2021 DRV Mobile Suites 41RKDB Luxury Full Time Rear Kitchen Camper Tour w/ Factory Rep Southern RV

welcome back to southern rv tv i'm your host barry and today i've got a special guest here michael you want to introduce yourself yeah i'm michael hoover regional sales manager for drv luxury suites i'm excited to be down here as we talked earlier our relationship goes back to about 2008 that's right so it's been a great relationship with drv and southern rv and i'm excited to be here awesome well we just took delivery of a brand new 41 rkdb this is a super residential unit with a whole lot of great features michael's going to help us take a look at those so let's just jump right into it come i may on come down [Music] so michael i think it's been about two years since i've done a video on this particular floor plan and there have been some changes i'm looking around this this is the irish cream colorway yes sir yes i like it a lot let's uh let's get right into this this floor plan because it's pretty wild this is built for full-time living and man get after it what can you tell me yeah absolutely so this this specific floor plan the 41 rkdb is actually a newer floor plan we have the 41 rksp which was just a rear kitchen correct yeah so since we brought that up we have this beautiful entertainment center obviously with a 55 inch tv here and the fireplace but what's behind this entertainment is really what sets this floor plan apart for drv behind this is going to be our half bath so you'll get your full main bath up front with a half bath here obviously so when you have guests over there's plenty of seating space here in the living room but they don't have to walk through your bedroom or anything to use the bathroom you have that space here along with your washer and dryer excellent yeah and that half bath's easily and conveniently accessible right there from the hallway i'm noticing we have these great opposing slides it really opens this thing up and this is huge yeah yeah so that's one thing about drv is since we're a straight line roof we're able to have these huge slide boxes obviously being built for full-time living a lot of floor plans or deer other manufacturers have a slanted roof and back so their slides get smaller everything feels smaller well we want everything to feel bigger you are living in this full time having those huge slide boxes we're able to put cabinetry all up above there so that way there's plenty of storage space because with full timers what are they looking for storage storage storage that's right and you can see here since we're up there talking about the cabinetry we do have gold furnishings now for your grab handles that's on our irish cream wood there you can get black if you wanted it we have three wood options for drv you have the irish cream and then the columbian maple all throughout which is actually this accent color on the slide that is a colombian maple so that can be a color all throughout and then we have kind of our medium which would be the hazelnut excellent yeah i mean i really dig it i like i think we were talking about it right before we started rolling i feel like there's a lot more led lights in here and that combined with this white color this irish cream it makes this feel huge and open all of these windows that are around this just give it this airy feel we can see right through it i can envision this thing having a cross breeze coming through it on a nice day you know if you if you're out boondocking somewhere speaking of boondocking i know we're going to check it out outside but this thing's equipped with a generator as well so it's fully self-contained yeah one of the things that jonathan and the team came up with for southern rv is they they wanted to stock their unit a little bit different from other dealers across the country and part of that was they want a 5500 propane generator on a stock piece and that's what's on this unit along with that we also do the 2800 watt inverter which gives you four six volt batteries and that gives you the auto start feature so if you are boondocking or even if you're parked up to shore power and the park lost power it's gonna auto start that generator to kick on to supply the unit that's awesome it's awesome now this thing's an rk it's a rear kitchen that's what it's named for let's check that out i think it's pretty slick there's a whole lot of space here absolutely so you know for me i look around and i'm used to rv as being what what i have some family members that would refer to as a sbk a single butt kitchen yeah and this is not a single butt kitchen this is a chef's kitchen if you ask me yeah we have a lot of countertop space and this great insignia oven i mean that's residential in and of itself what do we got up here we've got a convection convection microwave absolutely nothing just a microwave it's convection so you can have biscuits going in two places absolutely man and storage storage everywhere storage galore as we spoke of earlier everyone's always saying storage storage storage um you you alluded to earlier as far as the counter space in here that's one thing that sets this floor plan apart there is plenty of space to prep and prepare your food for when you have guests over obviously this floor plan seats you know for eight people so if you have friends over and you're wanting to have a good time maybe you're watching super bowl you have the little countertop here that maybe you have some nachos and stuff hanging out there's plenty of space in this rear kitchen yeah and we've got residential fridge residential fridge you're gonna have a water hookup on the inside along with an ice maker in the freezer as well man ice and water in the fridge and behind you oh my goodness this is really slick oh that's a satisfying little beep as it opens up but we got a dishwasher on board you do uh