Thor Chateau Model 24F Class C RV Walkthrough - YouTube

Welcome to B&B RV. We're at 80101 East 40th Avenue in Denver and our phone

number 303-322-6013 we're gonna walk around the 24 F in our rental fleet

today it's a 24 footer with a full wall slide and walk around the outside here

and show you all the features the first compartment that you get to on this one

is your generator but everything before the generator runs from inside the

second compartment is your electricity so when you get to the campground you're

gonna take this plug plug it in at the campground and where you plug it in at

the campground there's also breakers there you want to make sure that that

breaker is on or you still won't have power inside so after you plug in

easiest way to check and make sure you have power is if the lights come on in

the microwave you have electricity most of the other parts of the RV are running

off your battery is not electricity when you're plugged into electricity you are

charging your batteries this one has an outside shower this is where you would

hook up your hose for a city water connection if you're going to remain

hooked up to that pressure and to fill the water is on the other side of the

coach we'll see here in just a second this is just a storage compartment for

your propane that propane if you do need to fill it on your trip is not a

self-serve item that's something they feel for you truck stops campground

u-hauls any place that does propane can fill that for you

this flips up this is where you connect to cable if you have cable TV at at your

campground site this one has a large storage compartment we include blocks in

the leveling so these blocks have three levels we're just gonna set this down

and you're gonna drive up on it so if your back is low driver's side whichever

side is low you're just gonna drive up on these blocks to get it level there's

a level inside on the dash we'll see when we go in just to show you where

your level when you're parking we include for camp chairs with every

rental you're gonna have a water hose that's specifically made for RVs for

potable water and a coax cable for cable TV if you can hook that up on your

camper and this uses just regular unleaded fuel

the back compartment here in the bumper is where we store your sewer hose so

your sewer hose is just going to come out of this compartment completely

you're going to bring that hose up you can hook it on right here and put it

down into the drain pull this black lever straight out that's your black

tank that's your toilet once that's done draining close that black tank open the

gray tank straight out that's the soapy water from your sinks and showers let it

kind of rinse your hose out for you when everything's done close it back up put

your cap back on put your hose back into the bumper and put the cap back on the

bumper after you get done dumping your tanks you want to go inside there's

little packets that come with it you'll take one of the pouches out of the

packet put it in the toilet and dump it down into the toilet that keeps it from

smelling and helps it biodegrade a little quicker comes with marine grade

toilet paper for your use if you do run out and out on your trip you can just

get that it Walmart or campground we put a ladder on the back because we're gonna

