2021 Pleasure-Way Plateau Full Service Walk Through

[Music] okay so we're going to take a look at the plateau today we're going to pop the hood and let's check some things underneath the engine cover we're going to lift up the hood here a little latch on the left-hand side i'm going to drop the hood latch down for the bonnet and we're going to go left to right we have def fluid in these new ones uh diesel exhaust fluid you can find this at all your auto parts stores walmarts you can get it on the truck stops going down the road so there's a gauge for this on the dash cluster and i'll show you how to operate that when we go inside we also have engine coolant here this is called mercedes pink and we always want to use the same type of coolant so you can go to you if you need to add to it you can go to the auto parts store and ask for a mercedes pink or at the mercedes dealer this is a cabin air filter intake so the cabin air filters on the passenger side below the dashboard and it's your oil fill if you need to add oil they run a full synthetic in this oil it's a 0-30 weight and the maintenance on this is normally 20 000 miles on a mercedes so we can go out 20 000 miles i do recommend you taking the mercedes for the first few times so at least they can as they're doing the oil change they can also put the scanner on it and check for any recalls safety bulletins those sort of things we got our air cleaner here at the top there's no oil dipstick for this to check the oil level but we can check it actually on the cluster inside so we'll be showing you that as well brake fluid on the master cylinder we can see the fluid level here in the reservoir we have washer fluid here on the bottom right this happens to be the oil filter down below you here and then we have the jump start for the engine so what we can do is we can actually hook up jumper cables here the positive here negative over here on the frame and that's how we can access our battery for starting the engine remotely and so that's what you would do for safety you can also charge up your battery from this location if you have a battery tender or battery charger i recommend you go out and start your rig at least a couple times a month and run it for a half hour to an hour and uh just uh get in it and use it we're going to drop the hood back down i've got a step here for getting up on to the windshield and i've also got a little port here in the front i can take out that cover and there's in the tool kit and the passenger side there's actually a tow hook and i can hook that tow hook in there and tow this out of a muddy spot or i can actually tow it up on a flat bed safely i'm going to walk around here i'm going to look at my air pressures your air pressures are right here on the side of the door and this is what we have them set for 55 psi in the front 58 on the rear dual and you'll notice on the rear duals we have a valve extender that goes into the inside tire so we have this is the outside here and then this is the inside dual here or the outside or inside dual so what you want to do here uh if you ever go with tire sensor pressure monitors you can have a steel one installed on the inside tire there and you can install the pressure sensor monitors on the steel valve stem with that so that'll be a safe way to do that the seats have memory seats three positions so we have electric seats on this we have the mirror control here left and right and we have power windows we also have when you want to set the memory for this you just get the seat positioned like you want it hold down memory a few seconds and then enter in one two or three position that blocks here for the doors also have heated seats then we have the auto position for the lights so when i've got it in auto position here the lights will automatically come on there's also um a sensor up front for the controls and the safety and built into the behind the glass here a camera that looks down the road it's going to do your your keep lane assist it's also going to sense the headlights coming towards you the high beams it'll knock those back down so you don't blind people so we have diesel fuel here so this is your diesel field all right i'm going to show you a couple places for some fuses and so right here underneath the driver's seat are some chassis fuses so we have chassis fuses here we also have more of the chassis fuses over on the passenger side in the floorboard and one more little tidbit for you here's the paint code mercedes paint coat if you ever need touch-up paint for your base color here get that real easy the battery's actually located here the chassis battery that runs and starts the engine right here below the floorboard in case you need that but they also make a disconnect here at the console right here and it's behind this cover it's basically a chassis disconnect and so if you were to leave this coach for an extended period of time and not have it plugged in you can always disconnect the battery there and read the instructions on the side before you do that but you can disconnect it and reduce any battery draw that we might have so we're going to open up a couple of these compartments here i've got to have the keys that have 751 keys so this is a 751 key everybody in the rv business will have one of these it's a common key for these type of doors so we're going to open that up and this is our outside shower so we could clean up after we're working with the sewer and things outside or if we just want to wash off at the beach or something we can do that we're going to open this up so this is where you're going to hook your sewer when you pull up to the campsite you've got a sewer hose that's actually uh inside and stored inside and you'll be hooking it right here up on this opening here so we'll just twist that sewer hose on run it out down and into the uh sewer so i'm going to actually open up the sewer hose here and show you what's left so we have this located here and a double section so it goes out quite long and we'll be able to pop that on and twist that on this end will go down to your sewer there's actually some attachments inside in your tool in your kit and that'll go onto this and it's a right angle adapter so that'll drop down into the sewer and so we're going to leave these valves shut so we got the gray on the right and the black on the left and you're going to watch the gauges inside and when your tanks get full and need to be empty especially the black we're going to come over here and we're going to open up the black and let that run out first we'll shut that and then we're going to open up the gray and let that help flush out the hose as we empty that out one more thing you can do too is like when you're at the campsite and you're using a lot of gray water and taking a shower and so forth you can come out and open up your gray and just let that run out directly so you don't overfill your tank or use too much and fill up your gray too often too early so we're going to bring in our city water hose so you'll need to get your city water hose and try to use a we want you to use the pressure regulator into that hose that's a 55 psi you're going to bring it up and usually for this a right angle adapter is necessary so it's it's a good idea to get one a little brass adapter that goes down and points down to a right angle and bring your hose up this way so your hose doesn't have to kick and hook up to this and when you turn on the watt city water that's going to pressurize all the lines throughout the coach now you can also run off of your freshwater tank that's on board and i have some water in it already and i'll show you how to fill that and drain it on the other side so right now also we have our cable tv at a park usually they offer free cable tv so we can hook up our cable to this get yourself a coax cable and carry that with you and that way you'll always have it handy 20 25 feet will do hook into there hook into the cable parts uh pedestal and you're good to go then you just take and scan your tv and then you can get the channels so what we're going to do here we're also going to