2018 DAF XF 530 Super Space Cab - Full Tour & Test Drive

hi I'm Stavros good morning and welcome to DAF trucks Ireland here in Dublin now look what I have behind me guys I've got a lineup of new DAF XF now some of you will remember that I drove the previous version to this truck in another video that had 460 horsepower so we have its replacement here the white one that is 480 horsepower but look we have this super spacecab beside it which has 530 horsepower so I'm really looking forward to showing you all around this cab this has the exclusive trim so you're going to enjoy looking around the inside of this and then we'll be getting hooked underneath the trailer and taking it for a test drive so yeah I'm looking forward to this guys let's go okay I'm just going to start off with the exterior design and let you know the differences between this and the previous model I drove in the last video so yeah I'm just going to walk up here and just let you see the differences in the grille design but I'll just mention quickly that we have three 480 horsepower DAF XFS here and of course the super space has 530 horsepower and here we have the space cabin that has 530 horsepower and beside it we have Sam denigan so this truck will be hitting the road shortly it's got 480 horsepower yeah so the rain is coming down so sorry if you're hearing a lot of wind noise and rain on the lens but we will keep going so down below here you'll see we have the silver trim that houses the number plate of course and here we have the fold-out steps so you have three of them of course and one there and you can grab here to tie them up and clean your windscreen we have three grab handles there on top now we have a new improved more aerodynamic Sun Visor that's to make the truck more fuel efficient and I really like the lamps they are on top they are built in very nicely up top there and we have the four air horns so they will be pretty loud now I'm just going to open up the grill let me just close them down very easily done and I have this already pre opened just to give you give you a look inside so we have our usual coolant we can top up with oil and here you have your washer fluid for your windscreen now you'll notice as well it's completely different here when you open up the grill to the previous model we have a wider radiator to make things even more efficient and outside as well let me just show you this small little detail you see the little vents there there's one at either side they come in here and they just let allow air into the filter so yeah it's just a nice little detail there and down here for improved aerodynamics they have added in this piece just to channel air into the radiator and also this piece is new compared to the older version so they've added in that so it's all to do with aerodynamics and making the truck more fuel efficient now also to the older model you'll notice we have these silver grille here this silver section here that is new and also I just want to show you just one quirky little detail here now on the 530 model you'll notice the top section of the grille you know you can go right through the grille obviously for more cooling but if I move over to the 480 horsepower one you'll notice the top I can't book my brain in because it doesn't need as much cooling as the 530 so yeah just a little quirky detail I thought I'd point out to you but yeah it's nice to know all these little details now we don't have LEDs on this these are just standard halogen lamps we do have an LED daytime running lamps and we have nice trim surround on these lamps now these are the cornering spot lamps the four eight he just has the standard spot lamps but these are cornering fog lamps so very nice to have them and I'll just give you one more detail as well on the weilert you'll notice on the 480 we have this little extended piece here on the art but the 530 doesn't have it because the tire is bigger so we have an AZ profile tire here and a 70 profile tire here so it just allows you more space on this one you know to have the extra space there because you know if you're in a very uneven road you know it could rub up against the black piece if you had it on the 530 but I mean yeah it's very handy to have it anyway it just kind of tightens up that gap when you're using your smaller wheel okay so we're just going to take the truck in out of the rain because yeah the rain is coming down so it's getting very wet out here and it's a bit unfair on you watching if you're going to be watching raindrops on the lens so yeah we're getting it in out of the rain and we'll go down through plenty more information on the new XF [Music] okay so we're in out of the rain nice and dry in the garage and or Dowd's XF 530 looking very well but beside it here I just want to show you the previous 460 horsepower this is the previous model and you'll see straight away from the old grille design and if I come over to the new one you'll see we have the T shape so you'll always notice the newer version coming against you on the road from that newer grille now this exhaust after-treatment system is 40% smaller than the previous version now some of you will remember in the last video the previous version was coming out to about here so it was taking up