1996 Auto-Trail Cheyenne 585 Motorhome — Video Tour

Okay, just lastly I wanted to show you that the tyres are quite important on a motorhome. This has got a lot of weight on it, but they are Michelin tyres, they are the best you can get, and these are proper tyres for a motorhome, let me just explain that. What they stop, they stop roll from side to side, which normal tyres would do on a motorhome. So these tyres on here, on all four wheels, have got strong sidewalls which will prevent the motorhome from rolling from side to side, you can look them up, see what they are, this is a, actually this runs on that, so it might be easier to see the name, but good condition, fantastic tread still left in them, they've only done about, I would say, they've not done 3,000 miles of these from now, so that's the tyres, brilliant, in here, I forgot about this, but this is where you put your diesel, it's locked up, nobody can nick it, it's locked up, nobody can nick your diesel, because you need your ignition key to open it, that's pretty much it now, walking around, looking at this now, I put this reflective stuff on the back, mainly because the back had developed some very very light cracks, and what this did is it actually toughened it all up, toughened it all up, and that were only put on last year or replaced last year, there's your special edition, and it's a 585, ok, and if you look at the registration, the registration, N585, and the guy who had this originally is someone called Hugh, so it's if you like a private number plate, so there'll be some value in that, and I reckon that'll be about £600 in that if you call Hugh, so that's a bit of extra value on it, but I put that on just to really, it didn't look very nice with the cracks, so I thought, safety point of view and that, I put it on, and I've actually had people say, you've made a good job of that, it looks good that, so yeah it does, so there you go, that's our motorhome, hoping to sell it, I'll be very very disappointed to see it go, because we've had some fantastic holidays in it, it's been all over Europe in the early days of us having it, and like I say, if you're getting it, that's the water thing that you fill up with water when you get there, it holds about 20 litres, something like that, it's a Cheyenne 6, and that's it basically, it used to have a bike rack on it which I took off, you can hardly walk near mine and ride a bike, so there you go, okay I've been here sort of 10 minutes, started the engine up, started first time, it's ticking away lovely now, merrily, and she's lovely and comfortable with that, just going to let it warm up, so it gets fully warmed up, just down here, if you can see, just there, that's an immobiliser, which the red light comes on, and you have to put this key there first, the light goes out, you can hear the hoot of it, the light goes out and then you're able to start the car, this is the dashboard, we've got accessory units, plug-ins here, also stuff telling you that the battery is charging and you're getting a good charge while you're driving, when we've got the usual controls, heater or what have you, that's the radio, the radio, it's Bluetooth radio, as you can see it works, click it here, that's it, I've got other charges there that you can plug in, and as you see the dashboard is as clean as it is when it's been stored, the rear view mirror is a part of the camera that goes on to the back of the window, which I'll show you as we're going through that, so this is the front now, the front cabin, as you can see the seats, pretty good condition, these are the accessories that I fit when I'm driving, things like a sat-nav, there's also cameras which you can plug in, which I've got, which record in the journey that you're going, just moving back slightly you will see that we have here a fridge and a freezer in the area that you would normally have the bunk beds if there were six people, but it's only me and the wife, so storage at that side, storage at that side, so I'm moving back a bit further so you can see, get the full, just do it, so that's the area that would be bunk beds, okay on an evening you would close these up so it's all nice and cozy for you, that just goes back there, clips nicely, there you go, and then move on to the actual mid area, which is where you would have your meals, these four seats have seatbelts, which you can have four people riding in that, I've left the net down on this window to show you that you've got a blind, which is there, goes up nicely, and then you can have the window open and that stops flies from getting in etc, etc, just tidy that bit up a bit so it looks okay, on the left hand side we've got fridge, fully working fridge, a blind that we put here just to make it that bit darker on an evening when we put the awning up, two, two storage, and on the other side storage, storage, storage, those are the curtains that actually go into the awning, so once you've put the awning up you've got curtains for it etc, this is a bit of a receiver from the back camera, the engines running so as you can see there the actual meter that I put in telling you how the batteries getting charged is there, that's a better picture now, and that's telling you all the time that your battery that you're going to be using for your lights etc, when you're camped up, that tells you what that is, coming across the other side now you've got some more controls here, these controls are for the pump, telling you that your maze is on and it also tells you high or low for waste water and high or low for fresh water, you have separate tanks for those and I'll show you that in a minute, so moving on this actual motorhome is a special edition and the special edition relates to this particular fan here which is an environmental fan and what it does is set it and open it up here and then you've got controls which is two controls, one controlling the actual temperature that you want to set it at and then the other one is the speed control, let's see if I can get a better picture, there you go, that's the speed control and that's the environmental control, so once you've set it for what you want you can just leave it and it will control the environment that you particularly choose for this motorhome, okay so that's pretty much the middle bit and the front bit, we've then got a sink and cooker, cooker all in good condition, in fact I don't think, I think we've probably used the oven once, you can't see from your fingers sorry, probably used the cooker once, nice and clean inside as you can see, plates and stuff in there and then in here you've got a cupboard to put your cutlery and stuff, fridge, it should have been left open but we'll leave it open when we go, there is another area here that you take the plug out and for preparing take the plug out and that will go back and put any water into your collecting, into your collecting tank, so moving on back now, now bear in mind that this is ready for us to set off and go somewhere, so this is the toilet but if you look in the bottom there's storage stuff, so that's the toilet, it's a big cassette because it's designed for six people and the great thing about that is that if there's only two of you, you know you don't have to, you'll only be emptying it every three or four days, that's the window, that's the tank, you've also got a thing you can use for a shower and then you've got the skylight, bit of storage here, that's it, light comes on, it's not switched on at the main