make sure our gas is turned on so we have an lp gas that runs the water heater runs the refrigerator on if necessary on lp and also the furnace so we've got that on right now and then i have my 30 amp shore cord we call it power cord you're going to plug that in i'm going to show you i'm going to twist off the thing it's keyed it only goes in one way so when you put that in this will be at the bottom and so we put that in actually push it in twist it to the right and once that's locked in we'll lock in the the ceiling collar of the locking collar at the top and you want to see a red indicator light there at the top that's going to tell you have power coming into the coach so moving along here this has a water heater on it it's a truma aqua go and first thing that we need to do with the aqua go is is show you that there is water in it i'm going to pop this open here and when i open it and pull this down you'll see at the top here i don't know if you can get your camera in there there's actually a filter in there that pulls out when i let this down this is actually how you drain the water heater so when you pull this down the water will drain out of this trough onto the ground that's how we drain this entire water heater for winterizing or just to get the water out of the coach but i've got the filter in now it's about that long and that's also a place where you can put cleaning tablets in that and clean out this water heater we'll talk more about that on the inside but my goal out here is to make sure i have water in the coach i also want to make sure i turn on the power you can do it up or you can do it down either way on the truma will work you want to see a green light right here green power light okay so now that i've got power either way up or down i can go inside there's actually a control on the wall and i can put the truma water heater in eco mode or comfort mode now most people like to use the comfort mode because it will get the water circulated to all of your taps and have it hot and available anytime you need it and the difference is the economy mode will actually only heat up when you turn on the faucet so there's going to be a delay before you get hot water this is going to be the uh lp furnace exhaust so a lot of people get the the bug covers that go over that the diver guards so if you live in an area where you have a lot of mud daubers and wasps and bugs it's always recommended that you can get a cover and put over that we're going to look at the back of the refrigerator i don't show a lot of people this but this is the back of our refrigerator and you can see i've got it plugged in here that's normal this is an lp this is an rv refrigerator so what that means is an absorption refrigerator so when you turn it on on the inside it's going to go to automatic mode or you can switch auto and it's going to choose the most efficient way to run and right now i'm plugged in so it's choosing electric um i can also manually switch it on any source i want now the beauty of this fridge is that when you drive when you turn on the ignition this is going to switch to a battery mode so it will run off a 12 volt dc so it's three ways it runs 12 volt dc electric and it also runs off of lp when i have the lp turned on or when you're dry camping or boom docking but i just wanted to show the electric plug here the nature of the back of the refrigerator and we take air in here remove the heat from the coils and it comes out here at the vent at the top so when you're reaching up here you can feel it's kind of warm there we're removing the heat off those coils that's how we get our cooling on the inside of the box and by the way it takes about 10 to 12 hours usually to cool down an absorption refrigerator before you can use it so try to start it up ahead of time and that will be ready when you do load up and ready to go this is our exhaust for our generator okay what you're seeing there we're going to work our way around here back you have a hitch for towing here should you want to tow a tow car small tow car or trailer or something like that we also have our seven way round electrical right here on the left and one thing i want to show you here on the left of this is our lp fill so this is actually where we fill the lp and you're not going to feel it when you take it into a filling station an attendant's going to hook up to this he's going to fill it up you have a gauge on the inside and these holes in between anywhere between 8 and 10 to 11 gallons so you fill it up here he's going to crack this open you see that's venting out right there and that's a vapor vent a liquid level gauge too so if he sees liquid coming out of this he's going to stop filling and that way he knows he's filled up and this is also an lp tap over here on the left so we can actually plug in a grill to this or a furnace or a heater outside and so that's tapping into your lp system and then you can utilize that for other things that's nice to have for a barbecue grill so we're going to put this on here i'm going to get another cap for that that thing is i know that's kind of busted there so we got some sensors here on the bottom this is all part of the safety system that we have on this coach and it's proximity sensors they're sensing uh when you back up or when you go forward or when you turn uh it's sort of a radar system that's looking around your coach for any objects and so that we when we make a left turn right turn we'll also be notified up front if there's anything in the way over here on the right you have a roadside emergency kit for the uh you have an air compressor in there you have some tire sealed in case you have a blowout or a tire that's gone down and leaking got got a leak in the tire you can always add some of the liquid sealer in that and then pump it up there's actually an air compressor in this that runs off of 12 volts and so you plug it into your cigarette lighter and have that work but right here in the back i want to show you a couple of things the first thing is this switch at the top uh this is a solar panel switch and so right now i've got it in the charge mode if i wanted to disconnect the charge the solar panels from the charging system that comes down into the lithium batteries i would turn that to the left and you can actually take it out and then that so that's disabling the solar charge to those lithium batteries we're going to kind of go ahead and keep that and that's for maintenance usually and when you're working with the batteries and trying to change them out or do some problems or whatever you're trying to figure out so we're going to go back and re-engage that right there okay there's also a 30 amp solar fuse that you see right here and that's for the solar panels on top we're going to take the cover this is just magnetic and this cover comes off and then we can lift this up and here are lithium batteries so we have 200 amp hours of lithium batteries there's no maintenance on these and the these are maintained these are maintained by the charger you can drive and charge these up driving will charge them up with the engine also when you plug into shore power if you run the generator or if you have some solar power coming in that's going to provide a charge or trickle charge to these batteries on the left over here you see that is called an automatic transfer switch that switches you between shore power and generator the generator always takes priority so if i start up the generator even if i'm plugged in like this it's going to switch to the generator so a good rule of thumb is to is to always unplug your shore power before you start up your generator we have seat belts here they can be pulled up and through the seats here that's just a little modesty panel so you pull them through there when you got riders and you want to keep them safe there's also a screen here in the back and so we can unlatch that screen and then there's zippers that pull down and it's going to provide a nice bug screen for the back here to keep it sealed up the doors come back and i don't know if you knew this but the doors would completely