even more space in the chassis but this is a far better system for saving space and over there we have the four hundred ninety litre capacity diesel tank now you can get an additional tank but only on the smaller wheel version of the XF you can get an additional 325 liter tank if you wish but yeah I can hear it's getting very windy outside but um yeah I just given you a look here so this is the four hundred and ninety litre capacity tank and this is a regulation as well all trucks will have to have this sticker on them it's just to do with the different fuel types that you can use in your truck and that is our 90 liter AdBlue tank now you can have the option to have a 140 litre AdBlue tank if you wish but that is the standard 90 liter tank but a very tidy area at the back isn't it for keeping all this suzy's and we have our full air deflector kit yeah so I'm just walking around just giving you a quick look let you know what this truck is all about now what I find strange as well but it's an actual fact that the smaller wheel that is a lift up axle on the other trucks is also 46 tonne gross so this truck can gross 46 ton along with the other version that has this smaller wheel so yeah just walking around to the back axle this is a newly revised back axle with a faster ratio for improved fuel consumption so yeah making the truck even more fuel efficient and we have our battery box at the back now you can have the option to have LED lamps at the rear these are just the bulb lamps but that is an option should you wish and let me just open up the side Locker nice silver trim on the door handle and we have the DAF nice trim there and the three steps leading up into the cab so we just have the hump there it is a bit of a intrusion into the cab but yeah it's you have plenty of head space in the XF and plenty of lights we also have an LED lamp up there I'll show you that shortly for plenty of lamp light into the interior so let me just move around here and show you the locker area so we have good space and there but this does hinder access slightly getting things up on top but yeah that is a nice area there on the side Locker so is that up and we just go down to some of the trim so this has the exclusive trim so we have this very nice finish on the door and storage down here and we also have the lamp there for lighting up the steps at night and let me just give you a quick look at the key so we can obviously lock and unlock by remote and we can test all the lamps if I keep my finger pressed on this we can test all of those lamps and the fog lamps and the spot lamps up on top or yeah very handy to go down through all the different lamps and keep the button pressed and to turn it back off now we're just going to have a quick look at this locker here let me just open up that give you a look in here yeah so we've got good space in here also and we have all our bears there for jacking the cab now of course you can get your Alcoa aluminium wheels if you wish as an option but yeah I think it's time to hop inside and check out the interior ok so we've just made it back outside and we have the XF 530 that is the one that we are taking away on the drive pulling the International truck of the year 2018 trailer so we'll be going down through all the controls on the dashboard shortly but I like these silver all around the dashboard and also up here and the brown this is part of the exclusive trim package and matching in with the doors and I like that silver piece open top that is where all your fuses are housed in behind that cover so easy access there but look at the steering wheel nicely finished isn't it with the leather cover matching in with the seats that is nicely done and we have a fold out armrest here nice and comfortable for that up yeah so good high headrest there for the driver and on the back wall there we have the auxiliary heater so you have your on and off buttons of course and we can open and close the sunroof and we also have a reading lamp there and storage on the back wall with some more silver trim and a 12 volt socket there and more storage up on top so yeah this mattress is not the standard mattress this is the comfort mattress so this is an option which I would recommend going for because it is very comfortable compared to the standard mattress yeah so let's just move up to the top bunk now there is a fold-out ladder you'll see it there folded down to gain easy access up to the bed and here it is folded back up and I can push up this bed very easily and it's held up by this little arm here so how can I do that with one hand there you go nice and easy to follow that off very bright LED lamp here and all the other lamps there we have a big sunroof here which you can tilt and you can also fold across a fly shade and you can block it out also so I good to have that option let's just show you that folding back down quite easy to get up to the top bunk and let's just open up the lockers here now each Locker does have a lamp very handy to see your items inside we also have another Locker over there and more storage in here but let's just move down and lift up the bed which is very easy to do literally one-hand operation easy so you can gain access to your outside lockers very good and yeah this is