Black Series HQ19 Full Tour Video! These are crazy nice! 2021 Updated HQ19

okay so don't mind the alien ship up here in the top corner of the screen it's actually a bird dropping maybe not sure anyways we are currently towing the black series hq 19 behind us we're taking on its first trip out and we are going to a pretty suitable place for such a type of off-road trailer we are going to padre island and this is one of the really nice tourist destinations here right along the coast of corpus christi in texas but it's going to be fun so we are headed that way right now it's going to take us about 25 minutes to get out there so we'll be back here in a little bit [Music] so thanks for joining us today out here at padre island so this is the view we get to come out to but this is a very very nice and accessible beach that we have access to and you can drive out on as you can see but today we're here to talk about this black series that the good folks over at black series have allowed me to review for three months you heard that right i get to spend three months with this beauty this is the hq19 and it falls right between kind of their largest and their smaller floor plans they also have some pop-up trailers as well but this is arguably one of their most popular models and i actually had a chance to review one of these in salt lake city at rvx several years ago but again the kind folks of black series allowed me to do a long-term evaluation on this thing so we figured what better place to take it than out here on this beautiful beach right outside of corpus christi now the first thing that i want to go ahead and tell you guys is we tow with an f-450 this is not an off-road beast it is four-wheel drive it has some pretty good capability and quite frankly you see a lot of the coast guard folks army corps folks they drive these things more in a work truck platform but out on the beach pretty frequently so it's not as if it can't go on the beach it's just not able to go through you know really ridiculously tall dunes and stuff like that that you might expect or over huge boulders that you know a rock crawler might be designed for that being said i would venture to say that the vast majority of folks who buy black series trailers aren't specifically buying them to take them over those crazy off-road conditions if anything they're buying them because they look amazing because they have tons of capability they have a lot of really great quality perks to them they're super tough and quite frankly when you tow one of these things you get a lot of attention because they're super cool but today's video is to do a walk around of the outside and the inside and give you my in-depth review on what i think about this unit so let's go ahead and do what we normally do and start with the numbers on this unit so the numbers on this unit are at least from a gross vehicle weight rating perspective 10 000 pounds it has about a one hundred pound dry weight which leaves a lot of weight available for cargo capacity it has the equivalent because it's all independent suspension but it has the equivalent of almost five thousand pound rated axles two of them so you almost have that ten thousand pound axle capacity but keep in mind of course you're gonna have a lot of that weight transferring to the back your vehicle now that being said this hitch is entirely different than what most people are used to this is called a poly block this right here can articulate quite a bit so if you're going to be taking this over some really extreme off-road conditions and the trailer is going to go one way the truck's going to go the other way you have that articulation here it also has a really cool dampener built in right here now some folks think that this is tied to the braking system and it's not this specific setup right here is connected to a large spring inside of this housing so if you're going over certain conditions and let's say you're going down and you're hitting big rocks this dampens the movement of the trailer slightly it's kind of a built-in forward and backward suspension system so that's really cool and you just flip this up if you feel you're going to be in those conditions i'm not i'm going to keep it down but yeah you have this giant pin that kind of presses in place you have this poly block right here and you simply bolt it to the top of your typical kind of a ball receiver right here and then it goes into the coupler of your truck now you do need to get the wider version of this so it's really going to be a class 5 designed coupler right here you don't want to go to anything smaller or you'll have movement right here and it's going to feel really awkward i have a grease zerk right here which i like the frame is hot dipped galvanized and you can see that they have it nice and finished off all the way back it is a boxed frame as well so it's not an open c channel or an i-beam frame and i'm a big fan of the frame technology they got going on here they have this really cool jack leg that swings down has a tire on it but this specific model also came with an electric tongue jack 3 500 pound capacity very very cool and you have some auxiliary power connections right here as well so you can provide solar power to the actual unit if you're going to be off-grid and you have a solar array that you want to set up now up here are some really cool boxes you have two 25 pound propane tanks and this one and the other one is a storage tank with a really cool diesel canister right there and you might wonder why is there a diesel fuel tank in here well that diesel fuel tank is actually for the furnace you heard me right so this uses a diesel furnace versus a gas furnace or a propane furnace and it's supposed to be superior in many ways in terms of heating and keeping the aircon more comfortable than a traditional propane furnace so that is really cool we brought a 30 pound propane count out with us and there's no really way to keep it in the truck without leaning on its side so we just put it in there and kind of propped it in place with wrap and some tire chocks but it didn't move at all and we hit some bumps so happy about that i love these little locking latch mechanisms right here and everything's on strut arms which is also really nice the skin on this is an aluminum skin you also have this aluminum diamond plate kind of tread pattern and this is designed so it's really easy to clean but at the same time if it gets hit by rocks or anything like that it kind of deflects it so that is really cool all led lighting everything on this trailer is led lighting you have a front led kind of scene light you have a side scene light you have another one over here you have this really cool little led entry light you