go around into the back there's one thing about this coach is since the doors open all the way up wide pleasureway has disabled the opening and closing of these back wing windows here so that we don't interfere or hit the back of this so you got to be careful of that and they don't have knobs on those so you can see the windows here they don't have knobs that have a little cover on there and they have a little sticker up here that tells you that that they've disabled the windows and this will go back to this is good for loading or if you just want to enjoy the outdoors run your bug screen down so underneath is our generator um i don't know if we can see that with the camera over here on this side so you can see the generator the door is actually on the other side and inside that door is actually a circuit breaker so you want to try let's try to get the other side maybe this one was facing the other way so yeah so this is the door that comes off this is the 2500 lp generator so this will run at a minimum this will run your air conditioner on top so you can run the rooftop air uh off of this unit this is an lp generator so i do have to have the lp switch back here turned on in the utility center and uh but uh that's the oil on this has changed normally at 50 hours and then after 50 hours you can go up 250 hours between your oil changes so there's an hour meter inside so we'll be able to track that hour uh time that we use and we'll look at that all inside so i have a utility outlet out here nice to be able to plug things in 110. now this is our water fill for our fresh water tank so this is what we call a gravity fill place you can put your uh city water hose you can fill up that tank and board and you can also add bleach and water if you're trying to sanitize your tank or vinegar and water and i want to show you the drain is actually right here as i put my arm in when i open that up you can see i'm draining my fresh water out of the tank and so that's the drain so when you winterize or if you want to drain the the old stale water out of there that's a good place to do it right there instead of trying to run it through your sink or shower and then empty those great you can just open up the tank here this is how you feel it and we're going to open this up this has an electric door on it so you just want to pull the handle one time you can also open and close on the key fob if you want to i can do this unlock there we go so hit it one time unlock and that open that opened it up i closed it up so electrically you can open and close it with the key fob you can also do it with a handle and i'm going to show you a couple of places you never want to push on the back of the door just let the motors pull the door in and i'm going to show you something else too you want to be very careful when you're in the way here there's an emergency stop here at the side of the door you see it blinking in red so if the door is coming in you can press that and stop it if you just want to close the door half part way and be able to enter in out you can do that as well this also has another bug screen here in the door that you pull down and pull the zippers down one of the things here in the in the main part of the the the door is i'm going to show you this is your main battery switch they call this a salesman switch it's a battery cut off for the 12 volts so if i have things turned on inside okay entry lights are a bunch of lights i can hit the light master on it turns on every light in here go back to home position when i turn off the switch here turns off everything inside that's 12 volt so when you're storing your coach that's what you'll use to actually turn off things or if you've got it at at the house or somewhere in at night you're not going to be loading up till the next day and you're not plugged in but bear in mind that when i turn that off it also turns off your refrigerator so if you're in using your coach as a general rule you're going to leave it on because you want your refrigerator and everything there it goes it powers up i want to keep our food cold so we're going to turn this back on i'm going to remove this cover so we can see a little bit better okay so we're going to take a look at a couple things i'm in the home position and i have all my lights and anytime you see a light here with a arrow on it you can hold it push and hold it and then you can you can dim that light so that's kind of nice to set up the setting that you want at night the brightness of the light i've got my water pump here so if i'm running on the water pump if i'm running off of the tank i need to have the water pump turned on that runs off of 12 volts of course when i'm on city water like i would be at a campsite i don't necessarily need the water pump turned on because it's just going to be using water out of your tank as well and eventually it will go dry so we're going to look at the tanks i got 50 of fresh water in that tank gray and black are empty that's how i want to start out and this even gives me my lp tank level so i'm filled up 93 on the lp so i'm good to go we're ready to go camping i've got water in it got lp we got a full tank of diesel here so we're actually ready to go uh we're looking at the voltage anytime i'm plugged in or if i run the engine i always like to see the voltage of the coach and i'm at 13.7 that's a float charge on those batteries right now if i got if those batteries got down to like say about you know 12 volts 12.1 those would be discharge battery dead batteries and you need to get it charged up well you can charge it up again plugged in generator running the engine or solar power so you see a little amp gauge right below it now i'm actually drawing minus one amp off of the charger and are the batteries and so this gives you a a amperage reading of the batteries so it tells you the the actual power draw and what you're pulling off those dc batteries and so this will give you a good idea of what your loads are as you start turning on lights and so forth so if we turn on lights here you'll see the master lights there go back to this see our amp draw went up a little bit and these are led lights so they don't pull a lot of a lot of juice but if i go here and like say i start up my fan this is a ventilation fan here you want to do that when you're cooking so [Music] so you can see it varies just depends on let me start it up okay so now that's it now if you're dry camping now right now i'm plugged in so the charger is actually making up some of this current that i'm using but if i were just dry camping and i wasn't plugged in you probably see a lot more amperage being pulled from the batteries just to maintain lights in the refrigerator and so forth i can also turn my generator on and off here and i'm going to do that for you we'll pretend that i i unplugged my shore power and i'm going to come over here to start that up stop in again i've got the lp on outside okay just for a second and that's that's what it sounds like sounds like a little eyeball running nice and quiet they've actually added a silencer to those generators so they're real nice and when you shut this door you really won't hear it very much but uh so now that i've got my generator running i give it a couple of minutes to switch over and once it does i can then turn on my rooftop air now that's done right here i'm going to go ahead and stop my generator now we're switching back to shore power but i can start and stop my air conditioner here so i've got ac then i got my furnace which runs off of lp and i've got my lp turned on so i can turn on my ac and i can go to low fan or high fan and so forth i can set my temperature up here okay and down now the vent you can also operate this vent in the coach off of this thermostat so that's something kind of nice and important you can go here and open it up through the mechanics i think the gear is mechanical movement because you also have an awning that you can extend as well so we're out wanting to enjoy and keep the sun off of us to make everything cooler we can open this and by up way this awning has a motion sensor