the let me just fall down back down on the bed and just show you you can pull out this drawer here for storage in there plenty of storage and also the fridge which has a little cup holder there so I like that and we have plenty of space in there for all your refrigerated items and over here we can also store a bottle and you have more storage in there so the the seed is fully adjustable with lumbar support and it's also heated and ventilated so plenty of comfort from the driver's seat okay let's sit in and go down through the controls so quickly going down through our controls we have our speedometer there we have our fuel gauge of course and add blue gauge and we also have our engine temperature rev counter and this will let us know what gear were in now we have the 5 inch TFT screen let me just zoom in there and go down quickly through that and give you a look at what we have so we have the main menu there vehicle information driving support we have our service intervals and trip information so let's just click on one of them and see what we have average speed fuel consumption and come back out of that and we can go down through our settings there so you can set your alarm clock from the driver seat all the different languages the card settings for the tachograph speed control click on that for your eco roll function and over here your different units there click on that for temperature distance volume fuel consumption and over here we have our dim settings for the controls the instruments so yeah just a quick look through the information display and we can go down through our phone functions also for your Bluetooth ok coming out of that onto the lovely trimmed steering wheel as I said over here we have our phone functions and our radio control functions for your stereo over here we can do the engine revs and we can get them taking over a bit faster if you wish and we can turn it back down and over here we can go down through our adaptive cruise control so I'll have to go back into the main menu just to show you quickly that so we can set our distance to the vehicle ahead by that switch there so you'll see on the left side we can set our distance away on the adaptive cruise control which is brilliant I always like the adaptive cruise control so yeah that's operated from here moving over to the dashboard we have our handbrake there of course stereo there nice screen with a CD slot and over here all of these switches are interchangeable on this new XF so you can move these switches over here or these ones over here are these ones up over here if you want but while I'm up here I'll just show you we have the controls for opening and closing the sunroof and also the fly shade for the sunroof and our spot lamps for the roof outside and our tachograph but yeah it's very handy to be able to move those switches around something you can do on this new XF we have our new air conditioning system storage in here let's go down through some of the controls here we can lift open mid lift axle this is for dimming your instrument all your instrument gauges and here we have the the cross axle differential lock and here we have the new tracks on gearbox so this is I've been interested to see what this is like to drive but and over here it has four reverse gear settings would you believe that so you have four different speeds for going into reverse I really like that but yeah over here let's go down through that is the regeneration of your diesel particulate filter so the truck will do it automatically but you can't force a recharge or regenerating as I should say of the diesel particulate filter we have the lane departure warning system we have our advanced emergency braking system over here we have our anti-slip regulation switch and for leveling off our back axle and your Hill hold function now this piece you can take that out and you can mount phone there if you wish over here we have our fold-out table as before and our fold-out cupholders there which are adaptive nice touch there and we can also slot our diesel cards or credit cards in there if you wish but yeah the tracks on gearbox all-new gearbox on the newly revised engine so I'm really interested to find out what that is like on the road so you'll see there we have the ambient lighting let me just turn that on quickly and give you a quick look you'll see it there and if I move up here we have two more lamps above the lockers and also two more there for your adaptive lights and I'm just going to move that back and get full lights on for you guys we can lock our doors and we have the rear reversing buzzer switch you can turn that off and more interior lights there that is a spotlight above the driver for reading but yeah over here we have our 12 volt socket and over there your 24 volt socket so yeah I can't think of anything else I need to show you here we have of all of our electric windows and electric mirrors which are also heated and over here we have thee that is for turning off all the interior lights and over there we have the catwalk light so you can turn that on or off from there which is very handy to have and we also have a fully adjustable good driving position to have that steering wheel fully adjustable so yeah I think it's time to take not