simply turn it on it charges with solar and then at night whenever it gets dark enough movement triggers this thing and it's super bright i've actually showcased these on my channel before on our old chaparral we put them kind of the lower area down there you know you don't want to skip this you have an outside kitchen and it looks like it's changed a little bit as well the earlier version of this had this big kind of flap that came over and you had a table on this side but it looks like they removed that instead they have the extension off of this side which arguably is a bit more practical so that is pretty cool you have these really cool rock sliders right here so these are actual rock sliders now i don't know how many rocks you could slide across before you damage them pretty bad but they are designed to be able to take the impact of rocks or brush or heavy things that might hit or rub against the side if you're going over really extreme off-road conditions and then you have some little legs down here these are stabilization legs they're not designed to carry the entire weight of the rv you have a pass-through storage right here which passes all the way through to the other side and something else that's cool about this kitchen is you have a water connection with a quick connect under here that connects right here and it feeds water in but this is all gravity fed so whenever you open this up it actually drops the water straight down so you want to put like a 5 gallon bucket or something underneath there you have a place for your propane line right there you have a really cool little black series compartment tray for all of your utensils and things right here very nice and then a two burner gas cooktop from dometic over here and this whole assembly just slides right back in place when you're done using it i absolutely love the european style windows that they put on here super super thick dual pane and they have these really cool little kind of brace arms that as you push it out they lock into place and when you push it all the way out it drops closed and it has a lot of little securing mechanisms here these things are super super energy efficient they block a lot of heat from coming in and i really wish the u.s rv industry would move to these these are pretty much standard on european and australian style trailers we'll talk about the blinds once we go inside this really awesome legless awning as well this is a power awning with a manual backup in you know the event you lose power and you need to wind it back in another scene light over here another one of those windows huge windows a lot of light considering there are no slides on here this drops down into a table which is also really really cool over here you have a power outlet if you want to put something like a toaster or phone chargers things like that out here the door has this really awesome holding mechanism on it as well a lot of technology that you just don't see here in the states and you also have this really awesome little screened in area so you have a screen and then you have this metal right here that protects the door if you have pets anything like that you really don't have to worry about them getting out or possibly getting in coming over to these cooper discovery tires these are awesome you see lt these are actually truck tires light truck tires very very cool 265 75 16s and the suspension on here is something to marvel at because this fully independent suspension let's crawl under here real quick so you can see what i'm talking about so underneath here you can see each wheel has two shock absorbers you can also see a chain that hangs down to prevent over travel it also has a coil spring with a joust bushing inside so you have a crazy cool setup here and this is very unique here in the united states very very few trailers i don't know of any more than maybe one or two manufacturers that do anything close to this in australia there's a lot of brands that use something similar but this is still very cool look at that tank right there how it's strapped into place you just don't see that type of quality here in the united states unfortunately i mean everything is secured in a way that if you know you hit big bumps you really don't have to worry about much another slider back here very cool coming back you can see you have some speakers that span the entire length out here so you have a speaker here speaker way up front that's really nice because oftentimes in the us you just see a speaker right here and speaker right here this gives you the ability to have sound front to back and i like that i love these huge led light pods that they have in place right here as well on both sides you get three of them plus led lighting all the way across the top you have a really nice scene lighting up there and check out your spares talk about going overboard two full spares on the same wheels that come on the trailer that is absolutely awesome then back here you have a two inch receiver that's designed to be able to carry like bicycles coolers things like that on a platform rack and check it out it's actually reinforced and braced overkill that's one thing you'll notice with this entire setup all along the way everything is overkill and that's also why these things demand a higher price than you might think shackles right here i think these things are rated at seven thousand pounds each basically they're rated at more than the driveway to the trailer each which is super cool and if you want to take this assembly back here off it's actually just pinned in place so it's got two two inch receivers on each side pop the pins out and you can remove this whole assembly if you don't want that extra weight hanging off the back of course the stabilization legs back here and you have a really great kind of a waste station back here it's all connected from the back you have your gray and black tank handles all right there very very easy to dump very easy to manage coming around this side more led lighting over here you got your rock sliders on this side as well the outside of your furnace outside shower i like how all of your tank fills are keyed so right here you have a 16 gallon fresh water tank that has triple filtration technology inside you fill this one up and it simply provides you with filtered water on the inside for drinking [Applause] i'm talking about people pulling up and taking a look at this thing so many people stop and just want to see this trailer it's pretty awesome and they want to come by and take a look at it as well so again 16 gallon fresh water tank you fill this up it filters it through three filters so you can turn a little nozzle on the sink inside i'll show you when we get there for drinking