on it when the wind comes up and starts shaking the awning around it's going to run in for you so that's a safety thing i'd like for you to check that from time to time i'm going to show you how that works be careful here i've got a pole here that i'm kind of close by so all you have to do is grab the awning you get a wind that comes up let me shake it there it goes it took enough wind to shake and move that come in so that's a safety thing never leave it out at night when you're uh when you're in using your coat when you're camping or when you leave and go go eat or whatever whatever you want to do leave your coach go ahead and run it in just as a precaution so we also have a button here that we can extend that sofa in the back and so if i wanted to lay that sofa down i could do that from here as well there's also a panel just like this in the back as well so i don't have to do it right from the door and we're going to go back to the home position so i've got my ac on i got the fan running i may want the water pump on if i have dry camping and i can set up my lights however i want now this generator also has something called an automatic genstar the automatic genstar ags when i tap on that i can set this up right here and we will do the easy setup and i can have it come on for the if the batteries get low or if the climate control calls for it so if i have air conditioner that i need if i have a dog and i want to leave him in the coach and when i'm dry camping i want him to get hot i can actually turn it on enable the air condition and the power these have already been set up as presets we're going to leave those like they are these are the voltages that you want that to come on at lithium's run at a little higher charging voltage than lead acid batteries so that's why you see some of the voltages are a little higher than that acid so this has all been preset we're going to leave that there 10 minutes 240 minutes i might want to back that down to 180 that's three hours instead of four hours run time uh no longer than that you can always play around with these settings and you get something that's just what you need it to be so right here and then so some of your parks have quiet time so if you want to abide by their rules you know and say hey i don't want to start this thing up at nine i want between nine pm and eight am i don't want the generator to start you can do that as well so then when you finish all your settings you can come in so finish so when i want to enable that ags operation i hit ags i've got to turn the ignition on within 60 seconds the reason they do this this is a fail safe because they want you to absolutely be sure that you want to turn on that ags and not accidentally just hit this button and turn it on if you're in a storage area or some other place that you should not be running your generator so abide by that and and try to stick with that so we're going to go down here we're going back to lights and you can see we even have an awning light here that we can turn on when the awning is out let me show you when the awning is out hit the right button uh you can see we got an led light on the end of it and so when i when i go to awning there it is and so i can we don't call it home i can operate the awning okay so i'm going to retract the awning back up the audi will go up and clear the door on this one so it's kind of nice to have that where the door does not have to be shut and run the awning in and out okay you can control the speed of your ventilation van here as well so we're going to go back to the utility screen and this is a place that i can set up my time so it's 9 39 am i just set my time up you can do the screen brightness here if you need to screen settings you can also look and have a power saving part of the screen so it turns off after 15 minutes we'll just keep these as a default right now so we're going to go back to this also you can do a diagnostic so if we have any faults that pop up on this firefly screen they call this a firefly basically a spider control system so if we have any errors that come up they'll show up here in detail as to what they are so it gives me an idea of how to look now the g6 is a thing that actually turns on all the lights in here i can show you that later but all of these that you have in green those are the those are the loads that are actually turned on so you can see on the lights and then we have our thermistor reading there as well going through the spider control and so here's the status of each one of those modules that we have associated with this so everything looks green everything's ready to go so we're good on this it just helps me diagnostic i diagnose the system and be able to tell what's going on okay all right so we're back here we've got a fire extinguisher here for safety right above your head is a smoke detector here and then down below here in the back i've got a lpco alarm and you see there's multiple uh gfci so we have one for the refrigerator uh we have one here for the outlets over here near the water which is to be on the other side there's actually an outlet right there below the sink below the counter this is actually this is our uh our stove top you want to go to light on the button you want to push and hold that so that you're getting gas and then dial it in where you need it as far as the flame so this is our cooktop so what i'm going to do is show you that when i push in the light and light that and i let off of it too soon the sensor is not getting warm enough for the gas to still flow so you want to push and hold that okay and once the flame gets to it leave it on there for a few seconds and then let go of it now the flame will stay and maintain itself that's a safety valve so we don't have any gas flow inside if somebody just turns a valve on just like that so a lot of safety is built into these rvs and this is a cooktop cover this is tempered glass we don't want to cook with this down i've had some people try to do that but here's your burners actually when you store it make sure these are off and then down we're going to take a look here right you have a lot of electrics on here microwave i'm just going to take this cover off just so you can see it a little better with the camera these are breakers these are household breakers and so these will operate all your ac devices air condition your inverter input refrigerator so if you have one trip uh it's going to be flipped down so push it down and come back and reset it so these are on the ac 120 volt side i'm going to lift up this cover i have more here on the 12 volt side so if i have a load here like a light or a fan that's not working come check these circuit breakers if they're popped out if they stick out about a quarter of an inch or about an eighth of an inch come back and reset them i just always run my fingers over and if i've got something not working and that'll reset them you can see these stick up a little bit bigger these are larger breakers usually 30 and 40 amp here but they that's normal for them to stick up like that i want to show you one more thing here too i got access here to a couple of breakers and these are large breakers one's on the generator and this is on the overall 12-volt disconnect so if these trip let me show you what happens that little armor is going to flip out and so that's a trip breaker so what we want to do is reset it and there you go now if you continue to have problems with that obviously you know there's an issue somewhere some kind of short but these are breakers that someone can look at if they are trying to reset their power system and this is all part of the firefly the spider control system right here i call it the firefly they're all the same thing but they use the same basic spider control okay so with this articulating table here you don't really need to take this cover off i did that so that your camera can catch all that so i'm going to loosen up this table arm right here and we can slide that up and then we can we can tighten it up and so we can have this thing move kind of wherever we want to be able to enjoy our