this truck but that truck get it hooked on to a trailer and take it out on the road okay guys it's only one hit the road [Music] okay guys it is extremely wet outside probably the wettest I've ever had to do a truck video but I yeah it's almost dark here we're running out of light so I'm gonna hit the road and let's give a test nice armrests here too yeah quite looking forward to this see what the new tracks on gearbox is all about and one thing great about the DAF XF is as well is that they have the four airbags at the back which makes that axle going over that speed bump they're very comfortable with the four airbags so let's just pull out of here and get it out for a test so we have the very nice trailer at the moment we're pulling that now there is no weight on a very light load so yeah that is I would prefer to pull it with a fully loaded trailer but that's all that's available so you have to take what you're given guys but I can even feel it going over the bombs there it is very comfortable now you can get the option for an air-ride front suspension which will give the front axle even more comfort but one thing I have to point out is that the air right front suspension is not available on the mid lift with the big wheel it's only available on the small wheel mid lift and on the 4x2 so yeah just something to take in mind if you're ordering the air right front suspension but going over these bumps here it's a bit bumpy on this road it is coping quite well just in standard front suspension that we have here so yeah we're going to go over another speed bump here and you had the comfort now guys I've driven trucks with only two airbags in the back axle and you can notice it straight away going over that speed bump just the extra comfort now the cab pitch let me just go around the roundabout here now and let me just test that yeah the cab pitch seems nicely controlled now of course there is a bit more pitch on it to the space cab and that is because you have more weight up top but yeah the gearbox is changing very nicely now to be honest I don't really notice it changing much faster than the previous model but it is smoother and it is more efficient at changing gears so it might not be necessarily faster but the way that the gearbox is engineered it's more efficient to aid fuel consumption so we're back out here now onto the n7 and we can tip away nicely the conditions are very bad for driving so I'm just going to take my time and of course we can go down through our gearbox manually just by flicking the lever so down through the gears into ten so I'm just going to turn on our heated mirrors because they are soaking all it and yeah very comfortable nice comfortable seat now of course I have complained about the narrowness of the windscreen so yeah the windscreen is quite narrow but the visibility out here between the mirror and the pillar is quite good on the left hand side as well not too bad on the left and the mirrors themselves are quite good as I said before would be nice if they are a bit wider but just going to turn on those fans again because these windows are are fogging off so we get these fan on and yeah we're just tipping away nicely here I'll try and get a look 280 kilometers just to see what it's revving in it because these engines the torque is developed lower down the rev range so with the new improved engines in for instance the 480 and the 530 the torque is coming in at 900 rpm so in the previous version it was coming in at a thousand rpm so your power band is lower down the rev range so that should have us performing very well but definitely I can't notice the gearbox changing gears any faster but it is designed to be more efficient to save on fuel so there is as I said a 7% saving on fuel with the new engines compared to the previous model yeah but first impressions are quite impressive oh that is a lot of standing water there guys whoa that is an awful lot of water whoa just really had to slow down there okay we're just gonna take it nice and easy now going around this roundabout and we go make our way back okay if you were to compare this 5:30 with the previous 510 this has 100 Newton meters more than the 510 so this has 2,600 Newton meters of torque whereas the previous 510 has 2500 Newton meters of torque so yeah it just gives you an idea of the torque figure between the 530 and the previous 510 so daffy continuously improving their trucks all of the time but as I said the cab is a bit dated in its design hopping out grabbing the top step is a bit awkward getting your foot out onto that top step climbing out of the truck that is our lane departure warning so we can switch that off very the handy handy to have your lane departure warning and of course we have the advanced emergency braking system as well and there it goes again but I yeah very handy safety features to have and the engine brake here the three-stage engine brake is standard on the XF DAF and it's actually 70% as effective as the ZF in tireder so the entire is basically the same as a retired ER that's those just the expression that said EV give the the entire turn so it's just another system for slowing you down without having to use your brake pedal so you're saving on brake where you're saving on tire wear with