it's going to be standard on every single drv that you guys get very cool i dig it i mean nobody likes doing dishes at the end of the day you just throw them in there and be done so let's push on a little bit further out of this kitchen and into what i would consider i guess this is a dining room i mean you know it's this is it's in the slide this is deceptive to me yes because it doesn't look like much but there's more going on here than i know this from previous drvs because we've had quite a few over the years and this is something that you guys have been doing that nobody else is doing we see this locked i don't think it's locked they put a little lock on it for transit but guys this thing extends out and it comes out further than i thought it would the first time i moved it because it tucks into that buffet there and we've got two folding chairs yeah it still comes out further ah the leaf yes so we have a hidden leaf as well man you can get a lot of people around this table if you wanted to that's pretty slick or you were talking about having buffet space for like a game or something like that this is built for entertaining i mean we've got spots to seat the family around the tv in the living room in the kitchen and really just kind of have a party in here yeah absolutely um on this on this slide one question we do get quite often is about the carpet this is gonna be the one spot that we do have carpet because this slide actually goes out and it drops down so underneath you will see the rollers but the rest of the unit something new for 2021 is no carpet as far as the main floor goes from their kitchen to the living room up in the bedroom in the bathroom there is no carpet it's lvt vinyl plank flooring this is not the linoleum each one is hand laid and hand glued yeah now we're talking about entertaining as we're pushing back into this living room i don't think we noticed it earlier but this furniture is super cush and i'm pretty sure this couch that's not a trifold that's no it's a traditional pullout yeah it's it's actually a queen mattress underneath there that you pull out all the way so if you have grandchildren or people over that are do want to stay inside the unit they have a half bath there and they can be sleeping right out here excellent so we can easily sleep four in this unit no problem yeah very cool let's go check out the upper deck perfect that is a slick door up to the upper deck and i'm noticing as we're coming up onto it that we've got this great control center right here so there's all kinds of good things about this um one of the things i really love is that everything is on its own individual rocker switch that's pretty slick yeah everything this is pretty much your your mechanical everything you would need here uh regarding your inverter your power management system your ac's your c-level tank monitoring system everything is going to be located in this compartment along with your breakers your fuses everything is in here that you might need excellent now you said c-level tank system that's the one where we do not put any holes through the tank right correct so your standard across the industry is is actually a probe that goes inside of a tank and over time they rust corrode get build up things like that it's very inaccurate so a lot of people are guessing you know hey every three days i need to drain my black tank this is actually going to be located on the outside of the tank and it's going to send in a sonar that will read how full your tank level is uh everything's right here so you'll be able to press the button to see a percentage of how full that tank level is so one a 100 gallon fresh water tank if it's 87 full you have 87 gallons of fresh water that's pretty awesome this is a pretty slick setup really all in all let's uh let's jump past that and hop up into the bedroom up here i really like the amount of space this up here now at first glance you know i think we were joking about it earlier how so many people see this vanity slide and say is that thing all the way out when they're outside and yes it is it's not a big slide but it does wonders for this bedroom because it opens up the foot of the bed immensely to where you can sit up get dressed put your shoes on and not feel like you're in a cramped space yeah i mean typically if if this wasn't here you could you would imagine this dresser being out to here so every time you come up the steps you're there you're limited to a capacity of you know really just a foot and a half maybe of walking up here so we put that on about a 10 12 inch slide just enough to push it out no need for a slide topper you already have your main awning that's out there but it's going to house everything from your tv to your dvd player and then obviously eight drawers right there for this floor plan awesome now another thing i harp on this a lot but i i always say it in the videos i'm six foot three yeah and i'm up here and i can walk under doorways under the sea i'm not close to anything and even if i was this is a padded ceiling yeah that's kind of cool so i was taller i'd smack my head you know like at least it's not gonna hurt but continuing through that this bedroom has lots of great features we have power and night stands on both sides of the bed with a little bit of storage in the form of some cabinets down low and everything's on a dimmer which is pretty cool too like we can raise and lower that light temperature with ease isn't her reading lights you know um i i don't read my wife does and if she wants to read at night i can turn my light off and she can still read yeah and this is a this is an awesome bet it's a king right 72 by 80 that's standard for drv awesome and it's got storage up underneath i think we talked about it a little bit ago uh that that this has those extra chairs yeah the your extra chairs can be uh stored