water this is your fresh water tank fill so this is going to fill up the main water used for showers for the toilet your sink things like that and then you have your city water connection as well which is going to be when you're at a campground and you want to plug into it and get water from the campground that's already pressurized but these two are going to go through pumps inside so you actually can use the electric pump to pump the water to wherever it's going more of these awesome windows i mean check this out is this not absolutely gorgeous you can wake up to this out here because you can park out on the island anyways over here tankless water heater i know people are gonna be like well why didn't they blend the two because this is an upgraded tankless water heater that is pretty awesome so basically you have on-demand water all right so this is going to heat up water as you go and we'll talk about the powering system from a solar perspective pretty soon right here is your 30 amp connection this is the other side of that pass-through storage not much to really see in there except a 30 amp power cable you got your reflectors lights i'm going to take a quick step back so you can kind of see the overall look of this thing very very cool that's the restroom over there something else to notice though you see the shiny stuff right there on the back side of all of the blackout blinds is a radiant material an aluminum material to help deflect heat and keep it from coming in and it also deflects light so you don't get that kind of funky glow whenever you have light hitting it that is really really awesome all right so now it's time to step inside and see what this thing is all about very high quality door i mean just the fact that they use the steel right here you know this is just a very sturdy feeling door and you probably see this this is simply that plastic wrap that comes on the door you just peel this off when you get it i just hadn't had a chance to and the door feels incredibly solid it doesn't feel like those cheap doors you typically see on rvs so that is really cool this step right here is an electric step so you can actually turn it off and have it so it automatically comes out which is really cool this right here is a light so if i press this touch sensitive button right here check that out something else that's cool in case you forget to turn that off when you close the door the light shuts off so that is also just something very thoughtful that they put into it but yeah this is really cool so we're going to go and step inside you got your fire extinguisher right here you turn on your inverter down here you got a subwoofer built in down here you got some more stuff going on under here as well a lot of really cool features in this unit lighting everywhere so there's lights underneath here that you can turn on and i believe you can put it into this kind of like party mode where they kind of move and strobe but i got to read more instructions on this thing you got speakers here at the front you got some cabinetry right there you got this really nice upgraded memory foam bed and they also include all of your pillows your sheets your mattress pad and a nice comforter the windows are open right now i mean check this out you just got this awesome cross breeze coming in because of these european style windows and if you want to block out the sun or if you let's say you want to stick your arm out the window you simply press that drop it down and the window is completely open pull that up latch the two together you can have your shade right here your screen and then you have your blackout shade right here which has that radiant material in the other side so i can close this in completely and it's pretty much going to block out all the light from coming in let me open that up real quick i got a heavy breeze coming in right now so it's kind of putting pressure on it but that is really really cool again all the lighting you got some nice curtains in place you got these really really great little side areas for whatever you're going to keep here at night nice storage here at the bottom and the way you open these is simply by pushing them in over here and this is something that's kind of new so even though you may have seen the hq19 you probably haven't seen the kitchen set up like this one of the big things that they've done different here is that they moved the microwave from this side over there and they've given you this really nice kind of pantry storage so now you have this really cool space right here a lot of pantry storage the lights i believe are also controllable through the remote so that's awesome as well but yeah this is really cool you have this nice high gloss backing and if you look up you can also see how high gloss all of this is all the way around and you have a single air conditioning unit up here with your manual controls up top there's no thermostat paired to it we haven't really found a need out here to use it but i'm sure when it's extremely hot if you don't have all your windows open you probably want to use it and this only works off of your generator or shore power so you'd have to use those this does have a pretty impressive solar system built onto it so that is something we'll talk about here in a little bit a lot of cabinets wrapping all the way around again i love this high gloss going all the way around and then here's your control station what's really cool is these little fuses right here if one pops you're not replacing 12 volt automotive style fuses you're simply pushing the button back in to reset it so that is really cool you have all your tank levels your drinking water level your general water level your black tank level and your gray water tank level and then you also over here have the condition of your batteries as far as power coming into them charging them the current voltage how much is currently being used as well and then you have your water pump up here for your general water pump and then you have your drinking water pump right there but very very nice control panel these buttons can be a little confusing right here because they're all touch sensitive but they control all the lighting inside of the rv as you press them you wait a second or so and all of a sudden led lighting and other lighting will come on a lot of lighting in here and then under here you have a button as well and this button controls this long strip light across here very cool stainless steel sink basin really nice drawers that just pop out when you press them in nice cabinet right here under here are your three water filters so they're easy to access easy to get to and even get to your water pump and other accessories or other electrical components they've