dining okay our table these will actually come off when you want to make this into one full bed area of course you need to take the table and take it off of this sliding stand take that off and store the table away all right so we're talking about controls here this is actually the water heater control so if i've got my water pump turned on or if i've got water let me do that i'll make sure i have my water right here and i do want to make sure that on the hot side of the sink that i have all the air out of the line so i might go here and i might go into the bathroom and open that hot side because those truma water heaters do not do not like the water uh having air in the line so we're gonna have power turned on outside we've cleared all the air out of the line so now we're gonna turn the aqua go the truma aquago up to the comfort position so you see the orange light come on now that's going to heat the water and it's going to circulate it to all these taps that we have here in the kitchen and those in the bathroom if this light started blinking on you you know you either got the milky turned off outside or maybe got air in the line and it it just quit operation so you would have to go outside turn off that power switch outside and then come back in go back to off on this dial and then go back up to a setting essentially you're resetting the system now this top one is your eco mode that only comes on and heats up water when you turn on the tap so you do have a delay in getting hot water now see i didn't i didn't light up i must have turned off the gas outside or had airtight so i'm going to turn that off we're going to go outside and i'm going to reset that thing i can't have things work first time you know you got to show the customer what what's up and so on this side of the unit so i've got lp turned on here i got to make sure oh yep see i got water i was just pulling the pressure valve here to make sure i had water so i'm going to turn this off right here and then i'm going to reset it by turning it back on okay so i'm going to get a green light here and no more flashing red light there let's go try it again on the inside now sometimes it may take two or three times depending if i've got air in the system or maybe there was air even in the lp line okay so we're going to go back to off on this water heater is turned on and trim it we're in comfort mode so now i should have hot water here which i do already see how quickly that was that's hot water and that's an endless supply of hot water since it's a it's a tankless on-demand water heater so it actually has one liter of hot water in it to mod moderate the temperature but we call it a tankless as well a hybrid if you want to say and so we're heating our water so i'll have hot water here at the tap and that's also got a sprayer on it if i need to wash a cat up in there okay so i throw the hammer in there so here we go we got hot water over here on this side and so i got a hot water tap already hot and then when i want to use the shower i need to pull up the little handle here and so i got a nice little shower here that i can use handheld showers it's a nice setup that they've got in here and there's a little deal here bear in mind that this is a shower area when you shower when you're done just wipe it down if you can this is all protected wood and everything but there's also a shower curtain that you can pull when you're taking a shower in here and using that now these lights push the turn on right here you can see i'm just pushing the lens and then we have our toilet now this is ceramic toilet so it's easy to clean up not going to scratch like a plastic one and then when you push the pedal down partially you get some water and you go all the way down this is where you're going to be adding your chemical for the toilet so we want to drop in some chemical a pot in there or even the liquid or the powder and uh let that go into the tank as the recommended amount and that will help liquefy and help with the smell on the toilet and every time you go and dump your black tank you'll need to come in and recharge that tank with some chemical okay a nice little set up here we got a medicine cabinet here pull it from the left hand side the latch and we've got a curtain we could put down okay and then we have a drain at the bottom you don't want to stop that up and then of course we got storage underneath our cabinet here okay so i'm going to look at my inverter next if i wanted to dry camp or i just wanted to see what was happening with my inverter let me turn off my light so you can see that i'm getting a lot of glare i'm going to take this off there number one lighting here light off okay so you can see we're at 13.6 volt this is also our charger so it's an inverter charger combination and the flt means that we're in a float charge so we're fully charged on those lithium batteries in the back and right now power's just passing through the inverter going to all these devices but if i needed to turn this on for dry camping here's the button for doing that you push it in to engage it and now we can invert that 12 volts and that makes 120 volts for us so we can run the microwave and we can run uh outlets inside of here and our television things like that that we can run in dry camp just off of the batteries but i recommend that if you're not going to use the inverter as a general rule just turn it off right here at the button and we'll be able to see that when we go and unplug the power but you got to have this on for those devices to work if you're dry camping and wanting to use those off the batteries so and i can scroll through this you can see that right there i can i can scroll through and look and see let me see right here you see i'm scrolling through there's my voltage coming in 110 volts coming in from the shore power at 60 hertz and this is just the type of unit it is back to flow charge and there's the amperage i'm putting into the batteries now that's five amps and usually for the other dc devices in here we're we're actually using some dc amps to do that and so there's the ac input you can actually see your load there's no load on it right now 101.4 and then there's the voltage once again and i'm going to go back to the voltage where it shows the flow charge this is what i like to see here too as well i want to see what state the batteries are in and that meter will tell me what it does so when we do want to set the area up here to make a bed we're going to loosen the handle up i'm here to take this off just temporarily and when you want to make your bed up inside of here are the little partitions the little wooden partitions that are attached to the wall there with clips [Music] and these wood pieces can be put in here this is how they're going to be like this and this then you would take this back piece here and put it in you put your other back piece in to fill up the space and then when you run your you you extend your bed out you're making one full large bed like this and so wow restful sleep right there so i think i'm going to lay down so we're going to retract the sofa you can put this in the closet area if you want to fold that up but that's how it works that's how we make our bed up real quick by the way this does have velcro on it there's some velcro straps here that come up and then uh right here and you can attach these backs to that and that'll help hold things in transit when you're moving i'm going down the road okay that's how quickly and that's how fast it makes up a bed and then when you're in the daytime when you're not using your bed you can store these back in the closet and they have these wonderful little clips that actually hold that and they're not going to come out of place there's one over here for the table top as well so that's what the clips here on the wall are for nice big closet with this is access here actually to the back of the water heater and inside of that you'll see in your owner's manual they talk about the bypass valves for the water heater when you want to winterize this coach and that's where they're located in behind those