check the roof every time it comes and goes but it's not really for access for

the renters unless there's an emergency it's not a patio it's just for emergency

use only on this side of the RV

this first compartment in the back here is just another storage area for you use

all of these storage compartments have a little latch that will hold this up out

of the way for you while you're getting in and out this particular unit does

have another valve here that you'll just leave open that toilet comes into there

and goes across and you just want to leave that open on your trip this

compartment is a no access compartment and then this is another storage

compartment for you when you want to refill your water this

is where you'll do that just pick this cap off put your hose there and fill

your tanks there's a gauge inside so you keep track of how far your tank is when

this gets full it'll just run back out here and overflow underneath if it

overflows what that's another way you can tell that it's full when you're

outside if you're plugged into electricity or you have to generator on

you have to electrical outlets out here if there's anything anyone to plug in on

the outside underneath of you're pawning this is your patio side as an electric

awning that switches right inside the door you do not want to leave that

awning out unless you're here sitting under it you don't want to leave the RV

leave that awning out a gust of wind will come up and tear that off so you

want to make sure that you put that on again anytime you're not sitting under

it and used again we can go inside now and check the

inside of this coach out here we are inside of the 24 f this 24 foot Class C

motorhome this is all pretty standard Ford chassis you have a button here for

your heated mirrors your external rearview mirrors and your adjustments

for your mirrors on the gearshift if you get into the mountains as you get up

going up the mountain it's going to slow down at 40 to 45 miles an hour it's

going to shift down when it shifts down just push this tow haul button in and

light will come up here on the dash saying tow haul and just leave that

light in going up the mountains and especially coming down the mountain

leave that tow haul button on that'll keep you from having to brake so much

coming downhill and if you're still going a little faster than you like

coming downhill just press your brake twice it'll shift down for you when you

get all the way down to the mountain and you're ready to go you just take that

tow haul back off and it just goes back into normal operating your backup

cameras built-in to your radio anytime you put this into reverse it's going to

turn that reverse camera on this also has side cameras so put the blinker on

that camera will turn on for you you can also go into the menu here and press

camera to have that camera on while you're driving if you wanted to do that

there's a couple of outlets up here if you want to charge phones or whatever

you just don't want to put a big device try to charge a big device there only

about a 5 amp fuse and these outlets are connected to your car battery so you

don't want to run that down but it's fine to to use for charging phones etc

so you do have one car battery and two house batteries so everything in the

house will run off the batteries with the exception of the air conditioner and

the microwave which will explain with the generator we also include a level in

each unit so you can make sure that you're pretty close to level you're not

going to be exact but you want to be close and you have to

be level for the refrigerator for the fluids to circulate in that refrigerator

so that it doesn't overheat and stop working up on top here this piece flips

over into this hole to become the bed and there's a ladder that hooks on and

comes down to the floor for easier access up and out of the bed there's a

privacy curtain that velcro's around to block off the cab area for privacy we

have a large TV the DVD is mounted up here in the cabinet to work with this TV

so for the TV the air-conditioner the microwave and any other outlets that you

want to use you do have to have electricity so you have to be plugging

electricity at the campground or run your generator your generator does run

off the same tank as the engine so once it gets down to a quarter tank of fuel

it's going to stop running so you can't run yourself out of fuel in a remote

area and all the controls for the generator and everything else in this

unit are located right here let's take a look at these this is your central

control panel for this unit everything's run from this area your generators right

here you simply hold down this Start button until the generator starts and

then let go once that starts you'll have electricity that can be run parked

driving anytime you need that if you're going out in the top heat of the summer

it's really hot out now - air conditioner isn't cooling it enough go

ahead and start this air conditioner and then go sorryy start the generator to go

start the air conditioner and then shut that air conditioner off before you shut

off the generator all your gauges are here you're going to have propane gauge

battery gauge we don't recommend you use that battery gauge as a judge with a

deep cycle battery that's gonna read good good good good bad it doesn't

gradually go down so that you'll know know

time that you'll have trouble keeping your batteries charged would be if you

are dry camping boondocking you know not plugged into services not running your

generator not driving then you're wearing down your batteries over time

and it'll take some time to charge those back up anytime you're plugged into

electricity anytime you're driving and any time the

generators on you are charging those batteries and so you have gauges here

for your black tank and your grey tank as well those red lights will come up as

it fills and then when you go dump it they'll go back off the black tank just

has little sensors into the tank that particles or toilet paper things can

hang up on those so if you go dump that tank and you know you just dumped it but

it doesn't read empty there's just particles hanging up on those sensors we

do include a book include a bucket in the bathroom you could fill that up dump

it into the toilet and sometimes that'll help rinse those sensors off too it's

not a big deal they'll often dry out before they get there and so those

lights will go back off but it's an easy way to know that you just dumped it they

might not all be off - slide out the slide it's just extend and retract you

want to make sure your driver's seat is out of the way of this slide and there's

no shoes or anything in behind the front of the slide you want to just hold down

that extend button until the slide is all the way out you want the slide to be

either all the way out or all the way in so when you park you get ready to slide

that slide out just make sure there's nothing out beside you a post a tree a

vehicle just make sure it's clear as you slide that out this has a nice big deep

slide really opens up the coach a lot we'll slide it all the way out

in the back we'll show you in a second that bed flips over to be an upgraded

pillowtop mattress for a queen bed

once it hits the wall and it's all the way out just let go of the button the

rest of the controls here start with the tank heaters the tank heaters are just

used for winter use and only when you're plugged into electricity because they

will run your batteries down very quickly

that's a pad on your heater heater pad on your tank for your waste waters to

help keep those from freezing down to a little lower temperature and if you're

going out in winter use will explain all of that as well again water pump is here

