2007 Dethleffs Globebus Motorhome — Video Tour (Part 6 of 7)

This is the handover video on the Deathless Globe Bus. We're going to go through your exterior apertures to begin with, and then we'll go inside and show you the workings of the van. Starting with, just inside the passenger door here, we've got your bonnet catch, which is just here. We then have underneath the passenger seat here, your main 12-volt fuse box.

So if you ever had to change a fuse, this is where you would come to rectify it. Just next to the passenger door here, we've got your diesel filler. Using your ignition key to unlock that. Further up the van here on this side, we then have your fresh water filling point.

You unscrew this cap here, put your hose into there to fill it with fresh water. You will know when it's filled as it will overflow back out of the van. Just here we then have your gas locker. Space for two bottles in here, and they can strap in with the straps provided.

Now it's clockwise to loosen, anticlockwise to tighten onto your bottle, opening your bottle with the tap on the top and making sure you close the bottle before you travel. Above it here we have your 240 hook-up port, this is where you plug in your mains cable. This will give your van 240 power, and it will also charge up your leisure battery. Down here we have your Truma exterior vent.

This is for your boiler. Now you don't have to do anything with the vent, just making sure you're not spraying water directly into it when you're washing the van. Just here we then have an exterior locker, which as you can see gives you great storage space. We also have here as well your jack and wheel kit.

On the other side of the van here we then have your toilet cassette. To release your cassette we lift up on the green tab underneath and slide the cassette out nice and easy. To empty this off we then turn to one side, we unscrew the end cap, take that off, you can then tip and push the green button at the back. Now by pushing that green button you're allowing air to flow through the cassette to help push your waste out.

This then simply slides back in here like so. If this is ever stiff or difficult to slide out at this point here, you've got to go inside and make sure the toilet flap is closed. If it's open and you try and pull on this, it will be stiff and if you continue to pull it, you could break it. Further up the van on this side we then have these vents, these are for your fridge.

Now your fridge works off of heat, so in any temperature at all you want as much ventilation as possible. However if you're planning on using your van during the winter time, you may find you need to purchase winter covers for these vents. Now they'll cover over your vent to reduce your ventilation down. This allows your fridge to then heat up in the back and in turn cool inside.

You may find that you never need winter covers, you may find you only ever need one of these covers, or you may find you need both, but I would certainly try it before you go and purchase these covers. Just inside your habitation door here we have your button for your electric step. Now this will bring your step in, and it'll bring your step back out. Around the front of your van we've got underneath the bonnet, with a centre catch to release your bonnet.

Underneath here we have your coolant level, your power steering fluid, brake fluid and washer fluid fill, oil fill and oil dipstick, and the jumping point of positive which is underneath this black flap here, and negative being the bare bolt in the front here. Nice and easy from the outside of your van. Just above your door here, inside the van we then have your main control panel, and it's nice and easy to use. Up here as you can see we have two separate buttons and a centre light.

This light indicates that we're lit, that we have that cable plugged in outside, the 240 cable. On here what we need to do is turn on the 12V. We switch this rocker switch into the up position, that's going to activate the 12V throughout the van. Once your 12V is active it means all of your things like your lights are going to work throughout your van.

So you've got various different switches throughout the van for various different lights. 12V now on, it also means that we have our water pump which we'll come back to later on in the video. And over here we have an upgraded version of this. So this here is like battery and water level, so it's been upgraded to the LED here.

We have your LED water level and we have your LED for your battery level. The next thing I like to do when I come into any van is I like to get some gas flowing throughout the van. This allows us to get rid of any air locks in the gas system before we start putting on bigger appliances like fridges or boilers. So for your gas hobs here what we do is we take one of the knobs and give it a quarter turn.

We push it in which will release the gas into the chamber. And what we want to do here is light it with the lighter. You hold the button down to let the thermocouple heat up and realise that there's a flame there. And then you can release and adjust as you need it.

Back to zero for off. Same for the rest here, quarter turn to the mark here. Push in, light with the lighter, hold the button down, let the thermocouple heat up and realise there's a flame there. And then you can release and adjust as you need it.

Back to zero for off. And then quarter turn, push in, light with the lighter. Hold the button in, let the thermocouple heat up and realise there's a flame there. And then you can release and adjust as you need it.

Back to zero for off. Nice and easy for the hobs here. Making sure that as well you don't bring that glass lid back down onto hot hobs. Allow it time to cool first.

I'll leave that wee lighter in there for you. Just here we then have your fridge. And in your van it's a three-way fridge, which means it works off of three different sources. To turn your fridge on, we have your knob to the left here.

And your temperature control for the fridge is the one to the right. On here we can select gas. This will spark and light on gas and cool your fridge in roughly around about an hour to an hour and a half. We've got the option here for electricity.

Provided you're plugged into the mains with the mains cable outside, this will cool your fridge in roughly about an hour and a half to two hours. And we've got the function here for battery. Now the battery option will only work when you're driving. That's when your engine is running.

It's also only designed to keep the temperature in the fridge. Which means if you're going away and you're putting food in the fridge, cool it down the night before on electricity or gas. Get it nice and cold. Now when you switch to your battery with your engine running, it's going to keep the temperature in the fridge.

Now I'm going to leave the fridge on today on gas. We're going to get it nice and cold and then we'll come back later on in the video and show you when it's cold.