four screws i wanted to open this up here and show you right here here's the water pump so this is actually the water pump we're using when we want to uh pull water from our freshwater tank and actually use that you see it comes on when i have the water pump on it turns off when there's no demand for water but when you're driving down the road i recommend that you drive with that turned off just in case somebody accidentally leaves a faucet on just a little bit so you don't have it running filling up your tanks and see everything when you're driving microwave is a convection microwave as well and you can see there's a rack for the convection take it out when you want a microwave but on convection you can just clear you go to convection you can go 250 and you can start that up so that's a preset there for 250 i'm preheating that at 250. so this can be your oven it can be just your microwave if you want to just set up one clear and in one minute and then start so we're microwaving now i'm just giving you the real basics of it and then you also have a grill so you could do that and go to grill two and you can set up your time but so you have grill at the top so you can actually brown foods in this this is a real oven and so it does ah serves everything that you need but it's a halftime oven cooks really fast as far as food goes my refrigerator i wanted to show you this because refrigerator right now i'm gonna push the mode button we're in the auto mode and most people are gonna run it in the auto mode and let it switch between the power source that is most efficient for the refrigerator so when i go crank up this is actually gonna go to battery mode and then when i stop running it's going to switch back over to lp mode if you needed to for some reason you wanted to go here to lp mode or battery mode you can manually switch those and keep it in the mode like lp if you're dry camping and you know you're going to be just drive camping on your lp and your batteries and solar power you could do that and that'd be an efficient way to run it but when i turn this on it goes dim so we're at nine that's the coldest i could press this button and back it back off so in our weather here it's pretty hot right now so i'm gonna recommend probably about six or seven and that's going to keep the freezer up top here nice and frozen and you can see i'm freezing yeah i'm very frozen now a couple little ice trays there you can see we're actually performing some frost here that you see and then on the inside we got our regular refrigerator here that's a drip tray there in the back so that's designed if you get condensation on these fans like this and if you get condensation they'll drain out of this but again it's going to take about 10 to 12 hours to cool down now when you're not using this here's the power button over here we'd actually reach over here hold it down and that'll turn it off okay so you can turn it on and off directly and then hold it down for a few seconds to turn it back on just give it ample time to power up and run it's gonna take overnight probably i have a tv remote and we actually have a bose sound system in this one so when i turn on the television these are lg tvs and by the way this is on an articulating arm so it will swing out as needed i'm watching the local tv right now digital tv i've got my bose sound system i'm going to turn that on and wow what a difference of sound so we can actually that's sweet no it's not sweet come on so we can really increase our sound in here and get this crawfish cheesecake we can get that uh surround sound effect just from the sound bar yeah this is this will pull down you have a little latch in here that you can release when you release that this pulls out if you're making be careful with the arm but if you're making breakfast in the morning you can swing it out you'll be able to watch over on the other side like that when you go back to travel you want to lock it up because you want it to be secure against the wall there's also a dvd player here inside it's a blu-ray player so when you load up a blu-ray uh disc you have a remote for that always take your tv use the connector button and we're going to go to hdmi and that's how you actually play the blu-ray player over the tv now if you're back on local tv every area you go to you're going to want to scan that area for the channels they're going to be different in every location of the country that you go to and you would just hit the gear button that brings up this display here that you see and go down the channels we're actually going to go down to channels we're going to go to auto tuning and then we're going to start and that's how you scan the area for the digital channels and it'll put them in the memory for you and you do the same thing if you're hooked on cable tv outside so we're going to let that scan while we're doing that we're going to look at our solar charge controller so if you want to scroll through the reading here just tap on the b button and we can look at our voltage this is the house battery voltage the lithium batteries press that again this is number this is the number of amps that we're getting from the solar panels we're not actually pulling in anything right now we're sort of under a cover we're in the shade but if we got out in the direct sunlight we'd start seeing some power come in from the solar panels and this is a charge regulator for that so this is going to regulate the power going into those lithium batteries all you have to do on this is actually just press the b button just tap it and you'll see that the batteries are no amps coming in we're at 100 on the batteries and this is the number of amp hours that we have accumulated over a period of time but they also have a max boost if you're dry camping and you know you're going to be running on batteries solely that night about 2-3 hours before while you have direct sunlight you can hit the max boost and that's going to boost the charge into those lithium batteries the maximum amount that it can because you know that you're going to dry camp that night this is a sensor for the temperature for the air conditioner for the furnace inside the unit and again this is just the same type of panel that we have up front so we can do everything back here that we did up front i can actually see it a little better because i've got sunlight up there okay and we're through we got 81 channels stored into memory we have a lot of channels around here so i'm going to say next cable and then stop because i don't want to do the cable channel that's fine and not going to be done so i'm going to exit out of here and so this this pleasure way has a great antenna on it i can tell you that because uh i don't normally get quite this many channels but uh we're getting a lot of it and there we go turn off my surroundings my sound here turn that off and make sure this has an eject button here too for the cd right here so if you put a cd or a dvd it'll play either one and then on your antenna you need to have this buttonhole here okay right here this is your this is your antenna booster for the actual digital antenna up top and then i can actually fine-tune this antenna by and you can see there but as i hold this down right there i'm at position 19 now so i can actually if i'm motorized i'm rotating that antenna up on the roof so i can fine tune it for the channels i want to find in that area and you do need to make sure you have this on you also when you first set up you can do a search too and have that automatically rotate up top to find the strongest signals in that area and it's going to do that automatically so i don't have to do it manually here as well okay another gfi here that's for the microwave a lot of protection in this rig here okay we have a quick cool so if you come into a coach and it's hot you want to cool this area off real quick open that up you're dumping the cold air out here you also have these side vents that you can open up you also have the front ones that you can open and close if you need to to force air out of the front and the back one thing behind you