Extreme winter touring in -20°C - Après Adventure (2024)
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- What's it like taking a motorhome and campervan from the UK to the Dolomites, and how do they perform on narrow tracks, snow-covered landscapes, and temperatures as low as -20°C?
In January 2024, a team from Bailey travelled across Europe to the Dolomites on an Après Adventure, testing the newly launched Bailey Alora 69-4S motorhome and Endeavour B62 campervan in some of the coldest winter temperatures in Europe. It's always the season. Ready when you are.
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Excellent video. Would love to know whether the trip identified any issues that will result in a design change on future production vehicles?
Enjoyed the review guys. Any chance you start importing these into Australia? I had on of you Aussies imported Verona caravans and loved it.
Can you confirm if the water tanks on the endeavour were heated to prevent water freezing in them and has the issue experienced with heater and level of diesel in the fuel tank been addressed?
Hi - I understand the Endeavour is delayed for sale in 2024 via the dealer networks, is this correct @bailey of Bristol
Hi, I understand the B62 is grade 3 certified, which is excellent. But please can I ask how the water system works at these temperatures? I understand the water tanks are under slung. Surely they freeze at minus temperatures? I love this vehicle but just want to know about this before I buy one.
Hi Phil, while Endeavour does not have insulated water tanks, it does have an option of fitting a heater to the freshwater tank if required, hence the pre-wiring in the manual.
Although, in order to achieve grade 3, the van must have running water from at least one tap, and the B62 passed this test without the insulated water tank - The Bailey Marketing Team
This worries me as well. Lovely looking van, but it would be helpful to know if the tanks were full of water in the cold weather on this trip and how did they perform, did they freeze, after all in the video it says these are the vehicles you get off the line with no extras other than the winter tyres…
If you have diesel and electric for water and space heating, plus a 12v compressor fridge. What have you done for the hob and oven? Surely you're close to removing the need for gas, saving weight, space and cost potentially.
Nice to see the new bailey line up.
There have been vans with induction hobs and presumably an electric oven is a possibility but they need 240v to function and then you get into larger solar arrays, bigger batteries and inverters. So it all gets more complex. The other option is diesel firing of hob which I have seen but not sure about diesel ovens. But if vans go EV the diesel route is a dead-end
@@steamdrivenandy6880 a quick google search shows there are diesel fueled versions of both hob and oven. Like you say induction for the hob, but I think unless you go the EV route with a large traction battery the likely size and weight of a battery and inverter setup to replace a 6kg gas bottle doesn't make sense. Diesel fired hob and oven in a diesel motorhome would make touring in europe a lot simpler removing the need for different brands of gas bottle or if your have a refillable LPG system the need for adapters.
Fill up with diesel, runs heating, hot water and hob and oven and powers the vehicle and you carry around 725 kWh of energy with you with a full tank.
What tyres are you using on this trip?
Hello! We had a set of 235/65R16 Hankook Winter tyres on the Endeavour campervan, and a set of Grabber AT3 all-season SUV tyres fitted to the Alora motorhome - The Bailey Marketing Team