your engine braking system and your ZF in tireder which is available as an option so that is handy if you're towing heavy weights and you're going down a lot of hills it's very good to have your ZF in tireder so yeah we're not too far away from the base now and I'm going to pull in it's not often I do a review at night but uh you know time has just flew away today but it's been a very enjoyable day today learning all about the death and learning all about its features and there's a very small little detail I want to show you when we get back and I'll show you a quick shot of this interior because it differs slightly to the O'Dowd orange truck that I was in earlier but yeah we'll just go back to base and I'll show you all those details okay we're just back here in the garage I'm just going to knock off the engine yeah back into the dry garage so you see on this particular version I was driving we have the wood look to the dashboard all around the dashboard it kind of reminds me of the one that I used to drive back in 2003 and we also have the wood look through the tops of the doors and also on the dashboard over there and we have fabric seats on this exclusive trim so it all depends what you want do you want the wood look or do you want the silver look on the dashboard but it's great to be able to so show you both options here at DAF trucks Ireland and we also have a new design for the remote control for raising and lowering your back axle and of course no clutch pedal with the 12 speed tracks on gearbox we all new gearbox um yeah that's nice as well isn't it just above the step there but I just want to move back here because I just want to show you one quick detail before I wrap up today's video that little vent guys can you tell me before this video ends what is that vent for because I will tell you shortly maybe even some drivers don't even know what that vent is for we'll see but yeah you can see we have the tank on the driver's side as opposed to the orange one did not have a tank on this side because it had the bigger wheel so you do have the small wheel option which is also 46 ton gross and we have this 325 litre tank on the driver side and a 605 liter tank on the passenger side and the LED lamps on the rear as well so you can get those LED lamps inside in the parts department if you wish so that is your six hundred and five liter tank and we have the steps there built in very handy and easy for getting onto your catwalk which is nice and flat very nicely done by daph and I like the way it's curved up there so you don't slip in with your foot just clever little details there ok guys does anyone anyone figure it out what that vent is for I will show you with a little bit of a diagram there that vent is for venting the heat that comes out of the spotlights at the front so that is a clever little detail that I did not know until today that that vent is for venting the spot lamps up on the roof you learn something new every day okay before we wrap up today's video I just want to show you one small little detail you see the black trim all around the inside of the door here that's to hide the exterior color showing on the interior so just another small little detail that that has done with the revised XF yeah really like this truck it's okay some parts of it are showing its age you know it is an old design but it has been improved so much over the years so the improvements to the engine we have an all-new gearbox that tracks on 12 speed gearbox 530 horsepower 2600 Newton meters of torque and the torque coming in very low down in the rev range just 900 rpm is where the power band starts so that's a 100 rpm improvement on the previous 510 horsepower XF we have all the improvements to the aerodynamics the engine as I said the gearbox all new gearbox new improved exhaust system and the new back axle as well all contribute to a 7% improvement in fuel consumption so it should be a very good fuel efficient truck for your business you should definitely check it out the new XF and yeah if you ever want to visit them here in Bal Donald DAF trucks Ireland they have a very nice showroom inside here you can buy jackets you can buy all the exterior trim pieces for your truck and spot lamps and they also have some very nice model trucks so with it coming up towards Christmas you might want to get some of them for your sons or daughters whoever's in the trucks call here and they will provide you with all of those models but that's a wrap guys from DAF trucks Ireland just want to say thank you all very much for watching it's been a bit of a long video but so much to explain to you about this talk until next week guys Cheers thanks for watching these boys are heading home they've been waiting for me so long today to finish up so we have James here and we have John very helpful helping me out today in today's video right boys we go let's go

Channel: Stavros969

Views: 427,460

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Keywords: DAF XF 530, DAF XF 530 Super Space Cab, DAF Trucks Ireland, DAF Trucks Ireland Stavros969, XF DAF 530 Super Space, DAF Trucks UK, DAF XF

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Length: 32min 46sec (1966 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 17 2018