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3Caravan - 14-09 - EN
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3 Safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1 Fire prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1.1 Avoidance of fire risks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1.2 Fire-fighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1.3 In case of fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.3 Road safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.4 Towing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.5 Gas system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.5.1 General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.5.2 Gas bottles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.6 Electrical system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.7 Water system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
4 Before the journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.1 Start-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.2 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4.3 Connecting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4.4 Tow couplings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.4.1 AKS 3004 stabiliser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.5 Detaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
4.6 Payload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.6.1 Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.6.2 Calculating the payload. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
4.6.3 Loading the caravan correctly. . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.6.4 Caravan load, nose weight and axle load . 35
4.6.5 Roof loads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.7 PVC floor covering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.8 Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.9 Road safety. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5 During the journey . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.1 Driving with the caravan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
5.2 Brakes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5.3 Driving in reverse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6 Pitching the caravan . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.1 Handbrake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.2 Wheel chocks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.3 Corner steadies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.4 Entrance step (free-standing) . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.5 Waste water tank, mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.6 240 V connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.7 Refrigerator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
7 Living . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
7.1 Doors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
7.1.1 Conversion door, outside (hinged
handle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
7.1.2 Conversion door, inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
7.1.3 Insect screen on the conversion door,
extendable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
7.1.4 Conversion door blind (variant 1) . . . . . . . . 51
7.1.5 Conversion door blind (variant 2) . . . . . . . 51
7.2 External flaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
7.2.1 Flap lock with recessed handle . . . . . . . . . . 52
7.2.2 Flap lock, elliptical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.2.3 Flap lock, rectangular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.2.4 Flap lock with push buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
7.2.5 Flap for toilet cassette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
7.2.6 External flap 240 V connection . . . . . . . . . . 55
7.3 Heating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
7.4 Ventilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
7.5 Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
7.5.1 Hinged window with rotary hinges . . . . . . 57
7.5.2 Hinged window with automatic hinges . . 58
7.5.3 Blind and roller insect screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
7.5.4 Bug window blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.6 Skylights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.6.1 Skylight with snap latch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
7.6.2 Heki skylight (mini and midi) . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
7.6.3 Heki skylight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
7.7 Lifting roof. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7.8 Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7.8.1 Suspension table with fold-out leg. . . . . . . 66
7.8.2 Swivel table. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.8.3 Swivel table of the rear seating group. . . . 68
7.8.4 Lift-off table for the round seating
group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
7.9 Television. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.10 Lamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
7.11 Beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
7.11.1 Bunk bed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
7.11.2 Bunk bed, folding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
7.11.3 Fixed bed (gas pressure spring). . . . . . . . . . 72
7.12 Converting seating groups for sleeping . . 73
7.12.1 Bench seating group and side seating
group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
7.12.2 Round seating group with round table. . . 74
7.12.3 Rear seating group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
7.12.4 Widening the bed into a playing area . . . . 76
7.13 Sleeping area partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
7.13.1 Sliding door. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
7.13.2 Folding door. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
8 Gas system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79
8.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
8.2 Gas bottles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
8.3 Gas consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
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