i want to show you as far as keeping cool in your coach you have these yeah these windows are these shades that you can put up in the front window so you can put these nice insulated shades up in the windshield and in the side windows they actually have [Music] usually little magnets here that actually hold them in the window frame so these would go on the inside of the windows on the side windows and you have one for the front window privacy and for cooling or keeping the heat inside your coat either one nice nice heavy nice shade this is actually a mattress that can be used now this is a an air pump for the mattress and this is a mattress that can be set up and i believe it goes to make an area in front of let me check that for sure i think it's the one that goes in front of the seats right there it is so you have one that goes across the seats and then you have one that actually blows up in the center so you have a center support and then you have a mattress that goes all the way across and so that's kind of nice if you have extra guests and you want them to sleep up across the front seats you can do that have a nice pleasure way to really fully equip this rig with what we need okay owner's manual so we've got the owner's manual here i want to show you this is the chassis manual these are the owners manual for the pleasure way and we have our plumbing attachments that we needed outside so that's actually included uh there's a backup crank handle for the awning if you can't get the awning in you take the cover off to one side of it you can actually manually crank that awning in so there's always nice to have a backup plate and they give you a an actual vinyl shower curtain for the shower so don't forget that you got this in there okay and some other manuals there's a lot of other manuals in here for all the individual appliances the air conditioning microwave cookbook and different things that are in here so just a lot of a lot of good reading for you a lot of late night reading we're going to take a look at the drivers area i have a lot of key fobs for this this is a keyless ignition so i just have to have a key up front here and if your key does not work for you you can always take and put it in the depository down there and that's going to read the key every time and it'll help to reprogram the keep up so so right now i have three of these keep ups and uh so we're just gonna keep one up here i'm gonna step on the brake and we're gonna start up the engine now this is a diesel so it's gonna do a a preheat on its own and the way these new mercedes chassis work there's a lot of safety built in and so forth and you can see it's it's giving me warnings right now that my door is open okay and my side door's open you can see that on the red okay and so i have a wheel that i can tilt right here and get that thing comfortable and then i can pull out and telescope the idea behind the buttons on the mercedes are they want to keep your eyes looking forward for safety so a lot of the features that we have on the odometer on the cluster here we can do over here on the left and one of the things i'm going to show you is i'm going to go to the home position right here and now i can just scroll over with my thumb and choose any one of these things trip trip odometers uh drive assist now i'm going to go to service and i'm going to press that button that gets me into an embedded menu and i can go down to check the def fluid so there we are we're full on the def fluid the diesel exhaust fluid outside underneath the engine going to go back again with the back key and i'm going to scroll down where it says engine oil level so now i'm checking the engine oil level from my seat here everything looks good there i'm going to go left here i'm going to go up to assist plus this will give me an average of how many days before i need service on the engine so i would probably do 20 000 miles or one year whichever comes first it's a good recommendation we can also look at the particle filter this is part of the diesel exhaust this is part of the cleaning system for the exhaust to help make sure the atmosphere is clean there are no messages if i had any engine codes check engine codes and so forth or fault codes they will come up as message messages and i can go in here and actually read them so we're going to go back to home we're going to come over to drive assist and this has a drive assist so that when i'm driving along i can actually uh increase and set that and so i can set the sensity sensitivity up here as well but i can uh drive along and i can put this in cruise control and it's gonna maintain the distance from the car in front of me and so they call that the driving assist and you can turn that on and off as you need it through the menus here so we're going to go back to trip that's just a trip odometer but i can scroll down and get a lot more information about the trip i can get my average miles per gallon and i can reset all of this stuff and so i'm going to go back to home and and so here we have navigation and that's tied in with your nav system over here on the 10 and a quarter inch screen over here on the mercedes and you gentlemen i'm headed north what can i do for you so anytime you say hey mercedes it's going to prompt you and ask you what it would be for you to what do you want to do i can actually go in and turn that off in the menu and uh if that's annoying for you or if you just want to wait until you get used to it but i can say right now i can say navigation and it's going to go hi mercedes what would you like to do navigation and it'll go to the navigation so there's some voice prompt commands that you can recognize and do through this system so we're gonna go back to here to this position gonna go to home and i can go to radio here and then i can scroll up through the channels just like this okay so this let me control the tv and i control the volume over here on the radio through the right over here okay so i'm going to hit home again and then media of course you can control your you can set up your bluetooth to operate with the radio so you can get you can get your songs you can get your tunes you can also answer the do the hands-free telephone through the bluetooth and you can answer the phone right here and then control your volume so you never have to take your hands off the wheel and you never have to be bothered with the radio part of it over here okay so we're gonna go back here to home and you can also do the the settings you can you can set some vehicle settings up here like your range sensor you can change the sensor on when you want that to come on and how often the frequency of it and in your display you can you can see if you want to see permanent like that now i'm seeing my def fluid all the time at the bottom i'm going to leave that right there there we go get back to trip so one thing you can do when you're in drive so this is your stick shift for uh putting things in drive you can also hit reverse and you see there's your backup camera you got the nice yellow lines that's going to help guide you when you back up and turn you also have sort of a bird's eye view here and anything that might be uh as their sensors are programmed and as they're sensing devices around you vehicles and so forth you'll get warnings around your rig to be able to tell you that we can also change the way that looks in the back up you see what i'm doing there you can do that if you're wanting to guide in into your hitch so that's a nice little setting there and then of course that's that i like that one that's going to kind of guide me as i back up and turn so when i've got this driving and i'm in i'm in drive you can always um when you go to radio here you can always go to um navigation you can go to radio you can also hit camera and temporarily that will show you the backup camera if you're just driving real slow in the parking lot now that's going to time out and also if i go faster it's going to shut off because they don't want the camera on when you're driving at high speeds as a distraction and that's all through mercedes i