Operation Manual

5C
aravan - 11-06 - DET-0030-05EN
Conten
ts
12.1.2 Washing the caravan . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
12.1.3 Windows of acrylic glass. . . . . . . . . . 150
12.1.4 Hot galvanized chassis . . . . . . . . . . . 150
12.1.5 Underbody. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
12.1.6 Waste water tank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
12.2 Interior care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
12.3 Extractor hood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
12.4 Filter for the external water
connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
12.5 Winter care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
12.5.1 Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
12.5.2 Winter operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
12.5.3 At the end of the winter season. . . . . 153
12.6 Lay-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
12.6.1 Temporary lay-up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
12.6.2 Winter lay-up. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
12.6.3 Starting up the vehicle after a
temporary lay-up or after lay-up
over winter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
13 Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
13.1 Inspection work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
13.2 Maintenance work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
13.3 Stabilisers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
13.3.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
13.3.2 AKS 3004 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
13.3.3 WS 3000 D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
13.4 Braking system BPW/AL-KO
chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
13.5 Alde hot-water heater . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
13.5.1 Checking the fluid level . . . . . . . . . . . 160
13.5.2 Topping up heating fluid . . . . . . . . . . 160
13.5.3 Bleeding the heating system. . . . . . . 160
13.6 Replacing bulbs and fluorescent
tubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
13.6.1 Spotlight (with cover). . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
13.6.2 Spotlight (with glare protection). . . . . 162
13.6.3 Halogen spotlight (movable) . . . . . . . 162
13.6.4 Halogen spotlight (with glass
shade) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
13.6.5 Room lamp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
13.6.6 Room lamp (with halogen bulb) . . . . 163
13.6.7 Cooker lamp in the extractor
hood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
13.6.8 Recessed halogen light (flat). . . . . . . 164
13.6.9 Surface-mounted halogen light
(swivelling) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
13.6.10 Surface-mounted halogen light
(flat). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
13.6.11 Indirect lights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
13.6.12 Light column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
13.7 Changing the battery of the
wardrobe light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
13.8 Spare parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
13.9 Vehicle identification plate. . . . . . . . . 168
13.10 Warning and information stickers . . . 168
14 Wheels and tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
14.1 General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
14.2 Tyre selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
14.3 Tyre specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
14.4 Handling of tyres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
14.5 Changing wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
14.5.1 General instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
14.5.2 Tightening torque. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
14.5.3 Changing the wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
14.5.4 Changing a wheel at alloy wheel
rims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
14.6 Spare wheel support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
14.7 Tyre pressure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
15 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
15.1 Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
15.2 Braking system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
15.3 Electrical system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
15.4 Gas system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
15.5 Cooker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
15.5.1 Gas cooker/gas oven. . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
15.5.2 Microwave oven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
15.6 Heater, boiler and hot water
source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
15.6.1 Trumatic S hot-air heater . . . . . . . . . . 180
15.6.2 Alde heater/Boiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
15.6.3 Truma boiler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
15.6.4 Truma hot water source. . . . . . . . . . . 181
15.7 Refrigerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
15.8 Air conditioning unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
15.9 Water supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
15.10 Body. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
16 Special equipment. . . . . . . . . . . 185
16.1 Weight details for special
equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
17 Helpful notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
17.1 Traffic rules in foreign countries. . . . . 187
17.2 Help on Europe's roads . . . . . . . . . . . 187
17.3 Speed limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
17.4 Driving with low beam in European
countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
17.5 Sleeping in the caravan away from
camping areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
17.6 Gas supply in European
countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
17.7 Toll regulations in European
countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
17.8 Tips on staying overnight safely
during travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
17.9 Tips for winter campers . . . . . . . . . . . 194
17.10 Travel checklists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195