in here maybe the front closet but there's plenty of space underneath here for whatever you may need strut assistant you're not going to get this coming down back on you right that's easy to get into and out of now coming out of this bedroom this bathroom is amazing it's sweet um this is it's modeled after one of our our top floor plans that we've had for years the houston which is wow you actually fit inside that that fit inside the shower and this is this is this is a big shower yeah i'm digging on the surround but you're saying this is modeled after the houston yeah this this this whole thing um the way the shower is the toilet the dual vanity up here it's modeled after the houston floor plan which has been very successful for us um you know you have your own messing cabinets two mirrors everything up here is thought out gives you a big space along with your front closet up here which is lined with a real cedar wood so you get that that real smell more bug resistant water resistant plenty of storage so in with the closet and the bathroom you know there's plenty of space up here to change and do whatever you need that's awesome and this toilet that's special special i mean it's a macerator toilet it's a macerator that's something that's pretty cool is porcelain it's porcelain we don't put any plastic toilets in our units yes that's something i take for granted um i know i hardly ever talk about it but it's true we don't put any plastic toilets in you're getting porcelain for us that's awesome i i mean i dig on the toilet i know it's got the the high low flush feature as well which is something that we don't see in a lot of the other stuff in our industry right now even in some of the luxury units that we stock here on the lot so the toilet separates it from the pack a little bit there you go yeah man in this closet like you said it's huge it's got lots of storage it's cedar lined there's ample power even the drawers to have cedar in the bottom of them yeah absolutely that's slick right there man i think that we are just about maxing out the interior of this let's go get into some of the real drv features some of the things that we don't really see by checking out the outside perfect so we're stepping out and you and i were talking about this a little bit earlier but drvs have three and a quarter inch sidewalls yeah it's the thickest sidewall in the fifth wheel industry we have high density wool batten insulation in there i always tell everybody when you're walking inside feel that door jamb i mean when you really feel it you get a sense of how big three and a quarter inches thick is and when you're walking in other other brands and you feel their their side walls you'll notice the difference oh yeah and it makes a difference in a lot of ways it's not just insulation from the hot and the cold but i've noticed that there's a sound barrier inside these as well like i'm not hearing my neighbors yeah i when we have inside shows um depending on where they're at one of the best things i like to do is get a customer in shut this door and have them listen how it drowns out the sound because that is a big thing when you're at a campground or a camp resort uh you can hear your neighbors yeah that's pretty slick we've got the aircraft style steps solid steps going up and down and guys this is full body paint no decals no decals we're talking about body paint yes on this and it's beautiful i love this tone i like how it gets lighter up towards the front it kind of takes some of the weight off of such a big unit so kudos to the graphic designer on that one perfect yeah so pushing up a little bit forward we're under this vanity slide that we mentioned inside and boom that is some massive storage right there yeah so we have one of the largest storage basement storage compartments and really this goes back to our frame which we haven't touched on just yet but all our whole upper deck is steel everybody else in the industry switches to aluminum we're using steel all the way through so this is going to do a few things for us barry one obviously we talked about the largest storing capacity but if you can open that door for me right there you're going to see that all of my tanks are accessible so that's my black tank up above that's a 50 gallon black tank a 75 gallon gray tank i like to call this my mechanical room anything you might need to work on you're going to have accessibility with a drv in these two huge sliding doors which is something you don't see across the industry very very very slick it's all nice and tidy too i love how the furnace is sandwiched between the tanks yep that's going to create some great radiant heat in the winter and keep things from freezing up even without tank pads here's something even better see that little two inch duct right there yeah that two inch heat duct actually runs and lays behind my all copper water manifold so anytime that furnace kicks on that whole compartment is getting forced heat nice nice speaking of that copper manifold you have access to turn on and off every individual water line in the unit correct so you're going to have hot and cold separated so you're not going to get those hot and cold drops what's great about it is say you have a leak at the kitchen sink well in every other fifth wheel they have a tee behind the inlet so off of that tee you're gonna have one that runs to the back and one's the one that runs to the front and off of there you're gonna have other connections for your bathrooms your half bath your washer and dryer whatever it may be where all of mine's gonna come from here so if i have a leak at the kitchen sink i can come down here isolate the line the hot and cold for the kitchen sink but i can still go take a shower i don't have to shut down my whole unit excellent now hopping up these baggage doors they're insulated too aren't they