made it incredibly easy to service this unit in the event you have to replace something again stainless steel sink basin here that's your main water and this is that filtered water coming out of the 16 gallon tank so that's really cool bag of lay's chips here you have a three burner gas cooktop along with a nice oven as well a good amount of cabinet space and a nice place for a small coffee station right there so i really dig that up here you kind of press everything and it pops up and it holds itself in place you have the king connect antenna up here as well for your tv very very cool here's your compact microwave back here you have your gas electric dometic refrigerator right here and again you have cabinetry everywhere they really take advantage of all the space even trimming it off with this really nice corner section here but yeah cabinets everywhere and they switched the support up here to this really cool hinge versus the strut arm so the strut arms don't get in the way anymore and they still hold up in place really nice very very nice this right here is a really cool dinette it also converts into a bed as i think most people probably would have figured out you basically pull this up like this and then you push it down and you simply lay your pillows on top of it and you have a bed platform when you're done flip that up and it raises back up into place but i'm going to lower it real quick because i want to show you something special so what i'm about to show you is when i move the pillows off this side you're going to see your 2000 watt inverter under here again super easy to get to to service to do whatever you need that is really really cool so we'll cover that back up and that's going to pretty much power everything but the air conditioner all right let's put these pillows normal then over here we're gonna move that out of the way move this out of the way and you're gonna see your four 100 amp hour agm batteries that are included all with breakers all with the disconnect all very cleanly ran i mean this is how you want an aftermarket system to look let alone one that comes pre-installed then you have your charge controller right here very very cool setup very clean now you might ask what is powering or what's charging those four giant batteries well let's show you so up here you have something very special if i open this up you have a skylight and you have a screen this way as well as the shade this way just like on the windows but if i pull this down and pop this up check that out now i'm going to hold the camera up here so you can see what's on top and then we'll talk about it in a second okay while you were up there you probably saw the air conditioning system but what you probably noticed even more was the four 150 watt solar panels that are pre-installed and mounted on the roof of this unit this has a pretty great solar system already installed on the roof so big plus right there okay so backing up into the bathroom you have a really nice sliding door that blocks it out this has one of the largest bathrooms probably available on an rv this size which is only about 20 feet long on the inside close to probably 18. you have a nice lockable hinge here to lock the door open when you're traveling two nice towel racks right here nice solid fiberglass shower right here as well plus the adjustable arm when you get inside you could be upwards of about six three and comfortably fit in here turning around giant mirror on this wall plus you have this really cool mirror right here that adjusts and you can kind of focus in different directions if you want down here you have a porcelain sink porcelain basin sink a lot of countertop space and a porcelain foot flush toilet room wise for a bathroom this big in an rv this small is pretty amazing to be honest now right here is some more magic you have a washer it's not a dryer but it's a washer so you can wash your clothes and hang them outside or hang them where you want or spin dry them but yeah this thing is really really cool again it's not a heated dryer but it is a washing machine and they fit it really nicely into this space right here which is awesome walls are trimmed off real nice you have those same really nice windows right here so you can black them out if you want more privacy or you can open them up with the screen or you can open it up completely if you want and then up here more cabinets for storage all the way across the top very very cool all right stepping back out here i love how they've trimmed everything off i love all the lighting it's even getting a little bit darker outside what we photographers call golden hour absolutely beautiful outside and you know everything in here just looks so vibrant and bright really really nice but what do you guys think of this unit it carries an msrp north of 90 000. i think about 96 000 for the way it's set up but you know what let's talk about that for a second before everyone starts posting in the comments how they think it's overpriced most people would honestly say they'll pay a lot more for something that's built better built differently well this is built better it's built differently they use materials that pretty much the rest of the rv industry in the us doesn't it's assembled in a way that's unlikely to fall apart while you're going down the street it has features and amenities in it that you don't even get on some of your highest end rvs it has a solar setup and batteries that are set up in it that again typically you won't even find on your most expensive rvs but you're paying for it in a compact package that you can take just about anywhere that's what you get with this you get a really really high quality rv with different features that again you just typically don't see in any price point i would argue to say that this to me is built superior to even maybe an airstream or other products like that that can't handle some of the rigors that you may put this through but i'd love to know your opinion so if you guys have a chance leave a comment below let me know what you think of this product let me know if you think it's worth 96 grand and you know sale price wise i'm sure you can get it quite a bit less than that but just bank on the fact that when you look at an msrp of any rv and it's about 96 000 what do you generally end up paying for it and what do you think about this product for that price anyways guys i'm gonna wrap this video up i sure hope you've enjoyed it if you haven't had a chance please take a moment subscribe to my channel give me a thumbs up and we'll talk to you again very soon before i lose my 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Length: 24min 41sec (1481 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 27 2021