.1.4 Driver's door, inside (without lock). . . . . . . 69
7.1.5 Driver's door, inside (with lock) . . . . . . . . . . 70
7.1.6 Insect screen on the conversion door . . . . 70
7.1.7 Conversion door window (variant 1) . . . . . 71
7.1.8 Conversion door window (variant 2) . . . . . 71
7.2 External flaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
7.2.1 Flap lock with recessed handle . . . . . . . . . . 72
7.2.2 Holding the external flaps in position . . . . 72
7.3 Driver's cabin partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
7.4 Ventilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
7.5 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
7.5.1 Sliding window with lock (variant 1) . . . . . 76
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