absolutely these are the thickest baggage drawers you can get in the industry and that's going to be standard on all drvs slam latches yep awesome they're satisfying to close yeah make that sound now this has two big double awnings on it yep which is very nice it gives us a lot of patio space and we've got all of our frameless windows up here yep those are pretty slick they look great on here now upgrading to this is a mobile suite upgrading to the elite suites you get window silks and a handful of other things too but we can get the same floor plan with some upgrades right correct correct the upgraded elite suite package is going to be quartz countertops full body paint with window silks fiberglass side skirting you're going to get a sleep number bed dyson vacuum the asa in command system there's a list of about uh 10 different things now that make the elite package that's pretty slick and we can order those in really pretty easily all we got to do is have your information if you want to place that kind of order now we got the slide out so it's kind of tucked up and under there but you guys the suspension is something else oh yeah so this is the more ride independent suspension so looking at it we can see that there is no leaf spring going to the front and rear tire the best example i will give you is you're at a red light you make a right turn front tire hits that curb on a leaf spring suspension if you if you got out of your truck that front tire is on that curb that back tire would already be two to three inches off the ground because they're always in constant communication well obviously here they're completely independent from each other so that front tire goes up on the curb back tire has no clue it's still sitting on the road until it hits the curb so imagine going down bumpy bumpy roads uh they're they're uh better at absorbing the the road um bumps and this will actually allow five inches of travel where a leaf spring suspension does about two two and a half inches that's pretty slick and you're gonna have 17.5 inch goodyear h-rated tires notice i said goodyear it's a name we're familiar with that's right um that's really about a 480 dollar tire that we're putting on there that's a lot of value absolutely behind that you're gonna have kodiak automotive disc brakes it's not the drum brakes that used to be on the 1950 cars uh if you can change your brake pad on your car you can change your brake pad on this drv awesome let's push on back to the back uh as we're going i noticed this little panel here i don't think i have to open it to know what that is that's where our residential fridge was absolutely so you actually have access to it if in case something were to go wrong maybe you're winterizing for the ice maker and then the in the water lines you're gonna have access to it that's very cool indeed and then you guys have just taken advantage of all kinds of extra space here by tucking away small storage spots as many spaces as we can right yeah that's reminiscent to me of like a motorhome absolutely and then at the back molded rear cap so barry this is actually something that's brand new for us um obviously we've always had the molded rear cap but this is a brand new design for 2021 you kind of went with a cadillac style and the brake lights yeah absolutely the turn lights um just a another texture for drv i think it looks very motor home style and you're going to notice below there we have a two inch receiver 3000 pounds towing 300 pounds tongue weight standard on drvs with a seven pin yeah absolutely a seven pin connection that's awesome most of the time we just see the four pin flat we don't see the full seven pin connector back there and we've got a ladder that's running up to our fully walkable roof as well fully walkable half inch plywood up there so that's a rubber roof one piece so it's going to last you a long time awesome let's check out the off door side all right so here at the off door side we have a few things going on that i think are pretty cool the first i want to point out is this power cord reel yeah it's a 33 foot two inch power cord reel it's gonna make it really easy rolling up that power cord yeah and looking in there we can see the frame that we talked about a little bit ago as well yeah so we have a 15 inch box tube frame so that's a six inch tube on a six inch tube on a three inch tube industry standard is going to be a 10 or 12 inch i-beam as you know we're a heavy unit and a lot of it's going to go to this frame a linear foot of our frame is going to weigh about 30 pounds where the linear foot of your standard frame is about 10.8 pounds so we are heavier but that allows us to do everything we want with the thickest walls the real wood on the inside cabinets the countertops all that stuff really comes off of our foundation and the cargo carrying capacity too yeah absolutely that's that's one great thing about living full time you're always wanting as much carrying capacity you're always going to have typically more than 3 000 pounds typically around that 3 500. yeah now we're at the back we have one of our sewage ports here but this is off the kitchen so this is just a gray tank right yep it's just a secondary release for the rear kitchen for your sink and dishwasher now another thing i've noticed that seems to be new are these great led marker lights that are up high yup that's something new for 2021 we've switched to all led even through the pass-through storage so moving along we see that we have a spare tire carrier hidden up under there the six-point level up there's one of our jacks now you guys are doing something that's a little bit different than a lot of people you'll kick them out yeah we do them at a degree angle the best example i will give you is if i'm standing straight up my feet are straight down and you push me on the shoulder first thing