switch, even though that's what tells you when it goes red, that's when it wants emptying, so that's your toilet, smack opposite there is your wardrobe, your wardrobe, it's not bad size actually, you've got all your stuff for your television because you've got a television antenna on the top which is amplified down here, this is the camera, this is what links to the camera on the back window and that sends a message via this aerial to the front, it comes up on the rear view mirror, so it's just a cabinet really, at the side of that, that's the door that you go out and above there, which is quite comfortable to watch, is the television, it's a smart television so you can put your computer up to it etc etc, obviously we've got a fire extinguisher, but that's the door that you would go out and on this side would be the awning that you've put up, a really good quality step to get down so it's nice and safe, coming back in you've got your gas heater which works from your gas bottle, you've got a set of drawers, one, two, three, four and a place that you would put your cup of tea or whatever, some controls there for sockets and aerials etc and then we've got the back where we store all the stuff that we use as you can see on top of what we would normally leave up as a bed, but what this is actually two seats on this side, two seats on this side and then this table here, if I come back, this table would go in the middle and four people could have a meal there while four people are having a meal there, again at the back you've got your blinds, you've got your blinds set up and then you've got your net so that you don't get bugs coming in, four good size cupboards and then you've got a skylight which we never opened these, the thing about these skylights in these, bear in mind this is 30 years old this particular motorhome but that's it, they get very very brittle with the sun so that we don't lose it while we're traveling or anything, I don't bother, we've never bothered opening that but I have replaced them because they were so brittle so I've replaced the one at the back and I've replaced the one over the bunk bed, a bit of a mirror here, obviously smoke detector and carbon monoxide that's a double sensor that in case you get problems, down at the bottom here we've got, this is underneath what would be our bed and we use that as storage, under there is the barbecue and the kitchen area, outside kitchen that obviously we'll leave in that, if you want a drink you've got a nice cabinet here which illuminates for you, some glasses in there as well, you've got your speakers at the back from your radio, there's a nice sound and the lights which you would need at night is I've changed them to LED lights, so let's let's go back then so you get an idea of the size of this thing, it don't look big but it's quite big and then you'd open these up and then on a night as well you would put these round all the way around if you can see what's happening, you've got that goes around there and that would go around there just to give you, that's it so that would go around there and that would give you this privacy that you need when you're on campsites, people can't be looking in and what have you, so you've got that.

These curtains are brand new actually, my wife made them only a year ago and all in all it's a very very reliable, comfortable, the engine is bomb-proof, it really really is, it is you know I mean I was pulling a car behind so that when we got there we got something, so your cabin is really comfortable, easy to drive, you've got good big mirrors, I don't know if you can see the big mirror there, then you've got a big mirror there and then like I'll just go over it once again so you're able to keep an eye on your batteries, that's been charged plus the engines running, you've got controls for your water, fresh water and soiled water and then coming back, there you go, that gives you some idea of how big it is and then turning around, say you've got your toilet, wardrobe and then the back, we only leave this as a bed so that we use the rest of the motorhome and when we put the factory fitted awning up which is really comfortable, you know we don't have to mess about, we can come straight to bed and that's it, I hope you like the inside, thank you very much. Just forgot to mention the hot and cold water which is, it's running a pressure so that when you open the actual taps, the pressure drops in the pipe and then the pump will automatically start pumping. Now the pump is working fine, it's a strong pump, it's a little bit loud so what I've done is I've bought a replacement pump which will go with the unit, I don't know if I can actually reach it but it's in the corner there as you can see, there's a brand new pump there, should it pack in while you're away, they're easy to fit, a couple of screws and the one thing that I didn't show was these are the controls for the hot water which runs off your gas bottle, it's dead easy, switch is on, it's on switch at the bottom and then you control the water temperature by your controls which you can see here which is behind the driver's chair, so I just forgot to tell you about that one, so there's two videos now. Okay just lastly I wanted to show you that the tires are quite important on a motorhome, this is you've got a lot of weight on it but they are Michelin's then, they are Michelin tires, the best you can get and these are proper tires for a motorhome and we just explained that, what they stop, they stop roll from side to side which normal tires would do on a motorhome, so these tires on here on all four wheels have got strong sidewalls which will prevent the motorhome from rolling from side to side, you can look them up and see what they are, this is a good condition, fantastic tread still left in them, they've only done about I would say they've not done 3,000 miles of these from now, so that's the tires, brilliant, in here I forgot about this but this is where you put your diesel, it's locked up nobody can nick it, it's locked up nobody can nick your diesel because you need your ignition key to open it, that's pretty much it now walking around looking at this now, I put this reflective stuff on the back mainly because the back had developed some very very light cracks and what this did is it actually toughened it all up, toughened it all up so and that were only put on last year or replaced last year, there's your special edition and it's a 585 okay and if you look at the registration, the registration N585 and the guy who had this originally his son were called Hugh, so it's a if you like a private number plate so there'll be some value in that and I reckon they'll be about 600 pound in that if you call you, so you know that's a bit of extra value on it but I put that on just to really it didn't look very nice with the cracks so I thought safety point of view and that I put it on and I've actually had people say that you made a good job of that like it looks good that so yeah it does so there you go that's our motorhome hoping to sell it be very very disappointed to see it go because we've had some fantastic holidays in it, it's been all over Europe in the early days of us having it and like I say if you're getting it that's the water thing that you fill up with water when you get there, it holds about 20 20 litres something like that it's a Cheyenne 6 and that's it basically it used to have a bike rack on it which I took off can hardly walk near my ride a bike so there you go