anytime that you want to have onboard water you're gonna turn on this pump

shower sink toilet any water on board your water heater has two options if you

have your generator on or you're plugged into electricity you can use it on the

electric the 120 volt is how it's listed or you can put it on LP gas for propane

so if you're not hooked up to electricity you'll use it on propane and

if you are you can use it on electricity that's all the controls here down by the

door we do have a couple of more buttons we've got a battery disconnect where

this red light is so that red light needs to be on 100% of the time you're

out that's used for storing the coach and disconnecting the battery so make

sure that stays on these two lights are for lights and inside light and outside

light to get in and out of the coach there's a step light right down here at

the step also help you getting out of the coach at night there's an awning

button and that awning is just push the awning to go out which is the other way

to come back do not leave that awning out unless you're sitting under it the

wind gust of wind comes up it'll chair those right off so you want to make sure

that that awning is in if you're not enjoying it sitting under it this does

have small stabilizer jacks on the back but those jacks were just a little bit

too light for this unit and we're causing more problems than they were

helping so we've disabled these jacks so you won't use these buttons at all there

is a little flip up for the counter here this just flips up to give

you more counter space as you're cooking our coaches are upgraded from front to

back one of the things is we have a big stainless steel sink in the kitchen all

you have to do is be hooked up to water I have the water pump on and you've got

water with the stove in the oven the three burners on top

I'll have this igniter so you're just going to turn this to on hit the igniter

and your flame will start but for the oven you're going to have to reach in to

light that so what you do is you turn your knob to pilot while it's on pilot

you hold it in while you're holding it in you reach down and light that pilot

light it's a tiny little pilot light and it takes a very long time you swear that

it's not working it's not working and then all of a sudden the light and it

doesn't poof us it's just a very small little flame let that burn for another

thirty seconds or so then you can release the pilot and turn it on to the

temperature that you want microwave is just like home when easy - way to tell

if your electricity is working is if you have lights on your microwave when you

start to generate or plug into electricity you'll get some lights on

your microwave and that's an easy way to tell if the electricity is working in

here on this side of the coach we have the dinette this is called the dream

dinette it's it's an upgrade as well it's mounted to the wall so you don't

have a leg in your way and these four cushions are all removable so there's a

handle right underneath you release this handle push down on the table it comes

all the way down to these rails and these four cushions go across to make a

bed when you're done simply lift it back up latch the latch it's a very easy bed

to use in this cabinet you have your DVD player as well as your antenna booster

so if you're going to watch broadcast TV there's a very small button or the

various light right there and you'll push that

in for TV out for DVD or cable and then go onto TV and set the source you have

to go into the menu tell your on cable or you're on air and have it search for

channels so that it knows what channels it has in that area and again we put all

this information in your manual so as you get out there you'll have a

reference for that if you have questions in this cabinet we will have some

matches or a lighter to help you light your stove a flyswatter

we include a deck of our custom cards and now we have written a manual so this

unit has a manual with it that covers everything in here any problem or any

question you have is going to be in this manual for you while you're out as we

move to the back well have the refrigerator these are all automatic

they will run on propane and then they'll switch to electricity whenever

you have electricity so if you start to generate or plug into electricity it's

automatically going to switch this model has a green light and an orange light

this orange light on the bottom is for gas so when you're running on gas you'll

have an orange light if you're if this orange light flashes that's the only

thing you have to watch for when that orange light is flashing turn it off

turn it back on and it'll relight when you plug into electricity that orange

lights going to go off and all you'll have is that green light so just off and

back on if you do see it flash that's rare but we want you to know so that

it's not off for a long time this one does have a lot of storage and pantry in

the kitchen area in the bathroom we've got the shower there's a shower head

that has an on and off on the shower head we include a bucket of cleaning

supplies and a trash can with the toilet it has a pedal so you're just going to

press this pedal to flush hold it partway down to add water to the bowl

all the way down to flush in the cabinet here we're going to include your

chemical and your toilet paper if you do need more paper than we have in here did

the RV and marine paper you can get that at Walmart at campgrounds etc you just

don't want to use a real thick heavy paper like you would use at home because

it clogs up and gets into a ball and won't drain out the packets are just a

little pouch so after you're done dumping outside you come in put the

pouch in the toilet flush it down that'll keep it smelling fresher and

help it biodegrade a little quicker