i'm doing is i'm stepping like this yeah well why not start here let's start with a wider base be more secure you're gonna notice when you're walking inside my unit you don't feel your your fifth wheel moving that solid base the frame everything we're doing all starts from the ground up that's super cool now moving forward again i'm noticing you guys are tucking storage away every place you can into the side wall here we have another sewage port this is going to be your main one though correct correct that's going to be your your black and your gray up front for your your main shower your washer and dryer we've got a water heater yep 12 gallon dsi gas electric 12 gallons is big that's a lot of hot water correct and then our main poles with bypass valves and we've even got a little spray port in here for hosing off a dirty dog or a bike or something of that nature yeah and you'll see you have sat one satellite two and cable for when you're hooked up at a campground as well awesome now we looked at it earlier now this is just looking at it from the other side but there's that huge pass-through storage again and we have access to our level up as well as that manifold we talked about earlier yep so here's the manifold individual shutoff valves your seat level tank monitoring system is in there you can see the whole house water filtration system that comes standard on all drvs your brake actuator everything is in here in this mechanical room excellent now the rv does some other things that i think is pretty slick i just opened up this and it's simple little things like having a tray yeah we can slide out these propane tanks and those propane tanks that is not standard those are big yeah these are these are dual 40 so that's 80 80 pounds of propane on this unit that's going to let you stay out for quite some time that's a lot of cooking absolutely make whatever you want that's very cool indeed it easily slides in and out moving up to the front tell me about this this is not something that i'm seeing standard across the board here this is all one big piece of fiberglass like a cap yeah so it's gonna go from your front all the way down this under compartment i mean you get underneath and you hit that you're gonna have better rock protection with this 3m paint that we're putting on as well that is solid yeah awesome now hiding up under here we have our batteries and it's not just those two i noticed when we were touring this earlier that we have four yeah uh with the upgraded inverter you're gonna get four six volt batteries uh and that inverter is upgraded for what's in this door your 5500 um cummins onan propane generator wow so makes this unit fully self-contained you could boondock you could be out for days at a time without being hooked to the grid yeah or or if you're parked at the campground and the campground were to lose power for some reason that inverter is going to auto start this generator to power your unit oh that is a slick feature now and these are getting harder and harder to come by aren't they yeah it's just one of those uh coveted things that we're not able to find generators as easily as we used to well i'm glad we got one we got lucky absolutely now pushing up we've got a great more ride pin box here yep that's going to help take a lot of chucking out of the situation when we're going down the road and over bumpy roads and whatnot because the discussion plate and the way that it works moving back and forth inside there absolutely in in in conjunction with the suspension morite and moride those two work together to really make this the hauling of a drv smooth and this front cap this is new and brand new awesome yeah um we've had the same front cap really since 2012 and we wanted something a little bit different but we wanted to stay true to drv so we kept the profile did a nice little indentation we talked earlier about how we're all paint there's no decals the only decal really is our logo and that's not a paper decal as you can see it's an embossed emblem regarding all the lettering the logos on the side the rear those are going to last you a long time they're not going to get faded and then you see the new led lights on the sides those aren't just your your clear lights that you turn on at night those are also going to be integrated into your turn signals turn signals yeah man you guys are just loaded with great features on this thing i'm loving it thank you guys thanks so much for joining us to check out this 41 rkdb from drv this is a really sweet floor plan i'm super stoked that we had our rep here with us today we've had a really long great relationship with drv i mean you guys have been part of the southern rv family for years yeah i think i think you and i were talking earlier i think it goes back to 2008 back before this dealership here was even built right that's right we've always had a great relationship you guys all have my number the sales people have my number you can call me with any questions um they have a couple units on the lot they have an lx 455 right now along with a brand new 36. that's right and then they have two houston's from manhattan coming to houston's in manhattan manhattan is that two full bath two bedroom floor plan that is hard to find so that one's going to be a hot one i know people are going to want to see it awesome well i'm super excited about it guys if you want to see this drv for yourself in person come on down to southern rv at 324 industrial boulevard in mcdonough georgia we're right off the highway it's easy to access just south of atlanta if you can't come see us in person visit us online at southernrv.com or give us a call at 770-477-0552 until next time [Music] [Music] high i may never come down

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Length: 30min 14sec (1814 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021