can't change that okay but when i'm in drive if i'm down here and i'm in drive i can use these paddle shifters left and right on the wheel to hold it in a gear so you can see there i can go up in the gears manually fifth first second third fourth fifth sixth and then back to drive so i can shift through the through the paddles uh i can push in for my my washer wipers you can see these nice wipers they got a about a half inch pattern on the water really a complete coverage on that so it's kind of nice to have that so the panel on the right hand side over here oh one more thing cruise control is on the left as well so when i turn that on you'll see the cruise symbol at the faint top of the r on the cluster and then when you want to set that and turn it on you press up on the set and that will set your speed you also got cancel and resume and then minus so you can drop the speed down okay so we're going to go back to the home position here so you see i can control the radio now with my little scroll pad here on the right so i can go to nav and not be so when i want to go back to park i can i can go to park when i'm stopping standing still by just hitting in on the button that'll take me to park or i can go up and then press it in that'll take me to park and on this one if i've got it in drive when i open up the door you can see it jumped apart automatically so that's a safety item that's on the mercedes chassis so i've got the nav up right now but i can go back home and then i can go to radio i've also got serious radio on this too you can subscribe to that so you can call them and subscribe to it right now it's just a preview channel on that go back to radio one of the things i want to show you this thing is you can go back to home position you can scroll over with your finger and you can see a lot of the uh a lot of the engine parameters here so when i push engine i can see a lot of torque and engine speed and battery voltage oil pressure all of these things it's nice to get a glance glance of what's happening with your engine especially if you're in the mountains and you're pulling a lot of weight or something like that with your tow car consumption you can look at what the average miles per gallon here's another nice feature when i'm stopped you want to pull up on that parking brake to park it when you want to release this parking brake you can see i've got the park symbol right here pull it up and then down okay so that's going to release the park okay so pull it up button down and then you'll feel the tension as you go down so that's taking it off right there got the home position here and you got there's some other apps that you can hook up your smartphone to this you can hook up the internet to this particular screen we can also go to settings oh let's go back to home let's go back to information and you can pull up the operators manual from the screen as well and so we can go to the operators manual anything we want to learn about the chassis here we can do that we can continue here and we can do like search and we might find like oil oil replacement amount welding capacity and that's going to give us right there so we tell the grade of oil what viscosity and then we can tell the amount of oil that's in it so this is a great little tool here but you have to use that when you're when you're stopped okay and that's the way they let you use it we're gonna go to settings so i can go through here and change a lot of the settings that i have and so like like traffic sign assist i can turn it off i can turn it on um let me show you another thing system remember the the hey mercedes we can actually how may i help you we can turn that on and off if we wanted to right here see that so i just turned it off a mercedes i'm gonna leave it on for now so now you know where to turn that off at you need to there's just a lot of controls for audio video lights everything you can go in and critique and change by the way if you want to look at your rig and look at details you can do the 360 view of that and that kind of cool so we can do right down here quick access and here we can look at some of the sensors some of the things that we can change okay keep lane assist go back here i'm just going to go right here and if you go to navigation then you can say where to and you can enter in an address if you need to points of interest you can put in a home position see there's a lot of things you can do with the nav system but it's a nice big one and that and that you can see a nice map and you can squeeze that in if you want to so some of these are called i call them dummy buttons but they're they're dumb buttons because i can just go to a feature by just hitting the button i don't have to scroll i don't have to use these i still have a few buttons here that i can use so you saw the backup camera there radio navigation and then i go to the home position that takes me back home and there's a and then i can press and hold this button at the right and then i can turn off the system and that's how you turn off the radio so you could sit here and use it if you just were sitting here and that turns it back on there so i just brought up some options now below it and just gave me the quick access that i would have had if i went through the menu there radium so you can do volumes here as well or here either way these vents open and close here you can see i've got it on fan speed number four and i can control the temperature here ac is turned on this is my recirculate button so that will give you the best cooling in in texas anyway and then i have my flashers here for emergency flashers i got my rear defrost here and then i can change you can see the setting there i can go from floor level to vent level to defrost level i can also put temperature in the auto mode you can fill that kit up or i can manually control it here that was the door opening buttons there's airbags here left and right there's also the side curtain airbags the ones in the pillar here these seats also turn around and they move around for you so you can swivel them as part of your furniture and let me go outside so i can do that so up here we got some charging for our system so one of the things they do is they give you an induction charger you can set your phone up in there and if you have an induction charger on your phone that'll usually charge up your phone also the micro c connectors for your charging plugs and one over here and then we have a 12-volt over here on the left okay so we can swivel these seats around there's a little lever here in the front so we would run the seat forward on the electric side here we also want to run the back of it upright as much as we can just straight up and right and then you're going to release it here one side and now that seat will swivel around and now i can run it back and use this as part of my furniture up here so it just expands your living area so that's great to have so that's how we rotate the seat and you can also go this way if you need to but we always try to turn them on the inside to rotate okay okay that's a wrap uh there's also little things up here like this one more thing sunglass holder we have our sos if you need to call that will directly contact mercedes in the event that you need first responders for some reason if you have an accident or some other problem also you have one for the technical side over here for the service side right here if you have a roadside assistance or something like that you can also press that and that will contact mercedes still doing the mercedes thing so and these have storage above them cup holders in the front and then the side doors so lots of neat things and these are your dome lights here so you can turn those on and off as needed okay that's a wrap thanks for watching our video if you have any questions be sure to drop a comment below or if you have any suggestions on content you'd like to see we'd love to hear about that go ahead and give us a like and subscribe to our channel thanks again from bot rv

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Published: Thu Jul 30 2020